(CNN) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee is confirming a flood of new donations that push her cash haul close to the million-dollar mark, as one of the nation's largest liberal PACs announced an ad targeting the former GOP vice presidential candidate.
Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton confirmed a report in the Anchorage Daily News that more than $200,000 had poured into SarahPAC since Palin's announcement a week and a half ago that she would be leaving office by the end of the month.
Those funds, along with $732,867 received through June 30 according to federal campaign finance filings, leave the governor just shy of a million dollars in donations to date since SarahPAC's January launch.
Stapleton told CNN that the PAC, which supports conservative candidates, had received contributions from more than 11,000 supporters, with the majority of the money coming from outside Alaska.
The news came as MoveOn.org began e-mailing members Tuesday, asking them to fund a rapid response ad blasting Palin's new Washington Post op-ed that criticized President Obama's position on "cap and trade" legislation - a major part of the administration's effort to overhaul the nation's energy policy.
The group said Palin was positioning herself as the face of conservative opposition to Obama's energy policy, telling supporters her op-ed was "a marvel of misinformation and outright lies."
The group has not yet said where the spot would air, or revealed the scope of any potential ad buy.
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I guess a small-town community organizer is sort of like a "governor," except that you don't abandon your responsibilities.
Lindsey Graham just gave the most condescending sexist grilling to Sotomayor that I have heard in 40 years.
The Democrats are AFRAID of Sarah Palin. They'd be working for months on end trying to destroy her, Governor Palin remain standing; now she can say what she wanted about Obama and CORRUPT Democratic Party by end of this month. Sarah Palin is now the voice of the American people and WE WILL RALLY BEHIND PALIN!!!!
I love how Palin can say, "I'm not a quitter" as she quits her job, and expect people to buy it. And they do.
Like lemmings off a cliff.
I guess the key is to convince yourself of the lie first, then anyone as dumb as you believes it too.
She can raise all the money she wants, but it won't buy her a brain.
"And also, too," we've already seen how far she's gotten on her "educatin'."
SARAH PALIN IS NOT A QUITTER! SHE'S A FIGHTER THAT JUST happened to have quit her job.
Not sure Gov. Palin would have made the best President we've ever had, but with all the slamming she's gotten I'm finding I have a soft spot in my heart for her. I just sent my donation.
Godd for Sarah, you are either a dope smokin,' non working, card carrying commie or an enemy of Moveon.org the people who brought us Al Frankent from Minnesota where more votes were cast in 25 counties than people registered.
Boy, American politocs sure has become a carnival freak show on both sides. Loserpalooza! Red sheep and blue sheep.
Just jealous of a smart woman who don't bang the liberal drum hey dum dums?
Palin's not interested in a political office. She's looking to be the new Rush Limbaugh.
MoveOn would be crazy to target her....remember how much money we raised protecting Obama...the crazies will do the same for this nutcase.
Most of the money is coming from Democrats, hoping she will run many times and for many offices.
It's Cap & Tax, get it right
Awww, is Moveon.org scared of Sarah Palin? I guess I'm gonna have to donate more to Sarah's PAC!
So there's a lot of morons in the world? Tell us something we don't know...
At least taxes are involuntary....can't be blamed for being parted with them....but this...well, I'm just wondering how many of them complain about where their tax money goes then turn around and give their after-tax money to a meathead so she can pay her legal bills.
If the GOP wasn't so insanely stupid, they'd find one of their smart women...I'm assuming they have one or two to go along with the one or two smart men they have left...to take this cosmic idiot's place.
It's taken her 6 months to get ALMOST a MILLION when most of the Democrat and Republican politicians rake in millions in a MONTH.......that tells me there aren't that many supporters for her out there.........that won't last long........
Leslie wrote:
July 14th, 2009 5:02 pm ET
The Democrats are AFRAID of Sarah Palin. They'd be working for months on end trying to destroy her, Governor Palin remain standing; now she can say what she wanted about Obama and CORRUPT Democratic Party by end of this month. Sarah Palin is now the voice of the American people and WE WILL RALLY BEHIND PALIN!!!!
Leslie, funniest post of the week so far. Glad to see the republicans haven't lost their sense of humor. Have a nice day!
go Lindsey Graham.....get to the sodomayor truth
Sarah Palin is a natural contender for the Republican 2012 nomination. Conservatives prefer less-than-mediocre leaders.
