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So, the rumors were true: empty-headed reality TV has-been Sarah Palin officially endorsed the ambulatory, hirsute, angry Circus Peanut known as Donald Trump, according to the NYT. With any luck, this will result in a YOOODGE intraparty pie-fight.

Update: Predictably, the anti-Trump RedState crew shat a cat:

The Palins are just such ridiculous people. Today’s crapshow really showcased the high-tension neurosis that defines everything they are nowadays. Ted Cruz’s campaign manager released a fairly innocuous statement saying that if Palin endorsed Trump, he thought it might hurt Palin’s image. Nothing personally derogatory about Palin at all, and in fact Cruz himself tweeted earlier today that even if Palin endorsed Trump, he would remain a fan of hers.

So Sarah sends out her daughter’s not-very-talented ghostwriter to produce this utterly classless attack on Cruz that basically makes a huge deal out of the fact that Ted Cruz has said complimentary things about her in the past, and concludes with “no one likes you…” Anyway, I’m sure Trump is glad to have the aid of this huge, super classy family.

A scant eight years ago, that sort of talk would have triggered the mighty RedState Strike Force to implement Operation Leper!

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  3. 3.

    cmorenc

    Please please please PLEASE if Trump does get the nomination, let is VP pick be Sarah Palin. She may have a grifter-cunning sort of smarts about how to latch onto a teat on the wingnut gravy train, but in terms of the electorate beyond whatever still-admiring/leering wingnut circles that get starbursts from her aura, the rest of the electorate sees her as dumb as a box of rocks with the tawdry drama of a Jerry Springer show participant from a cheap trailer park.

  8. 8.

    Trentrunner

    OT to note that the “both sides poisoned Flint” narrative is settling in: Fournier just croaked it out on MSNBC (no pushback), and Ted Cruz just blamed “government at all levels.”

    Really wish we Dems, including Hillary, could just fucking say “Republican policies poised Flint’s water. It’s the inevitable outcome of hating government. Your children drink water that poisons them.”

    How hard is that?

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Why did Sarah endorse The Donald, and not Rafael?

    Who has the most money to provide an honorarium for the endorsement?

    Grifters gotta grift.

  12. 12.

    the Conster

    We’ve really gone through the looking glass. I guess as we approach the wingularity event horizon, reality show becomes reality and vice versa. It’s like every ridiculous once-was from tacky movies and bad TV has been summoned from the crypt by The Donald. Kirk Cameron is stumping for Ben Carson. This country has become an embarrassing shit show.

  13. 13.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Trentrunner: Someone with a national platform needs to say it. This crisis is entirely due to GOP policy choices.

    Snyder and his appointed “manager” of Flint should hang for this. In the Clint Eastwood movie of the 60’s sort of way.

  14. 14.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    BWHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHAHAHHHHHAHAHAHHAHHHAHH
    AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

    (deep breath)

    AHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHH
    HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAH
    HAAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

    (oh! my ribs!)

  15. 15.

    the Conster

    @Trentrunner:

    When you vote for politicians that want to run government like a business, you’re going to get Flint(s).

    See, is that so hard to say?

  25. 25.

    CaseyL

    OK, now he’s just trolling everyone.

    Gotta be.

    I mean: I can’t stand The Donald (and haven’t been able to stand him since before not being able to stand him was cool), but surely even he can’t be serious about this.

  26. 26.

    RaflW

    Oh, and per the Trump press release re: this coveted and influential endorsement, they say Palin has a proven record of being “fiscally modest.”

    She’s never been modest about anything.

    But I think even Trumps folks get that calling her prudent just would not pass the laugh test.

  29. 29.

    Betty Cracker

    @Trentrunner: A thousand amens to that! HRC made a good start by laying it at the governor’s feet at the end of the last debate, but you’re right. It’s the logical result of the Republican approach to governing (not just one shitty governor in one failing GOP-led state), and Democrats should shout that from the freaking rooftops.

  30. 30.

    No One of Consequence

    I read somewhere today/recently: watch her home sale be quietly taken care of, potentially to an anonymous buyer…

    Grandpa Walnuts must be so proud. Reason enough to put him first in line for the ice floe ride…

    – NOoC

  32. 32.

    slag

    Yay! As history has shown, the most direct path to the presidency is through Sarah Palin’s endorsement. (Which also happens to be within spitting distance of Russia.)

  34. 34.

    Timurid

    @Sad_Dem:

    That’s something I’ve given some thought to in the event of some kind of SHTF scenario (and President Trump would certainly qualify)… and the answer I come up with, unfortunately, is nowhere.

    As a History PhD (currently teaching full time but not on the tenure track) I am barely employable in this country… and the humanities academic job market in the entire Anglophone world is as at least as screwed up as it is in the US. I’m pretty sure that I lack the desired job skills and earning potential to get admission to any First World country. And that’s before the mass exodus and more intense competition that would follow a Trumpocalypse or similar disaster. My only “hope” would be things going so far off the rails that the anti-brown/gay/leftist/etc. persecution would be bad enough to give me a plausible case for asylum. Oh boy, I can hardly wait…

  35. 35.

    Sad_Dem

    @Mike J: There must be a list somewhere of countries that the USA has not bombed and probably won’t bomb, unless the wrong GPS coordinates get dialed in by an overzealous staffer.

  36. 36.

    danielx

    Trying to come up with an appropriate response, but…words fail.

