{"id":129525,"date":"2016-01-20T22:42:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T05:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/sarah-palin-in-her-inimitable-way-endorses-donald-trump.html"},"modified":"2016-02-09T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:10:25","slug":"sarah-palin-in-her-inimitable-way-endorses-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/sarah-palin-in-her-inimitable-way-endorses-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin, in her inimitable way, endorses Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And by &quot;inimitable&quot; I mean, &quot;What the hell drugs did she take before writing and delivering this speech, and does anyone else thank their lucky stars that she&#39;s not &#39;a heartbeat away from the Presidency&#39;?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s a remarkable speech, full of random campaign sound bites, unrelieved bitterness from 2008, and a hip-hop[1] stream of consciousness that beggars the imagination. And all while, the Donald stands there with a shit-eating smirk.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and Gentlemen, the faces and voices of this year&#39;s GOP.[2]<\/p>\n<p>For a transcript (if you don&#39;t want to wade through 20-odd minutes of Sarah&#39;s squamous and non-Euclidean verbiage), I recommend Jim Wright&#39;s annotated version (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2016\/01\/non-sequitur.html\">http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2016\/01\/non-sequitur.html<\/a>). It says far more and far better than I could.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Or Suessical<br \/>[2] Given that Trump leads in the polls, and his next closest rival is notable, not for any significant policy difference, but only in being an actual (God help us) Senator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mvlm3LKSlpU' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/aPZcX4RJZs9'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And by &quot;inimitable&quot; I mean, &quot;What the hell drugs did she take before writing and delivering this speech, and does anyone else thank their lucky stars that she&#39;s not &#39;a heartbeat away from the Presidency&#39;?&quot; It&#39;s a remarkable speech, full of random campaign sound bites, unrelieved bitterness from 2008, and a hip-hop[1] stream of consciousness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/sarah-palin-in-her-inimitable-way-endorses-donald-trump.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sarah Palin, in her inimitable way, endorses Donald Trump&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133072,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/john-oliver-on-the-america-health-care-act-acha.html","url_meta":{"origin":129525,"position":0},"title":"John Oliver on the America Health Care Act (ACHA)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Mar-17 10:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I know, this is all of four days old, but if you want to understand what the GOP Leadership (Paul Ryan, but not really devotedly Donald Trump) is pressing forward to replace the ACA, this is worth a watch.[1]In John Oliver's inimitable style.------[1] Though it pre-dates the CBO score,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137075,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/because-donald-misses-a-chance-to-be-petty.html","url_meta":{"origin":129525,"position":1},"title":"Because Donald never misses a chance to be petty","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Sep-18 4:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the bright side, he sounds more like a snotty twelve-year-old than the usual fractious nine-year-old. 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