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A woman from Alabama paid over $65,000 for Dinner with Sarah Palin
http://www.examiner.com/x-16143-Richmond-Republican-Examiner~y2009m9d23-Dinner-with-Sarah-Palin-over-65000-for-a-slice-of-Palin-Pie
Kaz @ September 23, 2009
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http://www.examiner.com/x-16143-Richmond-Republican-Examiner~y2009m9d13-The-912-Project-Tea-Projec5t-March-on-Washington-Part-One-with-slideshow
Kaz @ September 13, 2009
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Former Alaskan Governor and last year’s Republican candidate for Vice President,Sarah Palin, is not slipping quietly away as some would have hoped.
This week Palin will consider accepting and rejecting well over the 1,000 invitations she has received for speeches and political appearances both paid and unpaid since she left office in July this year. In fact it was reported in the Atlantic this morning; Palin will be traveling to Hong Kong for her first paid speaking engagement in late September.
More than twenty speakers’ bureaux have been reported as making offers to represent her but the former Governor has decided to sign with the Washington Speakers Bureau which has clients such as former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani who is on course to be the next Governor of New York, former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Colin Powell, former British PM Tony Blair, formers Secretaries of State Condi Rice and Madeline Albright and high profile journalists Katie Couric and Bob Woodward to name but a few. The irony being represented by the same firm as Couric should not be lost given the Couric/Palin interview is still being dissected – not one of Palin’s greater moments during the Presidential campaign.
Palin has received more than 950 requests to speak with the paid ones expected to go for six figures a piece. Unpaid speeches will be for various political and charitable causes, including military families, Christian organizations and support groups for families with special needs children. She is uniquely qualified to speak on these matters given her familial circumstances with a young son serving in the military and her youngest born with Down syndrome in just the past year or so. She has strong and firm Christian beliefs which went a long way to solidifying the political and cultural base of the GOP during her candidacy last year.
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Kaz @ August 31, 2009
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Happy Birthday Mr. President.
Kaz @ August 3, 2009
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Are YOU stupid?
‘Stupid’ seems to be the word of the week.
First, President Barack Obama during a prime time press conference, called the Cambridge (Mass.) Police force of “acting stupidly” in the arrest of esteemed Harvard professor Gates. (Glad the BeerFest sorted that out but I wonder how many Buds Biden had AND he wasn’t invited).
Then, we have comedian and talk show host Bill Maher calling Americans “stupid.”
Are these the same “stupid Americans” who voted for Barack Obama?
When asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer whether former Governor Sarah Palin had a future nationally as a presidential candidate Bill Maher responded “I don’t know about a presidential candidate but I would never put anything past this stupid country.
Blizter went on to ask “people are already complaining that you are calling the United States a stupid country and I’m giving you a chance to clarify that.”
Maher: “I don’t need to clarify; it is”.
Read more here..
http://www.examiner.com/x-16143-Richmond-Republican-Examiner
Kaz @ July 31, 2009
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Chesterfield County Fairground was the site for one of the growing numbers of ‘tea parties’ springing up across the nation.
Kaz @ July 26, 2009
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THE GREAT GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY?
You gotta love Vice President Joe Biden.
The former Senator from Delaware cannot quite work out who the governor of New Jersey is. Good ole Joe, well known for his gaffes (if you type in Biden gaffes into Google your computer is liable to explode) thinks the Chairman of his own Democratic National Committee, one Timothy Kaine from the Commonwealth of Virginia, is the Governor of New Jersey. Nope, he’s the Governor of Virginia and was a front runner for your job Joe.
Odd, given his State is kind of in the vicinity of both New Jersey and Virginia. Guess both the current President and Vice President didn’t pass geography class or happen to have a map handy (Obama claimed during the campaign he visited the 57 States of America with two left to go -oddly Hawaii where he claims to have been born and Alaska. Apparently his staff wouldn’t let him which is kind of weird when you are running for President and thereby Commander in Chief).
Biden introduced Kaine as “the great Governor of New Jersey” this past weekend at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington. My first thought was that the teleprompter was AWOL. No, he was using one. Great staff work Joe but surely you should know despite a teleprompter malfunction that former Senator Corzine (a colleague of yours), and one of the biggest donors in Democratic history is the Governor of the great garden State of New Jersey.
It was not a total loss for the Democrats however. Chairman and part-time Virginia Governor Tim Kaine helped the DNC raise $1 million at the 10th Annual LGBT Council Fundraiser. Good for them, they are going to need it.
Imagine if Governor Palin had made such a statement “ I can see Virginia from New Jersey” would be all over the news but Biden’s teleprompter misstatement has been largely ignored, of course except for bloggers and other non-mainstream media.
I love Joe Biden. He’s free entertainment. You’ve just got to look at his ‘performances’ on YouTube drunk as all hell. My personal favorite is him singing about The Villages down in Florida which I have had the good fortune to stay several times. Perhaps you have seen the ads on FNC…
Here’s Joe…..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ
Yup, there’s our VP - a heartbeat away from being the Leader of the Free World.
The one good and ironic thing is that New Jersey and Virginia are the only two States in the Union to have Gubernatorial elections this coming November. One hopes that Joe will be out there campaigning for Kaine in New Jersey and Corzine in Virginia.
God Bless you Joe and keep up the good work.
Kaz @ July 1, 2009
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Another new face in the Republican Party to watch out for. (And vote for).