    AAAAAAHHHH! The stupid, it burns!

  42. 42.

    Brachiator

    So, the rumors were true: empty-headed reality TV has-been Sarah Palin officially endorsed the ambulatory, hirsute, angry Circus Peanut known as Donald Trump

    I guess this suggests that any Tea Party people “loyal” to Palin should choose Trump over Cruz.

    All this may be empty theater. Or it may be a sign that some “official” Establishment Republicans begin to endorse Trump.

    @Chyron HR

    RE: So, BJ readers, which country will you be moving to if the Trump/Palin ticket wins?

    Nazi Germany, apparently.

    The crazy thing, of course, is that you won’t have to move at all. Nazi (or Trumpi) Germany will come to you.

  43. 43.

    jl

    @cmorenc: Palin as veep nom? OK, things would be getting really weird if that happens.I’d prefer another choice that would be electoral suicide on Trump’s part.

    But, if Palin would definitely be the worst choice, maybe it would be for the best, if scary.

  44. 44.

    lgerard

    I wonder if starbursts is still feeling it?

    Looking forward to the rest of the wingnut establishment now claiming that Bible Spice is some crazy old lady who should be ignored because she is not a REAL CONSERVATIVE.

  46. 46.

    catclub

    @David *Born in the USA* Koch:

    Oh my — proof God wants the Dems to win all 50 states

    I can envision the type of person who says “Some people just want to watch the world burn.”
    Voting for that pair. We can hope they are not a majority.

  48. 48.

    SoupCatcher

    @Iowa Old Lady: Unfortunately, he isn’t. That’s a direct quote from a Trump press release.
    eta quote

    “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.”

  49. 49.

    Mike J

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    “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.”

  54. 54.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Trentrunner:

    “both sides poisoned Flint” narrative is settling in

    I saw that on Joe of the Morning this am. At that point I either had to go to bed or start chugging my mouthwash(only thing with alcohol in the house).

  55. 55.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Palin endorsed the buffoon who said McCain wasn’t a hero because he was captured.

    There is so much WIN to this.

  56. 56.

    slag

    @slag: OK. Now I’m in love with the idea of a Disneyland ride based on Donald Trump’s path to the presidency. You board an unsinkable boat made out of million dollar bills and simply float through the ride in it.

    Reality Teevee Reef. Fox News Lagoon. Jerry Falwell Falls. Sarah Palin Swamp. So much to see and do!

  57. 57.

    Vhh

    Suddenly v glad that my family and I acquired Australian passports during a decade long gig there last century. Only took 2 years back then, now it’s up to 5. Far away and very unlikely to get bombed or droned.

  58. 58.

    Bill

    It’s going to be fun to watch the rest of the R candidates smear their parties 08 VP nominee.

    But is there a voter left for whom her endorsement matters at all?

  59. 59.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    @danielx:

    I blame Obama.

    Exactly! That will happen next. The Beltway slobs have already been pushing “it’s Obama’s fault they’re voting for Trump” for months.

  62. 62.

    Pogonip

    The Stentorian Baboons will be on a double bill with the Angry Circus Peanuts this Friday night, no cover charge.

    Baud/Jane 2016: Because It’s A Jungle Out There.

  63. 63.

    RaflW

    Gawker, with excellent timing:
    “Per online court records, Track Palin, 26, was charged yesterday with assault, interfering with a report of domestic violence, and possession of a weapon while intoxicated. All three charges are misdemeanors….”

  64. 64.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Juxtaposed moments in time.

    On one hand you have Trump doubling down on #GRIFT #FAIL

    ***

    On the other hand:

    Gallup — Monday, January 18 – President Obama’s Job Ratings

    Approve………………..51%
    Disapprove……………45%

    At this point in Bush’s presidency his ratings were: 32% approve, 64% disapprove.

    Bush had a corporate media cheerleading him every step of way and an opposition party that was respectful.

    President Obama had a corporate media attacking him from every angle from day one and an opposition so fueled by racist hate that they’re going to commit political suicide and nominate a buffoon just because he validates their racist hated of the President.

  65. 65.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    But.. But.. Who will the extremely popular Duck Dynasty stars endorse?

    They’ve already done a commercial for Cruz, IIANM

    @David *Born in the USA* Koch: Palin endorsed the buffoon who said McCain wasn’t a hero because he was captured.

    One of the best parts about it, the old coot must be nail spitting mad.

  66. 66.

    jl

    Some people mentioned Putin. Can Putin be the veep nominee?
    Need a spare strong man to replace the strong man if something happens.

    I figure, if Ted is eligible, then there has to be an angle for Putin to make the cut.

  67. 67.

    catclub

    @David *Born in the USA* Koch:

    the buffoon who said McCain wasn’t a hero because he was captured

    I am no Trump fan, but that was the most correct thing Trump has said.

    McCain will get over that insult LONG before he forgives Cruz for anything.

  68. 68.

    Pogonip

    Since I moved in to help my father I see a lot more Fox News than I feel I should have to. Yesterday afternoon we watched him give a speech. He has already mastered the political art of making promises you can’t possibly keep.

    Baud/Jane 2016: Because It’s A Jungle Out There.

  69. 69.

    max

    empty-headed reality TV has-been Sarah Palin officially endorsed the ambulatory, hirsute, angry Circus Peanut known as Donald Trump

    You knew it – it had to be. Outstanding!

    max
    [‘Cruz is collapsed onto part of his evangelical core, looks like. Very good.’]

