Sarah Palin a $12 million celebrity brand, not a politician
In a rather bizarre, rambling announcement speech last summer, Sarah Palin announced she was resigning her position as governor of Alaska after just two years in office. She was doing it, she said, for Alaska.
Rather than take “the quitter’s way out” of hunkering down and plodding through her duties, she said, she had decided to take another course, “to build UP this state and our country, and her industrious, generous, patriotic, free people!” She wouldn’t go with the flow, because “only dead fish ‘go with the flow’.”
In reality, as a new story in New York magazine documents, Palin did it for the money, and it lays out a pretty good case that the decision was the right one:
“The numbers are staggering. Over the past year, Palin has amassed a $12 million fortune and shows no sign of slowing down. Her memoir has so far sold more than 2.2 million copies, and Palin is planning a second book with HarperCollins. This January, she signed a three-year contributor deal with Fox News worth $1 million a year, according to people familiar with the deal. In March, Palin and Burnett sold her cable show to TLC for a reported $1 million per episode, of which Palin is said to take in about $250,000 for each of the eight installments.”
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with making money, and these days there’s no more American way to make money than to cash in on your celebrity, whether you acquired it by having eight children, playing golf better than anyone on the planet, sleeping with the guy who plays golf better than anyone on the planet or running for vice president.
Reading the “New York” piece, you get the sense that Palin probably won’t be making a serious bid for the presidency because in an odd way she has become bigger than all that. She is a brand, and the confines and demands of a presidential campaign wouldn’t allow Sarah to be Sarah.
“Running for president is no doubt part of her business model,” Gabriel Sherman writes. “But forget elections (as many Palin supporters already seem to have done); she’s already the president of an alternative America — and also its CEO.”
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DoggoneGA
April 26th, 2010
4:25 pm
“Not necessarily”
Ok, I stand corrected. It really means you “hold ‘em” when it’s obvious you’re not going to win.
md
April 26th, 2010
4:28 pm
Play much poker? Sometimes you fold em to set up the other guy, even when you have the best hand. It’s not about winning the battle, but winning the war.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
4:29 pm
“Did anyone from the right side ever go after Obama’s children?”
http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=1782375&sponsor=
Union
April 26th, 2010
4:31 pm
SoCo.. the attack ads are jokes by liberals..
DoggoneGA
April 26th, 2010
4:31 pm
“Sometimes you fold em to set up the other guy, even when you have the best hand”
Well, it makes a good excuse anyway.
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
4:32 pm
President Obama told his supporters to leave Mrs. Palin’s children alone, and they didn’t do it. He also backtracked on his having allowed his children to be interviewed and has not done it again. You want to tackle Caribou Barbie and/or Fierce Advocate, go far it full tilt boogie, but leave their children alone.
Bosch
April 26th, 2010
4:33 pm
Union,
“the attack ads are jokes by liberals..”
What a lame excuse -
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
4:34 pm
SoCo.. the attack ads are jokes by liberals..
And the moon is made of green cheese!! My dad’s a politician. That dog don’t hunt here.
Union
April 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
SoCo.. show me the ad
md
April 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
“Well, it makes a good excuse anyway.”
So your answer is no? Or are you just a lousy poker player.
BillyGee
April 26th, 2010
4:37 pm
Jay Bookman… the fifty cent partisan.
Yawn.
If selling out is a sport, Palin is a piker compared to the pros like Gore, Edwards and Kerry. Bookman never cares about the high price prostitutes of the left.
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
4:38 pm
JAY
Why not put up a new post? This has descended into the riduculous and nothing’s been said here that hasn’t been said a hundred times over…seriously, let the silly bimbo go…
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
4:38 pm
josef nix,
“You want to tackle Caribou Barbie and/or Fierce Advocate, go far it full tilt boogie, but leave their children alone.”
I would agree, with the exception of Bristol Palin. When you become a paid spokeperson for a national foundation, go on Good Morning America, and start your own PR firm, I would says you’ve become fair game.
