Sarah Palin’s SarahPAC, which is not a slush fund at all but a pool of money to support principled conservative politicians, made all sorts of money in Q12012. Which lucky ducky congressional candidates were the recipients of America’s most unpopular political person’s largesse? The most sizable sums this time went to “go fuck yourself” and “it’s all mine, suckers,” unlike previous quarters when the tight swing-district candidates “ha ha ha you idiots donated money to my PAC” and “I’m swimming in a Grand Canyon full of your cash” received the largest infusions. Politico has the shocking news: “Sarah Palin’s political action committee raised $388,000 in the first three months of the year, but it spent $418,000 and didn’t give a dime to any candidates — which is the purported purpose of the PAC.”
Always a worthy destination for donors’ disposable income, that SarahPAC is. Unlike most other PACs, which all-too-predictably spend their funds on boring things like Political Action, SarahPAC drops five-figures on a YouTube rebutting a premium cable television movie that portrayed Sarah Palin more sympathetically than expected and then a bit more on space for a Taco Bell/KFC Xpress at a mall near the Republican National Convention. Also, too, hundreds of thousands of dollars for a couple of policy consultants who surely work around-the-clock preparing briefs for her busy days of watching television on the couch for 12 hours:
Instead, Sarah PAC spent $255,000 on fundraising and a small team of political consultants that Palin has continued to support even as she receded from the political spotlight during the heat of the GOP presidential primary. It also appears to have spent $19,000 on a video rebutting the HBO film “Game Change.”
The PAC also paid $4,500 to reserve space at Channelside Bay Mall in Tampa, Fla., near the site of the Republican National Convention, suggesting that Palin plans to have an independent presence at the event separate from the formal proceedings.
But look, she promises she’ll definitely start doling out cash to promising candidates when things pick up. Who will be the Christine O’Donnells of 2012, anyway? The similarly worthy candidates just haven’t shown up yet.
[POLITICO]
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George Zimmerman's gonna need some bail money.
Palin's response: "Pfft! Nobody's holding a bag of Skittles and Iced Tea up to his head!"
So very much WIN present in this. So much.
You forgot Poland … & by "Poland," I mean Jared Loughner.
Like Mama Grizzly would help anyone else….
It kind of reminds me of that guy who walked into a bear while texting except – the exact opposite.
“Sarah Palin’s political action committee raised $388,000 in the first three months of the year, but it spent $418,000 and didn’t give a dime to any candidates"
Hey, Todd's hookers don't come cheap…
Actually, they do come cheap, but he makes up for it in volume.
Will Sarah deduct her 3 campaign stops at Saks, Nieman Marcus and Bloomingdales?
Well, she IS renting an entire mall.
I'd like to see her at the maul with a big grizzly.
She's appears to be free money's moll.
there is absolutely no evidence that she's upgraded any part of her wardrobe, especially all of that tacky jewelry.
as if. her taste is in her mouth.
She has always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Strangers and fidiots.
I ran into a guy that gave her 2 grand. It was brain bendingly awful. The dude tried to make an argument for her savviness, I shit you not, although the first thing he mentioned was a phone call he got from her. Chubby white dudes are such easy marks.
Phone number please? ;)
You. are. shitting. me.
I. Am. Not.
He thought he was being edgy. Subverting the dominant paradigm with 2 grand of starbursts.
Gah! Was he unable to find a dominatrix that looked like Sarah?
"YOU LIBURALS ARE SOOO AFRAID OF HER GRIFTINESS!! "
It was probably a recording, also too.
I have seen first-hand how beauty queens game men, and it's just like a very common sales pitch. If a salesman hands you a cold drink for free, he has your attention… and possibly obliges you — with no guilt at all — to return the favor.
Pageant winners do the same thing. You can game your way to anything if a) you have that je na sais quois, and b) you give a tiny, insincere, doe-eyed-smiled amount of attention to
a fattynearly anyone with a penis.Blame the FSM for endowing us with a penis and Sarah with the sweet muffin featured in the photo above.
Then your penis is going to be your own downfall. Welcome to reality.
Pffft….Channelside—fitting for such a high class operation.
NYC22 – Every Hero Starts Somewhere.
That's the way her bots think at least.
I wonder what was the disbursement made out to "LOL can you believe I'm not in jail yet?"
"rolling on the floor in wads of cash, laughing out loud"
I hope she hired Rielle Hunter to do the Youtube video. That bitch gets results!
She would show up, take some videos and then take off with Todd.
Yeah, EPT results.
Dear Penthouse,
I thought it'd never happen to me…
cheetos don't pay for themselves, y'all
Wasn't a $19,000 video rebuttal one of the grifts in the "Grift of the Magi?"
And a swell snowmobile.
but it spent $418,000 and didn’t give a dime to any candidates —
Thus making SarahPAC the most patriotic of any rightwing PAC.
Eff the Koch Brothers, Karl Rove, etc. Give to SarahPAC, wingnuts!
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Indeedy, politicians are corrupt so keep the money and give them a finger, instead!
i need to start a superPAC, like right now.