Ernesto Sampson.
Remember that name. He’s going places and the first stop will be the Virginia House of Delegates as the next representative for the 69th District this Novemeber.
I’m tired of the left wing media calling the GOP an organization of old white men. It is not. The Party is diverse and increasingly so. Heck to coin her trademark phrase we even had a woman run for Vice President. Just the wrong sort of woman apparently; not liberal enough for those folks.
At convention, Virginian Republicans had the pleasure of hearing one Adnan Barqawi speak towards the end to a hushed crowd. Kuwaiti born, he became a citizen of the US just this past April. Another guy out of the mold going places and ignored by mainstream media.
Which brings us to Ernesto. He grew up in a single parent family and served the nation in the United States Army and is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.
According to Ernesto, his mother taught him the values of hard work, perseverance and integrity. Well, it certainly paid off. He also believes in education and is the product of public schools in Suffolk. Schools and jobs are his priorities and rightly so.
Ernesto‘s accomplishments and associations are too numerous to mention but suffice to say he has made his mark far and wide.
I had the good fortune to first meet him at his kick-off event two months ago. Didn‘t know anything about him and frankly just went to help a fellow Republican and it was only two blocks from my house. It was a Saturday morning and I expected about ten people. Couldn’t have been more wrong. The venue was packed and there were some pretty important people there. Ernesto spoke, initially rather nervously, but swung into his stride in less than a minute and blew the room away. People were looking at each going ‘who is this guy?’. “Wow!”.
Ran into him again last night and can safely say this is a young man to watch. I would not be surprised if we see Ernesto Sampson in the Governor’s Mansion. With his commitment to education, his decency and a lovely, strong wife by his side he would make an outstanding Gubernatorial candidate. If this sounds like a campaign ad, perhaps it is. It’s not often people impress me as I am that cynical but Ernesto is someone worth knocking on doors for and anyone who knows me knows I just don’t do that.
Kaz @ June 30, 2009
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The Governor of South Carolina can, in a macabre fashion, thank the untimely death of the King of Pop. Most Americans have the attention span of a flea so Sanford went from being the top story on the 24/7cable news channels to ‘who?’. He is no longer the latest disgraced Governor on the front page of the New York Times or the Washington Post or the tabloids with brilliant headlines like “LUV GOV” and Buenos Airhead”.
The voters and legislators in South Carolina will, however, be the exception. Even his Republican colleagues are not exactly happy with his antics.
The Governor is not the first, nor the last, politician to cheat on a spouse. Crikey, if infidelity disqualified one from public office, Congress would be more than half empty as would most of the Governor’s mansions; not to mention the most high profile Commander in Cheat, Bill Clinton.
I mention Clinton in passing but it is important to note that Sanford was one of the harshest critics of Clinton marital misconduct. But hey, if it’s OK with Hillary I could care less, Personally I had issues with Clinton’s lying under oath as everyone already knew what a dog he was. Hey we’ve all read or seen “Primary Colors” which outlined in detailed then Chief of Staff was in getting ammunition in case of ‘bimbo alerts’ Hired by Hillary no less.
Segueing….. This is “very damaging stuff,” Sanford declared at one point, when details of Clinton’s conduct became known. “I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign)… I come from the business side,” he said. “If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he’d be gone.”
Again, as someone who has worked in politics for over 20 years I have seen more infidelity than most. Whilst distasteful, cheating on your wife or husband is the secondary issue here.
The real issue is the people voted for him to do a job. That of Governor of their great State. Going AWOL and not letting your Lt. Gov. know is a dereliction of duty beyond belief. Even his staff are in shock as they were out there saying the Governor just needed some time away and was hiking the Appalachian Trail. He was in an other place starting with A: Argentina on the tax payer’s dime and not for the first time.
Yes, of course he’s sorry, yes, he’s going to pay the money back but the man who I am now embarrassed to admit that I had in my top three for next Republican candidate (Romney & Palin the obvious others) is a disgrace. His self serving mea culpa press conferences this week smacks of a sociopath gripping on to the Governor’s mansion for all dear life with all it’s power and no understanding of the harm he has really done to his family (he was away from Father’s Day), his State where no officials or staff could get a hold of him and the people of South Carolina. If this is not an impeachable offence what is?
The Governor of New York gets to stay in office despite his extra marital shenanigans but New York is not the socially conservative State of South Carolina. Spitzer excepted.
Conservative TV and radio host and former Congressman from Florida, Joe Scarborough, joked that there would be perhaps 48 other states that would tolerate such nonsense - one being Utah
And, as the New York Times pointed out:
“The peculiar thing about the apologies was that Sanford seemed to be under the impression that his worst dereliction of duty involved womanizing. I think I speak for us all when I say that if a governor want wants to fly off for a rendezvous with his mistress, the first rule should be” leave a phone number. If you must flee to a love nest, make sure its one with an internet connection”
I hope the Girl From Ipanema was worth it. If you thought taking time off allegedly to hike the Appalachian Trail is hard, as voiced by your own personal staff, try the trail to re-election and the marital home.
Governor Sanford you are hardly a mensch.
Resign, pronto.
Kaz @ June 27, 2009
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The letter, below, sums it up perfectly…
GLENN: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes an open letter to our nation’s leadership: I’m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. More on page 93
Kaz @ June 20, 2009