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Another $200,000 came in after the deadline — all of it in the days following Palin’s July 3 announcement that she’s stepping down as Alaska governor, said Meghan Stapleton , a spokeswoman for her campaign.
It’s “above par,” said Steve Gordon , a Washington -based Republican fundraising veteran who works mostly on Senate campaigns.
The big question, however, is what she does with the money, Gordon said. So far, Palin has donated to just two candidates: $5,000 to her 2008 running mate, Sen. John McCain , R- Ariz. , and another $5,000 to Sen. Lisa Murkowski , R- Alaska .
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Can I call her a political genius now?
lutherjw on July 13, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Clearly, her political career is over.
BPD on July 13, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Perhaps just start with fundraising genius or money machine.
myrenovations on July 13, 2009 at 9:52 PM
McCain????? WTF
katy on July 13, 2009 at 9:53 PM
So, let me get this straight…
Romney has raised $1,400,000 this year so far, by touring, doing speaking circuits, and fund-raising–pulling in big donors.
Palin has raised around $900,000 this year so far, by doing nothing.
Mhm. And whose political career is over?
Enoxo on July 13, 2009 at 9:55 PM
wow…..she really has lost all of her supporters…whatta shame
alexraye on July 13, 2009 at 9:57 PM
My love for Palin will never die. The Star Wars Bar Scene that comprises her field of detractors only enhances my enamouredness of her.
daesleeper on July 13, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Let’s see — she turned in her resignation ten calendar days ago. She’s managed to haul in $20,000 a day on average since then, the 2010 midterms are 16 months away and the next Presidential election is two years after that, she hasn’t said anything clear about running for President (even though half the world has apparently decided that that is what she’s doing), and she’s really only indicated a desire to help conservatives (Republican, Democrat, OR Independent) get elected.
I’d say that’s pretty good chunk of change for somebody who’s supposed to be a thickheaded loser/quitter who deserves no place at the table according to Peggy Noonan. :p
Aitch748 on July 13, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Dang, I wish I was as isolated and dead-end as that.
$200k in a couple of weeks could buy a lot of beer.
fronclynne on July 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Dont forget the 250000 raised for her defence
All this in less than 6 months
Amadeus on July 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Palin is genius.
All you haters are eating your words.
jencab on July 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM
McCain????? WTF
katy on July 13, 2009 at 9:53 PM
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Think of it as a thank you note for selecting her for VP.
I personally am not bothered by that.
meerkat on July 13, 2009 at 10:01 PM
She’s loyal… what can you say?
Anyhow…. to be blunt… $5,000 to Mccain is a cheap price to pay to avoid the big “scandal” the media would create if she didn’t donate to him. Smart politics, imo.
BPD on July 13, 2009 at 10:03 PM
That sort of fund raising ability will certainly enable Governor Palin to go on a RINO hunt next year.
Dreadnought223 on July 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM
LOLZ
David Gregory is shakin in his sling-back stilettos.
SouthernGent on July 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM
She makes money when attracting attention. No big surprise.
The question is how much money she’s going to make next year for the congressional elections, and three years from now.
MadisonConservative on July 13, 2009 at 10:05 PM
I kaunt spel innything twonite
Amadeus on July 13, 2009 at 10:05 PM
LOLZ
David Gregory is shakin in his sling-back stilettos.
SouthernGent on July 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM
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Think maybe the Palin camp is smirking today ?
meerkat on July 13, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Palin should fly down to Florida and do some stumping for Marco Rubio.
Punchenko on July 13, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I hope it stops there and there’s no campaigning for him. If so, her credibility could take a nasty hit.
Especially if a true conservative is challenging him.
katy on July 13, 2009 at 10:07 PM
SarahPAC hauls in $200,000 since Palin’s resignationHeartache: Hottest governor in country gives money to old, senile politicianEditor on July 13, 2009 at 10:07 PM
I hope to all that is mighty that she stumps for Marco Rubio, and not Crist.
If she stumps for Crist, I may have to rethink my interest in her.
Enoxo on July 13, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Yes, and think of the army that will volunteer their time making calls, knocking on doors, stuffing envelopes, etc. The grassroots will roar.
SouthernGent on July 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM
ha, add that to the Buchanan vid and its a pretty damn good day.
rob verdi on July 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Listen carefully and you will hear the sound of David Frum’s tear drops splashing into his evening cosmo.
