For some reason, people were upset about Sarah Palin endorsing Donald Trump. Ted Cruz’s campaign people, when asked, were all like…
“I think it [would] be a blow to Sarah Palin, because Sarah Palin has been a champion for the conservative cause, and if she was going to endorse Donald Trump, sadly, she would be endorsing someone who’s held progressive views all their life on the sanctity of life, on marriage, on partial-birth abortion,” Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler said on CNN’s “New Day.”
Bristol Palin was all like…
After hearing what Cruz is now saying about my mom, in a negative knee-jerk reaction, makes me hope my mom does endorse Trump. Cruz’s flip-flop, turning against my mom who’s done nothing but support and help him when others sure didn’t, shows he’s a typical politician. How rude to that he’s setting up a false narrative about her!
Here’s the rub. Ted Cruz’s actual response? The man himself?
I love @SarahPalinUSA Without her support, I wouldn't be in the Senate. Regardless of what she does in 2016, I will always be a big fan.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 19, 2016
Suddenly, Bristol changed her tune.
Thank you, Ted, for your Tweet. As I mentioned in my original post, I have always liked Sen. Cruz and his wife — they were kind to me when we met a while back.
Okay, I’ll be honest. I’m definitely more disappointed in the Palins than Cruz seems to be. I have and will continue to defend Sarah Palin when people make fun of her child with Down’s Syndrome or unfairly characterize her with quotes that she never even made. Okay? Okay.
But I also have a serious problem with the systematic dumbing down of Conservatism simply to transform it into reactionary populism. I can only take so many “I’m in it to win it!” or “Rock and rollers and holy rollers!” or “Obama leads from behind” buzz-phrases before I become exhausted with the lack of substance. My patience is wearing thin. I think a lot of Americans are ready to just put all of these people in “time out.”
And that brings me to my ultimate problem with this circus. Too many decisions are being made entirely out of anger. Donald Trump loved Ben Carson, until he compared him to a pedophile. He loved Ted Cruz, until he threatened to file suit against him. He loved Ronda Rousey until she publicly stated she wasn’t voting for him. If Palin had endorsed Cruz instead, would there be any doubt as to the horrible things Donald Trump would say about her? Be honest with yourself here.
Bristol loved Ted Cruz until she didn’t because of something personal. But now because of something else personal, she’s okay with him again.
Just too many decisions clearly not made on principle, level-headedness or reason, but entirely based on anger and personal, temporary sentiment. Pretty much the definition of “the dark side.”
Now, he has his flaws, but in this instance, in this altercation, Ted Cruz was the only one who refused to partake. So please, take off your blinders for a second, one second. You may be a Trump guy, you may be a Carson gal, you may be a Rubio fan. In this instance, one person was attacked through the media, it blew up to the front cover of anywhere, and he was the only one who turned the other cheek.
Sincere question, does that count for anything with you anymore? Comment below or tweet me @Scrowder
“But I also have a serious problem with the systematic dumbing down of Conservatism simply to transform it into reactionary populism.”
AGREE whole-heartedly!!! We do NOT need another narcissist-in-chief. My vote is with Cruz.
Yet another shill article for Cruz. Trump will win and it’s time for you to accept it.
if Trump wins…..America loses….It ain’t over till its over….and this country is worth fighting for….
Trump says that he can’t be bought. I like that.
Say that he gets elected. What does he need us for? Who is his base?
For at least 4 years, we will have elected another guy who thinks he’s king, because he’s beholden to no one.
That scares me.
Read and absorb the premise of the article. We are understandably emotional beings, but we are not suppose to make our decisions based on emotion like liberal do. Holding on to liberty and freedom doesn’t happen just because we want it. We must stand by principles and work for it. Seek truth and speakers of truth and follow it.
To what do you base your shill meme? The article is based on clearly observable and objective points, unlike your response, which would make you the shill would it not? Just imitating the example of your candidate I presume.
Bristol? Is that you?
Ted Cruz has always been a classy guy. He has always stood up for what he thought was right. In a presidential race that has devolved into a mud wrestling event, he stands out in the crowd as classy and presidential. I like Trump for his plain speaking and I am glad that he has brought out things that other candidates were too cowardly to discuss but I wish the drama would stop. There are ways of having disagreements with others without the name calling. This is not kindergarten…play nicely with the other children.
Love your commentary and I use many of your items teaching College Givernment. Could you dig up what the media attempted to do to Reagan? It seems like a significant parallel to the Cruz reactions.
I hardly ever see Cruz attack any other candidate and when he does it is based on record alone. Along with sharing almost every political policy, this is why I prefer Cruz over the other candidates. He will always choose to turn the other cheek before attacking.
Ironically enough Cruz started this whole thing with his preemptive strike against Palin when he thought she was endorsing Trump. Yet your article completely white washes that reality. Pathetic.
time to get your facts right. When the rumors started a Cruz campaign representative was asked in an interview how he thought it would affect the Cruz campaign. Bristol Palin decided to blog about his answer which was that he thought it would be a bigger negative for Palin than Cruz as if it was a personal attack on her family.
