I am sorry was that headline too harsh?
How in the world can a woman who cannot find her ass with both hands and a glow in the dark compass and who lies every single time she opens her crooked, overly botoxed mouth, convince people to give her TWO MILLION dollars of their hard earned cash?
She makes multiple millions of dollars selling that crappy book, has a contract to spout stale talking points on Fox News, and gets paid over a hundred thousand dollars to stand in front of a crowd of people to demonstrate why cousins should never marry, and still the low hanging fruit believes she needs their money! Are these people even allowed to walk around without competent adult supervision?
And get this quote from Meg Stapletongue:
"We are thrilled,” said Meg Stapleton, a senior advisor and spokeswoman for Palin. “Common sense Americans know the direction we need to take this country and that Sarah Palin will be instrumental in taking us there this year. We look forward to the journey ahead!”
Okay I have decided that the term "common sense Americans" is really code for "severely brain damaged, barely ambulatory Americans". These "common sense Americans" can easily be identified by the fact they have to wear motorcycle helmets indoors and bought "Going Rogue" just for the pretty pictures.
At least when you send your money to a televangelist he promises to cure your goiter. What does giving your money to Sarah Palin get you? Less self esteem?
Here is the link to their 2009 disbursements.
I'll think I'll donate some money to SarahPAC right now. What a grand idea, Gryhpen. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteDid I misread, or did she buy about $50,000 worth of books to give out a fundraisers? I don't remember reading that she gave away any books. She probobly bought them at a reduced bulk rate and resold them on her book tour for $29.95.
ReplyDeleteyeah well I wouldn't put it past R Murdoch of having padded this to make her look more successful. but yes, a lot of stoopid people out there as well...
ReplyDeleteGryphen, you said
ReplyDelete"...gets paid over a hundred thousand dollars to stand in front of a crowd of people to demonstrate why cousins should never marry..."
Is there a story in the "why cousns should never marry"? I've been suspecting that but then I jump to conclusions all the time. :)
35 or 40 years ago in Reader's Digest there was a story of some college kid who took out an ad in several newspapers that said, "Last chance to send in your $1". That's all it said. He collected $100,000 before the authorities caught up with him. Considering inflation, Sarah's $2 million would be about the same.
ReplyDeleteAnd just where are the half a million $ in attorneys' fees that she said drove her from office (due to all the ethics charges)? ;-)
ReplyDeleteReally Gryphen! How can you be so mean to sweet Sister Sarah? She's an ideal American, a wonderful mother, she can lead this country in the (far) right direction, etc, etc. And she's the mother of a special needs child! How dare you!
ReplyDeleteOkay, j/k. I don't understand how anyone with half a brain can like this woman. It's beyond explanation to me, too, also, you betcha.
I'd never give her money, but some wealthy Repubs behind the scenes must have given her some, plus the deluded "little people", who come for miles around to buy a copy of her lies, and have their photos taken with her.
I'd pay a pretty penny for one of those donuts in that ad on your page, though.
Silly sarah far too busy blowing through SarahPac funds...where reportedly, administrative costs (i.e. family & friends) accounts for $95 of every $5 donation, stemming from the $1.4m she "begged" since quitting in July. Of that coffer, she donated $64,000 to a few GOP campaigns?
ReplyDeleteMethinks that someone ought to be taken a closer look at the math there; not to mention the curiously missing Alaska Fund Trust...said to be setup for the former the XGINO's legal fees?
There's need of a great deal of, shall I say "sunlight" in the upper 49th!
She spent over $1 million on herself. That's just plain common sense!
ReplyDeleteShe'll be like Al Capone, a known crook, but will hopefully go to jail on tax fraud. The Grifter will not want "big government" getting their hands on the money she bilked out of Americans who think she's just like them.
ReplyDeleteI would just like to say I work for a federal agency that has the Palin's on their radar. I have an associate that works for another agency that is interested as well. That is all I can say.
ReplyDeleteI thought you said Meg was fired.
ReplyDeleteOk, so what's up with the AFT? That is the one I REALLY want to know where the money is going.
ReplyDeleteIRS and Election Commission....are you paying attention here?
It is pretty amazing that it takes millions of dollars to contribute a few thousand dollars to fellow PACs. Talk about fuzzy math. Follow the money someone!!!!