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
4:39 pm
Union.. Show me proof that attack ads are jokes by liberals
That street is a two-way street.
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
4:39 pm
my @ 4:38
Ooops! make that “ridiculous” We can say that now….
Matilda
April 26th, 2010
4:40 pm
Wasn’t it the RNC who used the Palin kids to promote their “family values” and “She’s a REAL woman!” schtick? Why were they pulled out of school and trotted out in the spotlight? Especially the pregnant one? As a mom, I did not perceive that any of the RNC-driven publicity was in the best interest of those children. Of course it’s ugly and wrong to attack children!! Why were they dragged in front of the cameras? Their presence had nothing whatsoever to do with her ability (or inablity) to articulate knowledge of the issues pertinent to the election, unless they were positioned there as a deliberate distraction from the winking and vague, nonsensical anwers to legitimate questions.
DoggoneGA
April 26th, 2010
4:40 pm
“Or are you just a lousy poker player”
I’m good enough at poker, but I have no doubt you won’t accept “penny ante” poker as any kind of proof. I don’t play at the levels where you “set people up” It takes the fun out of it.
md
April 26th, 2010
4:41 pm
“This has descended into the riduculous and nothing’s been said here that hasn’t been said a hundred times over…”
Seems to be a daily occurrence.
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
4:41 pm
jewcowboy
I would agree with that…and I would also give her her credit for talking about something with which she has had some experience…much the same as Mama with her work for Down’s Syndrome children…credit where credit is due as well…
@@
April 26th, 2010
4:41 pm
SoCo:
That McCain ad piece was done by Andy Borowitz who’s a satirist. I never saw that ad.
jewcowboy:
I wasn’t talking so much about political sites, I was talking about media. The lamestream media had a field day with Sarah’s children, egged on by left-wing radicals no doubt.
Rightwing Troll
April 26th, 2010
4:42 pm
Sooo… Democrats fixate on Sarah Palin and Repugs fixate on Barney Frank…
hmmmmm?…
gagay
April 26th, 2010
4:42 pm
What amazes me is that a woman who had to have it explained to her that there is a North and South Korea (and why) by her VP handlers could make 12 million in a year is unbelievable. Her followers are so gullible.
AND what is this routine about Obama and teleprompters? Is he the first President to ever use one? Oh, that’s right Bush did…so did Clinton and Bush I, and Reagan, and Carter and Ford and Nixon and Johnson…..
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
4:43 pm
Union
See, anyone can make an unsubstantiated claim that might play well to party extremists. However, unsubstantiated claims are ones that can’t be backed up, and you bit on that one. That claim was long ago proven as a joke. Even says as much if you google it and click the link.
dave
April 26th, 2010
4:43 pm
You “fellow travelers” amaze me. Your man in the white house will soon be exposed as the incompetent crook (can you say Blagojevich, Rezko,) that he is and you guys look the other way, but trash Palin – you will all stand in line for a week.
md
April 26th, 2010
4:44 pm
“I don’t play at the levels where you “set people up” It takes the fun out of it.”
Once again depends on one’s definition. I rather enjoy the strategy of a long term match.
Also why some prefer checkers instead of chess.
Union
April 26th, 2010
4:44 pm
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
4:43 pm
yeah.. uh huh.. nice way to try an back out SoCo..
jefferson
April 26th, 2010
4:44 pm
She would make a centerfold, that’s about it. Mike Tyson was rich once, that makes him smart, then?
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
4:45 pm
@@
I know. I tried to qualify my statement by saying a quick google search shows…, but it seems as if some here had not heard of that claim before.
The only legit one I know of is the Free Press thing, but no politicians attacked Obama’s children to my knowledge.
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
4:46 pm
I didn’t try to back out, but thanks anyway…
Union
April 26th, 2010
4:46 pm
SoCo.. yeah.. whatever..
