i think wookie made the run out the clock analogy earlier, but if we are down to two or three weeks from the Iowa Caucus, there is definitely some value to a Palin endorsement just dominating 3+ days of media cycle.

If he refuses the endorsement he loses a ton of the base

It's got to help him in the primaries and will be long forgotten after the convention

I'm assuming a lot of Cruz supporters are Palin supporters

Best Mayo post in the thread.

Really

All of you who think it's bad for trump already hate Trump

Trump isn't a genius. He's a bully who can turn a phrase. Remember how bullies were good at insults? We're now giving Trump a genius level IQ for being able to do such? Really? It took a long time for everyone here to accept Palin wasn't intelligent. It will take even longer for Trump.

Palin might help for the primaries, but please tell me how she is anything but a liability in the general. We've been here before.

How will Palin supporting trump hurt him in the general

What group will turn on trump due to it

By motivating the unmotivated to vote against stupid.

Ask John McCain?

So it's basically your classic Godzilla vs. Mecha-Godzilla situation. In a rational world, all the kaiju would band together and destroy humanity, but due to lack of coordination, you end up with lots of entertaining, only mildly destructive monster on monster violence. Makes sense to me!

I got a metsandfinsfan. Now *there's* a positive indicator.

I don't see how this could be very many people. The Anti Palin crowd should be pretty similar to the anti Trump crowd. Even if the was a large group of people, the people unmotivated to vote at this point probably don't care about endorsements anyway.

Those people would already do that

Her endorsement /= vice president

If Trump chooses Kaschick and he accepts they beat hillary imo

Good thing they won't have to rely on write in votes.

I'm not sure I accept if I'm Kasich. Good chance you go down with the ship and never recover.

i think Trump is benefiting from a lot of guys like me who would never vote for him in the general but want him to win the republican nod. I think he is like charlie sheen, his act will wear really thin this summer, assuming he wins. But for right now, he has this huge vibe of support, this buzz factor because nobody on the left is scared of him. we want him.

And that trickles into the media, MSNBC loves trump, they laugh at him, they cover him 24/7 practically. Fox goes out of their way not to cover him and do things like edit Cruz clips to help him. The Politico too trolls trump with their article titles and coverage. I think they want the Trump roll to end, whereas quite a few democrats really don't just yet.

That means trump has is going on from both sides. I think this Palin thing, you see how everybody is laughing at it. how cruz has to say how much he still loves palin, and it's all such a joke. But how excited everyone was at the spectacle, tea party types and liberals all tuning in.

But things like that past debate, this palin thing, these things keep building up, he looks like a clown, because he is a clown. i think it is going to come all crashing down on him this summer when he faces serious venom. when the laughs only come from the loons, when the same folks who are laughing now want to kick his ass. when he has been doing this act for over a year. "winning!" sure thing freak.

I'm not sure he does either but not for that reason

bingo. she may have lost some pull in the gop, but the dems have not forgotten about her.

every bit of crazy helps the dems. a big ol' steaming heap of it helps a lot.

I got to believe Trump won't get near Palin if he gets the nod. There is no way it would be smart if say she speaks at the convention, or even is out on the stump. She is insane and everybody sees that. again, we only tolerate it now because its funny and the ratings.

if i've got any aspirations in the party past this election, i don't think i would even take donald's call. that's a big gamble.

Trump's "takedowns" only work within the context of playing to an audience of people impressed by painful/sophomoric jokes. I'm not impressed that Dane Cook can get his audience to laugh at his jokes, 'cause I mean they showed up to a Dane Cook show.

To me Palin's negatives are pretty minor for Trump, but they're helpful for message board conversations where you can point out to the "Trump is a genius" crowd that he's appealing to the same unquestioned doorknobs who love(d) Palin. IMO the biggest reason he gets painted as some media genius and she's crazy is gender. A male blowhard is seen as powerful, a female version makes a lot of dudes really uncomfortable.

Palin was a B-/C+ team politician from a state with more moose than people who got lifted into the national spotlight by McCain and promptly crashed and burned. Trump is the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination despite a total lack of political accomplishment plus the unanimous and bitter opposition of the entire party establishment. They're a lot different.