Cashing in on fascination with Palin

MCCain Veepstakes PalinFriends and foes of Sarah Palin are cashing in on the public’s continued fascination with the Alaska governor and former GOP vice presidential candidate. Though the fundraising is not authorized by Palin, the groups are “minting money off the mere mention of her name,” Politico reported.
Meanwhile, Palin has had a rough return to Alaska politics, as Democratic and Republican state lawmakers complain that Palin is too focused on her national ambitions. “The source of the greatest tension this year between the Legislature and the executive has been certainly the appearance that the executive is prioritizing her national image, her national brand, over the day-to-day operations of state government and the interests of the state of Alaska,” Rep. Mike Hawker, Republican co-chairman of the House Finance Committee, told the New York Times.

32 Comments

  1. beber
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 7:03 am | Permalink

    Sell Alaska to China to pay off the national debt. No one goes there.

  2. BlueJay
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 7:24 am | Permalink

    Palin 2012!

  3. Daniel
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 8:03 am | Permalink

    Run, Sarah, run!!!

  4. ANTI
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 8:13 am | Permalink

    She’s a fox.

  5. fleettwood
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 8:25 am | Permalink

    She’s a fox.
    _______________________

    You got that right. Stone Cold!

  6. Phantom
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 8:25 am | Permalink

    Sorry Alaska, she’s outgrown you.

  7. Phantom
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 9:17 am | Permalink

    I think blow up dolls of palin would be a money maker. Every con would have one in their closet.

  8. JAYHAWKCAT
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 9:35 am | Permalink

    Palin, what a loser, but I guess thats the best the stupid Republicans can do, just look at what we had as a passed president. She doesn’t even know what a bridge looks like even where it is going.

  9. totoinks
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 10:11 am | Permalink

    fleettwood
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 8:25 am | Permalink
    She’s a fox.
    _______________________

    You got that right. Stone Cold!


    Spoken like two old men who would NEVER have a chance with her.

    But you’ll always have her picture hanging over your beds – right?

  10. totoinks
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 10:12 am | Permalink

    Phantom
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 9:17 am | Permalink
    I think blow up dolls of palin would be a money maker. Every con would have one in their closet.

    Along with the companion doll – Todd.

  11. ANTI
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 10:13 am | Permalink

    Phillip seems to drool over her.

  12. fleettwood
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 10:17 am | Permalink

    jayhawkcats greatest hits continue:
    _________________________________________
    She doesn’t even know what a bridge looks like even where it is going.

  13. Jed
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 11:01 am | Permalink

    Ant,
    “She’s a fox.”

    No, that’s just the dead fox skin she wears.

  14. Monkeyhawk
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 11:10 am | Permalink

    “ANTI” slobbers –

    “She’s a fox.”

    So let’s put her in the hen house.

  15. ANTI
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 11:13 am | Permalink

    So let’s put her in the hen house.
    =================

    Excellent idea.

    I am tired of all the squawking without the teeth to back it up.

    Lay the feathered ones to waste.

  16. Monkeyhawk
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 11:18 am | Permalink

    “ANTI” rails –

    “Lay the feathered ones to waste.”

    You can hardly wait ’til President Moose-Dresser takes down Malia & Sasha’s swing set and replaces it with a turkey beheader, can you?

  17. ANTI
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 11:20 am | Permalink

    You can hardly wait ’til President Moose-Dresser takes down Malia & Sasha’s swing set and replaces it with a turkey beheader, can you?
    =====================

    Really, I can’t wait.

  18. okobserver
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 12:20 pm | Permalink

    I have yet to figure out the lefts fascination with this women. I know why the old republican guard rail against her beginning with McCain. They fear a new direction for the party and they are seeing the exit door.

    Whether Palin runs in 2012 or not isn’t important here. I read these articles about her unpopularity in Alaska and then see the polls which still show her with a large majority of the populus approving of her. Seems to be a disconnect here.

    Must be driven by the lefts passion for this lady.

  19. Monkeyhawk
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

    We’re just encouraging her, “okobserver” –

    We’ve learned you CONs tend to embrace anything opposite of what we like.

