Geller: Sarah Palin Jumps the Shark

Breitbart ^ | January 21, 2016 | Pamela Geller

[GodGunsGuts]

I am sure there are a great many conservatives who were deeply disappointed with Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump Tuesday. It was hard on the ears and harder on the heart. If anything, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump made Sen. Ted Cruz look more presidential...

[stocksthatgoup]

Self Righteous BS!

[Night Hides Not]

Trump will be doing shows with Benny Hinn before this is over.

Doubtful...Benny has better hair than The Donald.

[reegs]

Buyer's remorse:

[Jim W N]

Nope, Trump’s just the first shot over the bow.

[Resettozero]

The same thing is happening here and now with Sarah.

Perhaps with some but not most Palin aficionados. I recognize that some of the negative-to-all-Palins trash-talkers this week also were previously PDSers in FR times past.

Many posters here are too quick to judge without knowledge and based on rumor, innuendo, and Palin-slandering lies. Too many here who post too much will never become real FReepers in spirit because of their wishy-washiness...their too-easy changeability.

[Mastador1]

Ah come on, you could have at least put a smiley at the end of that! ; )

[don-o]

Geller is really acting like a toddler over Trump, just because Trump said some minor thing at 6am on Fox and Friends about "why does she have to draw Mohammed?" Trump often goes off half-cocked, and probably just never heard of her or her organization or what they do.

It's not a bug. It's a feature.

Like

"Well, I heard it's a big thing. I know nothing about it. But I hear it's a very big thing," Trump said

[CedarDave]

I listened to a clip of Sarah - for the first time I heard what others did - the screech.

Tuesday's Ames Iowa speech by Sarah endorsing Trump was underwhelming, to say the least. It was hard to listen to and follow, and she seemed to be stumbling at times.

Wednesday's Tulsa speech was entirely different - strong, confident, on point, full of zingers and she looked so much better and in control compared to the Tuesday endorsement.

[SaxxonWoods]

Love watching the heads exploding.

It gets better every day. By voting time the wailing and screaming will be deafening.

[sitetest]

I think trump IS benny hinn. Have you ever seen them in a room at the same time??

[inpajamas]

What we are seeing with Trump is a nationalistic populist movement sucking in a lot of good patriotic people. People better figure Trump out pretty quick or we will be in more trouble than we are already in. Trump is no true conservative, but for a few slip-ups that betray him, he could get an Oscar for his performance. This is no more than 1930s and 2008 populism déjà vu in a completely different cloak. Trump is using the modus operandi described in Eric Hoffer's 1951 book, "The True Believer" - Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements. Trump has found a void and has created a cult following. He is taking legitimate issues and concerns and using them to generate a fanatical mass movement of "True Believers" -- intoxicated Trumpaholics, and Tump is their cult leader. There is no way to talk to many of them; their minds have been snatched. Many will not realize the fantasy until it all falls down. History repeats. It is déjà vu all over again.

[vette6387]

“Cruz could fly a plane into a playground, and these people will write that it shows Cruz’s skill in connecting with young people.”

You made my day with that one!

[kjam22]

Come to think of it.....

[Resettozero]

Tuesday's Ames Iowa speech by Sarah endorsing Trump was underwhelming, to say the least. It was hard to listen to and follow, and she seemed to be stumbling at times.

One might think there was a reason for that, since it was out of the ordinary.

But all that's coming out of some FR posters' heart are personal insults that they still don't like her voice, like she is SUPPOSED to be a singer or sound more like someone the poster prefers to hear.

[Nickname]

If only everyone could be as classy and gracious as Trump.

[bert]

Regarding the broader conservatism, I think Sara will be the voice and will do a far better job than me.

I know many here hate the thought but think of it as pragmatic conservatism

do what can be done when it can be done.

do not continue to insist on making the light brigade thunderously charge into the guns to the left of them and the guns to the right of them and getting slaughtered in the futile attack

rather, attack the flanks or perhaps make a vertical envelopment

[moehoward]

" I asked her repeatedly for the statement...The controversy got too hot for her. I think that's why she quit the governorship."

[CedarDave]

I have great admiration for Pam Geller.
Too bad she can't see that Palin was driven from not [near] bankruptcy, over $500,000 in debt to lawyers defending her, the laws of Alaska requiring her own administration to fund the lawyers fees of the crazy leftist frivolous suits while at the same forbidding the State of Alaska from representing her. Heck! Her husband gave her his jacket to wear because she was cold, and because the jacket had stickers from a snowmobile company she got sued! And her administration paid for the suit against her! The government of Alaska was paralyzed, no business was being transacted. I agreed with her decision to quit being the best for her and Alaska.

Thanks for the defense, Toughluck. After her nomination to VP by McCain and that stirring acceptance speech at the convention, the libs and MSM realized how dangerous to them she was. So the effort to discredit and ridicule her began (Katie Couric interview and SNL for example). When she got back to Alaska, her destruction was necessary to prevent her conservative, self-reliant message from becoming widespread. Your telling of events leading to her resignation are news to many who have just been told that she quit when the going got hot. BTW, after the debacle with Governor Palin, AK passed relief legislation to pay for a governor's defense so no future governor has to endure what she and her family did.

[GodGunsGuts]

Cult following...there is no other way to describe it. People are panicked, and they falling for the perceived strongman, whose whole life has been spent promoting the very evils they are panicked about, but has recently learned how mimic their distress calls, and now they are flocking towards him like ducks towards a duck call. Little do they know that he will soon pop out of the bushes, and them his dinner.

[Oatka]

I think there is going to be a lot of that "turn off" going around.

Indeed, since the "He's peaked" meme hasn't worked. And the gullible join in.

I'm amazed at the vitriol spewed against Sarah Palin - when I read some of these anti-Palin posts, I sometimes think I've been secretly re-directed to the DU.