Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has endorsed Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., claiming the Republican presidential front-runner is “committed to clobbering the bad guys, and putting the good guys first.”
“Trump’s temporary ban proposal is in the context of doing all we can to force the Feds to acknowledge their lack of strategy to deal with terrorism,” Palin, the 2008 GOP candidate for vice president, wrote in a long-winded post on Facebook Wednesday.
Unlike dozens of Republican leaders who have questioned the constitutionality of the proposal and accused Trump of being “bigoted,” Palin claims it’s a “commonsense” measure that further demonstrates the billionaire’s “courage.”
“A bold, non-politician candidate calls for a pause in this flawed bureaucratic program so it can be fixed, to make sure it doesn’t happen again. That’s common sense, which is why the media and spineless pundits attack it,” she wrote.
“I said it back in 2009 and got beat up by the Left but understood by the common sense Right, and I’ll say it again: if it saves innocent lives, ‘profile away!'” she continued, arguing that Trump’s profile puts “the security of innocent Americans first.”
Palin posted the more than 500-word statement around 3 p.m. ET with an introductory sentence directed at members of the press: “Hey, Media, Try Again To Take Down Trump (and Cruz for Understanding the Trump Context).” Within two hours, the post had been liked more than 14,500 times and contained more than 800 comments.
The conservative firebrand also advised her followers to “ignore the White House as it spews talking point rhetoric accusing Trump of being ‘unamerican.”
“They have no plan to reform our flawed immigration vetting process. They cannot even utter the term Islamic Fundamentalism. They will not declare war on ISIS,” she wrote.
Earlier in her post, Palin said “the media twists and turns words, conservatives who propose action to combat the real threat facing America are demonized while the namby-pamby milquetoast politicians get a pass to go along their unaccountable merry way.”
While Palin has yet to endorse any of the Republican hopefuls, she recently hinted to a roomful of conservatives at an event hosted by the Young America’s Foundation that whomever she chooses is likely to be a political outsider.
“My candidate will be someone who hasn’t been a part of the problem and hasn’t promised us a whole lot of things in campaigns and then had that bubble deflated when they got into office,” she said.
