PALIN’S BACK WITH HER CRAZY “WORD-SALAD” STATEMENTS

…This is how Sarah Palin was portrayed for the 2008 elections.

 

Today’s Vets put Palin in her place when she went after President Obama.

 

I could not go forward with my comments and opinions about the up-coming Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire primary without mentioning the “word-salad” that was brought back to us by the official “Mama Grizzly”, Ms. Sarah Palin.

 

Up to now, it has been so refreshing in not having to interpret Palin’s jabbering, but her indorsement speech of Donald Trump did bring back some mixed-feeling memories of the 2008 elections.

 

To put this in perspective, here are some examples of what she rambled in her indorsement as we watched Donald Trump closely watching her presentation.

 

Per Palin: “Believe me on this. And the proof of this? Look what’s happening today. Our own GOP machine, the establishment, they who would assemble the political landscape, they’re attacking their own front-runner. . . . They are so busted, the way that this thing works.”  

 

Say again……….?

 

Then she said this: “And now, some of them even whispering, they’re ready to throw in for Hillary [Clinton] over Trump because they can’t afford to see the status quo go. Otherwise, they won’t be able to be slurping off the gravy train that’s been feeding them all these years.”

 

“Slurping off the gravy train,” now there’s a statement you won’t hear from anyone except perhaps a citizen of Wasilla, Alaska.

 

This next statement took some real effort to interpret:  “How ’bout the rest of us? Right-wingin’, bitter clingin’, proud clingers of our guns, our God, and our religions, and our Constitution. Tell us that we’re not red enough? Yeah, [this is] coming from the establishment. Right.”

 

To complete her verbal Cole-Slaw, she offered this gem: “Well, and then, funny, ha ha, not funny, but now, what they’re doing is wailing, ‘Well, Trump and his, uh, uh, uh, Trumpeters, they’re not conservative enough.’ ”

 

Sometimes it’s as if she’d just hooks together a long string of random words. 

 

Palin then had the gall to claim that the, “media heads are spinning at her decision to campaign for Trump”. (I'm surprised that she didn't call them the "lame-stream media heads" as she did after the 2008 campaign.)

 

However, in my judgment,  it’s the late-night TV hosts and Saturday Night Live writers that are all high-fiving each other for the return of Ms. Palin to the latest campaign.

 

My only fear of the return of this woman that says she, “Can see Russia from her house!”, is that she could be responsible for getting her crazy Tea Party followers to help Trump win in Iowa.

 

But where I am most upset with Ms. Palin, (as are a number of US military vets that hit back at her on both Twitter and Facebook), when Palin made some comments about PTSD and her son Track.

 

During the Trump stump speech in Oklahoma, Palin talked about the recent arrest of her son, Track, on a domestic abuse charge.  Track allegedly fought with and hit his girlfriend and then threatened suicide by holding an assault rifle to his head.

 

Palin’s Comment: “My son, a combat veteran . . . was fighting for you-all, America, in the war zone.  My son, like so many others, came back a bit different, they come back hardened.”   Not enough was done to treat the “woundedness” of returning veterans and this failing “comes from our own President [Obama].”

 

But the vets hit back hard at Palin in social media saying that it was out-of-line to politicize returning vets with PTSD.  One high level vet responded that it was disgusting that Palin was turning vets with PTSD into a “political chew-toy” for the election media.

 

In addition, it was ridiculous that she blamed President Obama, especially when Track Palin served in Iraq and came home while George W. Bush was president, not Obama.

 

The reality is that it’s the base of the Republican party that has brought their party to where the two leaders of their nomination race are a reality TV, carnival barking billionaire, and a far-right-wing ideologue.  Bringing a has-been politician such as Palin into the fray, that just makes the whole GOP fiasco that much worse.

 

Just when you think things can’t get any worse…..they do.  This country needs two fully functional political parties, but today, this GOP is not one of them.

 

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