Posted on 09/05/2011 4:43:32 PM PDT by STARWISE
Sarah Palin revved up a crowd of about 2,000 at a tea party rally here, telling them just about everything they wanted to hear — except that she was getting into the presidential race.
Instead, the Palin supporters who came from all over the U.S. wearing “Palin 2012” T-shirts and buttons got an intensely political speech from the former Alaska governor that scorched President Barack Obama and the “permanent political class” of both parties.
She slung an attack at the Republican candidates who “raise mammoth amounts of cash,” saying, “we need to ask them, too: What, if anything, do their donors expect in return for their investments?”
She noted gleefully: “I don’t play that game, either, of hiring expert political advisers just so they’ll say something good about me on TV.”
((Video and transcript of Indianola 9/3/11 speech is on the page))
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
I share your enthusiasm, but not your confidence.
Without adequate campaign funds for our side, Obama wins. That’s my prediction.
It will take more than campaign funds, that’s for sure. It will take a lot of different things.
But one of those things — which is necessary but not sufficient — is adequate campaign funds.
Without that, we have a snowball’s chance in h*ll.
IMO, both the Democrat and Republican parties are corrupt. Anyone who has seen the collapse of the housing and banking industries should realize that. The Democrats were most culpable but the Republicans let it happen, too.
To top it all off, those who caused the collapse get the bailouts, promotions and absolutely no investigations into their activities. In fact, many of them got huge bonuses, promotions or were given plum jobs elsewhere. They should be in jail!
And who pays the bill and is blamed for all this corruption? The taxpayers! The very people hurt most by the collapse gets no compensation, all they get is the bill. I'm not going to accept that kind of government anymore.
It's time to get damn serious about who we put into office. Sarah Palin is leading the charge and we are marching right along side her. It's time to clean out Washington!
In any 2-way matchup Baraq is toast.
The Carville Precept guarantees his loss.
The only hope of Dems is to nominate Romney in the primaries via crossover votes, resulting in a tea party challenger, and win with a Clintonian plurality like 92.
How are Republican candidates going to beat Obama if they don’t raise large amounts of cash? He’s planning on raising a billion or so to run his campaign. TV ads cost money and lots of it. We’d better have a nominee who can raise large amounts of cash.
Americans aren’t going to vote the candidate’s pocketbooks in 2012 - they’re going to vote their own.
What’s Obama done for your pocketbook lately?
We'd better get a nominee that can get a message out to the voters that we want to hear and vote for. Sarah Palin will do more with less money than any candidate you've ever seen. We've tried the big money buying influence and power. That hasn't worked too well. When there is a financial crisis, the money brokers get paid off and we end up with the bill. Aren't you tired of that scenario?
You have a point.People think that just being conservative in itself is a virtue. There are many who claim to be conservative that are not good people. Some are as corrupt as their liberal counterparts.
I would submit that it is the right cause. Obamacare is a result of the stink and corruption in Washington. So many favors and so much taxpayer money got doled out to pass this monstrosity. Kill this and something else will pop up because nearly everyone in Washington openly practices the buying and selling of votes.
Drain the swamp. I don't hold out much hope that it will change but Palin knows exactly why Washington is broke.
“But still... one billion dollars (or five hundred million)... “
A billion dollars worth of repetitions of Obama’s worn out ideas and fault finding? A billion dollars of the sound of his voice? Or the voices of people we’ve come to disrespect? Or the voices of politicians representing yesterday’s establishment rather than today’s new blood?
Might be the less Obama spends the greater his chances of re-election.
I’m saving your #22. It’s a good one.
Thank you. I used to support the Republicans straight down the line but I’ve had an epiphany since 2008.
Another post I’m bookmarking for the future. Along with #22.
Something important is going on here in this thread and I’m going to document it.
Money isn’t everthing. Example 1 is Meg Whitman running for Governor of California. She spent an enormous amount of money to achieve nothing.
Even the most inspired grassroots campaign for POTUS will take barrels of money, far more than what we saw as relatively paltry federal funding that McCain chose to take in ‘08 ($80M as I recall)
The campaign costs aren’t just the consultants or the tv ads. Putting on public events, travel, lit, etc. cost lots of money. You have to pay people to organize the events, for the venue, equipment, insurance, security (even after the candidate has SS). Campaigns have to rent, furnish, equip and staff offices in every state, some states have several offices.
And, let us not forget, Republicans have to offset the ‘in-kind’ donations of all the major media. That is very costly.
Given the controversy with the recent SCOTUS decision allowing corporations to donate as do the unions, and Obama’s attack in his SOTU on that ruling (remember, Alito’s ‘not true?’), I am not sure this battle is anything more than an unnecessary distraction.
Obviously I agree with you.
Before they were just political races, this time we are in crisis mode, lose this election, Obama will come back on steroids with a vengeance and we lose all.
Bump for later reading
They don't have enough to fund one Senate race in a medium-sized state.
I predict Sarah Palin will have more than a half Billion in less than a month after she announces, just from what is currently pledged. And then the money will start rolling in, even though it won't be needed.
What the money will do is demonstrate to all of the world just how ass-backward and upside-down the push-polling has been.
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