I’m Afraid Sarah Palin Might Be Ruining Herself Unintentionally

RedState ^ | January 11, 2010 | Erick Erickson

[EveningStar]

...I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to harm herself unintentionally over this tea party convention in Nashville...

Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a “National Tea Party Convention” run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks if I fork over my bank account number...

[mnehring]

I thought this event was canceled? Or was that just the San Antonio event?

[La Lydia]

Anyone who wants a third party needs to review what Ross Perot brought on us. And I think it is interesting that this writer believes Sarah Palin is too dumb to figure out whether an event and its organizers are legit.

[La Lydia]

Anyone who wants a third party needs to review what Ross Perot brought on us. And I think it is interesting that this writer believes Sarah Palin is too dumb to figure out whether an event and its organizers are legit.

[4rcane]

Tea Party is not a monolith. Its made up of many ppl of different views and background

[Trust but Verify]

Ruining herself for what? She can be a spokeswoman and advocate for conservative causes but she is not electable to the WH. It would be a huge mistake to think you could ever get past the media clutter and talk issues.

[discostu]

As appearance fees go $500 is basically nothing, local celebrities get $500 appearance fees, died in the episode teaser Star Trek extras get $500 appearance fees.

[WayneS]

Wait a minute!

You mean that nice man from Nigeria is NOT going to be sending me a million dollars?

[HIDEK6]

Regarding the $500, it takes money to get anything worthwhile done.

The bigger the task, the more money needed, and some of it will probably be pissed away, but that's the way it goes.

[GoCards]

I heard her say in an interview, I think w/ Rush, that she does not think a 3rd party is a good idea right now. We need to change the R party but......

[SmokingJoe]

“She can be a spokeswoman and advocate for conservative causes but she is not electable to the WH.”

You will need to get off the drugs.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I don’t believe Sarah Palin is making people pay 500 bucks, its the event itself that is charging people

[Republic of Texas]

No one ever heard of most of the Founding Fathers either. Until they established the greatest country in the history of the planet.

[WayneS]

Are you saying all those “4th & 5th guy in the landing party” dudes (the ones in the red shirts) get $500 per appearance?

The original Star Trek series truly IS the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t it?

[Recon Dad]

You want to host an event at the Opryland Hotel and bring in big names, guess what, it costs. I forked out the dough because I want to be part of the Tea Party movement. I'll be in Washington on April 15th and on 9-12.
If you don't ante up now you can't complain November 3rd, 2010.

[EyeGuy]

“It would be a huge mistake to think you could ever get past the media clutter and talk issues.”

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Oh sure, by all means, let’s allow the QueerLeftMedia to have free rein to ruin all truly conservative candidates, forever more.

[Sir Gawain]

Info from HotAir:

Eagle Publishing, owner of Redstate.com and Regnery, among other things is a sponsor of CPAC.

[aphid]

That $500 is for a 3-day convention with workshops/seminars. It’s a working/planning convention for tea party reps.

[SmokingJoe]

“Let me be blunt: charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a “National Tea Party Convention” run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of “

She is no charging anybody anything to stay in any hotel. She is an invited speaker to a convention. How the convention is financed is not her business. No one has to pay to atend a convention if they don’t want to.

[sionnsar]

I read the article as saying registration for every attendee is $500.