Patterico's Pontifications

Dana: is my streak unbroken? I think it is, right?

Patterico (1d0bb4) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:23 pm

Cuz she is going to a Trump rally?

Oh boy.

Rodney King's Spirit (3adc86) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:25 pm

Smithers? Unleash teh happyfeets!

Colonel Haiku (aacf41) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:34 pm

she’s a pooper

i thought we discussed this already

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:45 pm

You shut yer whoor mouth, you!

Colonel Haiku (aacf41) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:46 pm

The same people who think Trump is a genius think Palin is, too. Also, their barber.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:48 pm

At least Bristol is for Trump. She certainly can pick winners.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:51 pm

To my Tea Party friends who think Donald Trump can lead the Tea Party to victory.

1) No, he cannot.

2) He has opposed everything the Tea Party stands for.

3) What are you smoking?

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:55 pm

Alaska values!!

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:55 pm

Sarah Palin would have been different had McCain won.

Simce she resigned, she’d gone for the applause.

She and Donald trump have this in common: Bluffing when they don’t know something.

Sammy Finkelman (643dcd) — 1/19/2016 @ 1:08 pm

During the 2008, I was very enthusiastic about Palin. Afterward, I was sympathetic because it was obvious she was the subject of sabotage from the establishment/elite McCain campaign. But she definitely took a wrong turn, and has become a caricature of herself. Now it sounds like she is turning on Cruz. Bad move.

Wordygirl (bebecd) — 1/19/2016 @ 1:20 pm

Dana: is my streak unbroken? I think it is, right?

Patterico (1d0bb4) — 1/19/2016 @ 12:23 pm</em

Technically, yes, but ISWYDT…

Dana (47be17) — 1/19/2016 @ 1:37 pm

There goes any conservative cred she still had: “I’m proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for president,” Ms. Palin said in a statement provided by his campaign.

Her support is the highest-profile backing for a Republican contender so far.

“I am greatly honored to receive Sarah’s endorsement,” Mr. Trump said in a statement trumpeting Mrs. Palin’s decision. “She is a friend, and a high-quality person whom I have great respect for. I am proud to have her support.”

Dana (47be17) — 1/19/2016 @ 1:45 pm

Alaska values are offensive! Nothing but socialized oil and shooting wildlife.

Dejectedhead (ba8561) — 1/19/2016 @ 1:46 pm

After the treatment she received from the Republican Party why should she put the party’s interests above her own? I admire Palin but I never thought she was a virgin.

I think she would have preferred to work with Cruz but Cruz, smartly, decided he didn’t need a wildcard at this time. To me this seems like a desperation move from Trump.

Roy Lofquist (6e7240) — 1/19/2016 @ 1:47 pm

After the way she was treated in 2008 and beyond, she pretty much became a symbol of the establishment attacking people for badthink.

I’m not going to begrudge any decisions she’s made since she had to reinvent herself. You do what you have to do.

malclave (4ddf38) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:00 pm

if Palin endorses Mr. Trump though that must mean he’s assured her of his conservative boner fides

goodness gracious

it’s gonna very very difficult now to make the case that he’s “not a real conservative”

GAME CHANGE

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:06 pm

I’m waiting to see if the other hopefuls and their followers panic and break for Cruz. This may help – just call me Pollyanna

I have to say, the Palin endorsement couldn’t come at a better time for Trump.

ThOR (a52560) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:06 pm

it’s gonna *be* very very difficult i mean

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:07 pm

I still like Sarah Palin. It’s hard to go through what she and her family went through. She showed fortitude during hard times than many politicians on either side.

DRJ (15874d) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:09 pm

Let’s recap:

Tea Party:
Small government
Rule of law
Traditional values
Private medicine
Free enterprise

Donald Trump:
Big government
Rule of Trump
Pro-abortion & SSM
Single payer
Crony capitalism

Sarah has beclowned herself, literally this time.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:12 pm

The Revolution was betrayed™

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:14 pm

it’s like how when michael phelps got busted with the weed he just sang to himself just keep swimming just keep swimming like in that tiger fish movie

then he got a dwi!

now he’s gonna be a dad

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:14 pm

sorry i mean clownfish

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:15 pm

I have no idea what is going on (if I ever did) anymore. Strange bedfellows. Could be that Palin thinks Cruz is not iconoclastic enough for her to endorse. Maybe she’ll pull an Italy and switch sides if Cruz hands Trump his head.

felipe (56556d) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:16 pm

What I’m not liking is that this endorsement, and the hubub around it, is distracting from the most glaring display of hypocrisy I’ve ever seen; Trump going after Cruz on grounds of temperament!

Arizona CJ (da673d) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:18 pm

Palin is a Jacksonian maverick, not a small-government conservative, just like Trump. Alaska is a small State with big government, and that makes her look like a small-government proponent. There are things to like about leaders like that because their interests overlap, but Trump is more her style.

My feeling is people will choose Cruz or they won’t, but Cruz won’t win the primary and he won’t be a successful President if people don’t understand what this election is about. If they choose to give power to Trump and trust him to govern as he pleases, that’s their prerogative but it’s not a choice for Constitutional government. It’s choosing a different version of Obama’s style of authoritarian government.

DRJ (15874d) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:20 pm

I have never seen a women and her family so abused by the media, democrats and team republican.
She gets a free pass for life in my book. If she wants bernie, so be it.

mg (31009b) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:22 pm

Sarah Palin would never ever ever her whole life offend Meghan’s coward daddy by endorsing Ted Cruz in the primary

she’s nothing if not obeisant

if Cruz gets the nomination though she’ll help heal and unite the party using her special Sarah skills

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:22 pm

Both are celebrities and not politicians. It’s not very surprising.

Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:27 pm

DRJ–

Yes. Replacing Helter with Skelter.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:42 pm

It’s a little ironic that Trump didn’t even vote for her in 2008.
Perhaps Katie Couric was correct to ask if she reads anything on a daily basis.

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:46 pm

Trump/Palin 2016!

Best move all around looking ahead to the election. If Cruz wins, he has the Palin vote sewn up automatically anyway. If Trump feels compelled to choose a conservative VP, that means we’ll have some influence, even if he himself is a bit wacky.