  73. 73.

    slag

    @RaflW: I hate to do this, but really, is there a more stunning example of white privilege than the Palin family? So little to offer the world yet still alive and not incarcerated. And not only ignorant of their privilege but thoroughly resentful of those who bring much more value. Sad sad sad.

  75. 75.

    SatanicPanic

    @RaflW: Why did they even bother with that Sarah Palin’s America show? They should have just followed this dumbass family around and gave them liquor like The Real World. Would have got plenty of material.

  78. 78.

    Keith G

    @Trentrunner:

    Really wish we Dems, including Hillary, could just fucking say “Republican policies poised Flint’s water. It’s the inevitable outcome of hating government. Your children drink water that poisons them.”

    If Hillary were to do this (and she should), it would be a step in the direction of affirmatively showing that she is the fighter for the little people that she states she is. Folks like passion and they reward it. They really do. Some of Hillary’s best moments last year was her professionally emotive performance in front of Congress.

    If she lets moments like the one you point to escape her, she is showing that she is not up to the fight.

  79. 79.

    Bokonon

    Thanks, Obama!

    Seriously … watch the likes of Chuck Todd and Jake Tapper find a way to blame this on Obama’s failure to find bipartisan common ground with the GOP. All that polarization by the MOST POLARIZING PRESIDENT EVER! Now the GOP just can’t help themselves …

    Anyone want to wager a beer?

  80. 80.

    Mike J

    Siraj Hashmi ‏@SirajAHashmi 5m5 minutes ago

    People who are eligible to vote this year were 10 years old when Sarah Palin was a VP candidate. They can’t fully grasp how great today is.

  81. 81.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    @Trentrunner:

    This kind of shit is what steams me so when conservative assholes bleat about the unfairness of the “liberal press”. “Fair” would indeed be to dump this smoldering heap of blame where it belongs, at the feet of Republican sociopaths. Yeah, but, no. They won’t say that. At least the “serious” people won’t say that. It’ll all be, “Well, surely there’s blame to go around. If only the Democrats weren’t so vituperative and didn’t say such provocative things, I’m sure this never would have happened.”

  82. 82.

    Mike in NC

    Enjoyed the report linked here this morning about how the Trump rally supporters wore red ballcaps instead of red armbands.

  83. 83.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Megyn Kelly:

    Mr. Trump, you’ve called women you don’t like, “fat pigs”, “dogs”, “slobs”, and “disgusting animals”.

    Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s looks. You once told a contestant on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who was likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?

  84. 84.

    trollhattan

    I know they went out for pizza that one time (and Jon Stewart lost his shit) but who on earth does Trump think Falin can bring to him that he doesn’t already have in tow? Trump’s moves tend to have a reason (even if a tenuous one) behind them but I can’t begin to imagine what’s behind this. “All you meth-heads that don’t usually vote, take an extra hit and VOTE FOR ME.” Doesn’t begin to fit on a bumper sticker.

  85. 85.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Bokonon: Obama’s so polarizing and partisan Bernie Sanders wanted a primary challenger in 2012, even thought about doing it himself.

    Referencing his regular appearances on Thom Hartmann’s nationally syndicated radio show, Sanders said: “I do a radio show every week. Over a million people hear it in almost every state in the country. Those are working-class people, progressive people. There is a lot of disillusionment. They want the president to stand up for the middle class, for the working class of this country, and they want him to take on big money interests in a way that he has not done up to this point.”

  90. 90.

    Amir Khalid

    It’s futile to try to figure out the Donald’s thinking. I doubt he gave it any thought beyond “She’s a Republican and the people like her.” I doubt she gave it any thought beyond “He’s the frontrunner.”

  98. 98.

    mdblanche

    This has just got to be the Wingularity. The only question is which side of the Schwarzschild radius we’re on.

  99. 99.

    Mike J

    Making Python great again

    TrumpScript is language based upon the illustrious Donald Trump. As the undeniably best presidential candidate in the 2016 language, we found that the current field of programming languages does not include any that Trump’s glorious golden combover would approve of.

    TrumpScript is our solution to this. It’s the programming language Trump would approve of. Just like he is making America great again, we hope our efforts will make programming great again.

    Here’s an actual compilable, runable program:

    make magic, not lies;
    if Sanders is fact:
    I’ll tell you “Bush was never president”!
    America is great.

  100. 100.

    Sad_Dem

    @Roger Moore:

    The People’s Republic of California.

    Home of the Reagan and Nixon libraries, Duncan Hunter, Tom McClintock, and former GOP dahling Schwarzenegger?

  101. 101.

    Josie

    IIRC, Palin spent time here in Texas, helping Cruz in his run for the senate. I’d like to know the backstory on how that turnaround happened.

  104. 104.

    Baud

    @efgoldman: Booman has a post up suggesting that Kasich is making his move in New Hampshire as the establishment candidate. One poll has him second only to Trump.

  107. 107.

    geg6

    Meanwhile, apparently a warrant for Track Palin’s arrest was issued yesterday. Dude has issues, I’m thinking.

  112. 112.

    Redshift

    Today’s crapshow really showcased the high-tension neurosis that defines everything they are nowadays.

    “Nowadays.” Bwahahahaha!