Punchenko on July 13, 2009 at 10:13 PM
I hope it stops there and there’s no campaigning for him. If so, her credibility could take a nasty hit.
Especially if a true conservative is challenging him.
katy on July 13, 2009 at 10:07 PM
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I agree. It’s a touchy deal on how she handles that.
meerkat on July 13, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Can’t wait to see how Peggers Nooner and Chatty Kathy Parker spin this.
NebCon on July 13, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Noonan is upping her premarin dosage as we speak. Parker was last seen checking in to rehab.
katy on July 13, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Can’t wait to see how Peggers Nooner and Chatty Kathy Parker spin this.
NebCon on July 13, 2009 at 10:15 PM
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Silence is golden
meerkat on July 13, 2009 at 10:19 PM
They will do their damned best to ignore it and hope it goes away. Like a great white shark, it will bite their a$$e$ off…
doriangrey on July 13, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Ross Perot had lots of money to spend, too. And his polling numbers made Palin’s look like garbage. But all that matters in the end are votes.
calbear on July 13, 2009 at 10:27 PM
What the Ayatollah’s don’t realize is …
the more this woman is placed in “extremis” situations – the more her supporters come to her support.
This is the biggest evidence I can cite that the GOP is a dead party – it’s leaders don’t realize that they are creating the instrument of their own downfall in Sarah Palin.
When Ayatollahs don’t have enough sense to realize their own political survival is at stake – when they continue to walk into the snake pit while the rattlers are sounding the alarm …
Why would we trust these guys with OUR government when they can’t even do what’s best for them. Sure – they’re the lesser of two evils but – how long have we been playing this game. We make a run of this in another party – the way the first Republicans did over a hundred years ago.
I mean – could you have Mitt and Sarah in the same party? LOL! They do! And they’re pushing her out of it!
Can you spell SUICIDE?
HondaV65 on July 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM
The difference is Perot’s money was his own. Not donations. Does she have way to go in polling? Yes, but she has three two and a half years to get there.
Enoxo on July 13, 2009 at 10:35 PM
You darn Palin cultists. To hell with facts, her career is over…its over I say. I am a Mittwit and will not be foiled again. /sarc
Geochelone on July 13, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Perot had a lot of grassroots support. But in the end most Americans felt they weren’t quite comfortable with him. Palin in 2012 would be a catastrophe. We don’t need yet another inexperienced politician using the Presidency as an entry-level position. Maybe in a decade or two, it will be her time, but not now. If she wants to lead in another way, let her try. But the last few weeks have not been the great weeks that her followers desperately want to believe.
calbear on July 13, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Yep. Momentum is shifting. I will volunteer for sure.
Geochelone on July 13, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Now people are comparing Palin, who is only 45, with Billionaire power house Ross Perot. So funny.
Perot is proof that you can’t buy the presidency. Romney has boat loads of dough too, it didn’t help.
Geochelone on July 13, 2009 at 11:02 PM
I just hope when she runs she creates a third party and lures all of you social cons over with her. The GOP will lose a couple elections badly, but then it can finally actually attract independents and people who are concerned mainly with fiscal conservatism.
/my dream
thphilli on July 13, 2009 at 11:04 PM
It must suck being a Nooner. Peggy just called Jacko’s doctor, she needs a refill.
Geochelone on July 13, 2009 at 11:05 PM
It probably had something to do with his “on again / off again” candidacy and his descriptions of black helicopters orbiting his daughter’s wedding.
If Palin comes out and proves to be a decisive, reliable fighter – the road ahead is clear for her.
If she don’s a tin foil cap like Perot did – she will be finished. I’m pulling for her though – because – try as I might – I do not feel comfortable with imagining her as a loser. I think there is something to this woman that most people don’t see.
HondaV65 on July 13, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Funny, I’m far from a social con, and if she created a third party, I’d give it a look over and compare it to where the GOP currently stand. Hell, I’d even consider switching parties if there was still no difference between the GOP and liberals.