Meanwhile, Palin endorsing Cruz would be like, oh, Cruz endorsing Cruz. It would be a meaningless gesture.

Sage Klubb (c4e0f7) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:57 pm

Sage Klubb, so what you’re saying is that Sarah Palin is endorsing Trump in order to expand HER base?

In other words, you believe she’s looking to make a “meaningful” gesture rather than to endorse someone she’s more in line with?

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:06 pm

Well seeing as maverick didn’t have much of a campaign then and Dr evil and Norma Desmond was sticking knives in her, but back in September he had endorsed her.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:07 pm

Trump has recently provided plenty of fuel to fire a big government/small government debate with Cruz. His comments about ethanol, Apple and trade with China not only demonstrate what an interventionist he is, but portend further economic collapse if implemented. It’s a scary prospect.

My concern is that we have an electorate that is so enraged by our government, that their main concern is figuring out the best way to shove their thumb in government’s eye.

ThOR (a52560) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:07 pm

Joke column in the New Yorker: Just published 5:13 pm

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/palin-endorsement-widens-trumps-lead-among-idiots

Sammy Finkelman (643dcd) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:10 pm

I agree with what was said above,
I think Palin was great, was treated mercilessly even by those who should have been friends, or at least allies,
and it has been tough since, and I find it hard to criticize her,
had my family and I had to face the same stuff,
not so sure where we would be right now.

Besides, who is Tina Fey for??? 😉

MD in Philly (at the moment not in Philly) (deca84) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:11 pm

Given the possibility of the GOP nominating Trump while the Demos nominate Sanders, it seems like there is an ENORMOUS gap in the center for AT LEAST one independent.

Not that this would necessarily be better; it could well be Bloomberg.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:24 pm

Cruz Supporter (102c9a):

> Sage Klubb, so what you’re saying is that Sarah Palin is endorsing Trump in order to expand HER base?

No. But you might have a good point, there.

My point is that if you got Palin, Trump, and Cruz all together in a room right now, Cruz wouldn’t want Palin’s endorsement, and Trump might. Trump might want to reassure conservatives who are looking at some of his leftwing positions in the past. Cruz doesn’t need to reassure anybody about that at all, and, meanwhile, some Rinos are leaning towards Cruz over Trump as the lesser of two evils. A Palin endorsement for Cruz might do more harm than good.

Sage Klubb (c4e0f7) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:26 pm

OK, so just as the media and GOP insiders were warming to the idea of Trump he pulls a Palin out of his hat. I thought we passed peak-Palin a while ago. Guess not…

crazy (cde091) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:26 pm

I blame happyfeet.

nk (dbc370) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:27 pm

if it were up to me she’d be in her third term as governor by now

but she did not do my advise

she has her own agenda i think

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:30 pm

I meant you corrupted Patterico. I still like Sarah, even if she is a Norma Jean who never became a Marilyn. And what everybody said about how she was treated by the GOP deadwood is true and sticking her thumb in their collective eye is overdue.

nk (dbc370) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:35 pm

2) He has opposed everything the Tea Party stands for.

Except that time when Donald Trump ran for President against George W Bush on the not just balancing the budget but actually paying down the national debt.

Instead, Dubya won and promptly squandered the surplus left by Newt Gingrich by cutting everyone in the country a $37 dollar check.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:38 pm

I do believe Ms. Palin has more information at her disposal than we, collectively, regarding the candidates and machinations afoot.

Not that I know much, you people know less.

DNF (755a85) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:38 pm

oh. Mr. P is very very protective of this Ted Cruz person. It’s like lassie and timmy.

It’s really very sweet if you think about it.

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:39 pm

Sage Klubb, I don’t think anyone with actual political capital to spend would do some kind of jujitsu where they endorse the person they don’t actually want to win.
Seriously, you’re wading into the conspiratorial Ron Paul/Alex Jones newsletter waters, there.

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:42 pm

27. Bet its a false flag.

DNF (ffe548) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:42 pm

sorry i mean clownfish

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:15 pm

Which movie was that, Happyfeet? Finding Nemo? Spongebob Squarepants Movie?

Bill H (dcdd7b) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:47 pm

27. Bet its a false flag.

DNF (ffe548) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:42 pm

Hadn’t really thought about that, but now that you mention it, with her ability to make the left vapor lock…

Bill H (dcdd7b) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:52 pm

Nemo!

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 3:56 pm

http://www.tmz.com/2016/01/19/sarah-palin-son-track-arrested-domestic-violence/

mg (31009b) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:08 pm

if you want my two cents I say Mr. Palin needs to stop getting drunk off his ass, stop waving guns around, and stop doing the domestic violence on the womenfolk

new year new you

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:11 pm

No perez, your opinion was not solicited.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:15 pm

Like I said, Norma Jean. The trailer park gene runs strong in this family.

nk (dbc370) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:15 pm

Let’s recap:

Tea Party:
Small government
Rule of law
Traditional values
Private medicine
Free enterprise

Donald Trump:
Big government
Rule of Trump
Pro-abortion & SSM
Single payer
Crony capitalism

Sarah has beclowned herself, literally this time.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:12 pm

Pretty well sums it up.

It’s gonna be interesting to find out her reaction to Trump’s spoken endorsement of “renewable energy” (i.e. Iowa ethanol subsidies), which, if you heard him stumble through it, sounded like he was as familiar with the talking points he was reading as he was the book of “Two Corinthians.”

The Prima Donald hates to lose, and will do whatever is necessary not to, and if that fails, he will do his best to disclaim any responsibility for a failure with his name on it. That not only leads him to things as his revisionist history of the failed Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, it probably — in my humble opinion — led him to promise something prestigious, lucrative, or both to Palin in exchange for her endorsement.

Mark my words.

L.N. Smithee (e750c1) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:27 pm

Someone to regard:

http://www.weaselzippers.us/251955-15-yr-old-boy-stabbed-to-death-because-he-protected-girl-from-sexual-assault-by-syrian-migrant-in-sweden/

Maybe character will dawn on ye.

DNF (755a85) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:36 pm

After that endorsement speech filled with screeching Valley Girl-isms, I’m not sure she did Trump any favors.

