Amongst the more than now 10,000 articles (via Google, over 90% hostile mostly to a large degree) in the media/Blogs on Governor Palin since her endorsement of Donald Trump for president there are about 8 that are either favorable or contain a degree of positivism.
Former 2008 McCain campaign aid Nicolle Wallace, sometime acerbic critic of Governor Palin, presents, for a liberal newspaper, a somewhat balanced view .
Wallace canvasses what she sees as the roots of both Trump and Palin's appeal,Palin's successes which are rarely mentioned by the media and concludes, correctly Should he (Trump)come out on top in Iowa, he has her to thank.
If Trump wins Iowa and proceeds to run the board then his nomination would owe, perhaps in the end, all to Palin. If she had not endorsed him, or endorsed Cruz and he won, which is quite possible then Trump's campaign may have ended in Iowa as Cruz ascended with the momentum
Wallace canvasses what she sees as the roots of both Trump and Palin's appeal,Palin's successes which are rarely mentioned by the media and concludes, correctly Should he (Trump)come out on top in Iowa, he has her to thank.
If Trump wins Iowa and proceeds to run the board then his nomination would owe, perhaps in the end, all to Palin. If she had not endorsed him, or endorsed Cruz and he won, which is quite possible then Trump's campaign may have ended in Iowa as Cruz ascended with the momentum
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BRIT ODDSMAKER ON 2016: PALIN HELPS TRUMP, HURTS CRUZ,
Saying her endorsement “threatens to turn the Iowa caucus on its head,” British oddsmaker Paul Krishnamurty says Sarah Palin‘s endorsement of Donald Trump is taking the edge off his strategy of putting many of his chips on Ted Cruz to take the GOP nomination for president.
Krishnamurty is a professional “punter” with the sports betting firm Betfair. Across the pond, there aren’t strict regulations that limit betting on politics, so Krishnamurty has developed quite an eye (and a wallet) betting on our American elections.
As he boasted to POLITICO, his track record is impressive. Why? An ocean away, Krishnamurty is data-driven and objective: he has no dog in the fight, and he’s betting simply to make money. There’s no motivation quite like cold, hard cash.Indeed, my long range plan having backed Cruz at 25.00 and upwards for the nomination was to sit tight until after Super Tuesday. But after Palin’s intervention, I’ve banked some profit and removed all risk by laying Cruz at 6.00.”
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LIFE SITE NEWS LINK
Donald Trump will protect life, Sarah Palin promises in endorsement
AMES, Iowa, January 20, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - Donald Trump will unite Republicans with a pro-life message and get more results than the Beltway GOP, Sarah Palin told a boisterous crowd in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday.
The 2008 vice presidential candidate endorsed Trump yesterday, giving the Manhattan businessman a boost among heartland evangelicals pivotal to the state's Republican caucus.
Trump, Palin promised, will "unify [the GOP] around the right issues - the issues important to me, or I wouldn’t be endorsing him: pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, strict constitutionality."
She said the Republican Establishment had no right to dismiss Trump and his diverse band of supporters, many of whom are Reagan Democrats and minorities, as insufficiently conservative.
"What the heck would the Establishment know about conservatism?" she asked. "Tell me, is this conservative - GOP majorities handing over a blank check to fund ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood?" she asked. "And illegal immigration that competes for your jobs, and turning safety nets into hammocks?"
How could they tell Phyllis Schlafly, a "conservative movement icon and hero and a Trump supporter," that "she's not conservative?"
Palin's endorsement may help settle fears that Trump is not pro-life enough on abortion, although he has promised to sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and said he would not fund Planned Parenthood as long as it performs abortions.
The Trump campaign, which hinted at a "major endorsement" prior to Palin's speech, highlighted her own bona fides on the issue in a press release. "A trusted conservative, Palin has a proven record of being fiscally modest, staunchly pro-life, and believes in small government that allows business to grow and freedom to prosper," it said.
Ana Navaro, who supports rival candidate Jeb Bush, called the Palin endorsement "a big deal."
"If there's anybody that does not represent 'New York values' in the Republican Party, it's certainly Sarah Palin," she told CNN. "She is all about Alaska, outdoors, pro-life, pro-guns."
Selecting Trump was also a big blow to Trump's closest challenger, Ted Cruz, whom Palin endorsed when he ran for Senate in 2012. She made a glancing reference to him Tuesday, saying that reclaiming America will "take a whole team...so our friends who are fighters in the House and the Senate today, they need to stay there and help out. They can help our new leader in the positions that they are in."
Cruz handled being passed up with warmth, tweeting:
She also had kind words to say about primary challenger Rand Paul, calling his vision of a less interventionist foreign policy "healthy," especially in the Middle East. "Let them duke it out and let Allah sort it out," she said. "We’ll fight for American interests."
"We haven’t prioritized our own domestic budgets well enough to be able to afford what we’re doing overseas," she said. "Things are gonna change under President Trump."
Palin also previously endorsed Trump's campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson, who attempted to win the Republican nomination away from incumbent Congressman Pete Sessions, R-TX, in the 2014 midterm elections.
