Well, there you go. It's my understanding some in state Palin fans won't be happy. They preferred a Tea Party candidate. But I honestly haven't folowed it that closely.
National political icon and conservative leader Sarah Palin has endorsed Dr. Rand Paul in his bid for United States Senate from Kentucky. The Paul campaign has received a generous donation from Governor Palin’s PAC. Sarah Palin has clearly seen that Rand Paul supports smaller, constitutional government and is taking the fight to the career politicians and will shake up the tax and spend crowd in Washington D.C.
This is bound to be characterized as a hit piece by the Left given her spending more on books, than campaigns. I picked it up as she does seem to be supporting Rand Paul, albeit quietly, so far. There's been some confusion about that. We're only just getting into the campaign season. So, I'm not sure the book to pol $ ratio matters all that much. Of course, that won't matter to the Left.
On Monday, ophthalmologist/Rep. Ron Paul son Rand Paul (R), a candidate for Sen. Jim Bunning's (R) open seat, said Palin had contributed to his campaign.
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.
The book purchases are a red herring. There were at least two instances where the book was used as a fundraising tool. The National Governors Association announced the Palin was helping them with their fundraising by sending a signed copy of the book with each $100.00 contribution to the NGA. Also, she did the same for $100,00 donations to SarahPAC. I don't know what the wholesale price is for the book, but $47,700 probably wouldn't buy much more than 5000 books. Is it reasonable that these two fundraisers may have sold that many books? Probably.
Posted by: Kentucky Colonel | Monday, February 01, 2010 at 01:42 PM
Oops, I should have written Republican Governors Association.
Posted by: Kentucky Colonel | Monday, February 01, 2010 at 02:04 PM
The book purchases are a red herring. There were at least two instances where the book was used as a fundraising tool.
Very True. The ever reliable Hot Air Details them very well.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/01/shocker-palin-buys-books-to-incentivize-donors/
Posted by: Anita | Monday, February 01, 2010 at 02:09 PM
Sarah PAC made about 400,000 on those books by buying at wholesale and charging $100 per autograph copy. Not a bad investment and Palin now has around $400,000 more in her Pac to fund 2010 candidates.
So instead of getting money from big donoros and trading favors for them she and her pac used the free market system to increase her PAc's warchest and unlike Mitt is still not beholden to large party donors.
she really is running circles around people
Posted by: unseen | Monday, February 01, 2010 at 05:19 PM
Good for Sarah. Time for her to jump in on the Rubio bandwagon, though. I hope Marco gets a signed copy.
Posted by: section9 | Monday, February 01, 2010 at 06:38 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRS-bhMUQos
Rand Paul on Iraq.. Loyalty certainly has its rewards...
Posted by: Tom Lamb | Tuesday, February 02, 2010 at 04:40 AM
Dan,
Rand Paul is the Tea Party candidate and favored heavily within the Tea Party groups in the state.
Posted by: sd | Tuesday, February 02, 2010 at 04:53 PM
Rand Paul: The only true non-Establishment candidate in the KY US Senate race.
Posted by: onlywomenbleed | Monday, February 08, 2010 at 01:21 AM
Rand Paul is a Tea Party candidate, no matter how much Grayson and Johnson supporters want to claim he isn't.
Posted by: Angela Thorn | Monday, February 08, 2010 at 08:50 AM