I am with Cruz. Trump I like but to me he is a loose cannon, you will never know what he is going to do. His first choice for VP was Oprah! Does that tell you anything?
I have always liked Ted Cruz for his stance on Washington, his felloe Republicans and his dismeanor as a whole. Trump says he’ll do this and he’ll do that, it’ll be huge and it’ll be great, but he never says how he is going to do it. Ted Cruz was quoting Trump and got trampled for it. And the last I looked New York is solidly Democratic now.
I think all of them have been guilty of it. I was a Walker supporter and I have no where to go. There isn’t much substance in any of them outside of maybe 2. And then I have to factor in experience and causes. I was once optimistic about Conservatism but I am no longer.
Trump’s Dog Problem
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/137626455331/trumps-dog-problem
Scott Adams pretty much perfectly explained this kind of Cruz-zealot exasperation just the other day. Seriously, seen from the perspective of someone who understands how it is that Trump is doing what he’s doing, it makes the EMOTIONAL TANTRUMS of the likes of Levine and Crowder kind of freakin’ hilarious.
Principle … what is a principle? It’s the decision that no matter how good a politician sounds, if his past record demonstrates a tendency to liberalism AS CONSERVATIVES WE MUST ASSUME HIS FUTURE BEHAVIOR WILL CONFORM TO HIS NORM! In other words, since in the past Trump has endorsed sucking the brains out of babies who are in the process of being born, we need to assume that he is still a baby killer unless he has really demonstrated otherwise!
I am trying to share this on my FB wall and am getting a message saying, “This content is no longer available.”
With less than two weeks until Iowa, will you, Steven Crowder, endorse Ted Cruz? I think that would be GIGANTIC!
“Hillary Clinton has been endorsed by the biggest LBGT organization in the country!” “Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump!” “Ben and Jerry’s endorses Bernie Sanders!” Who cares? I’m casting my vote based on the qualifications of the candidate and how they stand (or profess to stand) on the issues, not on how many politicians, celebrities, or organizations are endorsing them. Just another example of how people can be manipulated into thinking and voting, and another example of how we are dumbing down America. We’re voting for President of the United States for God’s sake, not Lord (or Lady) of the high school prom.
“Bristol loved Ted Cruz until she didn’t because of something personal. But now because of something else personal, she’s okay with him again.”
To be fair, Bristol was pretty much universally excoriated for her reaction on her facebook page (she posted the blog entry to facebook). Short version of most of the replies were in the vein of “no one insulted your mother and you’re being a drama queen; stop it.”
I don’t think anyone can say for certain whether that changed her tune, but I rather strongly suspect that it might well have been a factor.
Well said! BTW, love the Cary Grant shot from “His Girl Friday.” “I’ll have to ask you to get out!” LOL.
I’m a Cruz guy and agree 100% with your dumbing-down comment.
If Trump can cut through the media crap, wake people up, and get some of them started down the path to doing their own thinking about conservatism, however, he is doing the country a service. It’s not his fault 70% of the country either doesn’t care or gets its news from Twitter.
Ted Cruz is the only candidate qualified to hold the office. Unfortunately the founders themselves stated that the constitution is meant to govern a “well educated people” and right now America is over run with idiots! I mean were literally paying for the nuke we’ll be bombed with for crying out loud! Trump is a smart business man, but a damned fool in every other area. We’ve barely survived 8 years of a damned fool! Do we really need another?
Nothing gracious about what Rafael did. He had no choice after it was done. He’s a do-nothing senator who’ll lie and say anything to advance himself. Only the nut cases think he’s serious and buy into his phony preaching.
I am voting for Trump…but I absolutely love Ted Cruz. I would love a Trump/Cruz ticket. He’s a class act.
I am standing with Cruz! He is a good choice and I feel the best choice period!
i just dont know if i could trust her ,Ted Cruz is doing what the good Lord would want him to do Forgive her.
Trump is a psychopath and a classless bully.
Cruz or bust!
This is why people are becoming so beyond fed up with politics. I commend Trump for his ability to get people discussing some difficult topics, but the infantile rants on Twitter and the hypocritical back and forth got old a long time ago. We’ve already had 7 years of a narcissistic POTUS. Now we need a leader who is willing to put The People, first.
Quite frankly, who cares what Bristol Palin thinks about anything?
There’s the whole set pf people who dislike Cruz because his behavior it so good they don’t think it’s natural. Everyone has a complaint. I noticed how long it took Palin to endorse Trump. I have a feeling that she thinks he will win. I liked Cruz and Carson the most, but my big fear is that they won’t have the money and influence to beat the RNC when it turns against them and favors a democrat. We’ve all seen that happen in senate and house races before.
It says a lot about Cruz’s character, that he’s above all this low level ‘back and forth’ ! Thank-you Ted for this strength !
All of this theater, is an elaborate and complex chess game.
Bristol Palin needs to admit she was wrong and apologize to Ted Cruz. She needs to eat a whole humble pie for her being so disingenuous. The backlash on her “article” linked on her mother’s FB page was what I expected.
Bristol Palin lost me when she justified her Faire des galipettes, and got pregnant again. That is NOT conservative values. Her mom has now lost me by endorsing Trump who has no conservative bonefides.