Hey Megan - Sarah Palin was your daddy's candidate for VP

[malaise]

http://www.salon.com/2016/05/06/theres_no_trump_without_palin_meghan_mccain_scolds_conservatives_for_backing_trump_forgets_this_is_the_party_her_dad_helped_create/
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There’s no Trump without Palin: Meghan McCain scolds conservatives for backing Trump — forgets this is the party her dad helped create


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I hope history remembers those who gave up their conservative principles for the cult of personality and celebrity. And those who didn't.
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The myopia here is staggering. Although she didn’t respond, I asked Meghan if she remembers an obscure, half-forgotten figure named Sarah Palin? I asked because, in so many ways, there is no Trump without Palin. Palin was Trump before Trump. The rambling incoherence, the vacuousness, the reality TV theatrics, the ghastly marriage of ignorance and confidence – Palin brought this to national politics long before Trump did.

And it was Meghan’s father, John McCain, who foisted this catastrophe upon the country.

It was the bottomless cynicism of McCain, the once serious Senator from Arizona, who helped pave the way for Trump. He sold his soul to the conservative media-industrial complex the day he choose that buffoonish celebrity as his running mate, a woman he knew was woefully unprepared for the job. And he choose her precisely because of her potential celebrity, because she polled well with evangelicals and because she was the darling of right-wing media.

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They created Palin and Trump

[HDavis]

1. HDavis

Thumbs up re Sarah Palin and John McCain!

[malaise]

4. Many noted this before this very good Salon article

I love this

"...The rambling incoherence, the vacuousness, the reality TV theatrics, the ghastly marriage of ignorance and confidence".

[IDemo]

9. I think that has become a plank of the Republican platform n/t

[HuckleB]

2. I was able to vote against McCain in my first ever election, at 18.

Alas, it was his first election into the Senate. I will never forget the douchebaggery of the Young Republicans at the debate held at the school where I was a freshman at the time, Northern Arizona. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the Dem who ran against him.

All of that culture has led to this ugliness.

[longship]

3. Great little narrative.

I have a few of those, too. Back in the day, when my first vote went to McGovern. Yup! One had to be 21 to vote until then.

[malaise]

5. Yep this has been coming a long time

It had to happen

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. To be fair ... Megan has never had kind words about palin ... even during the 2008 campaign.

[malaise]

7. That is not the point here

Her daddy put this buffoon in the middle of American politics

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Yeah. I know ...

But for, his releasing palin onto the lower 48, we'd be in fair better space.

[thucythucy]

10. Well, before Palin there was Dan Quayle

and before Quayle there was Spiro Agnew.

The GOP VP spot seems a designated slot for "rambling incoherence...vacuousness...theatrics..."