Former Gov. Sarah Palin comes out in support of fellow conservative Kirstie Alley

Former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin had words of support for fellow female conservative Kirstie Alley.

“Cheers” Palin tweeted to Alley Sunday night after the formerly big-time actress was widely mocked for her support of President Trump over the weekend. Palin added, “Stay strong!”

Alley, who like Palin and President Trump has enjoyed success on the reality TV circuit, tweeted her endorsement of the president’s re-election efforts Saturday.

“I’m voting for @realDonaldTrump because he’s NOT a politician,” Alley tweeted. “I voted for him 4 years ago for this reason and shall vote for him again for this reason."

The 69-year-old Emmy winner believes that Trump is the right man to revive the nation’s struggling economy, which collapsed in the fourth year of his presidency.

"There you have it folks there you have it,” she wrote.

Kirstie Alley says she’s voting for Trump, then receives ‘so much name-calling’

She later complained of being cyber-bullied for her comments. Among Alley’s critics was “The King of Staten Island” director Judd Apatow, who preferred NBC’s “Cheers” before Alley joined the cast roughly halfway through the sitcom’s 11-year run.

“Shelly Long was way funnier than you,” he tweeted.

Palin famously ran as Sen. John McCain’s vice-presidential candidate in 2008, where that ticket was beaten by the combination of President Barack Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden.

In 2010, Palin hosted one season of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska" on TLC. She was also reportedly tapped to host a courtroom reality show in 2016 that never came to be. In March, the former governor dressed in a pink bear suit and rapped the 1992 song “Baby’s Got Back” as a surprise guest on Fox’s “The Masked Singer.” Palin’s alleged ineptitude as a political candidate was the focus of the 2012 film “Game Change," where she was portrayed by Julianne Moore. She described not being invited to McCain’s 2019 funeral as a “gut punch.”

Sarah Palin and Kirstie Alley
Sarah Palin and Kirstie Alley


Sarah Palin and Kirstie Alley (AP /)

After “Cheers” went off the air in 1993, Alley found work as a weight-loss spokesperson and appeared on reality shows including “Kirstie Alley’s Big Life,” “Dancing with the Stars” and “Celebrity Big Brother.”

She announced Monday that she would appear on Fox News' "Hannity” show that evening for an interview with one of the president’s biggest cheerleaders, Sean Hannity. Earlier that day, Alley said she’d cast her absentee vote for Trump in Florida.

Alley’s “Cheers” ally John Ratzenberger, best known as know-it-all postal carrier Cliff Clavin, voiced his support for Trump’s candidacy in 2016. In a big Fox News reveal, Ratzenberger predicted Trump would rebuild the nation. Actor Kelsey Grammer, who played psychologist Frasier Crane on the barroom sitcom, has also expressed his approval of the president.

“Cheers” star Ted Danson is a devout Democrat who is supporting Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential run.

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