Wearing a disco-spangled top that sent Twitter into paroxysms of mocking, Sarah Palin took us back to 2008 tonight with a shrieking, rambling, rootin’-tootin’ word salad endorsement of Donald Trump that had cable hosts openly snickering during their live feed of the speech delivered from Iowa. NBC News has a bit:
“What he has been able to do, which is really ticking people off, which I’m glad about — he’s going rogue left and right,” Palin said, referencing the name of her 2009 memoir.
Palin’s endorsement comes as Trump faces a growing onslaught of attacks over his past support for some Democratic causes and candidates. Palin told the crowd she would not have endorsed Trump if she had any doubts about his conservativism.
“Looking around at all of you, you hard working Iowa families, you farm families and teachers and teamsters and cops and cooks, you rock and rollers and holy rollers!” Palin said. “You all make the world go around and now our cause is one.”
“Now what they’re doing is wailing that, ‘Well, Trump and his trumpeters, well they’re not conservative enough.’ Oh my goodness, gracious, what the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?” Palin said.
The happiest woman tonight is surely Tina Fey.