Big problem for GOP. Most important #CPAC2014 panel. Topic: minority outreach. View: largely empty room. pic.twitter.com/LQKQ0QwwVc
— John Hudak (@JohnJHudak) March 6, 2014
Yep that is about as much as the conservatives care about minority outreach.I am dying to see just now small the crowd is by the time that Sarah Palin finally speaks late Saturday.
Talking about waste of taxpayers money!!!
ReplyDeleteIs that the view AFTER everybody went home, or during one of their 'important' speeches??? (Giving the benefit of a doubt here, because i have NEVER seen a room THAT empty when it had that much space.)
Panel discussion. Topic: Minority Outreach for GOP
DeleteI shit you not. This was about 10 minutes into the presentation. They really needed the projectors running on both sides of the stage, so everyone could see the speakers, huh?
There's no taxpayer money supporting CPAC, but there is lots and lots of corporate and fake RW PAC dollars. A corporation or group can subsidize CPAC at certain amounts/levels of "giving."
Delete"Rarely seen and previously unreported tax filings for the ACU and ACU Foundation, the group responsible for staging CPAC, reveal that in the 2010 tax year, the National Rifle Association provided $225,000 of the ACU Foundation’s overall revenue. In 2010 the ACU Foundation reported $288,670 in grant revenue and $1,063,103 in “program service revenue.” The NRA’s executive vice president and CEO, Wayne LaPierre, has been a regular featured speaker at past CPAC events and he again spoke at the gathering on Thursday. The 2013 CPAC included an event titled “NRA University” at which CPAC attendees could “learn more about NRA, Second Amendment, gun control debate.” It even offered participants “a FREE one-year NRA membership,” according to the conference schedule. The NRA is a “presenting sponsor” at the 2014 conference—a sponsorship level requiring a $110,000 contribution."
"In 2010 the billionaire Koch brothers’ companies contributed a total of $50,000 to the ACU and the ACU Foundation. In the same year, cigarette giant Altria contributed $25,000 to the ACU, and the conservative Anschutz Foundation contributed $25,000 to the ACU Foundation."
CPAC is a scam, just like everything else that is related to the GOP. Those who pay to attend CPAC and think they're participating in an event meant to represent "conservative" views are really supporting the interests of corporations and the very wealthy.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/43147_Behind_the_Curtain-_Whos_Really_Sponsoring_CPAC
Once upon a time Sarah used to be the main attraction now she's become the closing act for CPAC. Second year in a row that she's last. Also, I hear she's got a booth - selling T-shirts - promoting her new reality show. I have a great idea for her - create a new perfume and call it "Moose Musk."
ReplyDeleteI think I had something called Pink Frosting years ago. She could come out with Half-baked Alaska.
DeleteI think Sarah Palin is the closing speaker because they still consider her to be the main attraction (go figure) and they want to finish on a high note (in their minds). Nothing turns on the Teabaggers more that a hot grandma throwing out the red meat. What a sorry bunch of idiots
DeleteHot grandma?! Sarah stopped being a hot grandma back in 2010-2011. In 2014, she's a hot mess and possibly suffering from hot flashes. That's about as hot as the grifter is these days.
DeleteUnfortunately, I bet Sarah will draw a large crowd. CPAC attendees obviously don't care anything about minorities, but they love them some Sarah Palin. They'll love her stupid schtik. What will it be this year? She has to top her big gulp moment from last year. I expect something over the top, and so will the attendees at CPAC. Maybe she really will pole dance this year. Blech
ReplyDeleteShe'll be coked up for sure!
DeleteThere’ll be a few people who show up to see if she can stand on her own.
DeleteShe will probably hold up a pair of Todd's mom jeans.
DeleteYeah...not so much.
DeleteI hope you are wrong.
I think anyone who stays around to see her will do it for the gawker effect. I mean, if was already there, it would be interesting to see what she will wear, what she will screech and if she has a grand mal seizure lol!
Sarah will probably be playing Jeopardy with the CPAC crowd and every answer to the asked questions is either Palin or Putin.
DeleteI'll bet they put Sarah on last so Saturday Night Live would not have time to put together a skit... when Sarah's on board SNL's ratings skyrocket...is being the last speaker after the straw poll an honor or an embarrassment? Sarah doesn't care....she does not know the difference.
ReplyDeleteAttention is all she's after.
DeleteShe's not running.
I also bet she'll draw a big crowd. But it will be like the circus; crowds just gawking at the sad clowns and elephants in the room.
ReplyDeleteC'mon Gryphen—you know they'll be lined up against the walls as Sarah hauls in a semi-trailer of bloody red meat to throw at the droolers. She'll screech her usual litany of nastiness about President Obama (she just can't get past being his stalker), she'll rub her gristly ass up against a poster of Putin and use some kind of prop to get the easily excited teadraggers rabid. She'll mention that something she belched in 2008 end up making her still look stupid but she got press
ReplyDelete---so. They wouldn't miss Silly assed Sarah for the world.