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
4:47 pm
Oh, Matilda, I expect better from you. Anybody running for President brings the family out. We expect them to be there. So, her family happened to look a lot more like the rest of us than we’d care to admit in public…think about what would happen if yours got spotlighted because you put yourself up as a candidate…mine would certainly be one for the books!
md
I simply cannot grasp this fascination with her…I mean, over and over and over again…it’s as bad as me and DADT, Appomattox and the Zionist Conspiracy…
Union
April 26th, 2010
4:47 pm
quick.. SoCo.. you got busted.. back to trashing palin.. squirrel
@@
April 26th, 2010
4:48 pm
One more thing…if you leftists are going to sit in here all day, every day, defending unwed mothers, pregnant teens and the like, where were your voices of support when it came to Bristol Palin. Do you hate her because she HAD THE BABY or what? I’m not talking about what she’s doing now. I’m talking about during the campaign.
You guys were disgusting during the ‘08 campaign.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
4:48 pm
josef nix,
“and I would also give her her credit for talking about something with which she has had some experience”
I assume mean the PR company and not the Teen Abstinence Ambassador for the Candie’s Foundation.
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
4:50 pm
Union
Unlike you, I’ve stated my claim was unsubstantiated. I have no agenda to push. Care to be honest about yours???
md
April 26th, 2010
4:51 pm
“I simply cannot grasp this fascination with her…I mean, over and over and over again”
Jo, I see a bit of a pattern here, and it’s always over, and over, and over…..Palin, Bad Georgia, Climate change, tea party……….
Union
April 26th, 2010
4:51 pm
SoCo.. I said squirrel.. it’s OK..
DoggoneGA
April 26th, 2010
4:51 pm
“I simply cannot grasp this fascination with her”
It amazes me too.
YaHump
April 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
circulation down 25% and Jay is wondering about sarah palin. Why isn’t that headlines on ajc.com. time to cut editorial staff again.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
4:52 pm
josef nix,
“it’s as bad as me and DADT”
Have you seen this?
“President Barack H. Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
If you end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), I’d re-enlist the day you sign repeal into law.
For thirteen years, I served in the United States Air Force where I attained the rank of major before I was discharged under DADT…”
http://www.sldn.org/blog/archives/Mike-Almy/
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
4:56 pm
@@,
“if you leftists are going to sit in here all day, every day, defending unwed mothers, pregnant teens and the like, where were your voices of support when it came to Bristol Palin.”
I supported Levi, the poor unwed father, struggling to help his family out by showing his @ss for Playgirl. Perhaps he can run for the Senate now and be Scott Brown’s centerfold buddy.
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
4:56 pm
josef
Did you get in touch with the family near Yazoo yet?
Union
April 26th, 2010
4:57 pm
jc.. change you can believe in.. with a little transparency tossed in..
http://www.mediaite.com/online/white-house-press-corps-shut-out-by-dadt-protest-until-mark-knoller-intercedes/
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
4:58 pm
Okay, Let’s talk something closer to my mood today and something Jay and the bloggers hereabouts ought to be considering:
The little ones finished up their CRCT testing today…five days, three hours a day bubbling in. Whether they pass or not dependent on these scores. And you blathering crackpots, you, too, Jay, know what? They got through the whole megillah and NEVER HAD TO WRITE A SINGLE WORD and NEVER HAD TO SHOW THEIR RESOLUTION OF THE MATH PROBLEM. No wonder we’re headed pell mell into a new Dark Age….But a rehash or Sarah’s $12 million and quasi-literate scribblings… now THAT’s something to be commented on… OY!
CONSERVATIVE..DITTOhead.
April 26th, 2010
5:01 pm
WHEN BOOKMAN GOES AFTER YOU……..YOU GOT SOMETHING……You are a THREAT TO THE LIBERALs……Bookman is a liberal PITBULL……without the lipstick….
CONSERVATIVE..DITTOhead.
April 26th, 2010
5:01 pm
WHEN BOOKMAN GOES AFTER YOU……..YOU GOT SOMETHING……You are a THREAT TO THE LIBERALs……Bookman is a liberal PITBULL……without the lipstick….