Funeral Guy (fd1434) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:39 pm

Mr. Roberts misses his:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/01/19/supreme-court-bombshell-does-obamas-immigration-guidance-violate-the-take-care-clause/

DNF (755a85) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:42 pm

I still like Sarah Palin. It’s hard to go through what she and her family went through. She showed fortitude during hard times than many politicians on either side.

I still like her too, DRJ, for the reasons you outline above. But I can no longer take her seriously.

JVW (887036) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:47 pm

The Palin brand is front and center again. I don’t think it would have helped Cruz to have her support him. She’s a populist (conservative one) and so it Trump. Cruz is the Regan conservative running. It makes sense she went with Trump. Also, I think it’s less about policy and more personal with Palin. She has endlessly criticized both the GOP establishment and Obama as spineless, etc. In Trump, she sees a compatible brand of successful “leadership” equal to what she sees as her own.

Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:56 pm

Syrian vs. Lithuanian. Latin Kings vs. MS-13.

nk (dbc370) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:57 pm

L.N. Smithee,

Remember this:

In September, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Palin how she would feel about possibly serving in a Trump administration.

“I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby, oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the earth for mankind’s use, instead of relying on unfriendly foreign nations for us to import their resources,” she said, adding that her ultimate aim would to get rid of the agency.

It will be interesting.

Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:58 pm

The Revolution ~~was betrayed ™~~ WILL be televised, probably more than you can stand

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 2:14 pm

FIFYTML

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:04 pm

After that endorsement speech filled with screeching Valley Girl-isms, I’m not sure she did Trump any favors.

Funeral Guy (fd1434) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:39 pm

What this all then? Sarah Palin is still speaking.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:06 pm

Agreed, JVW.

I agree with Dana that this helps Trump. I’m an optimist and maybe a foolish one, but I also think it can help the Cruz part of the GOP, because Trump is enlarging the GOP tent. nk’s characterization of Trump’s followers as Norma Jeans strikes me as astute. I see them as Reagan Democrats, and the GOP needs them in its tent. They might stick around for Cruz if he is the nominee. I don’t think they will vote for Bush, Kasich, or Rubio.

DRJ (15874d) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:09 pm

It’s very telling that Palin opted for Trump. While I respect Palin and admire her for managing to survive all that she did while she was in the public eye, her selection of candidate to back told me all I needed to know. And it wasn’t good. That she went with the popular, shallow celeb sort instead of the substantive true conservative Cruz reflects more about who she has become rather than Trump and what he stands for.

I think they both thrive on the adulation and applause, and simply feed off being in the spotlight. It doesn’t mean they’re bad people. Just that their own need for fame and approval supersedes politics right now.

Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:11 pm

After Palin’s endorsement, it will be interesting to see how the the establishment GOP and the media will contort themselves to take Trump’s side against Cruz.

DRJ (15874d) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:12 pm

It doesn’t mean they’re bad people.

It doesn’t mean they’re not.

I think Trump actually is a bad person. I can’t say that about Sarah Palin. I just don’t respect her any more.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:13 pm

I am very interested to see how Cruz handles this.

Meanwhile, I’m watching the video, not in real time. I’m reminding myself how much I dislike Trump by listening to him prattle on and on and on and on and on about the polls.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:14 pm

I guess we have to define “bad person”.

Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:14 pm

George Will: “Take away the glasses, he looks like a dumb guy.”

Tool.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:15 pm

I guess we have to define “bad person”.

Someone who cares about absolutely nothing in the world except himself.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:15 pm

66. I don’t believe Palin and Cruz are on separate pages. We are missing the Zeitgeist around the waste ponds.

DNF (755a85) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:16 pm

Say christine o’donnell, there was a rush to make her an unperson I vaguely recall.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:17 pm

Mr. The Donald just needs to turn on his heartlight and let it shine wherever he goes i think

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:19 pm

Say christine o’donnell, there was a rush to make her an unperson I vaguely recall.

She was a nasty piece of work.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:19 pm

I think the arse pulls are getting a bit thick around here.

DNF (755a85) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:20 pm

LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Rick Snyder, facing the largest crisis of his tenure leading Michigan, issued a sweeping apology on Tuesday to the residents of the city of Flint for a contaminated water supply.

that’s not just smart, that’s RepubliSmart

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:21 pm

After Palin’s endorsement, it will be interesting to see how the the establishment GOP and the media will contort themselves to take Trump’s side against Cruz.

Amusingly, being compelled to take Trump’s side now, the MSM will essentially taking Palin’s side, too. This is what I would love to see pointed out every single time the MSM says something positive about Trump while they go negative with Cruz. Oh, so you really do agree with SnowBarbie, eh? Who knew.

Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:23 pm

Clever to claim responsibility you had little to do with, re the Greg branch link.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:25 pm

I hate to say it, but Palin’s move strikes me as more self-serving than anything: a) wanting to get back into the biggest spotlight, and b) going with the candidate who also loves celebrity, and, might even have a little position lined up for her…

Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:25 pm

OK, I got to the part where Sarah Palin has taken the stage.

Yup, my position as articulated in the post is confirmed, in spades.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:27 pm

Now that’s funny! Just watched the clip of John Wayne’s daughter Aissa throwing her support to Trump. Brings back memories of a few of my friends down in the OC who partied hard with her during the Days of Disco. She was one crazy little filly and she drove her parents nuts.

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:29 pm

I’ll just say things are confusing,
I heard some Philly radio hosts interviewing O’Donnell and discussing how she was undercut by malfeasance / illegal doings among DE officials, Bidenland and all.
IDK

MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:32 pm

Patterico, I am starting to smell the Kingfish in all this. Huey Long used an approach like this, in a way.

http://www.hueylong.com/perspectives/huey-long-quotes-in-his-own-words.php

Simon Jester (2708f4) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:37 pm

Praise for Rand Paul from Sarah Palin. On foreign policy.

Huh?

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:43 pm

They can both see Russia. Sarah from her porch; Rand through his hookah.

nk (dbc370) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:46 pm

Sarah has every reason to stick it to the GOPe and endorsing Trump will go part way. If she could help him get Iowa, that will go farther. She was screwed by the McCain campaign staff and especially Nicole Wallace who set her up for that disastrous Katie Couric interview with no preparation. They hated her and were dismissive of her background which was a huge mistake.