I am sure that there are plenty of questionable items in this filing, but there's one already that interests me.
ReplyDeletesarahpac shelled out $50,000 for the website, with an additional $8000 for website consulting. palin paid that much for a 5 page website????
in the real world, the existing sarahpac website would take no more than a week to complete and cost no more than $3,000.
of course they have the right to blow their money wherever the hell they want, but if I was a donor I'd be pissed off to see that waste, and I'd be seriously wondering how much of the other expenses are bullshit, too.
Heck if more of those donors had not stuffed quarters in envelopes she would have gotten more. I have seen people get ruined for minor tax infractions. I wait to see what happens with this house of cards. Or i start claiming mosquitos as dependants.
ReplyDeleteFinancial statements, by their very nature, bore the crap out of me.
ReplyDeleteHowever, a couple of observations: why doesn't SarahPac do its banking in Alaska? Daddy Heath spent $1,000 mailing stuff for the PAC? And what's in those "boxes" are they moving and storing? Cash?
Clothing they were supposed to have sent back to the RNC? Hmmm...
And just why was the PAC paying for food/beverage at Yankee Stadium?
ReplyDeleteWasn't she and her daughter there watching a baseball game with friends?
Can't they buy their own hot dogs?
She's going to be flat broke by 2012. And probably owe the IRS, also, too.
ReplyDeleteWHOAAA!!! LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteThat was GOOD! Things may appear to be rosey in Palinadise, but things are not always what they appear to be. TRUST!
They're playing mind games with us. The rest of the world is laughing at America, and the joke is $arah Paylin.
"Patroitism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Samuel Jackson
Nothing wrong with a woman getting her hustle on, making that money. But, the route she's taking??? Ok, let's just forget all of the rules. We don't don't need morals and values. Let's just get it any way we can and f*ck the rest..
$403 for breakfast? $462 at COSTCO? Oh, yeah...that's where she must have bought that fugly purple rag she was wearing later in the year. COSTCO sells some really crappy clothes.
ReplyDeleteOK, I'm done with that list.
Indeed!
ReplyDeleteMeg said Sarah "will be instrumental in taking [common sense Americans] there this year".
ReplyDeleteThe cleaners?
Just remember, if we are watching, so is the IRS.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing like making 2 million while your kids are short of parenting. No amount of cash is going to fix THAT in 10 years.
Common sense to Mrs. Palin and her savvy handlers is to fleece the sheep while the fleecing is good.
ReplyDeleteCome the next generation, she'll be an answer under the Entertainment category in Trivial Pursuit.
Wow, she spent $403 on breakfast? Imagine how much rice just that expenditure would go in feeding her supporters, some of whom actually live on it while sending their hard earned cash to this scam artist.
ReplyDeleteAnd she paid Meg Stapletongue twice--a monthly "stipend" of $4,000 and large amounts to Izzylene Consulting, her business. So, double dipping Meg is being well paid for HER lies, you betcha, also, too.
Grandma68
Interesting, on Nrees website she shows that Palin spent most (again) of her pac $ on herself and her "non political" book tour.
ReplyDeleteOh, when will the IRS smack her down?
Soooo, for your generous donation you get a "share" in:
ReplyDeleteA compound on Lake Lucille (while you're struggling to pay your mortgage)
Plastic surgery and botox treatments (while you can barely afford to go to a doctor)
Dinners at expensive NYC restaurants (while you're going to Micky D's for their dollar menu)
A Cadillac Escalade (while you're driving a 15-year-old beater that barely runs)
A really cheesy but expensive wardrobe (while you shop at second hand stores)
Hairstyles taken directly from 1960s issues of Modern Beauty Shop (uh, no comment here)
A barely-used tour bus with SarahPalin®'s picture plastered all over it (no comment either)
Numerous "toys" including snowmobiles and bush planes (while you can't afford anything but paying your monthly bills)
Ghostwriters galore (but you'd rather listen to her comforting voice screeching the daily Rethug script on Faux News)
Child care for two babies (while you struggle to work and raise your own kids)
Well, as SP once said, patronizingly, (to a teacher on the campaign trail, I believe): "You'll get your reward in Heaven." And I've got this bridge over here...