@@
April 26th, 2010
5:03 pm
jewcowboy:
Why am I not surprised that you’d support a jerk?
josef:
You could always blame Teddy for the testing, but he’s dead…that leaves congress and Bush.
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
5:04 pm
jewcowboy
Thanks for the link. Will forward to our boy.
SoCo
It came through just to the north of where they live, but some of their businesses were hit pretty hard. They’re all okay, though, thank G-d. They’re busy now helping others clean up and dig out. Thanks for asking.
@@
April 26th, 2010
5:04 pm
Oh CRAP! There was no pun intended in my 5:03 to jewcowboy.
DOGGONE/STUPID
April 26th, 2010
5:05 pm
It amazes me,
HA,HA,
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
5:05 pm
@@
Yep, that fiasco was a bipartisan effort, all right…be careful what you ask for, eh? ISH
Matilda
April 26th, 2010
5:06 pm
josef,
Yes, I am aware that a candidate’s children show up for photos and stand behind mommy or daddy on big days. But the Palin children were subjected to much more than the usual “Oh, aren’t those cute children!” stuff, as I’m sure you remember. That the teen was preggers and unwed was something that should have been treated with some measure of modesty, IMO. Instead, they bought the boy a suit, told everyone they were getting married, and thrust them forward into the “SEE? We have family values!” circus. When any non-Repub dared to comment on THAT, the “You’re attacking the children!” screeching began. Sheesh. Mom should have said, “My daughter’s condition is a private matter. Why don’t you ask me another foreign policy question instead?”
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
5:08 pm
@@,
“Oh CRAP! There was no pun intended in my 5:03 to jewcowboy.”
But, certainly well received
@@
April 26th, 2010
5:10 pm
O-:MG!!! Over at the “Real American Stories” site there are 470 responses. Those from the left are hate-filled and directed towards Palin.
Let’s see, there’s a story about a bi-lateral amputee, a cancer survivor and a tone-deaf American Idol contestant. All dream BIG.
What do the leftists focus on? Sarah Palin.
Leftists are, indeed, afflicted human beings by choice.
@@
April 26th, 2010
5:11 pm
jewcowboy:
Don’t wink at me, dude.
Steve
April 26th, 2010
5:11 pm
Jay and Cynthia…keep up the “good work”…the liberal AJC is falling like a rock…bye…bye…
“Nationally, the Audit Bureau of Circulations said, daily circulation fell an average of 8.7 percent compared with the same period a year ago. Sunday sales decreased 6.5 percent. Daily circulation of the AJC dropped 24.7 percent to 195,582; Sunday circulation was down 13.9 percent to 397,925.”
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
5:11 pm
@@,
But seriously, why do you believe Levi Johnston is a “jerk” for doing exactly what Sarah Palin is doing, albeit she is doing it in a less “exposed” manner?
@@
April 26th, 2010
5:12 pm
I’m AMAZED that jay and the leftists focus more on Palin than do most of the conservatives here.
Steve
April 26th, 2010
5:12 pm
Won’t be long…see ya….
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
5:15 pm
She wasn’t just pregnant, but “preggers.” I rest my case.
@@
April 26th, 2010
5:16 pm
jewcowboy:
Because Levi Johnston owes $21,000+ in unpaid child support. That puts him in the jerk category.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
5:19 pm
josef nix,
Did you see what went on at McCain’s office today?
http://gltnewsnow.com/2010/04/26/breaking-protesters-arrested-for-dadt-sit-in-at-sen-john-mccains-office/
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
5:20 pm
SoCo.. I said squirrel.. it’s OK..
I’m originally from Alabama, so sometimes I don’t always follow slang. Did you say squirrel as a distract as not to say whether or not your claim about the attack ads were unsubstantiated? Or, did you say squirrel as a reference saying I was trying to deflect?
If you don’t want to be honest about your claim, that’s ok with me too. I owned up to mine, but I guess that’s ok too.
josef
That’s good to know. The tornado that hit Albertville, AL was fairly close to home for me. I heard from most of my friends/family from that area.
