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.
Then why is it just at 7% expenditures directly or in support of candidates?
Without the NeoCons, there would be no Sarah Palin. In her early days, the only media that covered her was the Alaska media and the Texas Oil and Gas media which covered her mainly negatively.
The NeoCons discovered her and brought her onto the natl stage, and got her the VP nomination. And NeoCon Randy Schunemann became her main advisor. Kim Daniels from Thomas Moore also became an advisor. Then NeoCon Michael Goldfarb was added.
Then the NeoCons set out to co-opt the Tea Party and utilized her to turn the social conservative tea partiers and Glenn Beck to turn libertarian minded tea partiers into reliable GOP voters. Palin's entrance was at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville and Beck would have his shindig on the National Mall. Palin would attend Beck's event to unite the two groups.
Palin and Beck were so successful at this they both figured out they could co-opt the Tea Party for financial gain. Beck was more successful at this than Palin, but she did well. As her donations fell she emulated Beck's money machine model and started up the Sarah Channel.
Palin got sideways with the NeoCons over her political endorsements, especially Sharon Angle and Christine O'Donnell.
Then in 2011 she fired her two NeoCon advisers(Schuenemann and Goldfarb) because the NeoCons had been very influential in getting Obama to intervene in Libya and Palin was opposed to intervening there.
The NeoCons took off the gloves and went after her, which ended her political career.