She reaffirms what they are. Crazy losers.
Sarah walks on to the CPAC stage carrying a bear cub. As she reaches the podium, she smugly smiles at the crowd and hears one or two voices shouting out from the audience, "We love you, Sarah!," before she screeches her zinger into the mic, "Only a grizzly mama can handle a bear!" And then her supporters go wild at CPAC and medieval on Twitter.
Deletelast speaker, last day, AFTER straw poll? I think 5: Todd,
ReplyDeletePiper, the Belmont girls & Willow (maybe) to tame the wig.
9:22 Disagree. She is the last speaker on the docket along w/the closing of the CPAC gathering. The majority of attendees will be heading to airports to catch their flights.
ReplyDeleteI'd be shocked if she drew much of a crowd at all unless she paid them to attend! Haha!
The Sports Channel (Screeches' "Amazing Murica") is one of the sponsors of this year's CPAC. Her speaking is probably part of the deal. So she's actually paying them to speak! Bwaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
Delete"Unclassifiable Costs" will take care of that Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteNeocons love to grift themselves, they'll get bonus' for social media adulation also too.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2014/03/wonkette-marvels-at-sarah-palins.html
There's a big gap between the last afternoon speaker and the straw poll preceding The Quitter. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot a Baggers bail on their queen! Run Sarah, run!!
ReplyDeleteCPAC - SATURDAY
12:45 p.m. – Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker
01:12 p.m. – Jim DeMint, president - Heritage Foundation
05:23 p.m. – Straw poll
05:45 p.m. – Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK)
The important speakers opened the conference yesterday. Newt is a failed presidential candidate. Jim quit to cash in (just like Sarah). Sarah's style is to pose for photos with her fans, after her speech. If she was scheduled to speak on Friday or Saturday, that would take away attention from the regular speakers. Going last, she can claim that they saved the best for the last while the reason is that it gives her time to pose for photos after her speech. Her ego really needs that. Also, too, by 5:45 pm, people had to check out of their hotels at noon (to avoid extra payment), and they are more interested in getting to the airport early to avoid the line at security to catch the last plane home. If they stay to hear Palin's speech, they can't get out until well after 6, getting to the airport by 6:30 or 7 PM for the last flight out. The alternative is an extra night at the hotel.
DeleteAlso speaking, Sat PM Ben Carson, Ann Coulter, and Cox the NRA Pres. And.....a panel of women discussing why women should be/vote conservative.
DeleteThe NRA Pres. is going to introduce Sarah.....so I hate to disagree, but she will be rootin' & tootin' to a full house. She'll throw out some freshly shot raw moose meat....and hate filled one liners about our Pres. The crowd will roar and Grizzled Granny will do some of her fancy pageant walking while twirling an AK-something or other. And on that high note, the convention closes.
So the door opened for Sarah, and it appears to be one of those revolving ones that keeps spinning in the same direction over and over.
The door keeps opening - like the one on a coo coo clock- and she's the coo coo bird.
DeleteI had a good laugh this morning on facebook... CSPAN polled its facebook followers with the following questions.
ReplyDelete"Progressives only: whom do you think best represents your views?" The answers were overwhelmingly and consistently Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Then CSPAN asked:
"Conservatives only: whom do you think best represents your views?"
The answers were all over the map. Those people are just a melting pot of crazy. Sarah P got quite a few votes. My god, the disorganization... the hapless, hopeless thinking of those poor backwards morons. I took special delight in noting that pretty much all the responses were rife with typos and misspellings of people's names. (It's hard to vote for Ted Cruz if you think his name is "Ned Kuriz." Just sayin'.)
Anonymous10:21 AM:
DeleteDo you have a link to that? :-)
Anonymous12:19 PM:
DeleteI'm not a Facebook person, but I found it. lol
Here is a link to the CSPAN Facebook poll:
Deletehttps://www.facebook.com/CSPAN?ref=ts
I guess that no one wanted to come if there were going to be minorities there.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, "minorities?"
DeleteI think you mean illegals.
Or as my one sole Congressman calls them, "wetbacks."
It won't matter to her - she will get the same media coverage - large or small crowd...
ReplyDeleteAttendance was the same for every other CPAC panel discussion. Generally the big-name speakers at CPAC get the large crowds and the panel events conducted in between – in the same huge ballroom – tend to get lower attendance. It is a HUGE waste of money.
ReplyDeleteShe who should be ignored will pay people to sit in the seats. It's a good investment for her Sea of Pee. If she gave $100 a seat to fill the room - and fill it she would at that price - Her goobers would buy into her mythical popularity by the thousands and throw money at her.
ReplyDeleteThey're JUST THAT STUPID.
There'll be a lot of fapping in the pond tomorrow night for sure. Their comments might go over 10K!
Delete@ 11:13 "will pay people to sit in the seats."
DeleteThat is what I was thinking, they can give a couple of bucks to some homeless folks or go to a temp agency, all they need are warm bodies in the seats.