The (total) $21,000 to a certain Kim Daniels is interesting. Daniels is an atty for the Thomas More Law Center, and ultra-right wing (as in pro-life and anti-Muslim cases) 'not-for'profit' legal firm. . .Daniels also consulted for McCain campaing re: compliance issues, helped write the CSLA/Hong Kong speech along with Schueneman and was a major donor to the McCain campaign ($1000) as well.
ReplyDeletePerhaps this is payment for speech writing. . .or, what else? Bigger and better bigoted ideas to stick on her Facebook page?
Looks like her Gridiron speech cost her $14,000 (Eric Schnure).
Plus, didn't you just love that it cost her $13,000 to wrap the bus for her 'book tour'? Hmmn, but this wasn't to be a political campaign, was it???
Not to mention the $65,000 to Van Flea paid out over the last half of the year. . .FOR WHAT???
ReplyDeleteAND, don't you just love the fact that she gets the PAC to pay out $1000 to the Down Syndrome organization. . .so she doesn't have to out of her own pocket?
ReplyDeletePSST - Someone should tell her that this organization was FOR the PUBLIC OPTION - as that would have BENEFITTED and PROTECTED children and adults with DS - not remanded them to DEATH PANELS.
And don't forget about the Alaska Fund Trust. Most of Sarah's supporters (walking zombies) are on the lower end of the economic scale (poor white trash). Everyone knew (well...maybe they didn't know, because they are walking zombies!) that Sarah had a multi-million dollar book deal in the works. Yet they donated their hard-earned money to help poor, broke Sarah pay her legal fees. And then many of these same folk each paid Sarah $25 so they could stand in line all day to get her signature on a book that most will not (or can not) read anyway.
ReplyDeleteReal "common sense Americans" you betcha!
the urine-nation is in a violent mood about this. Page 6-7 they talk about shooting folks who dare to post any negatives.
ReplyDelete"VIOLENCE!!! " is the common mantra.
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In re: contributors, look up Contran Corporation PAC and Google/Wiki the background on its head guy, Harold Simmons.
ReplyDeleteVery sketchy.
Commonsense Americans is code for ignorant racists.
ReplyDeleteI can see 2 million people giving her $1 each. Her haul doesn't astound me, its her spending. It would seem that the PAC's finance committee should have better controls on what is legal. I think she is heading for some trouble with IRS. Nevertheless, she is stupid, and so are the people who donate to her various funds, and her "insiders" are criminal.
ReplyDelete"A fool and his money is soon parted."
ReplyDeleteSarah plays on the simple minded who firmly believe she has been "chosen" to lead. Many of them have no idea what she represents and the rest don't seem to care.
I just don't want to be around should she or Piper ever be in charge of selecting SC nominees or addressing the UN at some future date.
I think payments to Van Flea paid for Bristol's LLC and the child custody case. Isn't a pac supposed to cover political expenses only?
ReplyDeleteShe's really pushing the envelop.
Has anyone done research on other politician's PAC's? What are the percentages of overhead expenses, or donations that other PAC owners spend?
ReplyDeleteI know I'd be disappointed knowing my hard-earned money went to feed Rudy and wife expensive hot dogs at the "game". Or, that it was spent on Sarah's friends' business interests, or on high-priced private jet travel, and lastly, personal legal fees.
How many donors have fallen into legal situations where they owe their lawyer almost $50,000 for a six-month period? Sarah seems to live life with a "damn the consequences" attitude, then expects average families to pick up her pieces. Why couldn't she have responsibly paid her own legal fees, instead of taking trips to Hawaii, staying in the best hotels, living like a rock star? She's living the good life off the generosity of others. Does this woman have a heart?
Frankly, I would be surprised if she took in more than $2 million and simply did some creative bookkeeping with the rest.
ReplyDeleteThere are people over at C4P who are complaining because they say they've sent in more than $250 but their names aren't on the list of big donors. They are also complaining because they were promised a "free" book for their contribution but haven't received it. This outfit is in serious need of an audit.
Paying off all those people who know your dirty little secrets is expensive.
Willow Palin was NOT at the Yankee's game. Sarah's last financial disclosure proved that with the dollar amount given for the tickets. The amount of money was for 2 tickets only, not 3 like she claimed.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is funny to see that out of 22 total contributions to other things (campaigns & charity) only 6 of them were given prior to December 31st. She waited until the last possible second, until she really had no other choice if she wanted to continue to claim that she was giving money to others in any way.
