If you haven’t yet heard, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin recently endorsed Donald J. Trump for president.
It was shocking to many, since Palin was seen as a Tea Party type of candidate throughout her career. Meaning, why didn’t she endorse the staunchest conservative in the race, which is clearly Ted Cruz?
Check out how the Reuters poll has shifted since Palin gave Trump the thumbs up.
Cruz down 6, Trump up 6.
That’s a huge swing in just a few days time.
Palin’s followers are conservative. But they also see her as strongly anti-establishment, after the way Romney’s people sought to tear her apart when she ran as VP. Because Cruz has such spotless conservative bonafides, I suspect these voters who switched sides were not ideological conservatives, but rather expressly anti-establishment voters who supported Cruz to try and stymie the liberal GOP establishment machine. When Palin came out in support of Trump, they concluded that Trump was even more anti-establishment, and thus they jumped to him on a moment’s notice.
It is amazing to see such a massive rejection of the machine. This is high amygdala, an elevated Misery Index, and a soaring conservative Policy Mood graph – and this is just the warm-up act to what will happen when the debt bomb finally blows.
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Cruz’s conservative bonafides are far from spotless. He’s a fake and is completely owned just like the rest of them. Palin knows this, which is why she backs Trump. But Cruz’s recent losses aren’t due to Palin’s endorsement of Trump, they’re due to all of the information about Cruz’s being a pawn of Goldman-Sachs that has just come out. The wife, the undisclosed “loans”, etc. All along he has been there as the establishment’s “just-in-case” guy. Wake up!
“this is just the warm-up act to what will happen when the debt bomb finally blows.”
Financial types don’t strike me as a very insightful bunch (understatement), and nobody else really has the necessary familiarity with the nitty-gritty operations. So I wonder whether how many people have a good model in their heads of how this goes down.
Here I distinguish cunning, ruthless, and Machiavellian from insightful. An insightful person observes process A, realizes it can’t continue, and uses their knowledge of human nature to predict that it will fail along fault lines X, Y, and Z. By contrast, a cunning person just makes a break for it at the last moment when they realize the jig is up.
Shows you what I know. I would have thought Trump needed Palin’s endorsement like s hole in the head. In any case it all comes down to whether all the people who say they support Trump actually go.out and vote. And let’s just hope that if Trump is elected he doesn’t return to his NY Liberal roots.
I kept wondering who was ‘holding Cruz’s leash.’ All the ‘usual suspects’ have their leashes held by — and have been taught obedience to — people who mean us harm. But Cruz? Cruz seemed pretty good… Till I read that his wife is “on leave” from Goldman Sacks: AH! the other end of his leash suddenly becomes clear!
I think you meant McCain’s people, not Romney’s people.
Actually I meant Romney’s, although you are right, McCain’s people screwed her over too. Romney’s had tried to kneecap Palin preemptively, thinking she was the greatest impediment to a Romney candidacy in 2012.
More breaking on Cruz’s bonafides: http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/26/senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-attorney-heads-pro-cruz-anti-trump-super-pac/
Interesante.