Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin wrote in a Facebook post that the Republican establishment's attacks against Donald Trump are actually attacks against his voters. | AP Photo Palin: Romney is a 'silly man'

Sarah Palin responded to Mitt Romney’s fiery attack on Donald Trump Thursday with two Facebook posts, in one telling the billionaire not to “take the bait" and in another, denouncing Romney as a "silly man" whose "holier-than-thou" broadsides against Trump will help her cause.

On Thursday Romney gave a speech urging voters to rally behind any of the other GOP candidates and ripping Trump of being a "phony" and a "fraud."


In her first post, the former vice presidential candidate and Trump supporter argued that the Republicans who speak out against Trump are actually speaking out against Americans.

“The ‘machine's’ deception and nonsensical attack on Trump isn't really an attack on the candidate, it's an attack on conscientious, hardworking, patriotic Americans who know we need a revolution to stop the complicit politicians who are fundamentally transforming America. We found the revolutionary,” she continued. “Donald Trump is the shock the Permanent Political Class needs to wake them up... to destroy their selfish cabal... to respect the will of the people... to make America safe and solvent... to make America great again.”

“Don't take the bait, Mr. Trump. It's not about you. It's about us. And we've got your back,” Palin finished. She also included a video questioning Romney's conservative credentials, and accusing him of being sympathetic to amnesty and Obamacare.

Palin then turned her attention to Romney, writing in a follow-up post that Romney did conservatives a favor by slamming Trump.

"Your speech was so silly and contradictory it confirmed the reasons Trump received tens of thousands more votes than you did in your own home state that you governed. Silly man," Palin wrote. "Could the establishment really not find anyone credible in their holier-than-thou movement to spew the deception you regurgitated today on tv?"

Palin, who endorsed Trump in January but has not been seen on the trail with him since his defeat in the Iowa caucuses, called upon "[i]ndependent, commonsense conservative patriots" to "ramp it up, to prove even more adamantly that our movement in this time for choosing is wisely chosen by those who know what's at stake for America."

"The political establishment's desperation is nailing its coffin - obviously a good thing - but we mustn't let the Alinsky tactics used to destroy our We the People movement go unanswered," the one-time vice presidential candidate concluded. "His shoulders are broad, but Donald Trump must not carry this on his own shoulders. Thankfully, Mitt's anti-Republican Platform speech just strengthened our own. Americans' shoulders just got bigger and broader. Way to go, Mitt."