Don't forget the purchase the Colbert Super Fun Pack to learn how to get started.
$388,000 in the first three months of the year, but it spent $418,000
Grifting… you're doing it wrong.
It made me think she was doing it right.
PAC takes donations, PAC builds debt, PAC goes bankrupt, Grifter walks away. Yep!
Money goes in, Sarah goes out. You can't explain it.
BINGO. This is exactly how you're supposed to do a slush fund.
Mmmm, mayhaps she can sell Sarah Treasury Bonds to finance the PAC deficit.
No, that's exactly the right way to do it; you spend other people's money to go into debt, then walk away. See, e.g., Trump, Donald.
And Romney, Mitt; see: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/23/1057645/…
Maybe she covered Newt's bounced checks at the last minute.
She will show you how to be a common sense fiscally conservative patriot.
Yeah, ask Wasilla how that worked out for them [sports complex.] And the Alaska Fund Trust. And Mat-Maid. And Goose Creek Prison. And. . .AGIA.
How much did Bristol's plastic surgery cost?
I'm sure Medicaid covered that.
Judging from Sarah's unmoving upper lip in her Today's Show appearance, Bristol is not the only one who got things done.
Sarah never got anything done….
oh, you meant cosmetic surgery.
The overhead costs for this must be incredible, how many relatives and hangers on do they have? Each of them no doubt has a gig with the PAC…
Ron Paul is a pussy.
Well, it is expensive to buy her daily newspapers. You know. All of them, Katie.
That is one shitload of bendy straws.
I must say, Republicans are doing a spectacular job of demonstrating the fiscal responsibility and financial management skills they so feverishly promote.
Grifter math is hard!
Stupid donors are stupid.
I'll come up with something funny to say later, but seriously, how is this in any concievable way not completely illegal?
I wonder how much in "placement fees" those consultants had to pay Sarah for getting them jerbs with her PAC.
for the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
Republicans are good with money, so LET SARAH ALONE!!!!!
CHRIS CROCKER LIBEL!!!
"Sarah PAC spent $255,000 on fundraising"
Bump-Its ain't cheap.
Do you know who else has a PACkage deficit?
Mittens?
Miss Lindsey Graham?
Newton Leroy Ginrch (nee McPherson)?
Ann Coulter?
$19,000 on a video rebutting
Nailin' Palin II – The Rebuttal
I see what you did there. Well-played sir!
We could reprise that whole suggestive thread from yesterday morning:
Was that campaign staffer job … entry level?
"Sarah offers a stiff come back to claims she is a tight ass."
Oh thank goodness a Sarah Palin story. I was getting worried about her dwindling media exposure.
Now why would she give money to congressional critters when they are all communists?
PLEASE don't show that picture again. I thought I saw her hoo-hoo, and we are out of eye bleach!
Once you go black you never go back. I'd be on that like white on Rice.
Nothing is a worse prospect than staring down that yawning maw, and into your inevitable doom. Todd must have a stomach of steel!
Quick, someone tell Rich Lowry that you can see Sarah's VayJayJay if you blow that picture up. The poor bastard needs some starbursts what with having to keep firing racists from National Socialist Review and for having to put up with K-Lo and Doughy Pantload.
Further proof that deficits don't matter…if you are a Republican.
I can't wait for the Palin family summer vacation grifted from SarahPAC, combined with Palin campaign stops for Mitt Romney, otherwise known as the The Bring Out Your Crazies tour 2012.
Wow, 2/3 of her fundraising went to – fundraising! It's good to be a fundraiser, eh Komen?
Meh, The College Republicans average something like 91% fundraising expenses. So about 9% of your donated dollar goes to candidates.
Just FYI.
Just taking care of their good, old dads' political grifting consultant businesses.
"Please give generously so we can continue our fundraising efforts!"
This is how Genghis Khan got started.
He got started by flashing his twat and licking his fingers?! I thought he got his start by stone killing folks that didn't see things his way.
And look at him now, with a chain of Mongolian barbecue restaurants and a series of cheesy tv commercials. Happy endings all around.
She's a JOB CREATOR, because she employs consultants and fundraisers, so get off her back!
Not much of a grift if you end up spending 30K more than you take in. That is just common law larceny.
That's adorable that you think we have cogent election laws.
Uh oh, she's going to have to take Trog's methlab to the Wasilla consignment store.
I wonder how much of the 255 large went to consultant Bristle.
In the past she's used SuperPAC money to buy stacks of her own books to give out at fundraising events.
Naturally, she, personally, makes her royalty on each book sold.
It should be fucking illegal but isn't.
19 large is a good deal for a YouTube.
Jesus Christ! That grifter would eat cat shit if it was frosted fried or filled.
Grift the magic Dragon lived by the sea
and could see Russia from there
and meth
the end
Is embezzlement of PAC money a crime?
No, it's a benefit, and an obligation.
Ask Trevor , he's kept Colbert out of the big house . So far..