Enoxo on July 13, 2009 at 11:08 PM
You already have your party. The Libertarians.
ddrintn on July 13, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Palin can easily raise money from the fanatical palinistas. The more extreme the person, the more likely they are to throw money at their messiah, and the more they are likely to donate. Look at the money Ron Paul raised. Yet look at the raw numbers of people who voted for him. He got a boat load of money just by being Ron Paul and yet his primary turn out was embarrassing. This is what would happen with Palin.
keep the change on July 13, 2009 at 11:09 PM
the MSM bias against her is pissing many off into raising her up similar to way Rush Limbaugh’s empire was built mainly off media bias
jp on July 13, 2009 at 11:09 PM
I’m glad you can sleep, everyone else that knows you wakes up screaming.
portlandon on July 13, 2009 at 11:10 PM
If the government is too complex and too big for someone like Palin to run then the government is too big. It needs to be reduced so that we can have a citizen governered country again. Just like if banks are too big too fail they are too big. simple.
unseen on July 13, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Obviously you have an inflated opinion of how many “fiscal conservatives” there are out there.
The bulk of the GOP support comes from the South – the Bible belt.
Oh … and also – takes $$ for a party to survive. Wonder if Mitt will front his wallet to keep the GOP alive the few years it will take your plan to reach fruition.
I mean – I wish you luck – I hope for a third party too – but for different reasons than you do. I’d like to see all the liberals who call themselves “fiscal conservatives” to realize they are really democrats trapped in an elephant’s body!
HondaV65 on July 13, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Sarah is such a good social con leader her daughter got pregnant and her boyfriend moved in.
Double wide stroller is such a good campaign tool
PrezHussein on July 13, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Palin holds mainstream conservative views, Paul was/is a paleo-libertarian nutter in the extreme.
Palin is also a super-star celebrity type poltician, that alone is worth alot more votes.
jp on July 13, 2009 at 11:13 PM
My prediction is that the media will soon be Sarah Palin’s best friend.
The only people who want to see the GOP dead worse than I do are the charlatans in the media. And if Sarah Palin looks like she can kill the GOP – stand by – she is going to get some SWEET press!
And the GOP Ayatollahs are so stupid – they don’t even see it coming!
HondaV65 on July 13, 2009 at 11:14 PM
And just like that, she has an op-ed on Cap and Trade (she calls it Cap and Tax) in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071302852.html
yogi41 on July 13, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Hmmmm…we’ll see, won’t we? But yeah, I know you probably want another bland moderate to get pummeled at the polls again. Maybe you’ll get your wish.
ddrintn on July 13, 2009 at 11:16 PM
^ In fact, I think it will take another shellacking of a moderate who’s desogned to appeal to all those “independent” and “moderate” voters before the GOP can be rid of that particular crap.
ddrintn on July 13, 2009 at 11:17 PM
I sense incoming ethical complaint #20 in 5, 4, 3, 2…
Enoxo on July 13, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Don’t discount an alliance between the Palinistas and the Ronulans. There’s a lot of energy on both sides. I don’t agree with everything the Ron says – I’m sure you don’t agree with everything Sarah says. But I don’t think the two are so far apart they can’t band together and take out the Ayatollahs.
Call it … “Revenge of the Nerds” … whatever – I’m ready to do it!
HondaV65 on July 13, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Now they are comparing Palin with Ron Paul. What’s next. This is getting hilarious. As if the support for each were the same.
Yeah those Ron Paul threads get like, what, 12 comments?
Geochelone on July 13, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Sarah Palin..you magnificent Bastard!!! You read his BOOK!!!
portlandon on July 13, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Thanks for explaining Obama’s donations.
darwin on July 13, 2009 at 11:28 PM
I thought Ron was tin foil too – but he did predict this economic crisis. I still don’t believe in the conspiracies he believes in regarding the fed – but then again – I am smart enough to realize that the fed is out of control nonetheless.
Let ‘em make the comparisons. Winning elections is 80 percent energy and effort. The Ronulans displayed more energy than any other GOP group in the primaries.
HondaV65 on July 13, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Based on this thinking … the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party should be the richest and most successful groups in the country.
Yet … they aren’t.
HondaV65 on July 13, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Brilliant. She is tying environmentalism and energy independence together. How can we enforce environmental responsibiluty if we outsource our energy? We can’t, therefore we need to control the flow to ensure ecological responsibility.
This idea is a WINNER. Nice work Sarah..