I liked her before McCain chose her. She reminded me of a local city council woman who was hated by the local politicians. She read the city check register every month and would ask staff, “What is this item about ?” Often it was some favor to a buddy using city funds. Palin is like that.

Her kids have been pretty much a disaster but she has credibility with a segment of the voters that Trump needs. She also has the same enemies, a very useful trait.

Mike K (90dfdc) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:48 pm

Sorry, but Cruz would be a better Supreme Court Justice.

I am not yet a Trump guy. I preferred Walker and liked Jindal but Christie is not the one.

I am very interested in Abbot’s proposal for a Constitutional convention of states.

Mike K (90dfdc) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:52 pm

I can see ambition, pettiness, and spite from my house.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:53 pm

I am not yet a Trump guy.

I ~~am not yet~~ will never be a Trump guy.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:54 pm

I am very interested in Abbot’s proposal for a Constitutional convention of states.

I almost posted on it, but until he details what he is actually proposing (which I can’t find anywhere) I can’t comment.

I mean the actual language of the amendments. I have seen the giant .pdf and its page 4. That’s not the proposal. It’s a summary.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:55 pm

recession stalks the land like a feral puma stalking a crippled sleazeypoop

that is because america is crippled

hence the metaphor

but Mr. The Donald will make america great again!

so we’ve kinda dodged a bullet already

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:57 pm

Patterico, I am starting to smell the Kingfish in all this

A little bit of water started to spew before I got to the Huey Long part…

Colonel Haiku (aacf41) — 1/19/2016 @ 5:58 pm

Sorry, Colonel. But I promise you that no student on my campus knows about either of the pop-culture or historical aspects of that nickname.

Which sadly brings us to Our Ford:

From 1916: “I don’t know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don’t care. I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.”

But maybe Ford was onto something here:

From 1922: “I am not a reformer. I think there is entirely too much attempt at reforming in the world and that we pay too much attention to reformers. We have two kinds of reformers. Both are nuisances. The man who calls himself a reformer wants to smash things. He is the sort of man who would tear up a whole shirt because the collar button did not fit the buttonhole. It would never occur to him to enlarge the buttonhole. This sort of reformer never under any circumstances knows what he is doing. Experience and reform do not go together. A reformer cannot keep his zeal at white heat in the presence of a fact. He must discard all facts.”

Sounds familiar, anyway.

Simon Jester (2708f4) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:03 pm

“I hate to say it, but Palin’s move strikes me as more self-serving than anything . . .” – Dana

I think she’s settling the score. I can hardly blame her.

ThOR (a52560) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:06 pm

Hillary! Clinton put dozens of NSAP messages (nothing is at a higher level of secrecy) on her private server and it has been confirmed that it’s highly likely the server was compromised by foreign intelligence service.

Hillary! Clinton for Prison in November 2016!

Colonel Haiku (aacf41) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:06 pm

95… certainly does, Simon.

Colonel Haiku (aacf41) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:08 pm

Wouldn’t it be great if ALL the R candidates stopped, and as one discussed this?

Ha.

Simon Jester (2708f4) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:08 pm

McChoco Potato!

happyfeet (831175) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:11 pm

Colonel, I don’t know if you read a lot of SF. I know narciso does. There is a great book from the Golden Age called “A Canticle for Leibowitz.” Really worth everyone’s time. But there is one section that makes me sad nowadays. In that post apocalyptic future, people call each other “simpletons” as a polite greeting. Because, during the awful Last War:

“Simpletons! Yes, yes! I’m a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We’ll build a town and we’ll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they’ll be dead! Simpletons! Let’s go! This ought to show ’em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!”

Doesn’t that sound about like our current mess?

Simon Jester (2708f4) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:11 pm

Simon Jester,

I haven’t thought about that book for a while, but when I read it some 20+ years ago, it stayed with me for a very long time. What a book.

Dana (0110a6) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:15 pm

Hillary! Bureau of prison number 1600 Washington D.C.

Steve57 (f61b03) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:18 pm

Such a fine novel, Dana, and the author such a sad man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

It was a very different time.

Simon Jester (2708f4) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:22 pm

Cruz Supporter (102c9a):

> you’re wading into the conspiratorial Ron Paul/Alex Jones newsletter waters, there.

Eh, it’s an ultra-weird cycle.

However, it’s not exactly a conspiracy theory to suggest that two or three politicians discussed an endorsement ahead of time. In fact, I think it’s common. No politician wants to announce their endorsement of candidate A, only to have candidate A throw it back in their face. Palin especially would be in danger of being dissed by a candidate who thinks it’s smarter politics to refuse Palin’s endorsement and tell her to take a flying leap.

The press would *love* to have a headline about Trump (who they hate) making a show of dissing Palin (who they hate even more). So the chances that Palin and Trump didn’t have some communication ahead of this announcement is nil. The only question is if Cruz had been approached first, and if he had wanted it.

Sage Klubb (c4e0f7) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:23 pm

I think this press release has a link to Abbott’s plan. Scroll to the bottom for the link. It’s a PDF and I can’t load it on my tablet, so it may not be what I think it is.

DRJ (15874d) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:30 pm

With this endorsement, Trump is looking to sew up the Britney Spears wing of the Republican party. …and the Britney Spears wing of the Democratic party.

We shouldn’t underestimate the power of chewing gum, tramp stamp tattoos, or people who think it’s acceptable to wear flip-flops to church.

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:31 pm

Have they gotten their hands on all the emails leading up to, during and just after the Benghazi terror attack?

Colonel Haiku (aacf41) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:34 pm

I think this press release has a link to Abbott’s plan. Scroll to the bottom for the link. It’s a PDF and I can’t load it on my tablet, so it may not be what I think it is.

Yeah, that’s the giant .pdf I was referring to. It doesn’t have the actual proposed language, although it is written in a way that implies it does.

It also talks about “reigning in” the federal government. I remember being corrected on that once by a Texan.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:35 pm

There’s lots of talk on the web about how the GOPe is looking to unite behind Trump because they see him as the lesser of two evils. I don’t think I believe that. If it is true, the addition of Palin to the equation won’t help. If I were looking for a golden lining in all this, when Palin today said “(This is) going to be so much fun,” I don’t think she was talking about the joy of mending bridges with the GOPe. No, I think she’s looking forward to rubbing their noses in it.

