Left-of-left Ed Schultz: The big political winner of 2009 is Sarah Palin

A Diamond Package to CPAC 2010 is $750. Banquet tickets at CPAC (likely featuring Romney or the like) are $275. So let’s get off what “Palin” is charging at the Tea Party Convention, which is for all intents and purposes the alternate CPAC for this year.

The Tea Party Convention organizers are more or less charging the going rate for these sorts of events, plus a premium for the #1 political attraction in the country. Free market.

But a “Sarah doesn’t care about the common man because she’s charging $350 for tickets to see her speak” meme? Please. That’s straight out of HuffPo…

Nat Hound on December 29, 2009 at 9:39 PM

Thanks Nat, you beat me to it!

Allah, and other assorted stupids who think Sarah, and the Tea Party even should be for free, take note, this is to raise money, AND pay for the facility.

My God, I used to go to dealer conferences for Chrysler and the dealership spent a hell of a lot more money than that! Plus picked up the travel expenses, and even meals off site!

The fee is high, sure, but certainly not out of the ordinary, or, as shown, as expensive as CPAC, which just became a little less consequential. (Unless Sarah goes there too!)

Sarah is the star of the show, and rightly so, but others will be there as well, like Michelle Bachmann, for sure.

If Sarah is getting paid (or Michelle, or anyone else) is totally inconsequential. These events cost money, period. It’s a lot more than just a banquet, with food and maybe drink. It’s an opportunity to meet up with like minded folks and network. That can be priceless.

I know I generally got very little out of Chrysler meetings, business wise, but the networking was worth it’s weight in gold.

Either pony up and go, and enjoy the event, or don’t, but quit trying to be utterly ridiculous and act like no one ever paid to go to something like this before, just so you can take cheap shots at Sarah Palin!

It makes you look really, really stupid and uniformed about how life works.

gary4205 on December 30, 2009 at 12:05 AM

Link opened to a blank page. The roll on the right has several links to her real accomplishments, however.

massrighty on December 29, 2009 at 10:11 PM

Just scroll down the page a little. Ron, for some reason, left a bunch of space when he posted that.

Here’s the main website:

http://sarahs-accomplishments.blogspot.com/

BTW, myself, Adrienne Ross, and others are regular contributors. I have a piece on energy independence and Sarah, and Adrienne has a great piece on Bristol.

gary4205 on December 30, 2009 at 12:19 AM

I don’t know you (from other posts) well enough to wonder if you’re being what’s commonly known as a “concern troll,” so, I won’t presume that.

But, when you speak of Governor Palin as being “polarizing,” you’re either buying into or promulgating a common left-wing anti-Palin meme.

If she stands on a set of core principals, and a group of potential voters disagrees with her principals, is that “polarizing?”

The alternative is another “all things to all people” candidate, who needs a set of cue cards (or, God save us, a TelePrompter) to define him/herself to whatever audience is listening.

Full of wet, mushy sentences that straddle issues, and the kind of weasle-words that sound profound, but have no substance.

By definition, all of our great leaders have been polarizing, to some extent. Think JFK, Truman, Reagan, Lincoln, TR; all of them infuriated a large bloc of the public, in order to articulate principals.

God, save us from the neutral and the bland; bring on the polarizing!

massrighty on December 29, 2009 at 11:43 PM

Perfectly stated.

Very well said.

gary4205 on December 30, 2009 at 1:04 AM