    Yeah, there was no hint of any of this back when Ewick was trumpeting Palin as the new conservative messiah, and calling libs the task haterz for pointing out any of it.

  114. 114.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    NYT has an article saying Rubio recent blathering about guns is an attempt to butch-up after high-heel-gate.

  115. 115.

    trollhattan

    @Sad_Dem:
    Well, McClintock’s gone when the glorious instant-welfare State of Jefferson is formed.

    I do hope they put George on the state seal.

  117. 117.

    geg6

    @trollhattan:

    This is purely to piss off Cruz, who thought he had the hillbilly grifter vote wrapped up since Snowbilly Snookie stumped so hard to get him elected to the Senate.

    ETA: Apparently, he didn’t share any of that sweet, sweet Goldman Sachs cash, so she went where the gritting opportunities are more generous than the Tailgunner can afford.

  118. 118.

    Adam L Silverman

    @trollhattan: She’ll be unleashed to go after Secretary Clinton. He’ll now stay out of that and sub the job out to Palin. She’ll do her hockey mom/momma grizzly schtick. Someone will bring up both her and her husbands alleged affairs. She’ll scream I’m being victimized by so called feminists because I’ve got a hunky husband and I’m a fit and sexy grandma with traditional Christian, small town American values. I would guess there’s a lock down tight with non disclosure agreements financial arrangement here.

  120. 120.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @geg6:

    Didn’t he have some kind of run-in with the Wasilla constabulary not long after he got out of the Army? I’m not talking about that party when the whole famn damily got into a fight with their hosts. The thing I’m vaguely remembering was longer ago and AFAIR didn’t involve his sisters and parents.

    Broke into somebody’s house and drank all the booze or something? Just can’t recall.

  121. 121.

    trollhattan

    @geg6:
    Well hell, if it’s that simple then I must grudgingly approve. Anything to cut Cruz off at his doubtless knobby knees has my support. And Caribou Barbie gets to say, “Ooooh, CAMERAS!” one more time.

  124. 124.

    debbie

    NPR ran this story and provided a fair-sized audio clip of Palin’s statement about Trump. It’s as word-salady as I’ve ever heard from her.

    The audio won’t be available until 7pm, but it’ll be worth the wait.

    The accompanying story includes part of the clip:

    And Palin praised Trump late last year on Fox News, calling him “the best thing to happen to the permanent political class since, oh I guess, the beauty of the Tea Party genuine movement rose up and shined a light on crony capitalism and then pulled the rug right out from under status quo politicicans who just kind of embraced that political class.”

    It was radio, but I’d swear I could hear the host and correspondent shaking their heads in disbelief.

  125. 125.

    trollhattan

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Intriguing, but wouldn’t that require her to follow the playbook at least a little? Question whether she’s learned to study or gained any self-discipline the last four years.

  126. 126.

    Schlemazel

    @Sad_Dem:
    FSM does not love me enough to produce a Trump/Palin ticket. A train wreck like that could produce a 45 state landslide for POTUS and flip the House back to Dem.

  127. 127.

    ellennelle

    ex-politician turned reality show dope endorses reality show dope turned politician (not soon enough to be ex).

    perfect.

  129. 129.

    geg6

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Yeah, I think it was B&E and stealing booze. Not sure if he was charged in the party incident. I think just Bristol got charged for that one.

    Those Palins–so classy!

  130. 130.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Palin’s advice to Trump: “Donald, if things get too hard, you can always quit”.

  131. 131.

    Adam L Silverman

    @trollhattan: I don’t think they care about a playbook. She’ll be off the reservation a lot, but as long as its not directed at Trump and she directs a lot of it at Secretary Clinton, they’ll be happy. Though it will be interesting to see if she starts traveling and she’s got a handler/aid she didn’t have before.

    I think part of this is that they’ve realized that Fiorina isn’t going to be in the race much longer. She’s slid to the kiddie table pre debate debate and they desperately need a woman to attack Clinton.

  132. 132.

    Yutsano

    @Amir Khalid: Do you have room on your couch?

    Personally I’m thinking either Canada or Germany. MAYBE Switzerland if a friend can put me up there.

  136. 136.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @geg6: Is Bristol a virgin again?

    ETA: Or is there a waiting period after she popped out the latest “one night indiscretion”?

  137. 137.

    Jeffro

    @geg6:

    Apparently, he didn’t share any of that sweet, sweet Goldman Sachs cash, so she went where the gritting opportunities are more generous than the Tailgunner can afford.

    Seconded and OMGWHATSNOTTOLOVEHERE??? David Brooks is beside himself today, calling for a coup of the moderates in the GOP…hey, David, WHAT. MODERATES???

  139. 139.

    Aleta

    Speaking of reality TV shows, it’s rutting season at the Malware Lowlife Refuge.

    Next they will be crashing up against each other’s bodies until only one is left standing. The weaker ones will slink away, with some unfortunates becoming roadkill.

    (At Raw Story and TPM: Oregon Militiamen Sound ‘Battle Trumpets’ As Call To Arms)

  140. 140.

    geg6

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Oh dear. Desperate is the word, if they think Hillary isn’t laughing her ass off at the thought of the “attacks” Caribou Barbie will be subjecting her to.

  141. 141.

    smintheus

    @Adam L Silverman: Forget the husband and family weirdness. Trump’s opponents just need to arrange for him to be asked which position in his Cabinet he’ll give to Palin. Trump of course is dumb enough to answer such a question.