ThOR (a52560) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:36 pm

Over 1k comments at Hot Air on the Sarah Palin endorsement.

200 comments at the Instapundit. Most trying to convince the others of Sarah’s irrelevance.

I’m glad Patterico didn’t try to argue that Palin’s endorsement doesn’t mean anything.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:36 pm

I haven’t read SF much at all, Simon, just Crichton’s books, some of Philip K. Dick’s stories and did read – and very much enjoy – Dune.

Colonel Haiku (aacf41) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:43 pm

A girl gave it to me to read in the summer of 1976. I never did. I gave her Zelazny’s “Creatures of Light and Darkness” and Harvard Lampoon’s “Bored of the Rings”. We never got into any kind of relationship as you can guess; there was no compatibility there.

nk (dbc370) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:48 pm

Wait until Sarah Palin discovers that Trump didn’t even vote for the McCain/Palin ticket in 2008. That’s when the other flip-flop will drop!

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:49 pm

Okay then:

Tom Llamas
Tom Llamas – Verified account ‏@TomLlamasABC

BIG: Campaign sources confirm @glennbeck will endorse @tedcruz on Saturday in Iowa.
6:11 PM – 19 Jan 2016

Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:52 pm

Iowa polls are all a week old with Trump and Cruz too close to call.

NH Cruz would need a big boost to get in it with Kasich making the only move.

Cruz bit of a distant second in SC.

But Cruz was beginning to get media attention, taking it from Trump.

Gotta wonder what the internals are saying about IA.

DNF (755a85) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:55 pm

Colonel, those are great choices for reading. For what it is worth, nk and I share a lot of common SF favorites. So there is that.

PKD was crazy smart.

Simon Jester (2708f4) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:55 pm

https://mobile.twitter.com/TomLlamasABC

Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 6:55 pm

105. I am inclined to attend to Mr. Klubb. That makes two.

DNF (755a85) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:02 pm

I remember that I read Canticle long ago, maybe Jr high even,
And not really “getting it”
I think one dystopia-post-apocalyptic just ran into another in those nerdy years when math was more my thing
Yes, admission against interest

MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:04 pm

I don’t think many conservatives give a hoot about endorsements. The kinds of Republicans who care about endorsements are mostly voting for Bush. Bush has been endorsed by McCain and Dole.

“I am greatly honored to receive Sarah’s endorsement,” Mr. Trump said in a statement trumpeting Mrs. Palin’s decision. “She is a friend, and a high-quality person whom I have great respect for. I am proud to have her support.”

I’m trying to imagine the kinds of things Trump would have said about Palin, both her record as Governor and personally, if she’d endorsed Cruz. It’s not pretty.

Gerald A (949d7d) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:05 pm

It did get Bristol mentioned by CNN for something other than her teen pregnancy. So there’s one plus for Sarah right there.

nk (dbc370) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:12 pm

I am starting to smell the Kingfish in all this.

Ya’ think? The stink has been pretty strong for a month now.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:17 pm

Praise for Rand Paul from Sarah Palin. On foreign policy.

The Trump wing of the party has a lot of Fortress America isolationists.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:19 pm

This:

Alas, there is no grand principle on display here. There is nothing but opportunism and ego. For a long time now, Sarah Palin has been apt to say anything and everything to keep the cameras buzzing around her hive. This rotten endorsement completes the decline. What, we might ask, has become of Palin’s beloved Tea Party? What, too, of her purported admiration for limited government, and of her ostensible hatred of heretics and fakers? The prospect of a mass movement that was earnestly committed to libertarianism was always a little too good to be true, but even I didn’t imagine it ending like this. All that talk of the Constitution and the Declaration; all that energy expended against the cronies and the rent-seekers; all those purifying voter drives — and for what? So that Sarah Palin could add a few zeroes to her bank balance and Donald Trump could go from the purchaser to the bought? Today was the day that Rick Santelli’s famous yelp finally melted into populism and avarice. Today, at about ten minutes past six, P. T. Barnum beat out Hayek for the soul of the insurgent Right. Today, the rebels became the charlatans they had set out to depose. What comes next will be anybody’s guess.

And how sad.

Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:19 pm

While I think well of Trump, this is an endorsement that should give pause. Palin was unduly savaged by the MFM and done no favors by the incompetent McCain campaign.. But it’s also fair to note her grasp of most issues was simply nowhere near it should have been for a VP candidate. Leaving the governorship to be a TV star showed she was more interested in the attention of mostly Fox News audiences rather than doing her actual job. I have no problem with anyone grabbing the bass ring of big bucks, but then don’t expect for anyone to think you much more than a reality show star. Trump here by dint of this endorsement encourages discussion that his whole candidacy is simply another chapter in his career as a reality show TV personality. That’s not a good thing.

But anyone that would accept the endorsement of harpy Glenn “THE SKY IS FALLING RIGHT NOW, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!” Beck cannot really make that argument against Trump effectively.

Bugg (fa64ec) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:22 pm

Patterico, you only need one amendment (to Article V) out of a Convention, and you could possibly get it out of Congress:

“Whenever the Legislatures, or People, of three-fourths of the several states adopt an identical Resolution of Amendment, within a seven year period, that resolution shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution.”

(or 4/5ths if if makes you feel safer)

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:23 pm

“The Prima Donald hates to lose, and will do whatever is necessary not to, and if that fails, he will do his best to disclaim any responsibility for a failure with his name on it. That not only leads him to things as his revisionist history of the failed Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, it probably — in my humble opinion — led him to promise something prestigious, lucrative, or both to Palin in exchange for her endorsement.”

In fairness the whole town of AC has gone to poop as Indi….Native American casinos sprang up around the northeast. Christie and the state of NJ managed to make a much bigger mess with the Revel. At least Trump got out before things got really ugly.

Bugg (fa64ec) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:28 pm

It did get Bristol mentioned by CNN for something other than her teen pregnancy.

Yes. Her choice in men.

Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:29 pm

Between Sis getting pregnant without a ring again and Sonny menacing his girlfriend with a firearm perhaps somebody should’ve spent way more time being a parent than being a TV personality.

Bugg (fa64ec) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:35 pm

1) The fact NH is moving Kasich makes me ill.

2) Palin and Trump are created by a weak and unprincipled Republican party.

