sarah palin's PAC raised $1.4 million in final six months of 2009

[spanone]

Sarah PAC, the political action committee of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, collected $1.4 million over the final six months of 2009, a solid -- if not spectacular -- total that demonstrates her fundraising capacity as she mulls a bid for national office in 2012.

"We are thrilled," said Palin senior adviser Meg Stapleton about the fundraising total. "Common sense Americans know the direction we need to take this country and that Sarah Palin will be instrumental in taking us there this year."

For the year, Palin raised roughly $2.1 million through Sarah PAC and ended the year with $900,000 in the bank. She donated $64,600 to candidates and party committees.

That relatively high burn rate is due to an expansion of the organization's staff, according to those familiar with its operations. (Remember that with Palin out of office -- she resigned the governorship in July 2009 -- her PAC is her only political and policy vehicle.)

While Palin's six-month total is roughly comparable to the $1.3 million Minnesota. Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) raised in just the final three months of the year through his Freedom First PAC and approximately $800,000 less than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's Free and Strong America PAC collected in 2009, her aides suggested she did very little active fundraising.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2012/sarah-palins-pac-raised-14-mil.html?hpid=topnews

[joeybee12]

1. Lots of money can be made off of stupid...n/t

[AndyA]

2. Proof that there's a fool born every minute.

And apparently, most of them have sent money to Palin.

The woman is an idiot. A joke. A liar. A hypocrite. She doesn't care about anyone but herself. And if people want to send money to someone like that, they deserve to be taken advantage of. No one in their right mind would send this nit-wit woman one cent, much less anything more.

Her two cents aren't worth two cents.

[spanone]

3. a fool and his money....she's supposedly getting $100,000 for this thursdays teabaggers fest

that being held in nashville tn