They’re trying to throw SarahPAC into the cauldron of scandal I see. That’s one PAC that has paid off handsomely for Conservatives because it has kept Palin in the game financially despite all the ferocious lib attacks against her. Without Palin and SarahPAC, there would be NO Ted Cruz, NO Mike Lee, and precious few other TEA Party Conservatives in Congress right now.
One of the problems is the constant telephone calls asking for money. It makes the Tea Party look bad.
One of the problems is the constant telephone calls asking for money. It makes the Tea Party look bad.
One of the first to capitalize on this was Free Republic. Back in the early days there were those who tried to take over Free Republic(like CAL). Others started up websites to compete with FR, like Trixie(LuciAnne)
A good model to follow is start up a website, get the traffic up, and sell it to Salem Communications. Which is what Townhall.com did. Michele Maulkin started up both Hot Air and Twitchy, then sold them to Salem.
Not an expert on the purpose of PACs, but direct contributions to candidates might not be the most beneficial function of every PAC. Some review of what these PACs say they do, or will do when they ask for contributions might make this situation look better, or even worse.
However, rallying citizens (a little “community organizing,” here), sending key people to many events across the country (SarahPAC), paying the credit cards charges on pass-through donations (Senate Conservative Fund), creating authoritative “think-tank” reports, paying for travel expenses for key bloggers and website hosts (Tea Party Patriots for Jim Robinson (if memory correctly holds)), and other similar activities are not ever going to show up as money specifically provided to candidates on the table above.
So I can be okay with the apparent “poor spending” habits because they do not accurately reflect the reality of the monies spent.
This is why one should give primarily to candidates OR proven organizations like Heritage or Susan B Anthony, etc.
Republican Ed Gillespie lost to Mark Warner in the Virginia Senate race by 1 point.
Gillespie lost because he was a cheap labor importer.
His campaign refused to use Warner’s amnesty votes against him.
Because they agreed with him.
Most of the cash washing through the political system is provided by The Cheap Labor Express to manipulate the process so we cannot elect those who would stop the invasion of our nation.