Wham, Scam, Thank You, Ma’am

We knew this would come in handy.

You’ll recall, if you didn’t have better things to do, that Team Sarah sent us an email Tuesday pleading for some quick cash so Sarah Palin could read somebody else’s speech for the Iowa Family Policy Center — they were $41,000 shy of their $100,000 goal.

That set off a little, er, stink today, when politically inclined Iowans questioned the wisdom of paying anything at all to a prospective presidential candidate testing the waters:

“If somebody tells me they want me to pay an appearance fee, it tells me they’re not very serious about running for president,” said Ed Failor, Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief and an influential GOP insider.

Upon which IFPC said the hundred large wasn’t for Talibunny, but “only to secure a venue, pay for lighting and promote the event.”

Palin’s mouthpiece now says Sarah wouldn’t dream of taking money, not even for travel expenses. And besides, with a sham book to promote, she’s busy:

“We don’t believe she will be able to attend with her tightly scheduled book tour, and the group has been told that through formal and informal channels,” Stapleton says in an e-mail this morning. “However, it appears that some enthusiastic members are willing to try anything to entice the governor as we look at her schedule.”

We won’t bother looking up the references, but Palin has a curious habit of being announced for events she doesn’t attend.

But our real question is this: If Palin doesn’t even plan on showing up, what’s happening with all the money that’s being raised? And how do we get in on the action?

Sarah Palin Charging $100K for Iowa Speech? Not Exactly. [Newsweek]

nojo
5:00 pm • Thursday • October 29, 2009
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Capt Howdy

5:04 pm • Thursday • October 29, 2009

this gets better and better. I am tempted to link to this over at talkleftish but I have already made you the most hated (well second most next to me) on the intertubes by linking the pumas and cougars to your Palin ravings.
sorry about that.

ManchuCandidate

5:06 pm • Thursday • October 29, 2009

I guess she wasn’t going to use that for the new seaplane hanger she’s currently building.

Talibunny Grifter strikes out again.

Benedick

5:13 pm • Thursday • October 29, 2009

Way to go. Piss off Iowa. Palin 2012!

Serolf Divad

5:43 pm • Thursday • October 29, 2009

When Sarah Palin was offered $100,000 to come speak to Iowans she said “thanks, but no thanks” just like when she turned down the money for the bridge to nowhere.

al2o3cr

6:19 pm • Thursday • October 29, 2009

The first comment on the Newsweek article is priceless: some so-called Alaskan kvetching about how there were “50 lawyers” in the state digging for dirt. I’m sure the poster was equally upset about the Republican digging expedition during the Clinton presidency, right?

Original Andrew

7:11 pm • Thursday • October 29, 2009

More Americans Falling For ‘Get Rich Slowly Over A Lifetime Of Hard Work’ Schemes

7:14 pm • Thursday • October 29, 2009

Isn’t it better for the right-wing nutcases to flush their money down the Palins’ toilet rather than donate to viable candidates?

SanFranLefty

9:34 pm • Thursday • October 29, 2009

@Original Andrew: Yes.

She is such a grifter. All this talk of Netflixing obscure movies, I may have to dig up that twisted movie featuring my movie boyfriend John Cusack. Any excuse to see John Cusack…yum!

baked

9:21 am • Friday • October 30, 2009

@SanFranLefty:

we’re sharing john cusack too? i love him SO much in the grifters!
but not as much as “must love dogs” YUMMO!

she won’t get disbarred. one can have a psychotic break and fling plates down DC courthouse corridors and not get disbarred…or so i’m told.
the mind is a terrible thing to waste on our criminal justice system.

9:41 am • Friday • October 30, 2009

@baked:

have you seen “1408” the Stephen King story with Cusack that is making the rounds on cable now?
another pretty good netflix choice for “scary movie” fans.
didnt use the word horror because its really not that. exactly.

9:45 am • Friday • October 30, 2009

@Capt Howdy:
have not seen it! but i will…

i have orly on the brain, now SHE is gunnin for disbarment. but will become even more entertaining, once she’s free of silly little rules of conduct.

9:50 am • Friday • October 30, 2009

@baked:
but then who would we laugh at?

11:00 am • Friday • October 30, 2009

@Capt Howdy:

No need to worry; con artists and shysters are America’s endless renewable resource.

11:10 am • Friday • October 30, 2009

@Original Andrew:
but you must admit. few are as intertaining.

Prommie

11:44 am • Friday • October 30, 2009