Posted on 08/01/2015 7:58:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump is many things -- a demagogue and a pompous blowhard, a braggart and a race baiter -- but in the end, he's nobody's fool, except perhaps his own. Thus, his recent lauding of Sarah Palin and his hiring of her former Chief of Staff reveal that Trump's campaign for the presidency is, ultimately, more of a circus act than it is a serious endeavor for the White House. If Trump were really serious, he'd be keeping the quitter governor at bay.
Trump and Palin have many things in common--and Palin has long been enamored of the Trump family's gawdy wealth and garish celebrity--but what they share in terms of American national politics are elevated "unfavorable" ratings (even within the Republican Party) and, as a result, a hard, impenetrable ceiling to their national political ambitions. Trump is polling extremely poorly among women--both Democrats and Republicans alike--with unfavorable ratings above the 60 percentile a year before the election. Any bookie will tell you that you simply cannot get around numbers like that. Palin knew it, and he knows it, too.
Like the late Huey Long and Joe McCarthy, both Trump and Palin have tapped into the deep anger and fear of a small but volatile slice of the American body politic. It's a real and complicated demographic, largely misunderstood by the American media, who are far too isolated to either grasp or understand this troubling swath of the American electorate. Both Trump and Palin have uttered racialized attacks on Obama and have tapped into deep-seated strains of intolerance in their comments on immigration and other significant issues facing this country. Palin treaded into even uglier cesspools of racism this week when she compared the Confederate flag to the Planned Parenthood logo. This woman knows no shame....
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Tom Tancredo
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/146/reportcard
Tom Tancredo VP
what are you for more immigrants to the USA
I hope the Zer0 Information Voters wake up! These are not the Silent Majority. They are the Crashed Populace.
I would love Trump/Palin.
He wasn't. I was at a rally in *Minneapolis* in 2008, which drew ...8,000 if I recall. The enthusiasm was electric.
Then the bank crisis hit and McCain flew to DC, and stopped campaigning. He refused -- over the advice of Palin -- to make a play for Michigan; and went around telling people while on state "You have no reason to fear an Obama Presidency."
And don't get me started about the American POWs left alive in Viet Nam, thanks to McCain and Kerry slamming the door on them.
You forgot me.
Yes, dearest, sweet you!
Sarah Palin BTTT
Awwwww!! (crusty armored self gets gooey around the edges)
You’re the very best!!!
XOXOXO
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