What embezzlement? The morons who shell out money to this grifting bitch can simply read how she spends it and are evidently okay with supporting her. For Freedom! Also, USA!USA!
Didn't Go Fuck Yourself just get a heart transplant?
Gimme your money, and I'll give you a smile.
That will have to last you a while.
It sounds to me like this behavior is more befitting as that of a Slut or, perhaps, a Prostitute rather than anybody who requests medical care from an offering vendor, wouldn't one say? Or maybe I'm reading too much into this contrary to one Oxycontin gobbler may declare to be the case….
So, is she still a pitbull wearing lipstick? I've lost track of my "awkward metaphors for right wing grifters" playbook.
Being forced to look at that picture again reminds me of an old joke. Man goes to visit his friend in the hospital. Friend has multiple injuries.
Man: my god, look awful! What happened?
Friend: we'll, I was having sex with my girlfriend. And, you know, her lady bits are really big, so I fell in.
Man: OMG! What happened then?
Friend: Well, I was wandering around, looking for the way out. I was doing OK, until some guy with a motorcycle ran over me.
Man: next time strap a 2-8 across your ass.
That was possibly the worst joke I have ever heard…and I know some stinkers. Plus, I'm always looking for humor that makes fun of $arah. While this makes fun of her, it ain't humor.
And really…everyone knows when a skinny fuck goes plumbing the depths where many have previous plumbed, you need to use a 2×4 strapped across the ass. A 2×8 simply doesn't have the strength.
Since I never said it was a GOOD joke, I consider this high praise indeed. As far as bad jokesgo, it's pretty bad, but I have worse. If you're old like me, consider this:Man goes to visit his injured buddy in Vietnam. ” OMG, what happened to you. You look awfull”" Well I was in a ditch by the side of a road. On the other side of the road was an NVA. We had both been there quite a while, both were hot, both had cooties. I yelled to the NVA, Ho Chi Minh ears shit! He yells back LBJ eats shit! We were both standing in the middle of the road shaking hands when a truck ran over us”.You can substitute any war since then with same effect.Sent from my iPad
That was a good one. It reminded me of a joke that was popular in WWII.It seems a P-38 pilot had a rough last trip and he had to belly land his ship. When the medic got to him, he took a look at the bullet and shrapnel holes, the control surfaces shot away, and worst of all the pilot. Not only was he shot to ribbons, but his face smashed into the gunsite doing incredible damage to his face.The medic just stared and asked, “Jeez, buddy…how do you feel?”Through the bloody froth of his ruined face, the pilot said, “It only hurts when I laugh”.—
I bow to the master. Although not in same league I offer another Vietnam classic. A soldier returned from in country is walking downtown in San Francisco when he sees a Vietnamese couple walking down the street, with the woman ten feet in from of the man. The soldier approaches the man and congratulates him, saying that he has never seen a Vietnamese man who had such an appreciation of the US feminist movement, & wondered what had brought about such an enlightened attitude.
The vietnamese man replied: "landmines".
I understood precisely five words of that.
It's like one of those New Yorker cartoon's you are afraid to admit you don't get.
I don't get alot of 'em! lol
The Big Con and Encyclopedia of Scams also, too.
No, she is now a gaping pit of bullshit, with or without lipstick.
A fool and his money……
…is soon parted. But, then, apparently, the money ends up latching itself to another fool. Never a missed communication. You can't explain that. How'd it get dere?
Mebbe everything really does seek its own level. Could be the stoopid moneez keeps recirculating among teh stoopids.
If the wonkeratti ever think that states as crazy as Okrahoma, Arizona or Florida don't really exist because that many people could not possibly have their respective heads that far up their asses, (Oh, the great senator Connie Johnson is on the "Daily Show" talking about her bill to criminalize beating off) have only to contemplate what kind of ignoramous would give money to this grifting clan of snowbillies.
There is nothing Colbert can do to make our election laws look like a joke that Sarah hasn't already done. She's turned grifting from an art into a science.
When asked which conservative candidates her PAC would support Governor Palin said "All of them, Katie". Sorry, couldn't resist.
She made more with her grifting than from 'Who's Nailin' Palin?"
Can't Eric Holder and the new black panthers drag Wildercunt out of her grifted fortress, throw her ass in Gitmo, and play Game Change over and over again Clockwork Orange-style? *sigh* Sometimes I wish Barry was the usurper tyrant that the wingtards claim him to be.
Sniff … it's just so … so fucking BEAUTIFUL.
Every buck that goes to Palin is one less for the RNC.
Keep up the good work, Sarahcuda-bots!
Grizzly Mama needs a new designer handbag!
Like you didn't know that "Sarah PAC" means "Sarah Piles Away Cash"?
This is good news for Nieman Marcus.
Well done.
Do you know who else needs a rebutting?
She rented space in a mall…….gotta be for a Thomas Kincade retrospective. Or to stage a pre-emptive strike against Dippin Dots, the ice cream of our dystopian future.
Even worse – that $19,000 YouTube video was supposed to be a response to HBO's “Game Of Thrones". (Lannister Libel!)
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