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Posted on 01/19/2016 7:59:42 PM PST by Isara
Back in December, I was at a small event in a Las Vegas bar; CNN's Jake Tapper was interviewing Sarah Palin. He asked which candidate she'd most like to grab a beer with. Her answer? Donald Trump.
Trump, of course, has been sober his whole life. But the moment perfectly encapsulates the Palin-Trump romance. Because in addition to endorsing a beer run with a man who doesn't drink, she also just endorsed for the presidency a man who is neither a committed conservative nor an anti-establishment rogue.
Trump's long history of liberalism is well known. He was once a registered Democrat who supported Democratic candidates, from Bill de Blasio to Hillary Clinton. He has said publicly that the economy usually does better under Democrats. At times he's supported legalizing drugs, raising taxes on the wealthy and embracing isolationist foreign policies.
But what's most jarring is the positions he's held on a number of issues that are particularly important to Palin.
In the past, he called himself "very pro-choice." Yet Palin - who made the very courageous and compassionate decision to have a baby she knew would be disabled - is unbothered.
On guns, he once supported a ban on so-called assault weapons and longer waiting periods to purchase a firearm. That should be deeply disconcerting to Palin, a Second Amendment firebrand who once said, "If you control arms, you control the people."
And Trump has supported universal health care - expressing admiration for Scotland's single-payer system as recently as last year. Palin spent years denouncing Obamacare, which is many steps short of a single-payer plan, as "socialized medicine."
These aren't minor policy differences. The beliefs long embraced by Palin and long eschewed by Trump are fundamental to conservatism. That Trump has suddenly gotten religion - on issue after issue - should be met by Palin with suspicion.
If his world-view weren't enough to make Palin cringe, Trump's inauthenticity as an anti-establishment candidate should be. Palin admirably took on what she called the "good old boy network" to become Alaska's first female governor. Now, she leaps to support a guy who helped create that network and who thrives in it. In what bizarre world is a billionaire real estate mogul who donates money to Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid "anti-establishment"?
Over the past eight years, Palin's influence within the Tea Party has remained strong, but her favorability rating among all Americans has dropped 40 points. Worse, her rating among Republicans has declined more than 55 points.
But despite that waning influence, I've supported and admired Palin for defending life, religious liberty and gun rights, and for being a strong mother to a disabled son and another serving overseas.
The Sarah Palin I knew in 2008 - the one who campaigned tirelessly and many times thanklessly for John McCain, a war veteran Trump has openly mocked - would have seen through Trump's charlatan candidacy. The Sarah Palin I knew in 2008, a devout Christian whose faith was constantly scrutinized by the secular left, would have no affection for a man who is constantly scrutinizing the devout Christian faiths of other conservative candidates.
The Sarah Palin I knew in 2008, who was a passionate and fearless voice for hockey moms, mama grizzlies and women everywhere, all while enduring patently sexist attacks from the left, wouldn't have supported a man who calls other women bimbos and slobs, thinks women who breast-feed and go to the bathroom are "disgusting," and criticizes another candidate for her looks.
That Sarah Palin is gone. Maybe one day, over a beer, she'll tell me why.
I want the GOPe to cave in to Trump, to throw in the towel.
since Trump has criticized Cruz standing up and taking on the gopE there’s no possibility of your wish happening. Trump has given in to the gopE with that criticism
AMEN!
Sarah is back! Here is her speech at the Ames, Iowa Trump Rally. Watch it at he end of the video. Sarah Rock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5AW1p9cfQ
Oh, I watched the both of them live!
God bless.
My pleasure.
Thank you.
Dude, you’re dealing with the Trinity, doncha know?
Sarah has sacrificed her life for those things that are good for you and me. Well, she is back! She tells you why she supports her long time friend, Donald. Watch her speech on You Tube. It is at the end of the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5AW1p9cfQ
I would say that Sarah is back better then ever!
Her brain is full of crumbled Chicken in a Biskit crackers.
I like sammiches. ;^)
Her kids certainly drag her down as well.....you would have thought they would have more regard for their mom. Sarah got really ‘very’ thin there for a while...enough that people were concerned about her health...but tonight she looked better then I’ve seen her for quite some time.....
..... But she sounded more like she was trying to bring back the good old days when the camera’s were on her and the people waited “breathlessly” to hear her. That simply wasn’t in the air...And I thought Trump looked more like he was ‘enduring’ the moments til she was finished....he’s always so engaging with people but he simply stood there. Quite the thing for someone who’s facial expressions are never ending....It just seemed like having Sarah there was only a “pause”...we’ll have to see now if the press builds this up to more than it is.
Foreign news and others round about of course are critical of her “ramblings”....they always were. But that “charge’ she once brought to the stage wasn’t there and I think Trump sensed this immediately....I sure did.
Her kiddos do seem to have serious issues with sex out of wedlock, drinking, and family violence.
I couldn’t say for sure but maybe those are the values of Alaskans?
One pic per hundred posts? We're past 200 posts, so we need a third pic.
“Trump hates Glenn Beck. Palin hates Glenn Beck”
Or, more accurately, Glen Beck hates Trump, Palin.
“If I were to write down Trump’s actual policy quotes,”
Correction: If you were to write down Cruz’s actual VOTES and actual policy quotes...
All available with a bit of research on Google.
“over some touch back amnesty”
“Touch back amnesty” is proof of the power of suggestion. That has never been a stated policy of Trump, but an imaginary snark that someone from the group of Cruz supporter got going.
Some of these Cruz-bots would side with Osama ben Laden if he were around to criticize Trump.
Psalm 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
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