  142. 142.

    Adam L Silverman

    @geg6: I’m not saying its a good strategy or that it would be an effective one, I’m just saying it makes sense. He can’t have his wife do it – apparently her English is heavily accented. He can’t have his daughter do it – she’s too young. So this is who he got.

  147. 147.

    Mike J

    @smintheus:

    Trump’s opponents just need to arrange for him to be asked which position in his Cabinet he’ll give to Palin.

    All of them, Katie.

  148. 148.

    Sad_Dem

    @efgoldman: So while wingnuts decry California as a liberal state, the facts say otherwise, as they so often to do to wingnuts. California is big, with lots of people in it, and the southern and inland portions tend conservative.

  149. 149.

    Mandalay

    @geg6:

    a warrant for Track Palin’s arrest was issued yesterday

    Let’s see if the lamestream media ask mom about this:

    “an investigation revealed Track Palin had committed a domestic violence assault on a female, interfered with her ability to report a crime of domestic violence, and possessed a firearm while intoxicated.” All three charges are misdemeanors.

    So “domestic violence assault on a female” is only a misdemeanor? WTF?

  153. 153.

    NotMax

    Graham endorses Bush.

    Palin endorses Trump.

    Toss-up as to who is the more execrable, the endorsers or the endorsees.

  154. 154.

    bemused

    Oh God. Trump is on and his crowds always sound like drunken mobs. Makes my skin crawl. They want to shed protester’s blood in the worst way.

  155. 155.

    Ohio Mom

    @Baud: Oh no! That has been my dread all along, that Kasich, my crappy governor, would somehow come from behind.

    Maybe it is because I’ve had ringside seats to watching him get elected and then re-elected, but I could imagine him beating Hillary.

    And boy, would he set us back. It would be Bush’s third term.

    (Starts bring nails)

  156. 156.

    amk

    @Adam L Silverman:

    “it makes sense”

    No, it doesn’t. He wanted a shiny object for IA to distract ted crud voters. He’ll dump her as soon as IA is done. Two egotists in a pod? Not gonna work.

  161. 161.

    Adam L Silverman

    @amk: Your take also makes sense. We’ll see what happens. I think she’d play well in SC and a lot of the Southern and Southwestern primary states, but she may be Iowa and out.

  163. 163.

    Pogonip

    @Timurid: If there’s a mass exodus, won’t that leave some openings for those staying put? Especially if you can do something besides teach history. I’ve always applied for everything in or above my pay grade; I let Personnel tell me I’m not qualified. It’s worked out pretty well. So don’t limit yourself, and good luck!

    Baud/Jane 2016: Because It’s A Jungle Out There.

  166. 166.

    debbie

    @Baud:

    There is no way RWNJs will accept Kasich as their candidate. Should he get the nomination (and I still think that’s nearly impossible), they’ll stay home rather than vote for him.

  168. 168.

    Mandalay

    @smintheus:

    Trump’s opponents just need to arrange for him to be asked which position in his Cabinet he’ll give to Palin.

    Palin is already on the record saying that she would like to be head of the Department of Energy so she can abolish it.

    So we can look forward to the privatization of our nuclear security under Secretary Palin. A novel approach I suppose.

  170. 170.

    NotMax

    @Mike J

    Kasich has been creeping up under the radar in NH for a while.

    South Carolina is not his milieu but should he maintain a credible showing in NH, look to Nevada to quite possibly shift his way.

  171. 171.

    debbie

    @Baud:

    Or maybe this is all a diabolical plan orchestrated by ALEC. But as Kasich’s numbers move up, so does his bumbling incoherence. As the party faithful begin to have second thoughts about their move to Kasich, in swoops the Mitt to save the day.

  172. 172.

    bemused

    @NotMax:

    I think a large number of those people go to Trump rallies just hoping they will be sitting next to protesters so they can rage in their faces. They’d beat one up in an instant if Trump gave them even a slight hint.

  174. 174.

    Mike J

    @bemused:

    But as Kasich’s numbers move up, so does his bumbling incoherence.

    The notTrumps are taking longer to flame out than the notRomneys did.

  176. 176.

    muddy

    @Mike J: I think Romney has been sitting by the phone in a 3 piece suit waiting for the call. Save the party, Mittens, you’re our only hope!

  177. 177.

    bemused

    @muddy:

    They are all insane. They start looking at people suspiciously who aren’t clapping, hooting and hollering for Trump. I’d be scared to be at any of those rallies and I’m white.

  178. 178.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @efgoldman:

    You looked at the election results lately? The congressional districts?

    That’s just because where all the people live(Commies), but most of the land area is bright RED!

  180. 180.

    Baud

    Lordy, Sarah Palin makes Donald Trump look statesmanlike. Maybe that’s the whole point to all this.

  182. 182.

    bemused

    Palin is babbling but the crowd doesn’t seem very loud or enthusiastic, not like for Trump.

  184. 184.

    Josie

    CNN and MSNBC et al are carrying Trump’s and Palin’s speeches in their entirety. I have turned off the television for obvious reasons. Does the rule about equal time not apply to news channels?

  185. 185.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Dear god, that voice. That shrieky, disagreeable voice! I’d forgotten how much it clawed down your back like rusty blades.

    and the way she hops and bounces when she’s shrieking.

  187. 187.

