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Going Rogue: Palin says she plans to 'shake up the GOP machine' w/ $1.2M raised through her PAC
The London Daily Mail ^ | January 29, 2013 | Leslie Larson

Posted on 01/29/2013 2:34:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Once again Sarah Palin is showing that she has no plans to play by the rules.

She has parted ways with FOX News after a turbulent relationship with the conservative cable news channel, taken pot shots at pundits in the 'lame stream media' and slammed her own party for selecting Mitt Romney as the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.

Now the former Alaska governor says she'll use the $1.2 million raised through her SarahPAC to 'shake up the GOP machine' and unveiled a vague vision on how she'll get her message out to a larger audience.

News broke on Friday night that she had not renewed her $1 million annual contract with FOX News, after three years as a contributor on Roger Ailes' network.

Palin then spoke out on Saturday, in an interview with Breitbart.com, saying that she was working to 'free up opportunities to share more broadly the message of the beauty of freedom and the imperative of defending our republic and restoring this most exceptional nation.'

Calling the future 'wide open' with opportunities, she shared how she plans 'to pick battles wisely, and all in due season' - hinting that she still has a fight left in her.

Her vision for the future coincided with the financial disclosure from her Political Action Committee, SarahPAC, with records released on Monday showing she ended 2012 with nearly $1.2 million in the bank.

She raised around $20,790 between Nov. 27 and Dec. 31 and spent $67,800 during that time period on expenses including consulting, speech writing and legal fees...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; conservatism; foxnews; gop; palin; republicans; romney; sarahpalin
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To: Ron H.; onyx
Roger that Ron!

I shall put you on Her List!

181 posted on 01/30/2013 6:01:37 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Windflier

OOOOOk newb that’s nice.


182 posted on 01/30/2013 6:19:14 AM PST by trapped_in_LA
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To: trapped_in_LA
OOOOOk newb that’s nice.

If your only defense is to call a five year veteran Freeper a newb, then I guess the shoe fits. Pissant.

183 posted on 01/30/2013 6:42:04 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s unbelievable that we have to read about this iconic American in a foreign newspaper.


184 posted on 01/30/2013 7:19:08 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: Windflier

It seems every time I hear Sarah speak, she is ALWAYS laying praise at Johns feet, saying what a great Senator he is and how much of a patriot he is, yadda yadda. It wasn’t just after the 2010 elections....it’s every time she gets a chance.

I say, she already paid him back and besides that, it bothers me, that she doesn’t see the RINO that he is yet. She’s willing to see Romney and others who are, as she calls them, “Moderates”, but McCain is like a God to her, the way she talks about him. It’s really a turn off and I think it may be a big reason, many still don’t trust her.

I’m willing to look past her adoration of McCain, because I know the woman SHE is. But it is getting as old as McCain himself.


185 posted on 01/30/2013 7:33:12 AM PST by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: onyx

ShhhhHHhh!!
Don’t let them have any ideas ;) (about age)


186 posted on 01/30/2013 7:45:54 AM PST by Bikkuri (Hope for Conservative push in the next 2-4 years..........)
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To: KC_Lion

I’m not a PDS’er, but I am prone now to be a little cautious with Sarah, and I encourage others to do the same, and not elevate her to positions of blind trust that she hasn’t earned.

I, and a lot of others of like mind, planned to support her in the last primary. As a result, we didn’t push similar candidates to jump in, since Sarah was our choice, and we didn’t want to split our vote. She kept us hanging, well past the point we thought she could credibly pull out, and then she pulled out, leaving us with a lot of establishment politicians, but no real, honest, Tea Party, Socially Conservative candidate who could win.

Maybe she had a good reason for that. But had she just said early on that she wasn’t running, I suspect someone else might have jumped in to offer her supporters the kind of option they wanted, touting the issue positions she would have touted, and asking for support, based on their honesty and integrity compared to the rest of the line up. Maybe we’d be looking a President West right now.

I really felt screwed, to put it bluntly, by somebody who appeared to have played the system, without express concern for the movement, or her supporters. I don’t demand much, just be honest with me. If you see me supporting you, and closing other doors, when you don’t intend to let my support count, then let me know. With today’s social media and virality, who knows if somebody would have started a “draft candidate X” page, and it would have taken off and gotten us a real alternative to Mitt, who might actually have beaten Obama.

Funny thing is, even all that wasn’t as irritating as reading all the castigations of her here, and really feeling there was no way to counter them. Everybody who had told us she was just playing us, came out to dance on the grave of her candidacy, and tell us what asses we were to have ever trusted her. And there wasn’t a whole lot to say in return. She had played us. She never inteded to run, it was an attention whoring at our expense and worse, at the movement’s expense, and we were wrong all along, and those pissants were right. It was very vexing, and put me off getting behind her ever again.

Before Sarah, I would have said, as a general rule, don’t trust in anyone you see on TV to be as good as you think they are. Then I thought Sarah looked like she might be the exception, and now I am back to saying, if they are on TV, they have probably sold their soul to the machine to some degree, and any wise person will be cautious with them.

I don’t blame her, she needs to be loyal to her family first, and make them money. But I will caution anyone else to be at least a little wary when she is appealing for anything tangible, like money or political support. Personally, the only one I’d begin to trust now as an effective leader is Allen West.

Unlike Sarah, West hasn’t left me unable to defend him on FR - yet.

