Alaska's quitter governor and the Tea Party's queen diva Sarah Palin uses her Facebook page to comment on all things political, including
touting Donald Trump's candidacy for the presidency. But when it comes to Trump's outrageously sexist comments about her former colleague at Fox News, Megyn Kelly, Palin has remained shamefully silent about El Donaldo's latest round of misogyny.
So much for Mama Grizzly solidarity with conservative women like Kelly, with whom Palin once declared: "We are the women's movement!"
When Trump recently assaulted John McCain -- who plucked Palin from obscurity in August of 2008 to join him on the Republican ticket -- it was an entirely different matter. Palin immediately came to Trump's defense, calling him a hero and blaming the scuffle on the media. It was an
act of betrayal directed at McCain -- and yet another instance of her blatant duplicity -- that only Palin could pull off.
Trump, of course, has been nothing more than a
serial sexist when it comes to his
constant attacks on women: He has
called women "ugly," "fat," "dogs," "slobs," "bimbos," "extremely unattractive,"
ad infinitum, all leading up to his allegation this weekend that Kelly was
menstruating during the Republican presidential primary debate Thursday tonight.
I guess in Palin World, that all makes you a "hero." So be it. But as virtually every major player in the current Republican line-up for president
has called Trump on his latest remarks, Palin still hasn't brought herself to take the high road. Just before the Presidential debate last week, Palin gave yet another
bizarre interview in which she said that she advised Trump [3:11]:
I've already told him. I said: Keep it up! America appreciates that you're calling it like you see it. He's telling a lot of truth. And really helping educate and lead the other candidates because they're going to have to step up their game and quit sounding like politicians.
I wonder what "truth" she thinks he's now telling?
In addition to being
beholden to Trump -- he's the only current candidate, with the possible exception of Ted Cruz, who would ever
utter her name publicly -- I've been told that there's some inside back-story to Palin's glaring lack of solidarity with Kelly. According to a source once in Palin's inner-circle in Southcentral Alaska, Palin was livid at Kelley two years ago when the latter interrupted Palin in an interview in which Palin went into what seemed like a
crack-addled rant about Obama and the American economy.
No one holds a grudge like Palin. In June, Palin was
overtly critical of Kelly for interviewing Jill Duggar Dillard and Jessa Duggar Seewald on her Fox News program. Two weeks later it was announced that Palin had been
dumped from her position at Fox News.
That Palin is an exceedingly dull blade goes without saying, but even she must have noted the timing of Fox's decision.
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Can anyone imagine Palin in one of President Trump's cabinet-level positions? I can't.
