# She's back! Palin endorses Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 19, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633 "2016-01-19T23:28:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/81 "2016-01-20T17:36:31Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Anything that helps knock out Cruz is something I can get behind. That man is creepy and dangerous. There is that bright side, but I didn’t consider him a national contender. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/82 "2016-01-20T17:42:37Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > When did I mention polls? So exactly where are you “extrapolating” anything from? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/83 "2016-01-20T17:46:54Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > This is really the meat of the matter. And I think any D person whether candidate, voter, or anywhere in between who underestimates the potentially vast number of fired-up know-nothing rightists this will energize is in for a very bad surprise in November. I agree. Trump supporters may be ill-informed or downright loony, but they are people who WILL come out and vote in November. I think Hillary is in danger of being like Apollo Creed in Rocky- she doesn’t know that the challenger doesn’t know that the fight is a joke. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/84 "2016-01-20T17:48:06Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I agree. Trump supporters may be ill-informed or downright loony, but they are people who WILL come out and vote in November. I think Hillary is in danger of being like Apollo Creed in Rocky- she doesn’t know that the challenger doesn’t know that the fight is a joke. The easiest way to score an upset victory is to get your opponent to take you lightly. Maybe one day Democrats will figure this out. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/85 "2016-01-20T18:02:50Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I would love a reality TV series with Trump and Palin. I’ve actually been hoping for a series where Trump makes Michele Bachman his running mate. Having a Marcus/ Melania “B story line” would be priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/86 "2016-01-20T18:54:25Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Silly boy – she had to move fast to push that story onto the back burner. > > A few years ago when the Wasila Warblegarbler was still semi-relevant, we noticed that one of our Siamese cats would put his ears back when her voice emanated from the TV. I wonder if that’s related to [Mary Hart Syndrome](http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/11/us/doctor-says-voice-on-tv-caused-seizures.html). ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/87 "2016-01-20T19:00:19Z")
Trump may have already fired Palin. She didn’t appear at his rally today, despite being touted as his special guest. Some speculate Trump sent her packing after her less than inspiring speech yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/88 "2016-01-20T19:04:34Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > Some speculate Trump sent her packing after her less than inspiring speech yesterday. That’s impossible. Trump only invites the greatest people to talk at his shows. They’re terrific! What do you think he is, some kind of loser? That’s stupid! ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/89 "2016-01-20T21:04:05Z")
**Palin Blames Son’s Arrest on Obama** Track Palin was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault, interfering with the report of a domestic violence crime and possessing a weapon while intoxicated. At the Trump campaign rally, Sarah Palin **blamed the Obama administration’s policies towards veterans** for abandoning her son. > **[Sarah Palin Blames President Obama, PTSD for Son's Problems](https://time.com/4187437/sarah-palin-track-ptsd-obama-trump/)** > > "It starts from the top." Politifact: Obama’s Promises about Veterans: [Obameter: Campaign Promises that are about Veterans | PolitiFact](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/subjects/veterans/) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/90 "2016-01-20T21:10:42Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > Trump may have already fired Palin. She didn’t appear at his rally today, despite being touted as his special guest. Some speculate Trump sent her packing after her less than inspiring speech yesterday. She was Fired! Yeah, I couldn’t stand the Palin of old, but her performance announcing her endorsement yesterday was just unequivocally bad, in a truly objective way. It was terrible, Trump has probably never seen anything like it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/91 "2016-01-20T21:15:48Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > Excellent. Palin was one of the few “Tea Partiers” who was a genuine woman of the people (for example she supported taxes on oil companies as governor which her Kochservative successor repealed) and wasn’t _entirely_ a creature of the plutocrat fifth columnists. Was she a “woman of the people” before or after she resigned and left the entire state in turmoil in order to cash in on her new-found notoriety? She and her family are nothing more than jumped-up trailer trash, and there is plenty of evidence to support that opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/92 "2016-01-20T21:28:56Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Time to get started on that Trump/Palin fan-fiction. When the election approaches, everyone can call them _Tralin_. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/93 "2016-01-20T21:34:35Z")
The [Taiwanese animators](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLKNUKfx0sA) are on it. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/94 "2016-01-20T21:36:25Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > If Trump picks Palin as his VP for impeachment insurance, it won’t work. If the #ImpeachObama crowd wasn’t repelled by the thought of **President Biden,** then nothing of that nature will work. > [@TriPolar](#): > > The country is way more pissed off right now than they were in 1980. Yeah - at the Republicans who are so intransigent that they shut down the federal government and cost the taxpayers $24 billion because They Didn’t Get Their Way. Were it not for massive gerrymandering and midterm voter apathy, most of the GOP would have had to update their resumes long before now. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/95 "2016-01-20T22:32:09Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > **Palin Blames Son’s Arrest on Obama** > Track Palin was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault, interfering with the report of a domestic violence crime and possessing a weapon while intoxicated. At the Trump campaign rally, Sarah Palin **blamed the Obama administration’s policies towards veterans** for abandoning her son. > > [Sarah Palin Blames President Obama, PTSD for Son's Problems | TIME](http://time.com/4187437/sarah-palin-track-ptsd-obama-trump/) > > Politifact: Obama’s Promises about Veterans: [Obameter: Campaign Promises that are about Veterans | PolitiFact](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/subjects/veterans/) The Palin’s seem to have no personal responsibility for anything they do, and have complete willingness to blame their own behaviours on anything and anybody else. Drunkenly waving a gun about and assaulting your girlfriend? It’s not MY fault! It’s… It’s… Obama’s fault! Ya, that’s the ticket! Surely even supporters of Palin must be embarrassed by this. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/96 "2016-01-20T23:35:16Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > It could dramatically increase complacency among Democratic voters who will assume a landslide and not bother to vote. You mean just like it did in 2008? And back then the Republican establishment supported the slate. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/97 "2016-01-20T23:52:34Z")
I wonder who Sarah Palin blamed when her dear son Track was arrested in Dec 2005 for vandalizing Schoolbusses. Whose fault was it that he was charged with third-degree criminal mischief, first-degree criminal trespass and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief? as well as fourth-degree theft for stealing vodka and furnishing alcohol to a minor? Who did she blame then? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/98 "2016-01-21T00:19:57Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > The [Taiwanese animators](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLKNUKfx0sA) are on it. Well I’ll be… (both brains of Palin and Trump powered by hamsters. 🙂 ) Surprised that one can learn something from bits like that, I didn’t know that Palin campaigned for Cruz’s 2012 Senate bid, Cruz even said that her support made the difference then, no wonder the Taiwanese animators have him crying a river. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/99 "2016-01-21T01:05:39Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > The Palin’s seem to have no personal responsibility for anything they do, and have complete willingness to blame their own behaviours on anything and anybody else. > > Drunkenly waving a gun about and assaulting your girlfriend? It’s not MY fault! It’s… It’s… Obama’s fault! Ya, that’s the ticket! Surely even supporters of Palin must be embarrassed by this. _“I can talk personally about this, I guess it’s kind of the elephant in the room,” Palin said. “My son like so many others, they come back a bit different, they come back hardened, they come back wondering if there is that respect for what it is that their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military so sacrificially have given to this country. And that starts from the top. It’s a shame that our military personnel even have to wonder, if they have to question, if they’re respected anymore. It starts from the top. The question though that comes from our own president where they have to look at him and wonder, do you know what we go through? Do you know what we’re trying to do to secure America and to secure the freedoms that have been bequeathed us?” “I can certainly relate with other familes who kind of feel these ramifications of some PTSD and some of the woundedness that our soldiers do return with,” Palin continued. “And it makes me realize more than ever it is now or never for the sake of Americas finest that we have that commander in chief that will respect them and honor them.”_ Is that her, or an SNL skit done by Tina Fey? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633/100 "2016-01-21T01:43:31Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > But, oh dear, you just know, Larry Flynt’s now gonna feel compelled to call up Lisa Ann and produce another sequel to _Who’s Nailin’ Palin_ with some fat-faced dude in a red fright wig… Larry, if you’re reading this, I can do a wicked Trump impersonation, am a fan of Lisa Ann’s and willing to _work cheap!_ 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-back-palin-endorses-trump/743633.md?page=6)