Yesterday the parody site Someecards.com rounded up some of the more sober reactions to Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump, which, of course, was such a transcendent parody in itself, it elevated Trump-Palin's act to pure awesomeness. You can see all the reactions here; I have culled but a few of the finer ones.
The last I've selected comes from the theologically contemplative Albert Brooks, perhaps the funniest creature on earth -- excepting, naturally, Sarah Palin:
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I'm still discerning -- rather, trying to discern -- what possible benefit to Trump is the endorsement of a shrieking parody whose last-known favorability rating among Republicans was a withered 27 percent, which essentially overlaps Trump's preexisting support. Endorsement-prevention -- from its going to Ted Cruz -- was, one supposes, The Donald's thinking. Still, Palin's endorsement is of no real electoral benefit to Trump in Iowa's contest, and it would be yet another massive electoral demerit in the general. The Democratic nominee would hang Sarah Palin around Donald Trump's neck like the poisonous albatross she is. Just let us pray he gets far enough for us to enjoy that.
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).
Posted by: RP | January 20, 2016 at 10:08 AM
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.
Posted by: Anne J | January 20, 2016 at 10:16 AM
Somebody has jumped the shark; just not quite sure who.
Posted by: shsavage | January 20, 2016 at 10:30 AM
Trump actually looked embarrassed while standing next to Palin. He'll be smiling if he edges out Cruz in Iowa, though.
Posted by: Bob | January 20, 2016 at 10:50 AM
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
Posted by: Bob | January 20, 2016 at 12:05 PM
"[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
Posted by: Neon Vincent | January 20, 2016 at 12:53 PM
Naked is one of the few ways Palin and Coulter would be more scary. Their bat wings and talons would show.
Posted by: Bob | January 20, 2016 at 06:36 PM
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.
Posted by: Shaun Appleby | January 21, 2016 at 09:00 AM
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
Posted by: Neon Vincent | January 21, 2016 at 09:23 AM