Look at the "Gang That Can't Shoot Straight" that is currently in the Senate and the House. Look at Gov. Sanford, who is currently crawling from group to group begging for forgiveness like a whipped dog. Look at George W. Bush, who – when America was attacked – invaded the wrong country! Look at poor, sweet old Ronald Reagan, who never understood what his administration was doing and who spent his days writing charming letters to little girls. Richard Nixon was the most competent Republican president since Teddy Roosevelt, and the party that Roosevelt led can hardly be compared to the current group who go by the same name.
There are two reasons that Conservatives prefer strong, incompetent men for leadership. First, most Conservatives – God help us – are not that bright. Second, corporate executives – who are very bright – prefer a man who can be easily manipulated, like Reagan.
Sarah Palin is a publicity-seeking megalomaniac without enough brains to understand when to keep her mouth shut and do some reading. No, all the right-wing sheep, Dems are not afraid of Sarah Palin. How could you be afraid of a walking joke? We think she's hilarious but that it's sad that so many misguided boobs actually revere her. She will be one of the comedic footnotes when they do retrospectives of this decade. If she would actually LEARN something about the issues instead of spouting right-wing claptrap without even understanding the shaky basis for even that, there might be some substance. But as she is, she isn't even worthy of anyone's contempt, much less their fear. But if it makes you happy to think that she scares us, you go right ahead, you need to cling to something. We understand.
this woman is here to stay. like it or not. ever hear of a "fly in the ointment"? she can say or do anything now just like her freind in the media entertainment world Rush... however those she constantly rails against ate not quiters. they face the music every day no matter how frustrating. must be they really believe in something!! Obama didn't take the easy path. most Americans know that we must make some hard and difficult decisions in the coming years for both the planet and all it's children. we just can't sling slogans around like "drill baby drill" we aren't in high school anymore. this is the real world
I can't wait to hear from all of the Democrats about Republicans being the "party of no" and how they are against everything. Short memory for you...does anyone remember the great quote from Senator Reid – "the war is lost." Enough said.
If the American people decide to Rally behind Sarah Palin, then we are destined to ruin the futures of our children. Wake up!! She abandoned her state in the middle of a crisis. If she can't handle Alaska, how in the world could she handle the free world?? Get off your conservative limbaugh talking points!!!
Amidst the prevailing high school football game mentality coming from the far right, Palin's supporters mistake utterly disgust with fear. No one fears Palin. The fact that such an inarticulate, unintelligent bigot was given a national stage upon which to voice her obvious intellectual shortcomings and racial/religious bigotry is utterly disgusting...Only in America as the saying goes.
Thanks to real time global media coverage, the world laughed long and hard at Palin and her slack jaw supporters during the campaign, and continues to do so to this day.
No one is 'afraid' of Palin. However, is it a sad and unfortunate reflection on the United States that people like her and her Deliverance/Mississippi Burning-esque supporters still exist in the United States in 2009? Definitely.
The ad hominem attacks continue. CNN, do you get some sort of sadistic pleasure out of watching your blogs explode with vitriol every time you post a Palin story?
In the last article, where she questioned the prudence of knee-capping our industrial base with crap and trade requirements that India and China have already said they are unwilling to adopt, hardly any of the posters for that story addressed her comments, they just called names and hopefully felt better about themselves.
I believe we will see her hosting some stupid talk show on Fox.
Gee for someone that a CBS poll said most 'Republicans' didn't want to run, and according to all you lib-nuts is dumber than a bag of rocks, you all sure do seem awfully scarred of lil' ol' Sarah.
If she was as insignificant as you all say she is, why is MoveOn even bothering with her? Maybe because when she says change she actually would mean it for the better, as opposed to what the current one and done seat warmer is doing.
I don't want Sarah Palin to run for office. I want her to travel around the country outing democrats for all of their lies, hypocrisy and failures and believe me, that would be a full-time job.
Stop spending money on this woman! You don't need to destroy her, she can take care of that herself–for free! It's a GOOD THING if she becomes the face of conservatism in America, because real conservatives wouldn't vote for her anyway.
And to think that some people still dubiously believe that Sarah didn't step down as Governor because it was making Alaska a progressive political target. Proving once again that there really is an idioit born every minute..
I would never have thought about voting for Palin for President, but after 6 months of obama, Sarah's not looking too bad. After all, she would be hard pressed to do worse than our current president.
Too bad it wasn't obama that quit.
Moveon.org....a liberal terrorist club that has a twin America hater -the ACLU.
I thought MoveOn.org was a democrat leaning group? If they are, why arn't they sending Sarah Palin money to run in 2012? Palin not so good for the Republicans, really good for the Democrats.
