Sarah Palin has certainly done well for herself and her friends. According to the Wall Street Journal:
[quote] Ms. Palin’s PAC has collected $4.7 million in the 2012 election cycle, according to its most recent filing with the FEC. But the filings show the PAC hasn’t made a large number of donations. It donated $80,000 to Republican candidates for Congress this election. That represents about 1.7% of the money she has raised.
Meantime, SarahPAC has spent $1.3 million on administrative expenses, $700,000 on fundraising costs and $380,000 on political consultants, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. For the year, it’s running a deficit of about $200,000. [/quote] blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/11/0 … 000-check/
If there are no laws against stealing money from people in this way, there should be. So much for all of her lectures on fiscal responsibility!
There’s been something like USD 2 billion donated to super PACs this election. There has not been anywhere near enough airtime to sell so that all that money could be spent, particularly since most of it was bought up months in advance by the campaigns.
A lot of people who are running those super PACs are going to make large personal fortunes after this is done.
So Sarah Palin is an idiot but she is “making a hell of a lot more difference” than all those who want to. AND, while I criticize her for keeping so much for administrative expenses, I have pointed this out for ALL NGOs which is why I think that they are largely bullshit and then… do we really want to look at the UN? ReallY? Wanna go there?
Idiot is nice. I don’t think there has been a more self-centered figure in politics in my lifetime, save the Donald.
[quote=“fred smith”]So Sarah Palin is an idiot [/quote]Yes.
[quote=“fred smith”]but she is “making a hell of a lot more difference” than all those who want to.[/quote] :roflmao: True, she has handed quite a few elections to the Dems. I’m sure they will admit they love having her on the political scene.
[quote=“fred smith”]AND, while I criticize her for keeping so much for administrative expenses,[/quote] Anyone would…
[quote=“fred smith”]I have pointed this out for ALL NGOs which is why I think that they are largely bullshit and then…[/quote] ALL NGO’s? Really? 1.5%? I’m sure the guy who likes sources so much has a source for ALL NGO’s with 98.5% admin costs…
[quote=“fred smith”]do we really want to look at the UN? ReallY? Wanna go there? [/quote] Why don’t you start a thread of your own on that?
It sounds like you really have no argument in favor of what she is doing, but instead want to talk about some imagined wrongs others do that are the same but worse? 1.5% is flat out robbery.
She is an idiot taking money from idiots, but I doubt the idiots will be smart enough to cause enough of an uproar to make her stop.
[/quote] Why don’t you start a thread of your own on that?