Geochelone on July 13, 2009 at 11:34 PM
You are right. +2
Geochelone on July 13, 2009 at 11:35 PM
siding up with ron paul would be a surefire way to finish off both of them. All the conspiratorial stuff, racist stuff(newsletters), apparences on Alex Jones and on and on, would instantly come out of the MSM if they could destroy Palin with it.
beside that she’s conservative, not a crackpot paleo-libertarian.
he didn’t ‘predict the financial crisis’, anymore than he predicts doomsday every year for decades now, broken clock appears to be right twice a day. In fact he predicted massive inflation among other things last year, we had Deflation instead. None of his click appear to have the slightest clue how much the CDS contracts played in leveling the economy
jp on July 13, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Paul doesn’t like Palin either.
the scumbag also campaigned for Don Young(corrupt as hell) over a true Limited Government Conservative(Sean Parnell, i.e. the next Governor of Alaska). It was a 50/50 race and Paul stepped in and told the paultards how to vote.
jp on July 13, 2009 at 11:39 PM
SMACKDOWN. OF. THE. DAY.
‘keepthechange’, consider yourself, “pwned” is it?
battleoflepanto1571 on July 13, 2009 at 11:45 PM
I went to your blog. Nice banner eye candy. Yeoow.
Geochelone on July 13, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Now THAT would be a bad career move. SarahPAC’s new motto: “It’s the same as giving to the RNC!”
Contributions, meet toilet…
logis on July 13, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Palin rules, Romney drools.
You anti-Palin cultists should just get on board now. There’s plenty of room.
tsj017 on July 14, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Wow. She’s like the new Ron Paul.
crr6 on July 14, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Palin is a fiscal conservative in office and a social conservative in liofe. Which means she lives a social conservative life but does not make laws for that. she believes in freedom individual freedom…got that
unseen on July 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Good piece although this part is not quite accurate, as written.
The cost of farming will certainly increase but that won’t increase the price of groceries. Increased costs on the other links in the chain will certainly affect the cost of food, but the farmer has no control over what he is paid for raw materials, even if his costs go up, so his increased costs are not relevant to increased retail food prices. I realize I’m nit picking a bit.
a capella on July 14, 2009 at 12:13 AM
a capella on July 14, 2009 at 12:13 AM
You are nitpicking, you do have a point, but you are wrong IMO.
Saw this cycle happen with small farms with my own eyes a few decades ago. Costs went up, prices didn’t keep pace, small farms went under and more produce was shipped from larger farms in CA & FL. Transportation costs were part of it, but farmers selling out or shifting to other profitable crops did play into higher food costs. Double whammy- job/land losses and higher end prices.
cs89 on July 14, 2009 at 12:41 AM
yogi41 on July 13, 2009 at 11:15 PM
But I thought she didn’t read newspapers, much less write for them.
/sarc
Seriously, parts of this tie directly into her resignation speech themes and parts of it are a frontal attack on Obama and his policies. Hahaha!
Love to hear a few of these points raised as questions by the WH press corps. Doubt it will happen, but even if they aren’t asked in the WH they will be discussed on Main Street, especially if Cap & Tax passes and energy skyrockets.
Obama can back down or walk directly into the bear trap. Win/win for her.
cs89 on July 14, 2009 at 12:45 AM
Yes, lots of people are alienated when a great hope suddenly decides pack it all in with an explanation that many former supporters just don’t believe.
Like I said, she has time. But the 2012 dreamers are barking up the wrong tree.
calbear on July 14, 2009 at 12:50 AM
If your dream is for the GOP to lose several elections thereby keeping Obammy and his spendaholics in power, you’re a liar when you say you are mainly concerned with fiscal conservatism. Your main concern is atheism, abortion, and gay marriage.
Blake on July 14, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Mitt and his magic underwear are having a bad week.
The former is scared and the latter is soiled.
omnipotent on July 14, 2009 at 2:23 AM
from reading the editorial in the washington post it is clear that those that believe Palin is stupid are they themselves stupid to a fault and can not see what is reality instead of what the MSM tells them to think. she nails it. energy independence is the key to economic rebirth. Cheap energy has always been the driving force behind americia’s greatness. It was cheap energy from hydro that started the miracle of CA. It was also increases in that energy prices by environmentals in CA that started the economic destruction of CA. The different gasoline blends, the ban on offshore drilling, the no nukes people etc pushed the energy price up to the point that CA became a net importer of energy.
unseen on July 14, 2009 at 2:33 AM
Oh my God, yes! I haven’t even read the article and quite frankly, I’m not in the mood right now to care about what she said (my stomach is currently tormenting my soul). But I’m thrilled to death that she’s writing op-ed pieces and clarifying her policy positions on a national stage. About damn time. Move away from personal ‘drama’ and start presenting yourself to America as a serious politician with legitimate knowledge and ideas. THIS is what I’M talking about! *Thumbs up*
LiquidH2O on July 14, 2009 at 3:02 AM
Is something there from his book?