Ward
April 26th, 2010
5:22 pm
Obama is the ULTIMATE case of branding in American Politics. He’s got a logo, he’s got slogans, he’s got people buying books, posters, stickers, t-shirts, videos and building little shrines to him in their homes. Apple should market themselves as well… and they do. He’s laid out the blueprint for modern politics going forward, and now the Dems are mortified to discover that the formula works for the other guys (or gal) as well.
I’ve said for months that Sarah Palin is the same as Obama; young, charismatic, photogenic and completely, utterly unburdened by experience or accomplishment. The fact that this is the state of politics today does not bode well for our republic.
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
5:25 pm
Jewcowboy–
This one is going to get dicey. It ought to be really heating up come campaign season…
mike
April 26th, 2010
5:25 pm
Look, Sarah Palin’s role in the conservative movement is to help keep liberal pundits talking about her instead of anything relevant.
At the end of the day, the independents who decide elections do not make their choices based on what Sarah Palin or Al Gore say. They make their choice based on issues and policy. Conservatives have been crushing the left in the debate over issues and policy and are increasing their advantage.
The left should be spending its time making the case for the deeply unpopular health reform. Instead, Jay and the rest of the spokesmen for the left waste their breath griping about Sarah Palin. She is pretty much an irrelevant distraction, but apparently an extraordinarily effective one.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
5:26 pm
@@,
“Because Levi Johnston owes $21,000+ in unpaid child support. ”
No he doesn’t…but don’t let facts get in the way.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/03/09/2010-03-09_levi_johnston_coughs_up_21000_in_child_support_but_will_fight_to_have_payments_r.html
NRB2
April 26th, 2010
5:27 pm
Jay, gasoline is rising to almost 3 bucks a gallon! Why is Obama raising the price of gas? How could this be happening without Bush in office?
Southern Comfort
April 26th, 2010
5:27 pm
Ward
Amen on that second paragraph. It’s not a good sign at all.
Matilda
April 26th, 2010
5:28 pm
josef: She wasn’t just pregnant, but “preggers.” I rest my case.
What case was that, exactly? I used that term about myself and my friends, and to me it neither debases nor glorifies the condition. Is your disgust for “breeders” seeping out? I thought the teenaged girl (and the boyfriend) should be sheltered somewhat from the spotlight of a highly-contentious national election. Why exactly is that a problem for YOU? Does your vast experience as a mother trump mine?
mike
April 26th, 2010
5:30 pm
“When you become a paid spokeperson for a national foundation, go on Good Morning America, and start your own PR firm, I would says you’ve become fair game.”
Too bad the attacks started before any of that, but hey, who cares about facts. Let’s get after that pregnant teenage girl. She is an easy target and it makes me feel good about myself to spend so much time thinking about how I am superior some adolescent stranger. It also proves something, but I am not really certain what on earth that might be. That people can be nasty?
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
5:30 pm
josef nix,
You may already know about it, but this is a great site for DADT updates:
http://www.towleroad.com/dont_ask_dont_tell/
mike
April 26th, 2010
5:31 pm
So who is lamer? Levi Johnston or some grown men spending a Monday afternoon sitting around talking about him. I am going to say the later.
@@
April 26th, 2010
5:34 pm
jewcowboy:
Did Levi have to be forced to pay? Yes!
I rest my case.
Dusty
April 26th, 2010
5:35 pm
I have never seen so much hate and envy in one blog.
Some people “have it” and some people DO NOT. Sarah Palin was a young housewife with children. She was elected mayor of her hometown. People liked her. Then she was elected Goovernor of Alaska becasue THE PEOPLE LIKED HER. The Republican Party put her on their presidentialal ticket becaseu THEY LIKED HER. There is nothing illegal on her record. PEOPLE LIKE HER becaise she is very honest, ethical, moral and the kind of American most people like to see.