My 2c.


187 posted on 01/30/2013 7:49:33 AM PST by AnonymousConservative (Why did Liberals evolve within our species? www.anonymousconservative.com)
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To: Jim Robinson

What I fins interesting, is that we can relate to things of the time to ‘what grade’ we were in ;)

Actually, that is HOW I narrow down the time lines of situations.. Still would have to go to a library to search through tons of newspapers to find what I was looking for :p


188 posted on 01/30/2013 7:51:01 AM PST by Bikkuri (Hope for Conservative push in the next 2-4 years..........)
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To: KC_Lion; onyx; DJ MacWoW

I don’t care what the (non)Conservatives here on FR say about her (onyx), she is a sweetheart, and has the knowledge and intelligence to back it up ;)

Those of us that know her see a troll in an instant when the first FReeper they complain about is onyx (or Dj Macwow)..

Either/both of their husbands are lucky to find them first ;)


189 posted on 01/30/2013 8:00:14 AM PST by Bikkuri (Hope for Conservative push in the next 2-4 years..........)
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To: onyx; KC_Lion
I stopped being 5’2” and 82 lbs!


Lol ;)
I was 5'10", 102 lbs all through high school (did any and all sport I could make time for.. was Line-man on the football team).. I had to get a waiver to get in the Air Force because I was UNDERweight :\

I remember, while I was in University.. I would order 2 large pizzas with xtra jalapeños because I knew no one else would touch them ;) and I never gained weight (all the high school sports raised my metabolism to the stratosphere, I guess)..

Anyway.. got a bit off track there ;) ..

Not sure I would still be here on FR if it wasn't for you, and FReepers like you,with like-minds as myself.
190 posted on 01/30/2013 8:10:01 AM PST by Bikkuri (Hope for Conservative push in the next 2-4 years..........)
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To: Lucky9teen
but she REALLY needs to get over the John McCain is great crap


It was a political thing... she returned the favor, now they are even.... She owes him nothing anymore :p
191 posted on 01/30/2013 8:12:09 AM PST by Bikkuri (Hope for Conservative push in the next 2-4 years..........)
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To: Bikkuri; onyx; DJ MacWoW
What the Republicans say on this Conservative website is irrelevant.

I do care however when they try to Slander good FReepers, especially with Sexist comments.

Thus insults require..no, DEMAND correction.

Either/both of their husbands are lucky to find them first ;)

ONYX IS A GEM!


192 posted on 01/30/2013 8:12:22 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Lucky9teen
It seems every time I hear Sarah speak, she is ALWAYS laying praise at Johns feet, saying what a great Senator he is and how much of a patriot he is, yadda yadda. It wasn’t just after the 2010 elections....it’s every time she gets a chance.

I defy you to post links that back up that assertion. I'll bet you can't. Palin hasn't done any such thing.

Go on. Post the links and prove you're not slandering this good patriot.

193 posted on 01/30/2013 8:13:45 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Happy to see you here, my friend (and FRiend) :)

Was hoping you would jump onto the Opus thread too, but I totally understand if you read all of the comments and just wanted to let the ‘concern’ trolls just fade out :p

Here’s to us.. (beer bottle clink).. hoping for the best.. and we shall see what Mrs. Palin will do in the next 2 years :)

I trust that she will do whatever is right for the situation.


194 posted on 01/30/2013 8:18:18 AM PST by Bikkuri (Hope for Conservative push in the next 2-4 years..........)
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To: Bikkuri; onyx
Not sure I would still be here on FR if it wasn't for you, and FReepers like you,with like-minds as myself.

That makes me so glad Bikkuri =^.^=

Onyx is a Gem and has made me Feel SO welcome on F.R. I can't even tell you!

Your Graphics are also so great!

GO BIKKURI!

do you have link to where i could find them? ^.^


195 posted on 01/30/2013 8:20:53 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Bikkuri
Was hoping you would jump onto the Opus thread too...

I just saw something about Melas posting an opus. Is that the thread?

Here’s to us.. (beer bottle clink).. hoping for the best.. and we shall see what Mrs. Palin will do in the next 2 years :)

Hear, hear. *clink!*

196 posted on 01/30/2013 8:24:19 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier; Lucky9teen
I defy you to post links that back up that assertion.

He/she won't.

But they will continue to make the assertion.....

After all, it's the seriousness of the charge that counts.

BUMP to your post challenging the (im)poster to put up or shut up.

197 posted on 01/30/2013 8:26:10 AM PST by Lakeshark (!)
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To: KC_Lion; Bikkuri; onyx

I ignore it. I’m proud to be a Conservative and no one will silence me. :-)


198 posted on 01/30/2013 8:26:20 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Windflier

Hello my FRiend! How are you?


199 posted on 01/30/2013 8:27:02 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: KC_Lion; onyx; DJ MacWoW
especially with Sexist comments.


Well, I didn't think I was that stupid... but I DID learn a new word here on FR when Gov. Palin came to the front: misogynist


I guess I never had a need to know the word, or meaning of it, until now :\

I can think, off of the top of my head, several members here that fit that description now (some banned specifically for it (most know who I am talking about), and a few that are still here :p)...
200 posted on 01/30/2013 8:28:02 AM PST by Bikkuri (Hope for Conservative push in the next 2-4 years..........)
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