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:03 AM
So many conservatives have become hypnotized by the not so subliminal campaign to smear Palin. They actually believe she is stupid.
An older conservative acquaintance of mine actually thought that Palin had said that “she could see Alaska from her house.” These older gents get all their info from the tube. Many are not on the internet. I had to explain to the guy that it is impossible to see Alaska from Wasilla because the earth is curved. It would be equivalent to being able to see Seattle from Tijuana. Sheesh
Geochelone on July 14, 2009 at 3:06 AM
I loved that too. Many environmentalists are really stupid, and don’t think three dimensionally.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:06 AM
She won’t create a third party silly..She isn’t even thinking about running for president at this point.
TimeTraveler on July 14, 2009 at 3:09 AM
Is that true? And don’t start with, “Are you calling Sarah Palin a liar?” cause I don’t want to hear it. Don’t turn all rabid on me. :p It’s a serious question because I had never heard of that provision in the bill before-from anyone. If it IS true, then good GOD! Why ISN’T anyone discussing that?? That’s a blatant recognition that this bill will kill jobs (”So, hey, let’s be ‘nice’ about it and provide unemployment benefits.”) and it should be harped on every chance the opponents of this bill, get.
LiquidH2O on July 14, 2009 at 3:11 AM
*Writing daily columns with economic,national security, etc advisers by yourself.
*Giving speeches across the nation and overseas to various organizations.
*Giving yourself more time to write a book that will net you a couple of millions.
*More Family Time… So she can keep her eye on that stupid girl named Bristol
EXCUSE, WHY DIDN”T SHE QUIT SOONER? SCREW THIS BEING PRESIDENT CRAP…. THIS IS THE LIFE BABY!
2016 Palin if she wants it.
TimeTraveler on July 14, 2009 at 3:14 AM
Where can we find the details of this bill?
YES I KNOW…. I DIDN”T PROOFREAD my F***** last comment.
TimeTraveler on July 14, 2009 at 3:15 AM
Apparently it is. Take a look here:
http://brendabowers.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/3873/
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:19 AM
Here it is: climate change worker adjustment assistance
According to a recent Washington Times article:
Adversely affected employees in oil, coal and other fossil-fuel sector jobs would qualify for a weekly check worth 70 percent of their current salary for up to three years. In addition, they would get $1,500 for job-search assistance and $1,500 for moving expenses from the bill’s “climate change worker adjustment assistance” program, which is expected to cost $4.2 billion from 2011 to 2019.
So maybe Palin does read the news.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:26 AM
Thank you for the link. I appreciate it. Love how they “hide” it on page 956. Bastards think they’re clever. I think anyone actually reading these bills should probably start reading them from the end instead of the beginning. You apparently get to the heart of the matter a lot quicker that way.
LiquidH2O on July 14, 2009 at 3:29 AM
LOL! Only Couric and crazy leftist doubted that.
LiquidH2O on July 14, 2009 at 3:31 AM
Is something there from his book?
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:03 AM
It is a quote from the movie Patton. Patton read rommel’s book. and was able to defeat him in north africa because of it.
unseen on July 14, 2009 at 3:34 AM
So maybe Palin does read the news.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:26 AM
No the news didn’t report this. For her to know this she would have had to have been briefed or would have had to read the bill. wouldn’t it be amazing if Palin was the only politician in America that read the damn bill!. LOL
what a way for her to shove the “she doesn’t read” crap right in their faces. She read something they have not.
unseen on July 14, 2009 at 3:36 AM
If a smarmy reporter asks her to name the papers she reads again, she can smile and say that she’d prefer to name the papers she’s written for….
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on July 14, 2009 at 3:39 AM
It would be equivalent to being able to see Seattle from Tijuana. Sheesh
Geochelone on July 14, 2009 at 3:06 AM
Yes it was an attack line to dispel the fact that Palin had next to no forgien policy experience. What Palin should have said was that she was planning on taking a worldwind tour to bone up on her forgien policy experience like Obama just finished. They they would have the same amount.