OT: Big Brother is watching alright.
ReplyDeleteBefore I came into IM today, I was Googling a belt and appliance light for a Kenmore vacuum of mine. Finish that, come into IM, and half the ads are for Kenmore vac products. Feel like somebody's following you...?
Big Brother is just like Santa Claus. He knows knows when you've been sleeping. He know when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good......There is no expectation of privacy on the internet, not with all of those cookies tracking us.
Deleteyeah, that's been going on for awhile for me. The stupid thing is that, if I researched something, I've probably already decided if I wanted it and possibly bought it already.
DeleteSo, how is it valuable to keep showing me ads of the thing I already researched? Somebody is getting fleeced, I think...
Big Brother is called Google.
DeleteAnon 3:48 has called it. Unfortunately, Google also now edits your searches based on your prior searches...way too bad if you are trying to do research on some obscure event in ancient history, or some small news report from, say, 35 years ago, etc...
Deleteit's a form of censorship...
I don't see how she'll be cleaned up enough to make an appearance at CPAC considering how drugged she was on Hannity just a few days ago. If she has to stay off whatever she's on in order to deliver a speech, then how will she cope with doing without? If they drug her to calm her down, then how will she manage to give a live screech?
ReplyDeleteThey'll clean her up by giving her some speed. The woman goes "up and down" uppers and downers, and thus her extreme changes and "looks" in all her pictures and appearances.
DeleteCPAC saves the best for last
ReplyDeleteAlthough Ted Cruz was great
“Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal did not receive enough votes to remain on the leader board.”
DeleteCruz, 17%
Good luck.
numbnutz,
Deleteinsofar as jokes, i agree, they did save the best for last
Yep, save the "best" for last, as in the lady that didn't even score enough votes to be included in the straw poll results. Looks like 2016 might be on hold for the Quitter Queenie. I mean, if you don't get recognized by the bible thumping crazies then you don't have a chance....just sayin'
DeleteGryphen
ReplyDeleteCPAC Presidential Straw Poll Thursday, and Rep. Rand Paul beats Sen. Ted Cruz by a hefty margin. Paul was first with 29% of the vote among the CPAC attendees; Cruz was second at 17%. They were followed by Ben Carson at 10%, Marco Rubio at 10% and Chris Christie at 10%.
Interestingly, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who many think helped kill the labor union movement, came in at only 7%. Rep. Paul Ryan, believed to be the “intellectual” among Republicans—and the 2012 GOP candidate for vice president—came in at 2 percent, tied with Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum. Mike Pence got only 1%, perhaps a big shocker here, but Viguerie reports that “Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal did not receive enough votes to remain on the leader board.”
No mention at all of Donald Trump.
Those results aren't from the official CPAC straw--to be held tomorrow--though the results will probably be the same.
DeleteI'm surprised Palin allowed her name to be included.
http://www.frontiersla.com/frontiers-blog/2014/03/07/rand-paul-takes-the-lead-in-cpac-straw-poll-ted-cruz-far-behind
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/03/06/vote-who-will-win-2014-cpac-straw-poll
Is this straw poll like the others, where the candidates pay people or give free entertainment for their vote?
DeleteI am thinking of Bachmann that won Iowa and it turns out they paid for each vote.
ReplyDeleteCPAC Presidential Straw Poll Thursday, and Rep. Rand Paul beats Sen. Ted Cruz by a hefty margin. Paul was first with 29% of the vote among the CPAC attendees; Cruz was second at 17%. They were followed by Ben Carson at 10%, Marco Rubio at 10% and Chris Christie at 10%.
Interestingly, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who many think helped kill the labor union movement, came in at only 7%. Rep. Paul Ryan, believed to be the “intellectual” among Republicans—and the 2012 GOP candidate for vice president—came in at 2 percent, tied with Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum. Mike Pence got only 1%, perhaps a big shocker here, but Viguerie reports that “Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal did not receive enough votes to remain on the leader board.”
No mention at all of Donald Trump.
There weren't too into The Donald:
Deletehttp://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/donald-trump-cpac-speech-empty-seat-photos.html
Are they sure this isn't a photo of the GOP Mensa members?
ReplyDeleteIn an unrelated story, Oscar Meyer officials sheepishly acknowledged that their efforts to promote their pork products with a promotional outreach to the Orthodox Jewish community was a total failure.
ReplyDeleteActually, paying strangers to fill seats is much safer for the Bewigged Chia Pet. They're not like her true believers and stalkers, the ones who beg her for autographed photos, follow her to the end of the earth for a chance at meeting her in person, those who squat before her looking for recognition from the last time they met.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the Palins will do for protection when all the money dries up? (By protection, I mean bodyguards, drivers etc. Not condoms or pills- they've proven they have no clue how to use them) I wouldn't want to be in those shoes, looking over my shoulders all the time, locked up in a mansion afraid to be recognized......
Palin previews CPAC speech to Greta:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/palin-previews-cpac-speech-rails-against-unfair-biased-media-on-fox/