Palin Hints at Possible Senate Bid
Source: Political Wire
Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R) keeps raising questions about whether she plans on running against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), according to the Midnight Sun.
Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2016/01/03/palin-hints-at-possible-senate-bid/
Isn't is fun when you dangle a string in front of a cat and they go crazy?
treestar
(82,383 posts)That'd be three whole years.
SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Palin is interested in a 3 year term as a US Senator.
Beat me to it, treestar.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)lastlib
(23,216 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)trillion
(1,859 posts)Blus4u
(608 posts)Too much work.
Peace
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Different than being the sole Governor of a State. She could get lost in crowd and just vote the way her masters in the Tea Bagger Inc. want her to. Then work on gerrymandering her own district to make sure she gets in next time too. Then sit back and collect a paycheck for decades.
No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)No problem, though.
She won't run, and she wouldn't be elected if she did.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)From Canada. I just hear how the Republicans keep getting re-elected (even though Congress has such a high disapproval rating) because a lot the reason has to do with gerrymandering. Even if by a Republican Governor. Maybe the Senate is different? But I shouldn't have spoken, as I am too unfamiliar with your system. Just what I assumed.
brooklynite
(94,503 posts)Senate seats are State-wide
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)It's a massive state but the population is actually smaller than my home state of Delaware. (We First Staters have almost a million whereas I think Alaska is still under 750k citizens).
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SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)What a waste of everyone's time!!! Why don't she just go away and retire somewhere overseas? I don't care how old she is or isn't. I'm sure she has more than enough money to retire early.
Please, Sarah, please.
ValasHune
(38 posts)wow... please run Sara.... PLEASE ! Burried , avalanche.... Good bye !!!
trusty elf
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Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)Punkingal
(9,522 posts)Get your ass trounced and maybe we won't have to hear about you anymore!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and you KNOW Bob never leaves.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and I usually do not get Bill Murray.
His "What About Bob" and "Grandhog Day" were both marvelous, to me.
I worked in Mental Health for many years, and I think that is why I appreciated "What About Bob".
mahina
(17,646 posts)He is my soulmate.
tom_kelly
(958 posts)ronnykmarshall
(35,356 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Botany
(70,495 posts)all aboard the gravy
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)and there are enough fools in the world to send her some.
Botany
(70,495 posts).... let the Americans know that the Germans were gonna bomb pearl harbor.
http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2014/07/sarah-palins-odd-slurred-speech
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Anchorage before Thanks Giving. The fellow was the President of the Alaska Tea Party and lived out on Kodiak and worked for the Forest Service. Bring it baby,just what we need is another Grifter running for Public Office.
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chapdrum
(930 posts)"Any old bollocks will do."
Yet another basket case that we'll be obliged to take seriously.
From the party that would have had her within a heartbeat of the Oval Office.
They never get called out on this.
no_hypocrisy
(46,083 posts)She's more interested in continuing the political and personal feud with Murkowski.
Plus, she'd be in over her head the first chance that Al Franken confronts her.
Proserpina
(2,352 posts)talk about unarmed combat.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)They don't seem to take offense when their money is spent on bombs, so why should they care if someone without a brain is representing them.
We're going to need a sequel to Idiocracy.
George II
(67,782 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Fame has called. You are overdrawn on your 15 minutes. Please make arrangements to return them ASAP.
gwheezie
(3,580 posts)And brissel has the new baby so someone has to make some money.
Vinca
(50,267 posts)Alas, Faux and reality TV have abandoned her.
ProfessorGAC
(65,000 posts)You know that if she gets campaign contributions, she gets to keep them. So, she starts a campaign PAC, raises some cash. Makes noise for 15 minutes. Decides she can't win. Drops out. It's not like her quitting would be a shock to anybody.
Then she skates with the funds. Probably a lot more than $174k for almost no work. Right up her alley.
Vinca
(50,267 posts)jmowreader
(50,555 posts)If I'm remembering correctly, Sarah Palin has pissed off so many Alaskans she couldn't be elected dogcatcher. If she really wanted to be a senator, her best chance of success would be to move to Idaho, Montana or Wyoming. Alaskans know her just a little too well...
Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Sounds like Secessionist Sarah can't afford her lavish lifestyle, now that she's no longer a FOX employee, so she's back to her old tricks of pretending to consider a run for president or senate in order to collect donations from the rubes.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,582 posts)Palin was snatched from obscurity mainly due to the efforts of a Colorado college student:
How a college sophomore put Alaska's governor on the map
Limpballs and others started jumping on the Palin bandwagon a year later, but Brickley was the first to see her "potential" as a GOP VP candidate. He even started a blog which is still online (the internet never forgets).
So, for the hours of entertainment, buffoonary and hypocrisy (Bristol Palin would have remained in baby-making obscurity had her abstinence only campaign been initiated by someone else) we have a young student named Adam Brickley to thank.
Trump-Palin 2016! Make America Fake Again!
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Does she need another $100,000 worth of clothing paid for by campaign donations?
Gothmog
(145,130 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)in such a little brain
Skittles
(153,150 posts)trying to amp the grifting potential
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Caribou Barbie is a lazy bastard and has no intention of ever running for elected office again. She just wants to remain relevant in the public eye. If she ever did challenge Murkowski, she would lose and lose bad. Her popularity in Alaska is in the toilet.
joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)eggplant
(3,911 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,145 posts)Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)Hellomotto
(31 posts)I say waste it.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Maybe Murkowski can run as an "I" again and they can split the vote. If we could put up a decent candidate that would be a pickup, which we need.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)MatthewStLouis
(904 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)She has demonstrated that a run for office is a proven revenue stream, that has the added benefit of jumpstarting a failing book sales and punditry revenue streams.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)during the last senate election, that speaks VOLUMES about how popular Caribou Barbie is in Alaska.
happyslug
(14,779 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 4, 2016, 02:54 PM - Edit history (1)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._MarlandUnlike Palin, Marland actually DID THING S(And getting them done was one of the reason for his alcoholism):
As Governor (1953-1957) Marland advocated the desegregation of schools, expansion of the state parks and other recreational facilities, improved unemployment and workers' compensation laws, and an industrial development program. ...
