Sarah Palin showed off the chops that made her such a political star as she endorsed Donald Trump on Tuesday, in a speech widely described as “bizarre.” Sample:
Well, and then, funny, ha ha, not funny, but now, what they’re doing is wailing, “well, Trump and his, uh, uh, uh, Trumpeters, they’re not conservative enough.” Oh my goodness gracious. What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?
Bizarre and rambling as it may have been, Palin’s endorsement helped Trump win one and possibly two news cycles, and a news cycle won by Donald Trump is a news cycle lost by Ted Cruz, with less than two weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses. Trump seems properly grateful for this, saying on the Today show that:
... there "certainly would be a role somewhere in the administration" for her if he was elected.
"I haven't discussed anything with her about what she'd do, but she's somebody I really like and I respect, and certainly she could play a position if she wanted to," Trump said of the former Alaska governor, who threw her backing behind the real estate mogul on Tuesday.
Probably not vice president, though. Not because Trump is rejecting Palin, but because “she's been through that,” so she wouldn’t want it. Considering that, according to one study, Palin cost John McCain 2.1 million votes in 2008, this may be a good call on Trump’s part.