Who Is Handling/Representing Palin Now; Who Is Funding Her?..

[global1]

We found out during the campaign that Sarah Palin is a complete joke and aided and abetted *Co to sink the Republican Party with an assist from McCain - who picked her as his VP candidate without completely knowing or vetting her. But somehow - Palin is still news. She is now giving interviews. We see her on Fox. We see her with Matt Lauer.

But who is backing her? Who are her agents? Who is writing her speech that she is supposed to deliver at this upcoming Repug election drubbing debriefing? Where is she getting the funding? From Alaska? Can she have the Alaskan's pay for her future aspirations.

What Repug sect is backing this failure? Certainly she doesn't have enough on the ball to be able to think of all this and direct her campaign by herself.

Is there a Palin Is The Future website? Is there a Palin for Alaskan Senator or President in 2012 fund committee?

What gives?

[Hepburn]

1. I would bet the RW nuts are behind her....

...how exactly, I am not sure at this point in time. However, we should keep an eye on these idiots.

JMHO

[riderinthestorm]

2. Palin had 2 months in the national spotlight, gearing up and fine tuning her "campaign"

Remember it was even called the "Palin campaign". She has her own press people, campaign staff, and admirers. The last 4 weeks of the campaign were devoted entirely to ensuring Sarah Palin a run on 2012 imho. She had all but dumped McCain by then and was off the McCain reservation running her own race.

I think she absolutely does have enough on the ball to run this "herself" (with her campaign aides that she assembled during the past 2 months.) She was selected by the religious right, and groomed by them, and I'm guessing they're banking on their investment. They'll keep her afloat and out there in the public eye.

She's not going away.

[theboss]

6. I think her political instincts are excellent

Even if her knowledge of the world is a bit of a mess. She will be around for a while.

But everyone at DU - in its usual DU way - thinks that tomorrow is today and today is yesterday.

Palin has two huge problems going forward.

1. How to maintain a national presence from Alaska? The time zone issue. The travel issues. The disconnect from national concerns. This will be a challenge.

2. No one has any idea how she will perform in a five or six person primary. She's never been at a debate with a Guiliani or Gingrich or someone who will willingly go after her. Biden treated her with kid gloves. Obama never mentioned her. I'm not sure she is tough enough for big boy national politics.

[global1]

7. The Campaign Funded Her Campaign Staff; The MSM Assigned At Their Expense Press To Cover.......

her and yes the last 4 weeks of the campaign she bucked McCain. But now the campaign is over.

Does she still maintain a campaign staff? Who is funding them? Does money still get spent on her from the McCain funds for a period of time? Does she dip into funds in Alaska? Did a Repug Palin support group form since last Tuesday and have they begun to raise money?

I know the media will keep her alive because she is such a 'lightening rod personality'. If that helps their ratings and gets people to watch - they cover her. But - who is coaching her at what to say? Who will be writing her speeches? Who will be giving her advice as to how she should continue to present herself going forward?

Surely - this is being done. I'm just would like to get to the bottom and out her supporters. Follow the money.

You mention her 'campaign aides that she assembled during the past 2 months'. Surely people aren't giving of their time 'gratis'. Somebody has to pay for her staff. Is that the people of Alaska or some other group.

[riderinthestorm]

8. From the news reports during the presidential campaign, SP's aides were from AK

These were from her governor's office so in essence, I believe they are simply still with her at Alaska's expense. She didn't cease being Alaska's governor during her VP run. As far as SHE believes, she's just done Alaska this huge favor by thrusting the state into the national spotlight. I'm dead cert she's billing all of this to Alaska since in her mind, her run was all part and parcel of her job as governor (while conveniently setting herself up for a 2012 run, or some other national role).

I know there are "support Palin" groups out there already. Who funds them? Dunno but you're right - follow the money, like I said I guess they are RW groups.

As for writing speeches and coordinating her pr, coaching her etc. Well gollygee, Sarah Palin has already made it clear that as far as she's concerned the McCain campaign managed her all wrong. She's pretty darn tootin' sure that if she'd just been allowed to have free rein, things would be different doncha know. From here on out, my money's on Sarah managing the "Sarah Palin For Prez In 2012". I honestly don't see her as politically stupid. She may be rough around the edges but she's recently gotten a lot of practice and coaching. She isn't governor of a state for nothing. She's got some skills.

[laststeamtrain]

3. She's the current PNAC-Neocon-Leocon front stooge.

They need a 'front' for their behind-the-scenes machinations.

GWB was it. Now it's SP. It hardly matters who it is as long as they lull the morans whose votes they need to attain power to carry out their plans.

Keep watching the neocons.

[theboss]

4. She is the den mother of the Christian Right at the moment

It's not difficult to figure out.

She will start being seen in public with Dobson fairly soon.

[SurfingAtWork]

5. The fundies and conservatives are backing her

In the upcoming intra party civil war the Religous and conservative wing will pit her against whom ever the intelectuals, moderates, and fiscal conservatives put up. All I can say is, please pass the :popcorn:

[MagickMuffin]

9. The Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal

Max Blumenthal wrote about her in The Nation 9.1.08

networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.

CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.

Though Dobson and Perkins reportedly attended the recent CNP meeting in Minneapolis, a full roster of guests would be nearly impossible to require. The CNP deliberately operates below the radar, going to excessive lengths to obscure its activities. According to official CNP policy, "The media should not know when or where we meet or who takes part in our programs before or after a meeting." Thus the CNP's Minneapolis gathering was free of reporters.

I learned of the get-together only through an online commentary by one of its attendees, top Dobson/Focus on the Family flack Tom Minnery. (Watch it here) Minnery described the mood as CNP members watched Palin accept her selection as John McCain's Vice Presidential pick. "I was standing in the back of a ballroom filled with largely Republicans who were hoping against hope that something would put excitement back into this campaign," Minnery said. "And I have to tell you, that speech by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin -- people were on their seats applauding, cheering, yelling... That room in Minneapolis watching on the television screen was electrified. I have not seen anything like it in a long time."

Minnery added that his boss, Dobson, has yearned for a conservative female leader like Margaret Thatcher to emerge on the American scene. And while Palin is no Thatcher, "she has not rejected the feminine side of who she is, so for that reason, she will be attractive to conservative voters."

The members of the Council for National Policy are the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick. With her selection, the Republican nominee is suddenly -- and unexpectedly -- assured of the support of a movement that once opposed his candidacy with all its might. Case in point: while Dobson once said he could "never" vote for McCain, he issued a statement last week hailing Palin as an "outstanding" choice. If Dobson's enthusiasm for Palin is any indication, he may soon emerge from his bunker in Colorado Springs to endorse McCain, providing the Republican nominee with the backing of the Christian right's single most influential figure.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/352178/print