{"id":262618,"date":"2010-02-01T23:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64750"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:00:45","slug":"late-night-sarah-palin-political-kingpinhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/262618","title":{"rendered":"Late Night: Sarah Palin, Political Kingpinhead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fresh off her kiss of death <\/span>endorsement of ol’ Gluehorse McCain, who is currently looking at a 40% approval rating in Arizona, and her flip-flop on keeping<\/a> her upcoming Tea Party convention speaking fee of a cool $100K, Sarah Palin is flitting around the country and waving her PAC checkbook around in a nouveau riche attempt to buy credibility<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Sarah Palin injected herself into another 2010 campaign Monday, with her endorsement of Rand Paul, son Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky. “Governor Palin is providing tremendous leadership as the Tea Party movement and constitutional conservatives strive to take our country back,” Rand Paul said in a statement. “Sarah Palin is a giant in American politics<\/strong>. I am proud to receive her support.” Paul also acknowledged that he “has received a generous donation from Governor Palin’s PAC<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rand isn’t the only one to receive a “generous donation” from Palin’s PAC. Seems the Snowbilly Princess has been using her PAC to buy up a metric assload of copies of “Going Rogue”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) PAC spent more money buying copies of Palin’s best-selling book than it gave in contributions to political candidates, according to new FEC reports. The papers filed over the weekend show SarahPAC spent $47,777 on copies of “Going Rogue” during the last 6 months of the year. Meanwhile, she handed out just $43K in donations to candidates seeking federal office<\/strong>. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The L.A. Times, however, reports the amount is closer to $63K<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span>At first blush, this deal smacks of Palin laundering PAC funds for her own bank (hey, it’s hard to keep kids in $60K Cadillac Escalades<\/a> these days), but the transactions may be perfectly legal because she’s no longer an elected official or even running for office . . . yet.<\/p>\n

Still, buying up anywhere between $47K and $63K worth of books for “fundraiser donor fulfillment” is still a lot<\/em><\/strong> of books, even if they were purchased either through her agreement with Harper Collins or at full price<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If the campaign team paid the $13.50 hardcover price currently featured on Amazon, those campaign dollars bought more than 3,500 copies of the book. If they paid the full $28.99 hardcover price, they bought more than 1,600 copies. However, if they paid the $9.99 harcover price batted around during the Great Walmart and Amazon Price War, they could have purchased more than 4,700 copies of “Going Rogue: An American Life.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, that’s one way to push that godawful piece of shit up the New York Times best seller chart.<\/p>\n

Palin is certainly proving herself capable of an executive position at bulk-order kingpin Regnery Publishing, just in case the whole Fox commentator\/wingnut welfare\/public speaker thing doesn’t work out. It would be a perfect fit, since both parties truck in parting conservatives from their money.<\/p>\n

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