    JPL

    @bemused: I loved the intro by the Trump who talked about her wonderful family. Maybe he doesn’t know about the arrest for domestic violence. I don’t think McCain knew about the pregnancy.

  190. 190.

    Gimlet

    When will Michael Bay have the definitive documentary out on Hillary’s emails.

    EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton’s emails on her unsecured, homebrew server contained intelligence from the U.S. government’s most secretive and highly classified programs, according to an unclassified letter from a top inspector general to senior lawmakers.

    Fox News exclusively obtained the unclassified letter, sent Jan. 14 from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III. It laid out the findings of a recent comprehensive review by intelligence agencies that identified “several dozen” additional classified emails — including specific intelligence known as “special access programs” (SAP).

    That indicates a level of classification beyond even “top secret,” the label previously given to two emails found on her server, and brings even more scrutiny to the presidential candidate’s handling of the government’s closely held secrets.

    While the State Department and Clinton campaign have said the emails in questions were “retroactively classified” or “upgraded” – to justify the more than 1,300 classified emails on her server – those terms are meaningless under federal law.

    NEW MICHAEL BAY POST.

  194. 194.

    Satby

    @Trentrunner: The talking points were out about three days ago, I started seeing my wingnut friends using them. We all need to push back hard on this one, and hold MSM accountable like the Tea party does when they don’t like the way something is reported.

  197. 197.

    WaterGirl

    Last night Larry Wilmore asked two of his regulars (Mike Yard and Ricky Valez) who they would prefer: Trump or Cruz. Mike Yard said if either of them won he would have to shoot himself in the face; Ricky Valez asked Mike Yard to save him a bullet.

    When I think about being faced with either of those horrible horrible people as president (or any of the other clowns) I can begin to understand the rage that right-wingers feel toward/about Obama and how they can feel that he has no right to be president – that’s exactly how I would feel about these other guys. I wonder, could I really respect the office of president if Trump were in it?

  198. 198.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    anybody else getting a vibe from Trump like he wishes she’d wrap it up? we may have found the thing that embarrasses him

  201. 201.

    Nate Dawg

    I had forgotten how annoying Sarah Palin is.

    She seems almost hopped up on drugs, and a bit annoyed at her inability to speak clearly. Early onset dementia? Or a bad pill habit?

  202. 202.

    Sparrow

    I was forced to listen to this endorsement during the interminable wait for baggage at BWI. I feel like my ears and brain have been assaulted.

  203. 203.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    The look on Trump’s face is priceless ? – he looks like he’s trying to translate a foreign language he’s never heard of.

  204. 204.

    Corner Stone

    Just like when Romney had Christie give that awful speech at the 2012 RNC nomination event, Trump is wondering now why anyone gave this thick has been a place to say anything out loud.
    I think we’re a few minutes away from him pulling a McCain in 2008 when he took the mic away from that nuts ass birther white lady in the audience.

  206. 206.

    Jeffro

    The comments to Brooks’ NYT column today are incredibly on point: Brooks, YOU and everyone like you in the GOP faux-intelligentsia are truly reaping what you have sown.

    Enjoy the Palin speech!

  207. 207.

    trollhattan

    @Nate Dawg:
    Guessing in Palin’s view there’s no such thing as a “bad pill habit.” Except for that not taken by her surprisingly fecund kid–that pill’s for lie-berals and the poors.

  211. 211.

    smintheus

    @Mandalay: Yes she is. It’s exactly the kind of catastrophe for Trump I’d like to see: let the idea of Palin in the Cabinet sink in with voters, and give her a chance to remind them how awful she’d be.

  213. 213.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I’m picturing Trump as played by Phil Hartman playing Sinatra: “Did nobody tell that broad Trump doesn’t do sidekick? She can save the windy yammering for when she’s on her own. Trump always has top billing. I didn’t second banana for Dino and Sammy, I ain’t gonna do it for some jumped Walmart cashier from the Klondike.”

  220. 220.

    Josie

    I hope she yammers on for at least another 30 minutes – as long as I don’t have to listen to it.

  221. 221.

    feedusafetus

    How in the hell is she still allowed on TV? Does this gibberish make sense to anyone? I’m not nearly drunk enough for this.

  225. 225.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    oh man, she’s been starved of the big spotlight so long, I think she’s OD’ing.

    and a pox on MSNBC for enabling.

  227. 227.

    Corner Stone

    This simply has to be scripted reality TV at this point. Someone put this whole freakin’ gag together.

    He sooo wants to push her off stage right now.

  228. 228.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    @Baud: under normal circumstances, you would think so. but she’s the grand siren of the know-nothings that make up their base.

  231. 231.

    east is east

    Keep screeching, Sarah! The Donald is dying inside up there. He’s thinking, “fucking bitch!”

  233. 233.

    Corner Stone

    @Josie: Can you imagine if she goes for another 15? I can not wait to see right wing pundits reviews of this. And I mean I can’t wait to see other people summarize those reviews because I am not reading them.

  235. 235.

    smintheus

    @Mike J: Even better, try to get Trump to give one of his ‘why the hell not’ answers to the question “Will you consider Palin as your running mate?”

  236. 236.

    bemused

    Was it Trump’s idea to have Palin speak or his advisors? I’m waiting for steam to come out of his ears or wherever.

  244. 244.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    How did she get out of high school — there isn’t a single teacher who wouldn’t fail her in english.

