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CAG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:25 AM
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I googled over to a teabagger site to look at the convention flap, and it was priceless.
Immediately after some scathing Faux-news video linking propaganda claiming President Obama was going to tell the truth to mayors "after the news media" left the room, they then go into a promotion of Failin Palins $100,000 speakers fee dinner at the convention:
"The fee for this 3 day event is $549 plus a $9.95 processing fee. This includes the Sarah Palin dinner and the full program, including other meals as listed in the Schedule of Events. More details will follow soon. This is not a free public appearance by Sarah Palin. It is a private dinner event, WITH NO NEWS MEDIA INVITED." So its OK if Palin does it , but just EEEEEVVVIILLL if a democrat supposedly does it.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:31 AM
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1. Why do they need a $9.95 processing fee if they are charging $549?
I have never paid a processing fee for a national convention and I have been to a few - with none of them having registration fees anywhere near that much, even 5 day conventions at major hotels where most meals were included. Of course Barbie Doll was not the keynote speaker either.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:54 AM
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11. Perhaps they don't trust each other
Maybe 2 separate groups want to get paid, and they think if the fee is collected in 1 go, the one the money goes to first will stiff the other.

Would you trust a teabagger? Well, neither would they. Business is business.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:31 AM
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2. They could save themselves a lot of money by...
just using a cardboard cutout of her and playing the audio version of her book. Nothing she says will make any sense anyway.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:35 AM
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4. they would charge $100 per pop
to pose with the cardboard cutout ...
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:39 AM
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6. They should just have a screening of Nailin' Palin. n/t
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CAG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 12:58 PM
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12. Why? all the guys there already have seen it, or at least have dreamed it
over and over?
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:34 AM
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3. Paying Sarah Palin to talk
and some argue that conservatism isn't a mental disease.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:39 AM
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7. $570 for her to talk?
How much for her to shut up?
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:52 PM
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15. Ah-ha! That's where the *real* money comes in.
"I don't pay prostitutes to have sex, I pay them to be gone in the morning."
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:40 AM
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8. Paying Sarah Palin to talk is like paying Lorena Bobbit for a blowjob. n/t
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:44 AM
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9. .
:spray:
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:35 AM
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5. Most Tea-partiers are probably using a blow-up dol of Palin...
She has apeal in certain sectors of the teabag.
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bulloney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:49 AM
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10. I wonder if the Palin dinner's menu includes word salad.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 10:30 PM
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13. I hear it is half full. LOL!
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The Midway Rebel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-29-10 11:11 PM
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14. This is a for PROFIT political convention.
I am getting the sense that the Tea Party was cooked with big money up just to protest loudly against HCR and everything they have done once the bill came out of the House has been folks trying to financially gain on that failing movements momentum.
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 12:01 AM
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16. For profit 'populism' . . only in Reichpublican America n/t
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