In the early 1960s, the ex-governor gave up drinking..... Marland...was working as a taxi driver,....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Marland
Son of a mining boss, Joseph Wesley and Maude Casey Marland, he was born in Johnston City, Illinois on March 26, 1918. His family moved to the coal town of Glen Rogers in Wyoming County, West Virginia when he was seven. During World War II, he served as a Navy lieutenant in the Pacific theater, completing four tours. He attended the University of Alabama, where he was a star football player, and received a law degree from West Virginia University in 1947.
Ezlivin
(8,153 posts)Nothing but the best for Sarah!
DFW
(54,358 posts)Are you allowed to run for half a Senate term there?
volstork
(5,400 posts)give it up already!
RancidCrabtree
(24 posts)Needs a new way to keep her ugly mug in the public eye. Nothing but a publicity stunt.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Just sit right back
And you'll hear a tale
A tale of a grift-filled trip,
That started from some Alaskan port,
A broad with leather strips.
Her claim to fame was a VP run, that made us kinda sad,
A word salad dish she served to all, "My English ain't not bad!"
A few years ago, the powers said,
You're up for a four year tour,
A four year tour.
The newies started getting rough,
The Palin brand was tossed.
If not for the courage of her feckless groups
The Sarah would be lost.
The Sarah would be lost.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Sarah Palin is not running for office anytime, anywhere.
Here's what's going on: She's going bankrupt and her hinting at running for office is a desperate attempt to get people to donate to her PAC, SarahPAC -- which is about to go under.
SarahPAC is an unlimited PAC -- which means the money donated to the PAC can be spent on ANYTHING -- food; clothes; Louboutin shoes for her slutty daughter; travel; you name it.
Back in 2008 to about 2012, the money was rolling in. The Palin family had a couple of "reality shows;" she had a job with Fox; daughter Bristol was on Dancing With the Stars as well as making over $250,000 a year as a spokesperson for teenage abstinence (this is after she had her first out-of-wedlock child); and, SarahPAC was bringing in $4-5 million a year. While the cash was rolling in, the Palin's spent heavily -- several top-of-the-line cars and trucks; snowmobiles; homes -- including spending $1.6 million on a house in Scottsdale, AZ; airplane; house for Bristol; rented limos; very expensive clothes; and the like.
Now, SarahPAC is in deep trouble. Between 31 Dec 2012 and 30 June 2015, donations were off a whopping 90% while expenses were cut by only 40 percent. An analysis of the PAC's financial reports make it clear the PAC will be broke before June 2016.
One example. In February 2015, Bristol Palin posted on her Instagram page a photo of herself and Sarah standing next to a charter Gulfstream IV with the comment "Thanks, Mom, for the flight to Vegas." In the PAC's financial report is an expense, in February 2015, for $16,000 for a chartered aircraft. SarahPAC spent $16,000 to fly Sarah, Bristol, and some friends to Vegas for partying on Valentine's Day 2015 (which, as it turned out, is where Bristol got knocked up during a one-night stand after a night of bar-hopping).
Sarah's house in Scottsdale, AZ, is now on the market for $2.5 million -- the median price of houses in the same neighborhood is around $800,000. She paid $1.6 million for the house, hopes to make $900,000 profit on it. Likely she'll have to come WAY down in the price and will be lucky -- after capital gains taxes and realtors' fees -- to get out of the deal.
Consider this:
-- No one in the family is employed. Husband Todd, unemployed; Sarah, unemployed; son Track, dopehead, in and out of rehab, unemployable; daughter Bristol, just gave birth to her second fatherless child, unemployed high school dropout, unmarried, with no prospects; daughter Willow, finished "beauty school," working for minimum wage and tips in a no-name Anchorage salon; daughter Piper, high school student; 6-yr-old son Trig has Down Syndrome, cannot talk, cannot eat solid food, is a holy terror, requires special caregivers.
-- Sarah has been fired from Fox; all her tv reality shows are cancelled and not even in reruns; her Sarah Palin subscription channel caved after six months; her latest book, a devotional, is around #8,000 on Amazon and three of five book signings were cancelled because no one attended.
-- The family owes huge back taxes on the several properties they bought in Alaska and Arizona back when times were good.
-- Their fleet of cars, trucks, snowmobiles, boats, and airplanes cost a bundle in insurance, fuel, and upkeep
-- SarahPAC is no longer a money machine.
-- She can't get lucrative speaking engagements; she shows up only at no-name anti-abortion rallies or at a big-game convention in a no-name town in Minnesota.
Sarah does this shit all the time -- drops hints that she's "thinking about running." She did it in 2010, 2012, 2014, and now in 2016. It's a ploy to attract donations to her PAC because she needs the money.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...in ANY Alaska election. Hell, she'd probably pay Palin's filing fees herself just for the opportunity to wipe Palin's grifter ass all over Alaska in a very public fashion.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Palin's "campaigns" have been shameless money grabs and nothing more...
She just wants to fleece her flock for another payday
mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)is real low on cash and her donors are drying up. If she cant raise at least 5 million, the coffers will be empty this year at its current rate of spending.
She might actually run this time, if she has another book to sell.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)The current GOP Presidential candidates have left her eating their dust.
MissMillie
(38,553 posts)(it's part of our HBO package)
This movie was written by a Republican.
Even they think she's STOOPID, so how is it she remains relevant in any way, shape or form?