  247. 247.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Gimlet: As someone who has clearance at all of those levels this really doesn’t make a lot of sense. Anything that is special access program (SAP) only, let alone sensitive compartmented information (SCI) or even just Top Secret (TS), is compartmented. In order for this to have originated on her server – as in from her – she would have had to recreate from memory whatever it is that she read and or heard while in the sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF). While that’s possible, I find that hard to believe. What would be more likely is that someone emailed her something that they had seen or heard. This would be called spillage and the receiver is not on the hook for any penalty, just the sender/originator. There is spillage all over the Internet. Technically no one with active clearances can read or access anything on Snowden because those news reports all contained spillage of classified information.

    What I think is the most likely thing going on here is that she was sent things by people who thought it was unclassified. The reason for this is that classification, or steps up in classification, are not necessarily because a specific piece of information is classified, but rather because its combined with one or more other pieces of what would be on its own unclassified, but when combined are deemed to be either Secret (S), Top Secret (TS), Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), or Special Access Program (SAP).

    And while it may be true that reclassification after the fact has no salience under Federal Law, it happens all the time. Stuff is periodically reviewed to determine if it can be partially or completely declassified. When this happens it is sometimes determined that it needs to actually, because of changes around the world, have its classification increased. In other cases something maybe ambiguously marked, hung on a server of higher classification than needs be, and then it technically defaults to that level of classification.

  256. 256.

    east is east

    She is supposed to travel with him tomorrow. We’ll see if that happens. What a disaster.

  260. 260.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Helen: MSNBC cub reporter referred to “Sarah Palin’s typical pithy remarks”, and tweety now doing a greatest hits reel from the jeremiad they just devoted I don’t know how many minutes to

  264. 264.

    JPL

    Now tweety and crew are saying what a good speech. They were able to understand Sarah speech in a way I couldn’t. I’m not impressed.

  266. 266.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Tweety: “She has a magnetic quality, you can’t take your eyes off her…”

    To the kind of rapidly aging, horny guy who dyes his hair and thinks waitresses are flirting with them

  267. 267.

    Mandalay

    Tweety haz a sad: “You can’t even see her behind that lectern!!!”.

    WTF is it that he wants to see so much?

  268. 268.

    bemused

    @JPL:

    If that isn’t a glaring example of how full of shit msm is…Anyone who watched Palin could see the crowd was just not that into her.

  272. 272.

    Mandalay

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    MSNBC cub reporter referred to “Sarah Palin’s typical pithy remarks”

    Earlier she said how Democrats had been “terrified” of Palin in 2008 after she gave a speech at the GOP National Convention.

    That’s some serious rewriting of history right there.

    Our liberal media at work.

  276. 276.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Aleta:

    Did you see Ursula LeGuin’s fantastic letter to the editor about the Y’all Qaida occupation? I’ll try to find it again and provide a link in a subsequent comment.

  280. 280.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Sam Grittner ‏@SamGrittner 2m2 minutes ago

    Sarah Palin is the “fun mom” who sends you out to get more booze because she’s already hammered and you have one less DUI than her.

  281. 281.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    The Official Jason ‏@Jason_Morrow 21m21 minutes ago

    Which one gets to wear the “I’m with stoopid” shirt? – Trump or Palin?

  282. 282.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Birdy ‏@palebirdy 25m25 minutes ago

    Listening to Sarah Palin talk about the simplest political issues is like listening to a three year old talk about quantum entanglement.

    52 retweets 77 likes

  283. 283.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mandalay:

    Palin is already on the record saying that she would like to be head of the Department of Energy so she can abolish it.

    I love the idea of Energy Secretary Palin waltzing in to her Department, waving a magic wand — “Poof! You’re gone!!”

    Who even needs Congress, amirite?

  284. 284.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    NY Daily News: OFF-TRACK: Sarah Palin’s adult son arrested for battering his girlfriend, threatening to shoot himself with AR-15 during drunken argument in Alaska

  285. 285.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Christopher Titus ‏@TitusNation 30m30 minutes ago

    Sarah Palin is back. We thought Ebola was eradicated too.

    39 retweets 91 likes

  286. 286.

    Betty Cracker

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Tweety: “She has a magnetic quality, you can’t take your eyes off her…”

    I believe the metaphor he’s groping for is “trainwreck.” Damn, I’m sorry I missed this apparently catastrophic event. Will be searching for links.

  288. 288.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Orli Matlow @HireMeImFunny

    After Sarah Palin, Trump is just waiting on the Viet Cong endorsement and then he’ll have both the worst things to happen to John McCain

  289. 289.

    Corner Stone

    @Betty Cracker:

    Damn, I’m sorry I missed this apparently catastrophic event. Will be searching for links.

    Please, B Crack. Please don’t do it. We need you too much. *sobs* Too damn much!

  290. 290.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Albert Brooks
    ✔
    @AlbertBrooks

    Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump. The bible says these two names in the same sentence signifies the end times.

    1:22 PM – 19 Jan 2016

    963 Retweets
    1,475 Favorites

  291. 291.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Top Conservative Cat @TeaPartyCat

    BREAKING: Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump in 17 minute run-on sentence.

  292. 292.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    Rex Huppke
    ✔
    @RexHuppke

    BREAKING: Sarah Palin to endorse Donald Trump today, Founding Fathers’ graves secured to prevent damage from excessive rolling over

    9:11 AM – 19 Jan 2016

    61 Retweets
    134 Favorites

  294. 294.

