STOP THIS CRAP RIGHT NOW SARAH!

You’re starting to resemble Huckabee.

FACT: Palin has gone seriously “rogue” in her facts here. AP fact-checkers are prevented per union regulations from changing lightbulbs.

We can’t wait to hit the road and meet so many on the book tour! See you in Michigan first…

- Sarah Palin

Now wait a second here?
Your asked to join the campaign
and then you have to pay for your own background check?
with almost 1 billion spent these republical IDIOTS
were trying to stiff palin for another 1 million..

Sheesh no wonder she bailed out..
I would too

I would, however, agree that what happened in October 2008 did very much matter in the outcome of the election. Coming out the GOP Convention, the McCain-Palin ticket went into the lead in the polls, but then the financial “crisis” hit, creating economic uncertainties that historically have favored Democrats and very much did in the 2008 election. The Bush bank bailout muddied the waters of the difference between the parties on economic issues and obscured the Reaganesque economic message that was delivered by the McCain-Palin ticket on the campaign trial. McCain has always been a fiscal conservative and advocated a cut in the corporate tax cut. Palin was certainly delivering the Reagan talk on economics in campaign speeches. But with the media being so in love with Obama and acting day-in, day-out as propagandists for Obama and with Obama having a 7 to 1 money advantage, Obama was presented as the one who would not increase taxes and may reduce them. At this vantage point, that obviously was a crock of nonsense. I thought it was back then during the campaign, but I also know it was not commonly seen as such.

I think he lost it when the Press turned on him so viciously. They had him completely snowed. He thought he knew them. He thought they liked him. Anyone that naieve should not have been president in any case. Palin, at least, understood that she was under full assault and by all accounts did not back off. I had doubts about Palin at first but when I saw how she handled the mountain of abuse heaped on her – she got my full respect and support.

BrideOfRove on November 13, 2009 at 2:05 PM

I agree with you on McCain. The press was his buddy when they needed him to be the GOP candidate.

With McCain nominated, who needs McCain anymore? McCain was there to get Obama elected. McCain fooled them with Palin and picked up a huge percent of the vote, considering his anti conservative, pro amnesty stance, and his gaming the Senate with the other RINOs

McCain [or McCain's advisers] so hog tied Palin it was pathetic, yet she still collected him a bucket of votes

McCain’s campaign staff failed.

I have to say McCain had the biggest part of his own failure. When he Ran to DC and pushed the Repubs to start us on the Bail out wagon, I knew all was lost. I will say looking back, I’m glad he lost. With leaders like that who needs Liberals? McCain is just a tad less Progressive then Obama.
I am against all progressives, Party has no meaning for me.
The GOP just doesn’t have as many progressives. My money and time will go to helping Conservative/Libertarian canadents of any Party.
Palin fits my criteria.

CNN is not the AP. The AP IS the news. There’s simply no comparison.

Esthier on November 13, 2009 at 9:18 AM

The AP (Associated Press) USED to be the news. They obviously have it out for Palin, whatever the reason. I have watched them do this crap since b/4 the election. They print falsehoods, the lefty blogs pick them up…they retract them…but it is too late by then…everyone is quoting the first article that was WRONG to begin with. This AP here should know this by now and should stop playing their game.

Remember Saddleback Forum? That’s the John McCain that his campaign staff should have presented to the voting public.

We all remember the Convention speech by Sarah Palin. That’s the Sarah Palin that McCain’s campaign staff should have presented to the voting public.

McCain’s campaign staff failed.

I have started a website blog promoting Fred, it is called: 2012-Today and I am pushing Fred on it big…Please come visit the site, contribute with your words and spread the word to everyone so we can convince Fred to run!

http://2012-today.blogspot.com/

walker_ro on November 13, 2009 at 7:59 AM

Nice website.

I LOVE Teh Fred, but man, he blew it last year. I mean he was simply too lazy (for lack of a better word) to run. Very disappointing.

At this point, Teh Fred is more of an emeritus figure. He would make a SUPERB adviser to President Palin.

Teh Fred is doing what he is supposed to be doing, working with his incredibly smart wife, and helping drive the agenda.

I think you are over-complicating it. By election night McCain was angry that what little energy was generated out of the campaign came from Palin. It was clear many were willing to put up with him only because she was on the ticket and he would have been happier with somebody more like him.

In case you haven’t noticed, McCain is a bitter angry old man.

highhopes on November 13, 2009 at 11:51 AM

I voted for Palin. In the end she was the only one running that I had any respect for.

I was wondering that the final few days of the campaign. I wondered if McCain had enough info on how bad the economy was and didn’t want any part of it.

rbj on November 13, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Whatever it was – he was beaten months before the vote. Palin was the only one fighting for that ticket. I watched his speeches. He had no fire. The only time he showed passion was dressing down anyone questioning Obama in any way. During one of the debates Obama had a look on his face like he was planning to eat McCain for dinner. I think he lost it when the Press turned on him so viciously. They had him completely snowed. He thought he knew them. He thought they liked him. Anyone that naieve should not have been president in any case. Palin, at least, understood that she was under full assault and by all accounts did not back off. I had doubts about Palin at first but when I saw how she handled the mountain of abuse heaped on her – she got my full respect and support.

