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Title: Who Is Advising Sarah Palin?
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NewsWeek
URL Source: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/theg ... o-is-advising-sarah-palin.aspx
Published: Sep 30, 2009
Author: Holly Bailey
Post Date: 2009-09-30 12:01:03 by Brian S
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Who Is Advising Sarah Palin? When it comes to Sarah Palin, there are two big questions that everybody in Washington wants to know: Is she going to run for president in 2012? And who exactly is working for her these days? Since she resigned as governor of Alaska in July, Palin has been uncharacteristically quiet. She’s stayed largely out of the public eye—though she’s been posting messages on her official Facebook page and wrote an op-ed on health care for The Wall Street Journal. Last week, she earned her first paycheck as a paid speaker, receiving a reported low six figures for addressing a Hong Kong business group—a speech that was closed to the public. Yesterday, word broke that the publication of Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue, had been pushed up from next spring to this November—just in time for the holidays. According to reports, Palin worked on the book with a ghost writer, conservative journalist Lynn Vincent. The big mystery, even to those who once worked closely with the former VP candidate: Besides Vincent, who is working with Palin to keep her brand alive? In the nasty aftermath of the McCain-Palin ticket, Palin broke with many of the advisers she had worked with in the final days of the campaign. She went back to Alaska, surrounded by her longtime political team, including chief spokeswoman and top adviser Meg Stapleton and Kristan Cole, who helped Palin launch a legal defense fund to cover costs related to several ethics investigations in Alaska. In January, Palin launched a new political action committee, SarahPAC—a move widely interpreted as an effort to help forward her political ambitions. Between January and June, the PAC raised more than $730,000—with almost $270,000 of that going to staff and consulting fees. Palin hired Pam Pryor, a GOP operative who once worked for former representative J.C. Watts, as an adviser. In February, she also tapped Becki Donatelli, a longtime GOP consultant close to McCain, to run SarahPAC, but the two severed the relationship in April. Donatelli declined to comment and, like Pryor, directed all questions to Stapleton, who did not respond to repeated requests for comment. One key question: Who has been ghostwriting the Facebook messages and op-eds signed in Palin’s name? Since August, after she left the governor’s office, Palin’s messages have been more heavy on policy than her previous post-2008 remarks. But many GOP strategists, including those who worked for McCain last year, claim to have no idea who is manning the Palin ship these days. Last week, we got at least a few hints at who Palin has been talking to. According to Politico’s Ben Smith, former McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann accompanied Palin to Hong Kong and helped write the speech. Scheunemann, as you might recall, was viewed as a Palin sympathizer during the McCain campaign, even as she clashed with other top McCain strategists. Another contributor to the speech: Steve Biegun, a former foreign policy adviser to President Bush who worked with Palin during the campaign. She also reportedly got assistance from two other longtime GOP policy hands: Dan Blumenthal, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute and Kim Daniels, a lawyer for the conservative Thomas More Law Center. Still, it's unlikely any of these people are the main stewards when it comes to helping Palin guide her political image in the run-up to 2012. Who else ranks in the former gov's inner circle? At this point, we might have to wait for the "acknowledgments" section of her book to find out.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
When it comes to Sarah Palin, there are two big questions that everybody in Washington wants to know: Is she going to run for president in 2012? Yeah, I'm sure the treasonous DC Elites of both the RNC NWO and the Leftist-Commie-Fascist DNC would love to know what the plan is. Eff 'em.
Libby, no one can view your graphic except for you.
What? You can't see the HUGE picture of Sarah Palin at her Palin/Beck 2012 campaign podium over a crowd of 100,000?
I can't. I don't have taglines turned on either.
Freddy's inner-Sybil was hallucinating again. Nothing to see.
Well, I was checking the source HTML and was puzzled.
Now Beck, that would be an interesting run. He'd never do it of course, but it would be interesting if he did.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
I right-clicked on the missing image and selected properties - all blank. You try to explain to him, he's a jagoff to me. Tell him the image must be resident on the internet for it to be viewed by others, not his hard drive.
His tagline image is at Photobucket. Liberator has kind of garbled the HTML for the thumbnail with the photo URL. This is the tagline photo he's using:
Some Islamic childhood habits are hard to break for Obummer......
_________________________________________________________________________ I've never heard anyone say but I assume that Obama's father was Sunni Muslim (when he wasn't trying/pretending atheism) as was his Indonesian stepfather. So Obama's background is then Sunni only? For all the rants over our Muslim president, it's rather odd no one has asked which kind of Muslim he is supposed to be.
I'm guessing so from the warm reception he got from the Saudi Arabian monarch, that's what they are.
_________________________________________________________________________ Ugh!! I'm glad it never shows up when he posts. Thanks.
I guess Bush was a Sunni too.
I was going to use it over at TOS2 but decided I'm skating on thin ice over there already. LOL.
No problem as long as you identify the sucker as Obama. You could even make up a totally fake story and post it under Breaking News and all would be fine. It might even help you start the long climb towards reaching Marguerite level there.
Who Is Advising Sarah Palin?
#2. To: Liberator (#1)
#3. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
no one can view your graphic except for you.
#4. To: Liberator (#3)
#5. To: TooConservative (#4)
I can't. I don't have taglines turned on either.
#6. To: Liberator (#5)
#7. To: Liberator (#3)
#8. To: TooConservative (#6)
#9. To: Fred Mertz, Liberator (#8)
Charming.
#10. To: TooConservative (#9)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#11. To: X-15 (#10)
Some Islamic childhood habits are hard to break for Obummer...
#12. To: TooConservative (#11)
So Obama's background is then Sunni only?
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#13. To: TooConservative (#9)
Charming.
#14. To: X-15 (#12)
I'm guessing so from the warm reception he got from the Saudi Arabian monarch, that's what they are.
#15. To: Fred Mertz (#13)
Ugh!! I'm glad it never shows up when he posts.
#16. To: TooConservative (#15)
I was going to use it over at TOS2 but decided I'm skating on thin ice over there already. LOL.
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