Now that would have been funny. except the McCain campaign was trying to spin the “fact” that she had little experience internationally so they tried to play up her strengths instead of attacking Obama’s. they never learned how to attack just defend. and it cost them.
unseen on July 14, 2009 at 3:41 AM
She would have had to read the article I linked to..
but I was sarcastic regarding her reading the news.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:58 AM
I agree. She fell into the trap of trying to explain why she was fit to be president.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:58 AM
She would have had to read the article I linked to..
but I was sarcastic regarding her reading the news.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:58 AM
Yes but the spin i gave it would play better across the nation. “Palin only politician to read cap and trade bill”
I agree. She fell into the trap of trying to explain why she was fit to be president.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 3:58 AM
no she did not fall into that trap. Everyone should be able to expalin why they are qualified. her position was vice president not president. The trap was to try to explain what was not there. She could have easily said she didn’t have much forgien experience and remind voters that niether did Obama and that has vice president she had time to learn on the job from a person like McCain that had decades of that type of experience unlike Obama who had to be ready on day one.
It would be the truth, an attack on Obama and a deflection to look at McCain’s record next to Obama’s
unseen on July 14, 2009 at 4:23 AM
unseen on July 14, 2009 at 4:23 AM
I think she did fall into that trap (see the Gibson and Couric interview). Instead of focusing on what she could bring to the VP position, she was stuck trying to explain why she could deal with Putin.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM
think she did fall into that trap (see the Gibson and Couric interview). Instead of focusing on what she could bring to the VP position, she was stuck trying to explain why she could deal with Putin.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM
I see your point. I disagree. The interview with Gibson was fine for what it was. the CBS interview wasa hitjob. And frankly I’m too tired at the moment to debate it further than this. IMO the trap was fallen into by the McCain staff not her. The belived the narriative that the MSM was playing and instead of attacking with Palin they ordered her to defend not only her experience but also toe the line with McCain’s worldview. Thus she had to walk a tightrope and should never had been in that position. McCain’s people should have allowed her to get her point out on talk radio, local media etc first before unleashing CBS and ABC on her. It was like sending a soldier into a war zone without a gun or ammo. The only thing she could do was take it and not attack. the media made the trap, McCain’s staff walked into it.
We will see if she walks into any on her own. Only time will tell. she can use Obama’s campaign for her traps for the media. Everything they failed to report on during 08 she can say you didn’t find that newsworthy in 08 why now? She can play the double standard card into the teeth of the media for all its worth now.
unseen on July 14, 2009 at 7:01 AM
I’m not disputing that it was the campaign who fell into the trap. Still, she’s the one who’s suffering from it now.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 7:35 AM
I’m not disputing that it was the campaign who fell into the trap. Still, she’s the one who’s suffering from it now.
Phoenician on July 14, 2009 at 7:35 AM
agreed then.
unseen on July 14, 2009 at 7:42 AM
I hope she doesn’t give the assholes who’ve trashed her on national tv a DIME of SarahPAC’s money.
As the ADN says, she’s the “Fundraising Queen.” And all of these GOP “insider” jerks can suck it.
seaplanes on July 14, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Why does Sarah have to form a 3rd party? Let the blue-blood, elite coastal snobs start THEIR own party if they don’t like the Republican party’s base. Why is it always us that has to change or move along?
Grrrrrr!
SouthernGent on July 14, 2009 at 8:16 AM
I too didn’t believe the Fed stuff until about a year ago. Once I studied it I realized it wasn’t a conspiracy at all. It’s a big out of control non-governmental bank.
America could easily print it’s own money. That way we don’t pay the private Federal Reserve interest on the money the print for us.
If we get rid of the Fed, we will be free again. No Obama, and no Fed, the comeback will shock the world. I believe it can be done, but don’t believe that it can be done with the GOP, or at least in it’s current form.
True_King on July 14, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Darn. Was hoping she would move to Arizona. hehe
faraway on July 14, 2009 at 9:12 AM
I’m waiting to hear from those who dismissed her fund raising potentials yesterday, based on the fact that her PAC which was barely advertised had only raised 1/3rd the amount of Romney’s PAC, despite the fact that Romney had been fund raising full time while Palin spent most of her time being governor.
MarkTheGreat on July 14, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Good stuff…thanks for sharing. Will make another donation to SarahPac at the end of the month.
RepubChica on July 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM
If she shows up in Florida at a Rubio fundraiser/rally, then this will get REALLY interesting. I love to see the “insiders” get b*tch slapped by her.
Muletrain on July 14, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Exactly. Let them start a third party. They are the outliers.
Geochelone on July 14, 2009 at 11:27 AM