    We mention the well…nuttiness of gun nuts and immediately they’re out bragging how they just paid top-dollar for five thousand rounds of ammunition. (Planning a busy weekend, I guess.)

    We talk about gender-neutral marriage and the f@g jokes pour in.

    We pass the largest middle-class tax cut in the history of Western Civilization and the tea-baggers try to protest wasteful spending by buying a million tea-bags for no good reason.

    I think we “libs” should advocate Socialized Gun Ownership; distributing Glocks to every man woman and child with taxpayers’ money. You CONs would be reduced to batting your heads with your paws like dogs eating ice cream.

  20. rsmueller
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

    Sarah Palin would be more successful as a porn star than as a vice president. Republicans should vote on an independent ticket in 2012. It would make the state of Kansas appear more intelligent.

  21. brian_nuevo
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 12:59 pm | Permalink

    I really want to see Sarah Palin as the Republican presidential candidate in the next election.

    Yes, that would be just grand.

    (not because she would win but because the SNL parodies of her are just so funny.)

  22. DFB
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 3:41 pm | Permalink

    Good to see Jayhawkcat still has a firm grip on the english language….as well as Monkeyhawk’s firm grip on reality, to believe that an $8/wk “raise” will offset the impending inflation they’re creating as well as the utility bill increases from the chosen one’s glorious bait & tax plan designed to make electricity costs “necessarily skyrocket”…but you knows us’n dum ‘pbulikans er jus to dum too unerstan dem hi falutin’ obamanomics…

  23. cosmos_originally
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

    DFB posted April 17, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    …but you knows us’n dum ‘pbulikans er jus to dum too unerstan dem hi falutin’ obamanomics…
    —————–

    You obviously “er jus to dum too unerstan” palaeoclimate science.

    http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/04/tiahrt-sebelius-should-hold-pay-per-view-debate/#comment-556232

  24. fleettwood
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 3:58 pm | Permalink

    the tea-baggers try to protest wasteful spending by buying a million tea-bags for no good reason.
    _______________________________

    It was their own money. Paid sales tax on it, too.

  25. ANTI
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

    fascination with Palin
    ===========================

    I’m fascinated Palin looks that good after pumping out five kids, hunting/cleaning moose, and being a politician.

    Meanwhile Hillary has done much of nothing and looks like she fell out of a turnip truck that was doing 70 mph down a gravel road.

    Fascinating.

  26. BlueJay
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

    Let’s see what Sarah looks like in 20 years.

    She’ll have that mean old busybody churchlady look down perfect by then. AND she’ll either have to lose the do or invest in dye. I wouldn’t hit that with an ice pick.

  27. ANTI
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:11 pm | Permalink

    I wouldn’t hit that with an ice pick.
    ===============

    But you’d tap Hillary with an I-Beam?

  28. Jed
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:19 pm | Permalink

    I can tell the photo they’ll use on her campaign poster- the one of her sitting on her bed with the “I may be broke but I’m not flat busted” T-shirt. All those good christian moralists will vote for that!

  29. ANTI
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:21 pm | Permalink

    Jed
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:19 pm | Permalink
    I can tell the photo they’ll use on her campaign poster- the one of her sitting on her bed with the “I may be broke but I’m not flat busted”
    All those good christian moralists will vote for that!
    =======================

    Jed, stay out of peoples’ bedrooms.

  30. Jed
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:26 pm | Permalink

    Ant,
    I wouldn’t be caught dead in her bedroom. That pic was on her MySpace page. My granddaughter found it.

  31. ANTI
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:28 pm | Permalink

    Jed
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:26 pm | Permalink
    Ant,
    I wouldn’t be caught dead in her bedroom.
    =========================

    I agree Jed, I would rather be caught alive.

  32. totoinks
    Posted April 18, 2009 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

    ANTI
    Posted April 17, 2009 at 4:04 pm | Permalink
    fascination with Palin
    ===========================

    I’m fascinated Palin looks that good after pumping out five kids, hunting/cleaning moose, and being a politician.


    Oh, you’re such a charmer with your quaint ‘pumping out five kids’. This shows how much class and respect you have for women, doesn’t it?

    Do you kiss your mommy with that mouth?