3) Complaining that Trump wants big govt given what we get year after year from Republicans really falls of deaf ears to anyone who has paid attention to the last 8 years.

Rush Limbaugh said it. It is true. The People want an OPPOSITION PARTY TO THE LEFT and they simply don’t feel anyone but Trump can deliver that.

Lord knows for the last 100 years Republicans have been losing this fight with routine — most of the time just giving up even when they had electoral power.

So, burn it down if it sucks this bad. That is my view.

Rodney King's Spirit (3adc86) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:39 pm

60. Dana (86e864) — 1/19/2016 @ 4:56 pm

I don’t think it would have helped Cruz to have her support him.

The surprise endorsementis what helps. Like Ted Kennedy endorsing Barack Obama. The fact of an endorsement being more of a surprise than who it is for, and in both cases, a mark of the campaign being serious.

Although I don’t think this will make much difference, but it adds maybe 2 or 3 percentage points to Trump temporarily and keeps him up in the polls for a few days.

Sammy Finkelman (dbec95) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:39 pm

The People want an OPPOSITION PARTY TO THE LEFT and they simply don’t feel anyone but Trump can deliver that.

The People are ignorant. Cruz can deliver that. It is why the Establishment hates him so.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:46 pm

Well I didn’t know I had lucked into the Brooks/gerson/frum coffee clatch.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:47 pm

) The fact NH is moving Kasich makes me ill.

2) Palin and Trump are created by a weak and unprincipled Republican party.

3) Complaining that Trump wants big govt given what we get year after year from Republicans really falls of deaf ears to anyone who has paid attention to the last 8 years.

Rush Limbaugh said it. It is true. The People want an OPPOSITION PARTY TO THE LEFT and they simply don’t feel anyone but Trump can deliver that.

Lord knows for the last 100 years Republicans have been losing this fight with routine — most of the time just giving up even when they had electoral power.

So, burn it down if it sucks this bad. That is my view.

Rodney King’s Spirit (3adc86) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:39 pm

We have spent every election cycle since the day Reagan went home(a point of fact rather than hero worship; the too often Reagan nostalgia is a a bad joke, but I digress) with the GOPe telling us how they would go to DC, fight the good fight of smaller government, reduce spending and debt, get smarter trade deals that don’t sell out American jobs, stop insane interventionist foreign policy, end imbecilic social programs. And then even when the GOP won, they went to Washington and forgot all that conservative nonsense immediately. Government grows and grows like weeds and the GOPe does NOTHING except perhaps more me too Big Government. We get Boehner and McConnell and now Ryan selling us out, and McCain and Graham insulting us without reservation. And NOW you tell us Trump is insufficiently conservative? Fully expect President Trump might be a rough ride, but if he can get a few big things right, especially the One Big Thing, that’s more than we ever got from the above supposed conservative GOPe leadership.

Bugg (fa64ec) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:55 pm

If we, God help us, get Donald Trump as President, I promise you we will get big government like you never imagined. The fact that you can’t see that shows that you have not been paying attention, at all.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 8:00 pm

Bugg (fa64ec) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:55 pm

The choice isn’t between Boehner and Trump. Where do people get this stuff?

Gerald A (949d7d) — 1/19/2016 @ 8:05 pm

Sounds like Trump has the “Let’s burn it dowwwnn!” caucus in his pocket.

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/19/2016 @ 8:06 pm

Trump is a media phenomenon. For a long time, media endorsements of a candidate meant something. Then for a while a now, they have meant nothing. So the media switched tactics. With Obama, they practice news blackout — nothing bad about him is reported honestly if at all. With Trump, it’s Trump all the time sucking away all attention from the other candidates. I’m sure they, the media, think they’re setting him up to let him down in favor of Hillary in the fall. Will their distaste for Sarah change their attitude towards Trump now? Or will they simply treat Sarah like Jeremiah Wright? Hmm.

nk (dbc370) — 1/19/2016 @ 8:12 pm

As someone opposed to Trump, I watched her speech. Good Lord, it was awful and not just because of that BS about Trump being a self-man conservative. She was hyperventilating and often looked like she was improvising. Seriously, watch Trump’s body language when he’s watching her talk. You can tell she was going off script; it’s like what Cooke accused her of at a speech in Iowa last year: an incoherent ramble. Even Jeb could’ve given a better speech than that. I said it elsewhere, but it bears repeating: if you liked the speech, it’s probably because you already like her and/or Trump; if not, then you probably won’t.

Honestly, I’m surprised the reaction to the speech and overall endorsement has been so mixed. I expected the supporters to heap praise upon her, but it looks like they’ve spent more time saying “Shut up, she did fine, but I won’t tell you how specifically.” Meanwhile, a number on the Right have been quite content to let the barbs fly (albeit, some–like Cooke–were making similar comments about her long before Trump even declared his candidacy).

top116 (d094f8) — 1/19/2016 @ 8:15 pm

133. I.e., practiced loozers:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-19/stocks-commodities-bond-yields-are-collapsing

DOW Futures down 500 just now. Federal Reserve will monetize 1 of every $2 in new Treasuries issued over the next 4 years in rolling over their balance sheet to avoid sending rates heavenward.

You pipple talk as if the tipping point were somewhere near at hand. Long gone knuckleheads, the train is over the horizon.

DNF (755a85) — 1/19/2016 @ 8:43 pm

140. Cont. Hollande has declared a national emergency, 40 of Merkel’s sitting ministers have demanded an end to immigration, the Schengen agreement and with it the euro are toast, China would devalue 50% if it did not immediately result in riots, as it is they will spend all of the FX reserves doing so piecemeal.

The Sauds today warned they are pursuing nuclear weapons purchases to defend against Iranian hegemony.

Who cares who will preside over the impending sh!tstorm?

DNF (755a85) — 1/19/2016 @ 8:53 pm

Actually her speech at cpac was on point, a generation went off to war, including her son, a veteran of diyala and helmand, and were prevented from winning, over an enemy which is taking casualties here, when the va doesn’t practice collateral damage.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:21 pm

A half dozen years of we has made the patient weaker, we have chained ourself to the dragon, which is by turns exhausted and restless.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:23 pm

I still like Sarah Palin. It’s hard to go through what she and her family went through. She showed fortitude during hard times than many politicians on either side.

