Posted on 01/19/2016 1:18:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Edited on 01/19/2016 1:20:55 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, will endorse Donald J. Trump in Iowa on Tuesday, officials with his campaign confirmed. The endorsement provides Mr. Trump with a potentially significant boost just 13 days before the state's caucuses.
Levin who? kidding.
Well Pro, I think I'll just neutralize your anti-American vote and ask KC to put me ON the Sarah Palin ping list. Make America Great Again!
Gosh, what about the politically incorrect candidate who actually changes from BS to truth, and promises, "Make American government bigger!" Too bad Trump doesn't have an honest motto. Sloganeering cheerleaders are lousy political leaders. I stopped voting for them long ago. You should have, too.
Anti-American, windy, is voting for a moderate pro-government leftist Republican as president.
I wonder, my dear FReeper friends who are so short-sighted on this, if Trump wins and does just what anyone with sense knows he will do, govern to the left (from more Federally mandated ethanol, as Trump JUST demanded, to single-payer health care, a concept that has impressed Trump for decades) ...
... will you be around to be accountable for what you voted for, and for what we all warned you would be a consequence?
You have two logical realistic consequences if Trump gets the nom. One is only a likely possibility, that Trump will lose in the general the same as Romney, and for the same reason. The second is virtually guaranteed, and that is that IF Trump wins the White house, America is GUARANTEED more leftist bigger government. Again, do your due diligence on Trump.
Onyx, I have a hard count going right now that has been compiled over the period of a few months perusing Trump and Cruz threads. By my count, 354 FReepers have stated that they prefer Cruz, and a surprising chunk of them feel the same way about Trump as they did about Romney -- in other words, forget it, they'll vote third party or stay home if Trump gets the R nom, rather than actively request government slavery by voting for him.
I am looking at 298 names, including yours and JR's, on the list of FReepers who have stated that they prefer Trump.
The majority on FR prefer Cruz. The minority wants Trump. It is what it is.
It depends on what you mean. I don’t endorse Cruz, but for the reasons you stated, I think Trump is the worst GOP candidate. So, I guess “prefer” is accurate.
Windy, did you really just call someone standing on principle ‘Anti-American”? Please tell me I read that wrong.
Thanks for pinging me. Thank you for doing your research.
Unlike the reality star who also endorsed McCain and many here, I will never vote for a lifelong liberal like Trump. I will write in Cruz.
I don't know why I got that ping. I would vote for Bush before I'd vote for Trump at this point.
Trump is a liberal windbag who is going to self implode like Howard Dean soon. He just said that Cruz's loan issue is WORSE THAN HILLARY'S HANDLING OF THE TOP SECRET E-MAILS!
He just burned the bridge. Anyone sitting on the fence just got blown up.
Donald Trump, on the other hand -- Oh, I forgot. Donald Trump gets a free pass from you right down the line no matter what he as said or done.
But, what about all those departments and agencies that Trump has promised to eliminate?
Haven't you heard him promise to use his Bully Pulpit to lead on bringing the FedGov into compliance with the enumerated powers?
Haven't you heard THAT?
Me neither
You are very welcome. Thanks as well for your many inspiring level-headed posts RE The Donald.
UNLIKE the candidate he supports.
:^(
Trump can get free passes from whoever he likes but the facts do not change. Regardless of who wants them to or claims otherwise.
Trump will do one thing. Destroy. America is not a business deal. It’s a country. Or used to be before people elected liberals. Just look what his Romneyesque ‘both sides of the issue’ crap has done to FR in a matter of months. Full blown civil war because some people cannot accept the facts and yet again, prefer pushing someone other than a conservative into the nomination.
Hero worship always leads to one outcome. Fallen ‘heroes’ and the fallout in their wake. In this case, that fallout will be America. And the blame will fall squarely on the shoulders of those who once again put fantasy over principle. If truth upsets people, so be it. It will still be the truth after their tantrum.
Thank God.
But it does speak to the problem of letting raw emotion overcome rational decisionmaking.
I did initially think I would vote for Trump if Cruz did not get the nomination. But now, knowing more about Trump and his past, I will not. I've said this several times — for me, staying home on election day is not an option. I promised my late father I would always vote unless I was dying or dead. So if Trump is nominated, I will write in Ted Cruz's name. I will not vote for Trump or any other self-serving politician who will rob America blind and ultimately destroy it.
I won’t for trump. His every action turns me away even more than before.
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Keep on fooling yourself.
She’s giddy over the money, and the attention.
We know people are easy to corrupt; there are about 500 of them in congress.
Remember Sarah’s bus tour to nowhere?
What do you think its purpose was?
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Just everything in the post to which I replied. (and most of your other posts lately)
He was 4 when he came to Texas.
Me, too, until I compiled the list. The tone of a discussion often belies the majority opinion. The minority opinion often posts more forcefully and frequently, creating the illusion of numbers that are imaginary.
I've discovered in my years of FReeping that the ONLY way to see the real accurate picture of dominant opinion, is to go to the considerable trouble and time of making a list. I happen to be speedy and handy with certain word processing aspects, so it is less trouble for me, I suppose, than it would be for most folks because most folks don't have to use word processing tools to the extent I do, and therefore don't know certain shortcuts and accuracy tools.
My first list was back in the summer of 2010, when a "mystery missile" was launched off the California coast and officials tried to pass it off as a UPS plane, of all things. The tone of the threads made it look like a majority were buying the UPS plane BS, but in making a count, only about one in three people who weighed in on it one way or the other, were actually buying it. But the people who were buying it posted a LOT more frequently and hotly.
It was a profound eye-opener because it demonstrated how one third of voices could create the illusion of being half or more, when in reality, they were only about a third.
Also, in the summer of 2012, I was keeping a list, and the majority of FReepers really resented Romney and were reluctant to vote for him. I kept it until August, then took a hiatus from FR until after the election. At the time, I thought Romney would win in a landslide because I thought FReepers only represented die-hards like us. I was wrong -- FReepers actually represented conservatives across America. Romney lost because they refused to vote against their own interests, and apparently understood the sophistry of voting "against."
God bless all here, regardless of whom they support!
Get down with your principled self! Kudos and applause! Who would ever have thought that a stalwart conservative would have to swim upstream at FR, huh? Hang in there. You're not alone.
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