Palin Rails Against GOP In Trump Endorsement: It’s Self-Destructing

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 18 - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks as she endorses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign stop, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, in Ames, Iowa. (Photo By Al Drago/CQ Roll ... UNITED STATES - JANUARY 18 - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks as she endorses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign stop, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, in Ames, Iowa. (Photo By Al Drago/CQ Roll Call) (CQ Roll Call via AP Images) MORE LESS
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Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday and railed against the GOP for not supporting him.

Palin spoke extensively about her criticisms of the Republican party in her speech at Trump’s rally in Iowa.

“Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they’re attacking their own front runner,” she said. “Would the left ever, would the DNC ever come after the front-runner and her supporters? No, because they don’t eat their own. They don’t self-destruct.”

Palin addressed criticism that Trump and his supporters aren’t “conservative enough.”

“What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?” Palin asked the crowd, arguing that Trump did. “He’s got the guts to wear the issues that need to be spoken about and debated on his sleeve.”

She also complimented that he was from “the private sector” and not a politician. Palin said that Trump was a serious candidate who would put troops in place to “go kick ISIS’ ass.”

“No more pussy footing around,” Palin said. “Our troops deserve the best, you deserve the best.”

Palin also said complimented Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and his “healthy” “libertarian streak” as Trump looked on. And in another bizarre moment, she gave a bizarre metaphor that people in DC were fueled by “opium” — “other people’s money.”

“We’re going to give em hell,” Trump said, ending the rally.

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  1. “Other People’s Money” = “OPM”. It’s a pun.

    Actually not bad, for her.

  2. Oh for fuck’s sake. The irony is deep tonight.
    Palin railing against the GOP and endorsing a fascist narcissist nihilist.
    Militiamen calling Christians to arms on shofars.(see article on the main page)
    I couldn’t write a script like this if I took some orange sunshine.

  3. LOLOLOLOLOL The word salad mishmosh was everything we expect from the Snowbilly Queen and more. The few remaining moderate Republicans must be mortified. They know their party now belongs to Trump-Cruz-Palin.

  4. Palin also said complimented Sen. Rand Paul

    The Word Salad is communicable - apparently.

  5. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Buried in the jibber and jabber, a huge plate of sour, sour grapes…Don’t give Donald a taste, yet.

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