    J R in WV

    McCain isn’t a hero, because he nearly sank the USN Forrestal CV-59 when he dropped his bomb load into a flight deck awash in flaming jet fuel. I’m hoping he works hard against Trump, who is more of a turd than a trump.

    Palin is just – how to put this? – stupid, I guess will do. Everything she has done since her election as mayor of her little berg in Alaska has shown her lack of thought, lack of education, lack of knowledge. So she is perfect for Trump and his campaign.

    They are a nearly perfect storm of, well, whatever they are. I’m holding back. Don’t hold that against me, please.

  296. 296.

    muddy

    @SiubhanDuinne: Ahahahaha! This fall at the local catalog place that I work, I received a pallet of men’s pajamas, the old fashioned kind that looks like a suit. They had a buttonhole on the lapel! It was even cut, a fully functioning one. Does one wear a boutonniere to bed for formal occasions? So odd.

    Btw, Grace says Hi, and wants you to know she is mostly a good girl by now.

  298. 298.

    catclub

    @efgoldman:

    He’s imagining some “common-sense conservative” coming out of the woodwork to save the Republiklown party.

    Paul Ryan out of brokered convention.

  299. 299.

    Sad_Dem

    @efgoldman: Ken Calvert, Paul Cook, Duncan Hunter, Darrell Issa, Steve Knight, Doug LaMalfa, Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes, Dana Rohrabacher (who let his rented house be used for something–cough Dan Bilzerian cough cough–and resisted paying the landlord for damages–“party” of personal responsibility for the win!), Ed Royce, David Valadao, Mimi Walters, Paul Cook, Jeff Denham. Maybe not enough for a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but a quorum, perhaps.

  300. 300.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @muddy:

    Grace is an awesome puppeh. She made a friend of me in the first 15 seconds of zany, crazed, demented barking and running around.

    Seriously, I’m glad she’s matured a little bit, but I really did think she was something special.

  301. 301.

    muddy

    @SiubhanDuinne: She’s very bright and has a large vocabulary. It’s just that a 67# terrier is a bit much. You can’t tuck her under your arm and walk off. It took her a while to be able to take a breath (in her case a tension-breaking yawn) and be able to follow directions and be praised. Once she was getting a lot of praise, she got addicted to it. She still loses her mind if she sees other dogs through the fence though. Sawyer tries to herd her away from the fence, what a good boy. Not that it does anything but he tries, and looks up to the house to be sure I’m watching.

  302. 302.

    boatboy_srq

    @@Sad_Dem: The S.O. is in Romania. Not the most conducive LGBT climate, but domestic partnerships are recognized, and my skills are marketable there. We’ve already talked about finding me work and finding us a nice flat or a small house.

    Amir Khalid: Remember chastising me for saying “Kuala Lumpur looks better every year”? I think you begin to understand at least one reason why I say that.

  303. 303.

    catclub

    @debbie:

    oh I guess, the beauty of the Tea Party genuine movement rose up and shined a light

    Last verse of Battle Hymn of the Republic:

    In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
    With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.

  304. 304.

    debbie

    @catclub:

    I know! I was in rush hour traffic when I heard her pearls. My laughter must have seemed lunatic to the neighboring drivers.

  305. 305.

    John Revolta

    @muddy: Goddamnit, this is what happens when a thread gets all long and meandery. I thought you were talking about Palin.

  307. 307.

    Mike in NC

    A couple of days ago the joke was that Trump would have to choose between Meatloaf, Gary Busey, or Dennis Rodman as his VP running mate. Then he appeared with Scotty “Cosmo” Brown. Now he unleashes Caribou Barbie! He really is the reincarnation of P. T. Barnum.

  308. 308.

    Julia Grey

    @Josie:

    There is no “equal time rule” anymore. That was eliminated in the Reagan era, and thus was conservative talk radio born.

  311. 311.

    Ksmiami

    @Betty Cracker: it’s funny but lately I’ve been thinking that we as democrats need to do a 180 in terms of rhetoric attacking the GOP- I mean they always claim liberals will make you abort your gay married babies etc /gloom doom. Why can’t we just say GOP policies mean death- cuz it’s effing true.

  313. 313.

    MaryRC

    @SiubhanDuinne: She apparently has no idea what the Department of Energy does because she said she’d like the job since oil, gas and minerals are her “baby” and she wants to return federal lands to state control to open them up to drilling and mining.

    Sarah, you crazy box of hair, controlling mining and drilling is what the Department of the Interior does. The DoE is responsible for the national nuclear program and nuclear weapons and not even Trump is stupid enough to let you near them.

  314. 314.

    HeartlandLiberal

    @Chyron HR: I lived in Germany for a year back in the early 70’s. Been back to visit twice. I swear, if I thought I could afford it, I would sell off everything here and just move to southern Germany, preferably down in Swabia between the Black Forest to the West, the Swabian Alb to the east. South of Tuebingen, where I went to Uni for a year. My father and uncles who fought that last good war, WWII, would, I think, be disappointed by the irony of my choice, especially the two that advanced into Germany with Patton’s army.

  317. 317.

    Paul in KY

    @Timurid: You would think that kid is seriously disturbed, but then you think about what happens to ‘blasphemers’ over there, and he probably felt his life was in danger & did that to hopefully ensure he wasn’t stoned to death.

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