Palin Backs GOP Outsiders

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Wednesday backed the outsider Republican candidates for president, a grouping she indicated includes Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

“I like all of the non-politicians, and there’s a few of them in there,” the former Alaska governor said during an appearance on  “The Laura Ingraham Show” show.

“I don’t like anyone who’s been a part of the problem all these years, voting for the increased budgets, voting to increase the debt ceiling, and now all of a sudden saying, ‘I’m not for that, and once I get in there, I’m going to change it.’”

Palin, who was Arizona Sen. John McCain’s presidential running mate in 2008, praised Cruz for fighting the establishment of both parties and using the filibuster to try to fulfill his campaign promises.

“He at least has tried taking action,” she said.

On real estate magnate Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Palin said, “It sure doesn’t seem like they’re bought and paid for by crony capitalists or anything.”

Overall, Palin said she is happy the Republican Party has a competitive primary, unlike the “skids being greased for Hillary” in the Democratic Party.

“We’re the party of diversity now,” she said. “Look at the different backgrounds. Look at the different experiences that we have up there on that stage.”

Palin expressed outrage at President Obama’s recent statement that opponents of his refugee plan fear orphans.

“It’s outright lies that our own president is spewing to the American public,” she said.

“Where is he even on the Christian — hopefully not to be martyrs, but getting in line to be martyrs — the Christians who are enslaved right now in some of these foreign lands?” she asked.

Palin, author of “Sweet Freedom: A Devotional,” said she wrote the book because the younger generation has been “brainwashed” by the current culture.

“We have no choice, really,” she said. “We have to get back to those Judeo-Christian beliefs of the founders.”

Palin also urged conservatives to fight back against commonplace leftist charges of racism.

“We haven’t peeled that label off aggressively enough,” she said.