As long as she doesn't join that super-secret Illuminutty Prophets for Profits group.
Posted on 01/14/2010 9:56:55 AM PST by AJKauf
By attaching herself to this for-profit outfit, Sarah Palin undermines her standing with her very constituents. Many tea party folks are shaking their heads after being the same people to hold up signs supporting Palin. Why not donate time at the Tax Day Tea Party? Why associate with a guy with questionable tea party cred?
And these questions beg a bigger question: Who is giving Sarah Palin advice on these matters? Certainly, it does not seem that people tied into the grassroots organizations are being sought for advice.
Sarah Palin said on Bill O’Reilly’s show, regarding this engagement, that controversy seems to swirl around her. Indeed, it does. She also said that she wouldn’t be making money from the engagement, a sum rumored to be $125,000, but that the money would go to (presumably) her PAC and would help fund conservative candidates. That’s all to the good. Still, I can’t help but imagine that participating in the Tax Day Tea Party being planned in D.C. on April 15 or some other non-profit event around the country would have been more in the keeping with the spirit of the movement....
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Let me get this straight. If Sarah Palin speaks at the Tea Party Nation convention on February 2nd to 4th, she can't attend any other Tea Party event, like the Tax Day Tea Party on April 15th?
Do I have that right?
I don’t care.
Maybe I should care enough to investigate if there is any reason for concern but I do not right now. Whether this is shady or whether we just have a case of people reacting to the competition this convention has brought them I figure we’ll know the answer to only awhile after the event when we see the results of the time and money spent there.
Until then Sarah’s a big girl.
She can make her own decisions. Sometimes she’s right and sometimes she’s wrong but she has a right not to have countless numbers of people second guess her every move. If she hasn’t hired them, their advice is as important as mine. Which is to say not at all. Now if she becomes a candidate then she will have to answer to people but as a private citizen she doesn’t.
As for profit..wow...when did that become a dirty word in conservative circles. Making money isn’t the problem. Or is it because the money isn’t going to the usual sources?
It’s what is done with the money that is at issue. Sarah is donating it to help conservative candidates while using the time to push the message of tea party even more into the mainstream.
As long as she doesn't join that super-secret Illuminutty Prophets for Profits group.
You can’t very well cash in on your 15 minutes of fame without associating with people who know how to make profits. Duh.
How long does 15 minutes last in your world?
Melissa Clouthier, Dan Riehl and Erick Erickson have joined forces to criticize Sarah Palin for choosing not to appear at CPAC. Their arguments against her for not going to CPAC being insufficient, they have decided to attack the Tea Party convention and its organizers.
It is also being falsely reported that the Tea Party Convention is closed to the press. Not true. The organizers have granted press cedentials to Fox News, Breitbart.com,
Townhall.com, The Wall Street Journal and World Net Daily so far.
- JP
Two egregious errors in three sentences -- not a FR record, but still notable.
1. Non-profit organizations run political operations all the time. Tax-exempt organizations may not do so. Confusing the two and expecting to be taken seriously as a political commentator is an error on the level of confusing weight with mass and expecting to be taken seriously as a physicist.
2. Non-progit organizations, if competently run and sufficiently supported, have all the money they need to rent space, hire buses, etc. In fact, they need to spend all their income on such things -- hence, the name "non-profit".
YEP...what YOU said.....not that a “for-profit” organiation will NOT be scrutinized, etc by the IRS....but being a Non-profit has LOTS of overwhelming hoops! Plus...ACORN is REALLY for profit....under the guise of non-profit....
Profits are not evil to conservatives.
We’re now in the 18th month of that 15 minutes, you token moonbat.
Profit is evil, yaknow.
All Commies Agree!
“The rationale for avoiding CPAC was the D.C. insiderish ways of the founder David Keene.”
ummm GOProud ring a bell?
Another anti-Palin story posted without comment by someone with no about-me page. Hmmmmmmm
Nope, PJ still has a lot of great, very Conservative writers. The issue is that they have open blogging, like Town Hall, so any collectivist nut can get their nose in there.
You are correct, however, when most people talk of non-profit organizations they generally mean, right or wrong, as a tax-exempt one. I personally think it is refreshingly honest that they are a for profit group. I am getting tired of the sanctimonious “I’m a pauper for my beliefs” people
I’m for profit. Anytime.
Yawn.
So? At this rate the left won’t need to savage Palin. The right and a 29 year old Chicago libertarian will do it for them.
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