MoveOn needs to save some time for additional propoganda about Obama doing a good job as President. Skyrocketing debt and unemployment is what we get from boy wonder. In the end it looks like the President is as unqualified as his resume said he was and he could not carry water for Bill Clinton.
the contributors could just flush their money
Sarahpac will raise over $10 million by the end of the year....
Moveon.org is screwed.......
Leslie July 14th, 2009 5:02 pm ET
Sarah Palin is now the voice of the American people and WE WILL RALLY BEHIND PALIN!!!!
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If this is true...then may God Help (save) Us All......
What time does the 'Bridezilla' marathon start?
Sarah is the star......she'll raise millions while Moveon.org goes down the toilet where they belong...
Bush and the GOP broke the US economy and Obama and the Democrats have to fix it.
Some of us wondered why she wanted to get out of the cross hairs because we didn't pay much attention to the down and dirty stuff people write about her. Some of these entries are proving her point.
How can you be for free speech if you assume that you are the only ones entitled to it? Would we all want to be judged as having ghost writers just because it makes sense what she writes? If she is going to fail let the American people decide. Why presume her intentions are evil? It just shows your fear. Besides there are many kinds of intelligence. For all the C students out there (and there are a few), it is nice to see the home girl make a try at the brass ring. You have loads of time to let her fall.
Let her show us undecided what she can offer a country she loves.
@ Leslie,
Yes, Sarah Palin remain standing......standing down from her position of office that is.
How pathetic that people support this quitter. But then again people also believe in Scientology and a bearded man who is in the sky wagging a finger at you.
Yeah, I'm scared of Sarah Palin, scared that her stupidity is as contagious as the H1N1 flu virus. And by the looks of comments from makesUwonder and southerncousin, I hit the nail right on the head.
Quitter/Adulterer 2012
Seriously, why do people continue to waste their money? Apparently, the economy isn't in such a bad state if a moron like Palin can get donations. Wake up people! She's an idiot, don't waste your hard-earned money.
@ Jeff in Atlanta,
Yeah, it was Sarah Palin who quit. And that's who you want to be President?
Riiiiiiight!
In an alternate universe, here are the headlines: "N. Korea test fires another missle, Sarah Palin resigns as POTUS to spend her last moments with her family"
Obama is Jimmy Carter without the charming accent. America should prepare for 70% tax rates, 15% unemployment, 20% prime interest rates, weekly misery index figure updates, and the whole nine yards – that is the logical outcome of democratic policies whenever they are allowed to be implemented unimpeded.
I don't buy the "Palin = moron" theme so many leftists are pedaling with increasing desperation... but honestly a retarded chimp could do a better job as president than the current occupant of the White House (and no pun intended by the familial resemblance between the two).
Wow... I'm glad she can see Russia from her window!!
Palin for President? Give me a break.
Apparently there is no shortage of idiots still carrying the Palin banner as the Washington Post proved today. The media is going to keep this gutless quitter in the news in spite of the American public which voted to send her and McCain to the dustbin. We're all going to have to continue to put up with Palin for one reason and one reason only: the press. The press isn't reporting the news, they're making the news and that is a mucg greter threat to our country than anything al-queda could send our way. It's the end of democracy as we know it and corporate media will have played a key role in destroying any and all common sense left in our once great country. I'm quite certain that Ted Turner rues the day he lost control of CNN. Just look at what's become of the People's News: a Palin bandwagon.
At least she's not campaigning on the taxpayer's dime. Like a certain senator did.....and voted "present" on numerous occasions.
Speaking of dumb, how about all the dumb people who believed obama was center of the road. He is losing support with now the majority seeing him as a failure at least as far as the economy goes. ABO in 2012. "Anybody but obama".
Palin is the best thing for the democrats, please back her to run in 12 this way it will be 12 years of dems in the white house.RALLY BEHIND PALIN!!!!
11,000 supporters?? hahahahaha, I have that many on my face book
Quitter! Quitter! Not afraid of Sara Palin, she is a nut job!
The group said Palin was positioning herself as the face of conservative opposition to Obama's energy policy, telling supporters her op-ed was "a marvel of misinformation and outright lies."
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When I first read the headline, I thought, MoveOn is wasting their time and money treating Palin as a relavent threat. However, if she is trying to make herself ans the face of conservative oppositions...GO GET HER!
And another thing, NO ONE IS AFRAID OF SARAH PALIN (except the moose and other woodland creatures) We know that conservatives operate and are motivated by fear, BUT your liberal democratic counterparts DO NOT. If you haven't noticed, We operate and We are motivated by HOPE...NOT FEAR.