I feel the same way, although I don’t know why she believes she had to come out and embrace Trump at this still rather early stage in the game. Nonetheless, a desire to facebook-unfriend such people or wish them into the cornfield simply for differing with their opinions or clashing with their judgment — sort of one step before Kimberlin-ism — is not an impressive trait in humans. It’s actually pathetic—particularly when it involves presumably mature folks or people who should know better.

Mark (f713e4) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:24 pm

I got one foot on the platform and the other on teh train…

Colonel Haiku (aacf41) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:26 pm

QuantitTive easing, then there’s the hudna to the mullahs, that ultimately everyone but cotton signed on to.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:26 pm

A whole clique of senators that abetted a criminal ministry of justice, as lawless as the tombstone constabulary. I know such fancy words.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:30 pm

Nonetheless, a desire to facebook-unfriend such people or wish them into the cornfield simply for differing with their opinions or clashing with their judgment — sort of one step before Kimberlin-ism

That is easily the dumbest thing said on this blog in months.

Patterico (1d0bb4) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:31 pm

Yes I didn’t get that at all,

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:36 pm

The main problem with Sarah Palin is similar to the main problem with Ted Cruz. Namely, public figures who have quirks of vocal patterns, demeanor or looks, or all three. Palin comes off like a happy-talk news woman, which gives her an awkwardly overly earnest, lightweight quality. In the case of Cruz, he suffers from a non-charismatic face and voice. The latter probably will doom his chances over the next 10 months, certainly among all the squishes — meaning a large percentage of the electorate that doesn’t lean left but that also gets antsy around rightism — who unconsciously place a greater burden of proof on devout conservatives like Cruz.

Mark (f713e4) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:40 pm

The design of Abbott’s constitutional convention as robin will tell you is very concerning.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:41 pm

FWIW: Definition of Kimberlin-ism: “How dare you dispute, challenge or contradict me and, in turn, make me feel or look bad! I’ll sue you, I’ll sue you!!!”

Mark (f713e4) — 1/19/2016 @ 9:58 pm

Blocking someone on Facebook: just one step away from frivolous lawsuits!

Patterico (1d0bb4) — 1/19/2016 @ 10:06 pm

This is a remake with Todd and Sarah Palin, Donald Trump on the marquee.

Indecent Proposal.

Todd gets his dough, Sarah her revenge (and maybe a spot a teh trough), Trump his ego stroked.

Still, Patterico, Trump is at worst a pickle. Hillary gets people killed because they are inconvenient. We’ve survived pickles, we may not survive Hillary.

Ted first, then ABHRC.

Matador (57a586) — 1/19/2016 @ 10:37 pm

The idea that Trump wants to reassure Conservatives that he’s something he’s not (one of them) by putting Palin on his plate is insane. But that’s probably why he did it. Most people who followed Palin already had their own solid views on Conservatism. And that’s not Trump.

I stopped following Palin’s Facebook page over this. And I changed my endorsement sidebar for the first time since 2012 because, even though I’m lazy, I had to get her name of my “for President” slot and introduce an entire new slot for her: Disappointment of the Year.

I am no more interested in voting for the diseased Democrat Donald Dump now than I was before. In fact, I am much more stridently opposed to the piece of trash New York Values Democrat than prior to the endorsement.

John Hitchcock (b495dc) — 1/19/2016 @ 11:23 pm

it’s a mistake to think of Mr. Trump as a president I think he’s more like a fun break after the vicious odious rape rape rape of food stamp’s sick sad tenure

he’ll give the poor hapless confused Rs and the ouroboros socialists time to go to their corners and consume gatorade products in quantity

we can pick up this whole super cereal constitution blah blah blah conversation later- it’s not like failmerica is on the verge of becoming an unconstitutional sleazy cowardly anti-semitic pariah among nations – it’s already there

it needs to fix that

but first it needs some pitchers of sangria and 2-3 dozen choice euro-hookers (not refugee trash the vintage kind) around the pool

happyfeet (831175) — 1/20/2016 @ 3:46 am

Two weeks to IA, three to NH. Everyone knows this rodeo can wrap in a hurry and yet the GOPe is praying to Hathor for a brokered shenanigan.

For good or ill it was time to make a move. The sheeple remain insensate regardless. Who longs for approbation? It means nothing.

DNF (ffe548) — 1/20/2016 @ 3:49 am

Wow. John Hitchcock is back for a limited engagement to diss Sarah Palin.

She must be irrelevant!

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 4:25 am

Very irrelevant.

Highly irrelevant. Neon lighted irrelevancy.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 4:27 am

Cruz’s spokesman called Trump a progressive. It’s like the further we get in the campaign season, the more strident the abuse becomes.

Also, in Ted Cruz land, you have to have come straight from the womb with conservative sensibilities otherwise you are not bonafide. Reagan wouldn’t have qualified.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 4:41 am

this does show very clearly how cruz has a ceiling

not unlike double-wide trailers and walmarts

happyfeet (831175) — 1/20/2016 @ 4:44 am

“Cruz’s spokesman called Trump a progressive.”

It is just shocking that a leading politician would criticize others. Who does that kind of thing?

Luke Stywalker (bec54f) — 1/20/2016 @ 5:27 am

Well he’s more in the Nixon ‘we’re all Keynesians now’/ tr wing than the Reagan one.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/20/2016 @ 5:44 am

You can’t flush Sarah Palin. She’s a floater.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 5:56 am

Also, in Ted Cruz land, you have to have come straight from the womb with conservative sensibilities otherwise you are not bonafide. Reagan wouldn’t have qualified.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 4:41 am

People keep comparing Reagan to Trump which is total malarkey. Reagan began publicly supporting Republicans for President beginning with Eisenhower in 52, although he remained a Democrat. He also publicly supported Nixon over Kennedy. He made a famous speech on behalf of Goldwater in 1964 which led people in the CA Republican party to recruit him to run for Governor. He had no desire to run for office before that.

He was clearly trending in a conservative direction and to the Republican party for well over a decade before he ran for office. If Reagan was equivalent to Trump he would have supported JOHNSON in 1964 while trashing Goldwater as an EVIL RACIST NUT who wants to start a nuclear war, then about a year later suddenly switched to the GOP to run for Governor in 1966.