The media's adverse treatment of Trump and his followers - whom one writer inPolitico has implied are authoritarians - influenced Palin's view of Trump. Media figures have harassed Palin and her family "every day since that night in ‘08, when I was on stage, nominated for VP," Palin told the Ames crowd.
Going "through the ringer as Mr. Trump has, makes me respect you even more," she said.
She later poked fun at Trump's use of the word "huge," saying "he's not an elitist."
"Only one candidate’s record of success proves he is the master of the art of the deal," she said. "He is beholden to no one but we the people, how refreshing. He is perfectly positioned to let you make America great again."
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How Sarah Palin Paved The Way For Donald Trump NPR LINK
Mary Altaffer/AP
When Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump for president this week, it was a surprise move, but one that seemed perfectly logical.
In fact, Donald Trump's rise can be seen as a natural extension of the kind of politics that Palin herself embraced after her unsuccessful run for vice president — combining populism, rage and celebrity.
Eight years ago, Sarah Palin was still unknown to the vast majority of Americans outside of her home state. But when Republican presidential nominee John McCain plucked the Alaska governor from obscurity to be his running mate in 2008, a force of nature in Republican politics was unleashed.
From her very first moments on the national stage, it was clear that Sarah Palin was not your typical politician. Despite a relative lack of experience, she delivered a blockbuster performance in her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in September of 2008.
The most famous line from Sarah Palin's speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention.
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Some of her best lines were ad-libbed, including her shoutout to hockey moms like herself all across the country.
"I love those hockey moms," she said. "You know they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick." Even her detractors had to admit is was a great moment.
A conservative superstar was born.
The final months of the presidential campaign that year would provide glimpses of the vice presidential candidate's future as a political rabble-rouser who wouldn't shy away from controversy or hardball rhetoric.
She keyed in on Barack Obama's association with Chicago college professor William Ayers, who was a founder of the radical organization the Weather Underground in the 1960s. The group carried out bombings of government buildings as protests against the Vietnam War, which they say were targeted to avoid injury.
On the stump in 2008, Palin said, "Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."
Obama handily defeated the McCain-Palin ticket, but in many ways that gave birth to the Tea Party. And Palin was exactly what the movement needed.
She was the keynote speaker at a National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tenn., in early 2010, urging attendees to shake things up.
"The Tea Party is not a top-down operation," she told the crowd. "It's a ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way they're doing business, and that's beautiful." She was greeted with cheers and chants of "Run Sarah, Run."
Activist William Temple was certainly enamored. "She's the strongest man in the Republican Party," he told NPR that day. "If I can get close enough, I'll give her a kiss."
Meanwhile, Donald Trump watched Palin's rise as she channeled — and fueled — the anger felt by many voters toward Washington. Many of these voters described President Obama as a socialist, a Muslim or not American.
On that last point, Trump was relentless. He repeatedly doubted that Obama was born in the U.S. He questioned documents showing that the president was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Trump asserted in a 2011 interview with NBC that Obama "doesn't have a birth certificate or he hasn't shown it. He has what's called a certificate of live birth," and for Trump that wasn't proof enough.
As Trump promoted the so-called "birther" movement, Palin cheered him on, telling Greta Van Susteren on Fox News, "I respect what he's doing in putting his money where his mouth is. He's actually investigating his speculation there on Obama's birth certificate."
Donald Trump posted this video message following his 2011 meeting with Sarah Palin at a New York pizzeria. Trump addressed his use of a knife and fork to eat pizza.
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But Palin saw an opportunity for Trump to do more. She urged him to speak out on other topics.
"Right now he's got the spotlight, he's got the megaphone. Now is his opportunity to really force a shift in debate and discussion in this country," she said in that 2010 Fox News interview.
In 2011, Trump and Palin had a very high profile meeting in New York City, creating quite a stir at a time when the 2012 presidential race was just taking shape, and a bus tour that the former Alaska governor was taking along the East Coast raised questioned about her intentions.
They shared lunch — New York-style pizza. Talking to reporters afterward, Trump was asked if he thought Palin should run. He said, "I'd love her to run."
Palin, meanwhile, was asked what she and Trump have in common. She replied, "A love for this country and a desire to see this economy get back on track."
Hearing Palin's speeches over the years and listening to Trump on the campaign trail now, you have two people speaking to the same audience, while hitting the same notes: Obamacare, radical Islamic terrorism, Obama's weak foreign policy, his poor treatment of veterans and, of course, immigration.
The language is always proudly politically incorrect.
Trump shouts at rallies that he'll "bomb the s*** out of ISIS," or that Mexico is sending "rapists" across the border, or that Muslims should be barred from entering the U.S.
Even Trump's "make America great again" catchphrase echoes Palin's standard rallying cry to "take our country back."
And both love to attack what Palin has labeled "the lame-stream media." At his campaign events, Trump points to the press section and calls reporters "dishonest" and "treacherous."
When Palin endorsed Trump in Ames, Iowa, this week and once again grabbed the national spotlight, she gleefully opened her remarks by saying, "Mr. Trump, you're right. Look, back there in the press box. Heads are spinning. Media heads are spinning. This is going to be so much fun!"
The endorsement seemed to come out of nowhere, but on so many levels it also seemed to make so much sense.
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