We were, at one time, divided by fear. We moved on. We are now UNITED by HOPE. Try to understand
What kind of moron would given hard earned recession money to a person that has a doomed political career, is a magnet for a flood of ethics violations, quit her governor's job after only a few months actually in that office because being a lame duck is boring, and is the biggest laughing stock in the country – well it's a tie between her & Mark Sanford.
Makes you worry about the mental health of our country.
Leslie July 14th, 2009 5:02 pm ET
"The Democrats are AFRAID of Sarah Palin. They'd be working for months on end trying to destroy her, Governor Palin remain standing; now she can say what she wanted about Obama and CORRUPT Democratic Party by end of this month. Sarah Palin is now the voice of the American people and WE WILL RALLY BEHIND PALIN!!!!"
Democrats don't need to destroy Sarah Palin. She's doing a good job of that herself. And speaking of corrupt I suppose the GOP is composed of very nice people who are sorry they destroyed our country.................for profit. Oh by the way...Sarah is not the voice of this American.
Republicans, I understand that we must exercise diversity in the GOP, moreso to address the lack of women talent in the presidential race talent pool. But if the GOP wants to succeed in 2012, you will need to dump Sarah Palin quick and find a real "qualified" woman leader who can make change, can form sensible phrases in English and knows that Africa is a continent on the globe. She's a comic reel and the GOP has enough to worry about.
When Palin announced she was leaving office I sent her $10.....and I'm a Democrat! Had she announced she was leaving the country I'd have sent $50.
If Cheney announces he's turning himself in, I'm good for $100!
@ Leslie who said "WE WILL RALLY BEHIND PALIN!!!!"
We as in the American people? You're kidding right? How does she intend on winning the African American vote after all the racial slurs that she never denounced at her rallies? She doesn't stand a chance and even "REAL" republicans know that.
Definition of a REAL republican = Colin Powell, Richard Lugar
Oh Rob, Rob, Rob. Quit with your desperate argument that we are scared of Governor Winky. We are ANNOYED by her arrogance, her addiction to being a victim, and her obvious uneducated followers (you know, the ones who have re-defined intelligence to mean elitism).
Just goes to show how many people are fed up with the present bunch of goofs we have in washington. Remember half the country did not vote for obama.
I just like to follow her around with the kids, and hold her purse for her,it beats having to work! Please donate more we need a swimming pool and new tanning booth, thanks TODD
Yeah – Obama wreaked this coutry in just 6 months – wow he must be pretty powerful.
Couldn't be down to 8 years of rape & pilage from Repubs crooks & theives???
Anyone dumb enough to support Bush and dumb enough to support Palin deserves everything they get.
I on the other hand will give Obama his due, and a couple of years to set this country back on track!
Rome wasn't built in a day – come on people – get real & get honest!
As long as the $$$$ is accounted for by Federal / State law, power to her. She DOES NOT NEED a financial inquiry for fund raising/expenditure. But one will be coming for sure.
Alaska and Hawaii fal linto the same catagory. Greatful to have, but remote enough to wbo "gives a dang"!
Sarah; learn your domestic politics, internationsal relatons, funding, congressional morre'. There is NO welcome wagon waiting for you.
Physical appearance, children on the stage, mean NOTHING.
Deliver a message the general continental people can appreciate and get behind. Else, don't bother. There are sufficient problems/issues to address/resolve without having to "look over the sea and have Russia in our face".
@ amy, who said "Lindsey Graham just gave the most condescending sexist grilling to Sotomayor that I have heard in 40 years."
Well, if you were to ask Palin, at least it wasn't Katie Couric, right?
the voice of america is a quitter, na-na-na na na
Let's see the Quitter field ONE question on "her" op-ed
We are offended by the rightwing nutcases that not just think the President is bad for the country,but that he is some how evil because of their biblical beliefs.
Sounds like Sarah Palin is CRAZY LIKE A FOX!!!!
It would be a mistake to under estimate her.....
Let's see if her donators agree with her when she starts doling the six-PAC money out to fringe right wing causes! Let' see if they want to finance arguments against global warming, arguments against stem cell research, arguments against Roe V. Wade, and arguments against alternative energy from Palin's antiquated point of view.
I am no fan of Palin's, but MoveOn's smear (I mean, ad) campaign will reflect poorly on the image Dems want to convey about their party.
There's not enough money for Palin to buy her way into the Casa Blanca! You betcha!