I've always thought the IRS is more apt to take her down than babygate.
ReplyDeleteTo me, babygate is more immoral, but from a social standpoint, screwing around on your taxes is more dangerous.
Only repugs are stupid enough to think you don't have to pay for what you get: roads, services, armies. Etc.
Agreed- $403 for breakfast in podunk Auburn NY? I grew up less than an hour from that town. I don't know how many people she fed, but there's no breakfast place there THAT expensive.
ReplyDeleteI hope the donors check this list out. Post it far and wide for the trolls to see because I highly doubt any of her fan sites would post this. Too much potential for backlash
Spending 50K in buying her OWN books? How many books is that do you think? Probably a good chunk of the actual number sold. Must be nice to have a slush fund like that to cover all those "expenses" incurred while trying to raise MORE money. Ivy makes out pretty darn well it seems. As does Pam and Tim, whoever they are. And edonations.com? What is that all about?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if this is just how SP's PAC works, or if ALL PACs work like that, but if they all do, I will not contribute to any PACs in the future. The money she has distributed to actual political causes is laughable. Her supporters are complete idiots.
Hey, Stapletongue! I'm an American and I have plenty of common sense--which is why I don't send my hard earned money to your ignorant grifter boss.
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ReplyDeleteExcellent post! LOVED it.
How is anything to do with her book tour allowed to be covered by this PAC? It's not a slush fund that she can just use for anything is it? I thought there were RULES on what you could spend money on?
This comment is all about, the so called "common sense" that the princess preaches.
ReplyDeleteAre we supposed to believe she has common sense? If so,where was her common sense, when it comes to her
handicapped Son? would any women with any common sense drag this child around like she did? unclothed, bare legs,no jacket(when all others are dressed warmly)In his diapers.
I wish someone with knowledge, could define what the Republican's mean by "common sense" It is very apparent Sarah's "common sense" is not my "common sense"
When is this fraud going to meet her waterloo?
anony
Gryphen: Be sure you and Dennis are there when the repo man comes for the Escalade. It would be good entertainment. (Or are repo persons also afraid of the Palins?)
ReplyDeleteI think severely brain damaged, barely ambulatory Americans have more sense. I have no clue why they support her. I guess I am above average in intelligence because I can't understand a sentence she utters from her trout lips. I would sooner have all limps removed before giving her a dime of my money.
ReplyDeleteBarb
WOW....that SarahPac is quite slick indeed! Love the money dump on Dec. 31st ~ not to mention those "retroactive" large payments to Van Flea. It is rather obvious that Ivy holds a lotta secrets close to the breat...and dayum Chuckie ~ that's a lotta stamps!
ReplyDeleteWhat's the "affiliation" with the MATERNITY charity, also paid off right before the close of the year?
Say~raaah...you's got some 'splainin' ta do!
All you have to do is look at the current cover of Star magazine by the checkstands, which has a picture of Octomom in a bikini, to realize that there are plenty of stupid people who are celebrity starstruck and willing to spend money on crap. 'Nuff said.
ReplyDeleteto anonymous at 10:01 PM
ReplyDeleteI assume you also read Palingates, where an exclusive about where some of that SaraPAC money went to was posted today at
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/02/palingates-exclusive-sarahpac-paid.html
Looks like Rebecca Mansour and Joseph Russo were the (greedy) recipients of some of that money. Looks like someone needs to investigate this.
I bet many of her not bright followers sent cash it. You can be sure that that did not get recorded but just put in her family compound....
ReplyDeleteWell, for sure every expense paid for by the PAC (whether kosher or not) or expense paid by HC or anyone else, can not be taken by the Palin's off their personal income tax. So what does she have to offset that $1.25 mil book advance not to mention whatever else she's gotten from HC and Fox?
ReplyDeleteIt would absolutely be completely consistent with IRS policy that they audit a family that in one year goes from claiming about $200,000 in income to over $1 million in income.
The PAC too should be 'audited' but I think I read somewhere that the FEC has already requested details regarding some of the expenditures.
It seems like last year out of $1 million in expenses, only about $45,000 of that went to causes and candidates, which is what the PAC says it is set up to do. That's the sole reason anyone should be giving - to see the money get where it's supposed to go. 55% of the money went to administration. Much of that to travel (first class), and expensive meals for her (and her entourage?).
Fiscal conservative? I think not.