Posted on 07/14/2009 2:18:39 PM PDT by Al B.
(CNN) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee is confirming a flood of new donations that push her cash haul close to the million-dollar mark, as one of the nation's largest liberal PACs announced an ad targeting the former GOP vice presidential candidate.
Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton confirmed a report in the Anchorage Daily News that more than $200,000 had poured into SarahPAC since Palin's announcement a week and a half ago that she would be leaving office by the end of the month.
Those funds, along with $732,867 received through June 30 according to federal campaign finance filings, leave the governor just shy of a million dollars in donations to date since SarahPAC's January launch.
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The news came as MoveOn.org began e-mailing members Tuesday, asking them to fund a rapid response ad blasting Palin's new Washington Post op-ed that criticized President Obama's position on "cap and trade" legislation — a major part of the administration's effort to overhaul the nation's energy policy.
The group said Palin was positioning herself as the face of conservative opposition to Obama's energy policy, telling supporters her op-ed was "a marvel of misinformation and outright lies."
The group has not yet said where the spot would air, or revealed the scope of any potential ad buy.
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on a related question, is there a FReepac?
thanks
Well she will have to grease a few wheels, sure, but she will pick whatever candidates she feels are appropriate. Her conservatism won’t likely ever be in doubt.
RATs and Independents turning on the Muslim Messiah; polls proving it.
Congress is ignoring the handwriting on the walls. Vote them out in 2010 and 2012.
First of all, you obviously have not read the newest developments involving Charlie Crist, he bashed her a few days ago, basically laughing at her, so Sarah won’t be supporting Charlie Crist, you can take that to the bank. As far as McCain goes, look, she will NEVER say anything bad about John McCain, why, because she feels gratitude towards him for selecting her, some may find fault with that but that is just the way it is. She has CLASS, something McCain does NOT have. I have not heard that she has endorsed him for 2010, she might say that she supports whatever he does, but I don’t see her getting involved in it. If she doesn’t endorse him the media will have a field day with that, if she does endorse him some here will be upset, it’s a no win situation
Endorsement of McCain would be a mistake, BUT I guess she feels a payback is necessary for propelling her to the position she finds herself in today. 1)Our leader (this is good) 2) the object of RINO and liberal scorn, because McCain and staff sabotaged her and us conservatives (this is bad). In the McCain primary I’ll voting for ABMc (anybody but McCain).
Unfortunately, there will also be “bumps in the road” for Sarah Palin, after she fully endorses John McCain’s re-election to Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat in ‘10 .............
Endorsing McCain can be expected as he did help bring her to the national spotlight. Her PAC has already dropped $5,000 on the McCain senate race. But as to others, I’d wait and see who she may support.
I wonder what MoveOn’s response will be when the Senate fails to pass Cap and Tax. If the House version had any political legs, the Senate would have passed it already. This is interesting. When this goes down in flames in the Senate as is expected, will Palin get blamed for it’s defeat? This could be a very shrewd move on Sarah’s part. She’ll ‘win’ on an issue that some Senators declared DOA weeks ago. Liberal heads will explode. This is gonna be fun...
Against Romney? No.
By Romney? Yes.
McCain’s irrelevant. He’s a follower. When Reagan was around, he was shining his shoes. He’ll follow whoever pulls the votes. The same thing happened in ‘94. Suddenly everybody was a conservative once the tide turned.
I think she might have done it on purpose to get this response. If Cap and Tax fails, Sarah will be “blamed” for it by the left, and applauded by the right. Sarah is a political GENIUS for doing this. I love watching the turds on TV try to make sense of what she is doing, it is as simple as the nose on your face but they are too stupid and out of touch to see it
Since Sarah spoke out against Cap N Trade, the Far Left will redouble its efforts to pressure wary Dem Senators to pass Cap N Trade. If Sarah is pro/con something, the Far Left will reflexively take the opposite stance of Sarah’s.
Supporting ANY RINOs is unacceptable, no matter what the reasons may be. If Sarah really is for the total advancement of conservatism, then she has also got to fully explain why it’s wrong to elect all leftists, including all RINOs, for both the short-term future and for the long-term future, to any political office, and this seriously includes Senator John McCain! McCain, as a RINO, really will create all kinds of future “damage” to the U.S. on a variety of issues!
Someone on C4P speculated that McCain gave Sarah a 5,000 donation to her Pac and she was just reimbursing him the money. That is a possibility. McCain has a Pac of his own I believe, unless it’s not making a dime I doubt he would be desperate for a measly 5 grand
The folly of the left is entertaining. By just mentioning her name on this issue they make her the opposition figure to Obama. And Americans hate Crap&Tax!
I don’t think she will endorse him, I think she will stay out of it, she knows its a lose/lose situation
Why do you expect her to change? She’s taken on Donks and RINOs before. She’s made it clear that she’s about CONSERVATIVES, dem or rep.
Just curious.
PS You may be right about her endorsing McCain. Sigh. But I hope not.
Once again...for someone who the left considers a joke they sure seem to be focusing a ton of resources to destroy her.
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