I wish a real Conservative would run against him in AZ and win…

Jenfidel on November 12, 2009 at 8:14 PM

I think many of your real conservatives are too busy fighting a border war-there’s a lot of ranchers down that way that would make great politicians there.
But unfortunately for you all, they are way too smart to fall into that trap!

She wrote a book. About stuff that happened to her. She didn’t “ignite a war”.

Jimmie Bise, Jr on November 12, 2009 at 10:16 PM

She didn’t start the fire, it was always burning, since the world was turning…

Is feeding a troll his own words fair sport, Treacher?

donh525 on November 12, 2009 at 9:17 PM

Think of it as being environmentally friendly. Recycling.

Or in this case, composting.

My local county GOP (SW Colorado) was planning to organize a van drive down for Palin’s book-signing in Albuquerque (closest signing to where we live). We thought maybe 10-12 people would be interested, but instead we got nearly 250 responses (HUGE for our small county).

We have a group of 22 headed up to Rochester, NY but it is gonna be a madhouse there.

Word is that folks are going to start camping out Friday night the 20th for a signing at 6 pm Saturday the 21st.

That’s one hell of a long day (including a 2 hour drive each way) for about 10-12 seconds with the Governor, and no pictures or personalized signings.

But it’s Sarah. ‘Nuff said.

To another reporter, “I can confirm that she was not billed for any vetting costs by the campaign,” said Trevor Potter, the campaign’s general counsel. “I do not know if she was billed by her own lawyer for his assistance to her in the vetting process, but from the excerpt that has been read to me by the AP, it sounds as if that is what she is describing.”

Already the response – gee no one told ME she wanted help with the 50K her lawyer billed her for work associated with her vetting. Without knowing who Palin supposedly asked for help one can’t say Potter is actually lying. Palin may not have gone to the lawyer but to the campaign aides. Anyone actually think they’d admit it now?

One might wonder – Did Potter inquire as to whether she had incurred any costs associated with the vetting that could be paid by the McCain-Palin Compliance Fund?

Why wouldn’t Team Maverick pick up the tab, assuming it was legal to do so?

[...]

Which makes it even odder that the campaign didn’t pick up the tab — assuming it was legally entitled to do so.

Why do you keep assuming it was legal when the only analysis you include in the post says that it’s illegal?

I mean, I don’t know if it was legal or illegal, but before you start throwing around these silly hypotheticals, shouldn’t you at least have some basis for thinking that it was legal?

McCain Aid: No we didn’t

Right, like I’m believing McCain’s backstabbing aids. I wonder if they will bill “T-Paw” for his vetting when they pick him to Run alongside Mittens on the Smart Socialism ticket in 2012.

I think it was because palin had real solutions to the issues and McCain just didn’t believe in anything anymore. he wasn’t certain of his economic policies. He did not have Bush’s convictions on foreign policy. Everything he offered up was a badly patched hybrid of compromises. He asked supporters to fight for what was right and yet he seemed to have no clue what RIGHT was.

BrideOfRove on November 13, 2009 at 11:05 AM

I think you are over-complicating it. By election night McCain was angry that what little energy was generated out of the campaign came from Palin. It was clear many were willing to put up with him only because she was on the ticket and he would have been happier with somebody more like him.

In case you haven’t noticed, McCain is a bitter angry old man.

NYT on the Fund:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/us/politics/20donate.html

Language from the McCain-Palin website:

McCain-Palin Victory 2008 is a joint fundraising committee by the McCain-Palin Compliance Fund, Republican National Committee, and Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania Republican Parties. Because the McCain-Palin Campaign is participating in the presidential public funding system, it may not receive contributions for the any candidate’s election. However, federal law allows the McCain-Palin Campaign’s Compliance Fund to defray legal and accounting compliance costs and preserve the Campaign’s public grant for media, mail, phones, and get-out-the-vote programs. Contributions to McCain-Palin Victory 2008 will go to the Compliance Fund, and to participating party committees for Victory 2008 programs.

This tactic was adopted in late September by Trevor Potter who now says the campaign never asked Palin to pay a legal bill.

“To my knowledge, the campaign never billed Gov. Palin for any legal expenses related to her vetting and I am not aware of her ever asking the campaign to pay legal expenses that her own lawyers incurred for the vetting process,” Potter said.

If Palin’s lawyer billed her for work related to her vetting, the McCain campaign never knew about it, Potter said.

To another reporter, “I can confirm that she was not billed for any vetting costs by the campaign,” said Trevor Potter, the campaign’s general counsel. “I do not know if she was billed by her own lawyer for his assistance to her in the vetting process, but from the excerpt that has been read to me by the AP, it sounds as if that is what she is describing.”

Which is exactly what Sarah wrote. She was McCain’s biggest fundraiser, the M-P Compliance Fund was set up to pay legal expenses but after the election when she tried to get her bills paid – while she was still a $125,000 a year Governor – the McCain folks said, ‘Sorry, you’ll have to pay that $50K bill on your own. Yeah, we said we’d help but that was then…’

“Without a quote from the book itself, it’s impossible to tell how much of a dispute there really is here.”

Than why are you running this half-assed story?

leftnomore on November 12, 2009 at 10:53 PM

Hello! Palin!!! Controversy! It’s like a moth to a flame for Allah.

Nevermind we shouldn’t jump to conclusions about this stuff.