She writes a successful book and makes money. Lotsa money. Honestly! She makes speeches and makes money. Lotsa money. HONESTLY and without the help of dishonest politicians(Blogo,Ritzo), former terrorists (Ayers) and an anti-American minister (Wright). She has no crooked pals among her friends. She got where she is because SHE’S GOT THE ABILITY TO MOVE AHEAD.
If Bookman writes about her one more time I think I will bring up HIS BOOK etc. etc. If he has the right to smear Palin because she’s political, then why not smear a newspaperman with twisted facts and innuendoes. It is a sick act by Bookman with sick followers disgracing themselves. Let us hope this is the end of hate propaganda..
RW-(the original)
April 26th, 2010
5:35 pm
I wonder how real professors feel about Obama claiming to have been a 12 year law professor when he was barely more than a guest lecturer. I bet I’ve spent more time lecturing classes on telecommunications theory than Obama has law classes.
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
5:35 pm
SoCo
“Ward
Amen on that second paragraph. It’s not a good sign at all.”
I second that.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
5:36 pm
mike,
“That people can be nasty?”
Perhaps…just like this:
“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.” ~ Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.
or,
“On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, “Did you know there’s a White House dog?” Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time and as far as I know had never done any harm to anyone. “
Paul
April 26th, 2010
5:38 pm
I skimmed thru the comments, so if someone else has made this point – apologies.
Do any of the Palin detractors remember why she quit her term?
Hmmmmmm?
That’s right – because of all the other Palin detractors who manipulated the state’s ethics system to try to cause her problems. And cause them they did. No matter the detractors knew they were filing false charges – there’s no penalty for that. No, one objective was to swamp her in the legal system and run up her bills. Which they did. How much was she in debt to the legal beagles when she left? Half a mill?
There’s a lesson in here (and maybe a bit of karma, too) about unintended consequences. Kinda funny, the very people who tried to force her into bankruptcy instead impelled her on a course that made her a millionaire.
I love irony.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
5:39 pm
@@,
“Did Levi have to be forced to pay? Yes!
I rest my case”
He was forced to pay b/c he disagreed with the amount. I have to be honest, at $1,800 a month for one child, I would be questioning that too.
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
5:40 pm
mike,
“So who is lamer? Levi Johnston or some grown men spending a Monday afternoon sitting around talking about him. I am going to say the later.”
Or the one talking about the one’s talking about him?
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
5:41 pm
matilda–
It’s a snippy term. Yes, I use them, too and in relation to myself as well, but they’re snippy nonetheless. I am not “disgusted” by “breeders,” for if it weren’t for them there’d be none of us. And when I use the term, I am being snippy…
As for my “vast experience as a mother” is concerned, Unmentionable and I brought to responsible adulthood his two orphaned nephews and a goddaughter whose mother was not able to…so I have PLENTY of experience in parenting…oh, and BTW, they send me an Unmentionable a “Muth-ahs Day card every year…
jewcowboy
April 26th, 2010
5:42 pm
But I will admit this thread has become quite lame…
It’s sort of like Palin herself…starts out with vigor, then just kind of peters out…
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
5:44 pm
jewcowboy
Thanks. Now bookmarked.
Keep up the good fight!
April 26th, 2010
5:46 pm
Hate to say it…but Bristol has stepped into the public limelight and is subject to criticism the same as Levi. She wants to tell others that abstenance is the answer when she is failed that mission herself and has in the past indicated that abstenance is not an answer.
@@
April 26th, 2010
5:49 pm
jewcowboy:
I would also argue that the media left Levi no choice but to pursue fast cash. He was given a job at the Milne Point oil field, but the media’s feeding frenzy killed that opportunity. You people are everywhere.
