Today I got a mailing from Americans for Sarah, A Project of Justice PAC. I hate to admit it, because now my wife will have a comeback when I start kidding her about all the right-wing mailings she’s been getting lately. I like to think that some devious left wing mail order person is selling our names to these right wing groups, just to make them spend money.
But, I digress before I even start.
The interesting thing about Americans for Sarah is that, apart from trying to collect money using her name, it appears to have no actual connection to Sarah Palin. She isn’t, after all, running for president, and the letter I got never really says that she is, and certainly doesn’t state that the group has her blessing to trade off her brand. No, this is just a group that wants me to know that they think Sarah would make a peachy president, specially cuz she drives freedom hating liberals crazy, and they’d like everyone to send them money so they can help her win the Republican nomination that she hasn’t been seeking.
Now, has the world seen the like of this before? Here we have a bunch of grifters leeching off a grifter in whose name they claim to be acting, and it’s all perfectly legal, as far as I can see.
Well, all in all, I say go to it. This is a phenomenon that affects the right wing more than the left (though who knows, maybe Colbert is going to let me down). A few years ago I posted (and don’t ask me to find it) about a group of political consultants who specialized in raising money for no-hope GOP candidates, which candidates got a tiny sliver of the money that was raised. Looks like Americans for Sarah is doing those groups one better, in that it is apparently going to keep every penny, depriving Sarah of sucker cash that rightfully (or wrongfully, depending on your perspective) belongs to her, and every dime sent is one less that can be sent to Michelle, Hermann, or the other crazies that are actually in the race.
My wife takes her petty revenge on the right wing fundraisers by sending the postage paid envelopes back empty. Alas, Americans for Sarah is wise to that gambit. Grifters they may be, but stupid they’re not. If you want your freedom, you have to pay postage.
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