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January 20, 2016

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RP

What benefit derives to trump from the Palin endorsement?

That's easy. At least 3 days of headlines (better than meth!) for Trump.

Yesterdays headline: Bristol Palin's Facebook post: Will My Mom Endorse Trump?

Today: FLASH!!!!! Palin Endorses Trump!

Tomorrow: Trump: Track Palin's Not A Wife (GF)-Beater - He Was Merely Being Tough.

Bad publicity? No such thing on Planet Trump (and Idiocracy America).

Anne J

Oh my, could you imagine a minimum of four years with them as POTUS and Veep? How painful would it be to have to see and hear either one of them give a speech. It would make me long for a return to the days of W. if it meant these two would shut up forever.

shsavage

Somebody has jumped the shark; just not quite sure who.

Bob

Trump actually looked embarrassed while standing next to Palin. He'll be smiling if he edges out Cruz in Iowa, though.

Bob

Since you seem puzzled let me expand on my laconic comment. Evangelicals and Teabaggers do not live in the universe we inhabit:

"Over the years Palin has actually cultivated a number of relationships in Iowa,” said Craig Robinson, the former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa and publisher of the website The Iowa Republican. “There are the Tea Party activists who still think she’s great and a breath of fresh air, but she also did a good job of courting Republican donors in the state," he added.

Other conservatives said that Mrs. Palin serves as a particularly effective shield against Mr. Cruz, who has assiduously courted Iowa’s evangelical voters.

"Palin’s brand among evangelicals is as gold as the faucets in Trump Tower," said Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/us/politics/donald-trump-sarah-palin.html

Neon Vincent

"[H]ang Sarah Palin around Donald Trump's neck"--There are ways that could be done that Palin might like. Add in Ann Coulter and there are people who would pay to see that (none of us, except maybe Duff, but still).

In that vein, here's a satirical suggestion to improve the flagging ratings of Republican national conventions:

"[T]he otherwise tedious proceedings of the 2016 GOP convention, for example, would be enlivened no end by a Black Mass celebrated by the GOP nominee, perhaps with Ann Coulter’s nude form draped over the altar and a chorus of delegates chanting “Evil, be thou my good!” from the bleachers."

http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-conversation-with-archdruid-about.html

Bob

Naked is one of the few ways Palin and Coulter would be more scary. Their bat wings and talons would show.

Shaun Appleby

Women. He maximises the opportunity to treat a woman with apparent dignity and respect. Not easy for the Donald unless stage managed under exceptional circumstances.

Neon Vincent

True, but The Donald's followers might get off on that. Rick Wilson called them “mostly childless single men who masturbate to anime.” Some of the women in hentai have bat wings and talons.

http://gawker.com/donald-trump-supporters-are-mostly-childless-single-me-1753939640

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