In short, Palin is a political strategist’s worst nightmare. She doesn’t have a filter, she refuses to listen to advice, she thinks she’s the smartest person in the room, she breaks with her fellow Republicans, and she lacks a solid understanding of history, politics, economics, and just about everything else.
Sounds a bit familiar, doesn’t it?
In fairness, Trump is more politically astute than Palin and understands how to use the media to his full advantage. And, while he’s denied it on several occasions, anyone who has studied body language will tell you that he looked incredibly uncomfortable during her madcap endorsement speech during the campaign.
What on earth could the president be thinking, then?
If I were to hazard a guess, it would be that Trump is intrigued by Palin’s past popularity with the blue-collar Middle Americans who propelled him to the White House in November. He may want to tap into her old support base of social conservatives and tea partiers. He may like the fact that she, too, has had a string of successful reality-TV shows.
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