By S.E. Cupp
Trump, of course, has been sober his whole life. But the moment perfectly encapsulates the Palin-Trump romance. Because in addition to endorsing a beer run with a man who doesn’t drink, she also just endorsed for the presidency a man who is neither a committed conservative nor an anti-establishment rogue......
In the past, he called himself “very pro-choice.” Yet Palin — who made the very courageous and compassionate decision to have a baby she knew would be disabled — is unbothered.
On guns, he once supported a ban on so-called assault weapons and longer waiting periods to purchase a firearm. That should be deeply disconcerting to Palin, a Second Amendment firebrand who once said, “If you control arms, you control the people.”
And Trump has supported universal health care — expressing admiration for Scotland’s single-payer system as recently as last year. Palin spent years denouncing Obamacare, which is many steps short of a single-payer plan, as “socialized medicine.”
These aren’t minor policy differences. The beliefs long embraced by Palin and long eschewed by Trump are fundamental to conservatism. That Trump has suddenly gotten religion — on issue after issue — should be met by Palin with suspicion......That Sarah Palin is gone. Maybe one day, over a beer, she’ll tell me why.
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My Take - The question that still needs to be answered is what did she hope to gain? Vice Presidency? She's not very good at that. Perhaps if she had finished her term as Alaska's governor she may have been able to show solid accomplishment. She didn't, and looks more like a flibbertigibbet - a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person - rather than a serious influencer of public opinion based on some solid moral foundation. Cruz was right. She's toast!
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