Palin’s endorsement of Trump trivial

So former Alaska Governor and 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has endorsed Donald Trump to be the Republican Party’s nominee for President of the United States.

Big flopping deal.

Here we have one political opportunist endorsing another. So what else is new?

In the grand scheme of things, what Sarah Palin does or says these days is trivial and carries little weight with those of us serious about the political condition of our country.

This endorsement is coming from a person who quit her elected post as governor half way through her first term in order to pursue a book deal and a more lucrative career as a television media pundit.

She proved to me that her own self-promotion was of greater importance than the oath she took as governor. That has “opportunist” written all over it.

Trump, like Palin, is an opportunist out to get as much attention on himself as he can. He built a financial empire on his ego alone, and he looks to create a political one for the same reason.

He has more in common with P.T. Barnum than he does Abraham Lincoln. He’s a showman, a shameless self-promoter who will say anything controversial just to get a sound bite, a headline and a quote. It is why he sought his own reality television show. He wanted to stroke his ego, and in a big way.

I think Trump views the White House as the ultimate stage upon which to puff out his chest and bristle his feathers. No other stage can cause an ego to swell quite like the one in the Oval Office.

For Trump and Palin to be spoken of together is kind of like Wild West show legend Buffalo Bill Cody taking a bow with Annie Oakley at his side. No offense to the wild west legends themselves.

Should Trump accept Palin’s endorse and ask her to join his team, then his campaign will come to resemble a freak show even more than it already does. It will become a two-headed monster with double the zeal for self-promotion and attention.

I am saying a prayer that Trump’s campaign will fold sometime shortly after January next year when the primaries hit full swing. By then, the run for president will separate the men from the boys.

God help us all if our choice a year from this coming November is either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. We either choose a person with a deep psychological appetite for the White House, or one who wants it to be his biggest stage yet.

I wonder if Mr. T has considered a third party bid.