These Reagan comparisons are ridiculous.

Gerald A (949d7d) — 1/20/2016 @ 5:56 am

Well trump endorsed both mccai and Romney.

narciso (732bc0) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:05 am

He’s more of a Rockefeller republican, less unctuous that stay puft, the previous loud guy

narciso (732bc0) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:09 am

“Well trump endorsed both mccai and Romney.”

And still voted for Obama? Now that’s a unique skill set. It can get you places.

Luke Stywalker (bec54f) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:09 am

He really was down on w, over iraq,

narciso (732bc0) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:11 am

Comparing Trump to Reagan is like comparing RuPaul to John Wayne.

nk (dbc370) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:14 am

Down on W? No way. Down on Clinton? Nah, I don’t think so either, Clinton doesn’t swing that way.

nk (dbc370) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:16 am

I’m not comparing Reagan to Trump, or more accurately, Trump to Reagan.

I am highlighting the futility of Cruz supporters writing off vast swathes of the electorate because they don’t pass the purity test, as if we have to measure up to his standards! Trump has been seeking the GOP ticket on again off again since 1998.
Always consistently Republican.

Was it Romney, or was it McCain, who Trump characterized as an “evil racist nut”?

I’m having troubles following the pathology of your angst.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:16 am

Was it Romney, or was it McCain, who Trump characterized as an “evil racist nut”?

I’m having troubles following the pathology of your angst.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:16 am

That was the standard Democrat attack on Goldwater. So he would have been reflecting what the Dems said about Goldwater. Is that too hard to follow?

Gerald A (949d7d) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:21 am

Actually I guess I’m conflating Trump’s attacks on Bush which mirror some of the uglier Democrat allegations with reports that he voted for Obama in 2012. I don’t know that he actually attacked Romney in 2012. So #165 is not totally accurate, but it’s not totally inaccurate.

Gerald A (949d7d) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:27 am

the irony, of course, is johnson had shut out the black delegates from mississippi and other states, rockefeller focused on crazy warmonger, but clearly goldwater’s people were not his kind, he got his candidate in nixon, and he still wasn’t happy,

narciso (732bc0) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:29 am

Of all these people you all are talking about, I still like Sarah best. Even if she is a silly woman who threw herself away on a worthless man.

Let’s see what happens. She gave McCain a 6% boost in the polls (or was it 8%?) when he picked her for VP. Let’s wait for Trump’s poll numbers this week.

nk (dbc370) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:33 am

Thanks for the clarification Gerald. Dems in the sixties calling anybody a racist. Too bizarro world for me.

I don’t know that he actually attacked Romney in 2012.

That’s because Donald Trump was a Romney bundler in 2012. Gave Romney’s campaign $100k or so I think.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:35 am

inconvenient facts, for the record, I’m not enthused by her decision, but I do understand it,
ai
I do recall the two minute scrum against o’donnell, here, that seemed much more personal then the
animus against ‘the bearded marxist’ who turned out to be reid’s poodle, subsequent races have turned out no better in the corporate state, yet rove has remained mum,

narciso (732bc0) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:39 am

Which one of you here were so dedicated to the GOP that you contributed $100,000 , even when the nominee wasn’t your first second or even fifth choice.

None
As in none of you pass Trump’s “true Republican” purity test.

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:39 am

Trump in an ostentatious fashion endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday on the famed Las Vegas strip ~~~~ circa 2012

papertiger (c2d6da) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:48 am

#132 The People are ignorant. Cruz can deliver that. It is why the Establishment hates him so.

Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/19/2016 @ 7:46 pm

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I have my doubts of anyone feeding his family off a Govt job coming to me and saying they will reduce the Govt. Reminds me of the many Civil Servant who knows all the waste in Govt but the minute you make their co-pay $10 instead of $5 they go into freak out mode.

Sorry but I don’t believe Ted would do anything to actually shrink Govt. Success is stop its growth and get the welfare junkies off the dole.

Where Ted could have success is to actively DESTROY THE LEFTIST institutions who use Govt money to fund leftism. This is the one place I do think he would be better than Trump possibly. In seeking to destroy the institutions that routinely make this Country worse with out money.

Rodney King's Spirit (3adc86) — 1/20/2016 @ 6:53 am

I have thoughts on Sarah Palin. I kind of wish she would invest her earnings and go fishing. I have no animosity towards her. I’m just over her.

Janetoo (149f95) — 1/20/2016 @ 7:06 am

Here is an example of New York Values:

https://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/papers.jpg?w=625&h=352&crop=1

Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 1/20/2016 @ 7:55 am

Yes, both New york City tabloids made a headline about Sarah Palin and Donald Trump. The Daily news was worse. By the way, the Nw York Post editorial still hasn’t learned that the problem with the water in Flint was with the pipes in Flint.

Sammy Finkelman (643dcd) — 1/20/2016 @ 9:31 am

Nice way to cut your followers on half.

CrustyB (69f730) — 1/20/2016 @ 10:36 am

i’d make a special pitcher of sangria for Sarah but not Track cause of he hits people

happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/20/2016 @ 10:46 am

That’s the point, CrustyB. They didn’t cut their followers in half, they lost 11 out of the 14 New Yorkers who don’t have New York values. Elitist, communist, narcissistic, self-absorbed, self-important New York values. If they didn’t have New York values they’d have no values at all.

Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 1/20/2016 @ 10:59 am

Trump didn’t pull Palin out to move votes as much as to stop talk about his newfound conservative positions vs his longtime liberal positions and donations. After listening to her endorsement and watching The Donald’s expressions I suspect she’ll be on a much shorter lease than she expected. Regardless, populism will always win until someone can voters to think about what the populist will deliver.

Cruz should be focusing more on who the real winners are in Trump’s deals. Hint – it’s not the little guy.

crazy (cde091) — 1/20/2016 @ 11:13 am

Mr. Trump may not have all the right policies and stuff but he has a winning attitude

that’s very important

happyfeet (a037ad) — 1/20/2016 @ 11:37 am

Perry, I’ve told you many times since 2009 that we are NOT the Tenth Commandment violators you and your Democrat friends are.

John Hitchcock (b495dc) — 1/20/2016 @ 4:00 pm

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