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
5:50 pm
Gone upstairs…
Matilda
April 26th, 2010
5:51 pm
josef,
I’ll have to remember to wish you a happy mother’s day, then. I am not being snippy when I use the word. Why would I be snippy? Being preggers is no picnic — it’s tough, no matter who you are!! I was appalled at the many ways in which both those teens were both maligned and used. My initial point in this discussion was that I faulted the parents and the RNC for dragging them out into the spotlight where so many others saw them as fair game for cheap shots. To fault one “side” and excuse the other, IMO, is hypocritical.
middler and so tired of all the rhetoric :
April 26th, 2010
5:51 pm
It is scary that people are dumb enough to pay to read what this idiot has written, or hear her talk, or watch her on tv. And if someone leaves one elected position for another, or in this case, to make her millions, they need to be barred from running again for say 10 years. If you are “bigger” than the office you were elected to, or aspire to, then perhaps you are too little to represent us.
Dusty
April 26th, 2010
5:54 pm
Jewcowboy,
If this thread has become quite lame (and there is a new dull thread) it is not because of Palin. It is the pernicious production of pure hate here by most liberals. They never heard the term “good sport” or fair evaluation or even good manners. Now that is not “lame”. It is crippled.
Peter
April 26th, 2010
5:55 pm
Just how will Sarah be able to WORK after this windfall? 1/2 term at best . . . if she were able to be elected. (I hope she runs.)
MAC
April 26th, 2010
6:11 pm
“Palin has amassed a $12 million fortune”
Earnings does not equal net worth so while she has done well she has probably “amassed” less than half of that after taxes and all. Liberals and journalists always seem to confuse earnings with ‘”fortune”,
and good for her.
MAC
April 26th, 2010
6:13 pm
“He was forced to pay b/c he disagreed with the amount. I have to be honest, at $1,800 a month for one child, I would be questioning that too.”
Evidently, you are ignorant of the child support laws in Georgia too.
ksiujgth
April 26th, 2010
6:28 pm
you got admit, 12 million for being the pinata for the rabid left is pretty good pay
mike
April 26th, 2010
6:38 pm
“It’s sort of like Palin herself…starts out with vigor, then just kind of peters out…”
Yes, one always appreciates a “vigorous” debate about Levi Johnston. LOL
mike
April 26th, 2010
6:43 pm
jewcowboy –
“Perhaps…just like this:
“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because …
or,
“On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration….”
Thanks for providing such an excellent demonstration of how partisanship has warped your sense of reason. You are excusing your nasty attacks on Bristol Palin by quoting equally ugly attacks from hateful conservatives.
What is your point? That you are as hateful and crude as Rush Limbaugh. Whoopee.
How about being responsibile for your own civliity instead of using the incivilty of media figures as your justification?
How about just acknowledging that attacking teenage girls is pathetic and so is anyone who does so?
The quotes that you cite from McCain and Limbaugh are mindless and hateful. So are yours. So how intellectual honesty works?
josef nix
April 26th, 2010
6:45 pm
matilda @ 5:51
Much agreed with what you say…this is more the Matilda I have grown to respect and admire…sorry if I stepped on toes…it was a reaction and we always live to regret those…and, FYI, women will always have the trump card when it comes to giving birth…not something I think most men (self included) would care to go through…but, then, y’all should’ve left that apple alone!
ken R
April 26th, 2010
6:47 pm
Pretty soon she will be making the same as the Clintons.
Jay, you may also want to check out how much Michell Obamas pay jumped up as a part time employee when her husband wes elected Senator.
mike
April 26th, 2010
6:49 pm
I guess by jewcowboy’s logic, I can make any kind of hateful comment I want and be justified as long as somebody I never met who also happens to be a liberal made a similar comment.
Makes sense to me. Very progressive sentiment.
mike
April 26th, 2010
6:57 pm
ken R –
Well don’t forget how much richer Al Gore has gotten since he left office and got into the fear-peddling business. He also was a far harsher critic of Bush than Palin has been of Obama. Let’s not forget Al’s wacky shouting of “They lied to us!!! They played on our fears!!!”
It is the height of irony that the same people who demonize Palin worship Al Gore. Palin is a piker at the partisan, money-making ex-pol. Shoot, Gore won a Nobel and an Oscar for his version of Palin’s schtick.