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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe end of Sarah Palin is here
Kaput.
Donezo.
But, that's not even the real story. Again, via Beckel: In the 2016 election cycle, Palin's Sarah PAC spent $830,000 on consultants and just $82,500 in donations to other candidates a.k.a its ostensible purpose. Not only that but Sarah PAC spent $168,000 on travel and lodging expenses during the 2016 election double what it donated to candidates, which is its ostensible well you get the idea.
This was not an isolated incident. In the 2010 election cycle when Sarah PAC was functioning on all cylinders it raised $5.6 million and spent $4.3 million. Just $509,000 of that total less than 12 percent of total expenditures went to either candidates or political/party committees.
What the closure of Palin's PAC and the remarkably small amount of spending on actual candidates for office makes clear is that a) her time as a national leader for Republicans is over and b) Palin's prime interest was never really anything other than promoting her own political brand.
3catwoman3
(24,032 posts)eom
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)PatSeg
(47,573 posts)but low class grifters. They finally ran out of chumps.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)PatSeg
(47,573 posts)You truly cannot buy class!
jaxind
(1,074 posts)As with most rethuglicans, it's all about putting money into their own pockets! And, finally...good riddance to Palin!
dalton99a
(81,569 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,322 posts)or her meth dealer.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)spanone
(135,862 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)money raising tool for Palin. Many states allow Political Candidates to keep what is called surplus Campaign funds once they leave a Political Race. Remember there was the famous case by a Alaska Senator who did this and latter won on appeal.
Understand Palin has liquidated her Phoenix Property at cost,and her daughter dumped her LA property. Have not heard if Palin still has her open land in Montana.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,034 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)It's a tough market.
onetexan
(13,057 posts)I kept hearing her name mentioned soon after King Con was elected but hasn't heard of her recently.
MountainFool
(91 posts)He's got to be the #1 clown in town.
Leith
(7,813 posts)Time for her to finally go into drug rehab. Even more than in 2008, there is definitely something not right with her.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I hope the doorknob of reality hit her in the ass on her way out and knock some sense into her.
struggle4progress
(118,332 posts)uponit7771
(90,359 posts)TeamPooka
(24,250 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)Aristus
(66,446 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Google Pence and spending campaign finance money.
Groper Don the Con will make them look like rank amateurs
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Good thing for Sarah she has her old career to fall back on.
IcyPeas
(21,901 posts)The former governor of Alaska was due to star in the show as a Judge Judy-esque host, but failed to 'resonate' with test audiences because she has no legal training.
'Though Sarah has obvious talent as a commentator, she didn't resonate with the audience as a judge,' a production source told Radar Online.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4158522/Sarah-Palin-s-courtroom-reality-gets-chop.html
Dulcinea
(6,660 posts)Her voice is enough to make me run screaming from the room! She makes my ears bleed!
Back to the obscurity she so richly deserves!