Perspective: “It’s all too easy to ridicule her,” T.A. Frank writes. “As she runs for Congress, I wanted to tell a different story.”
” . She also made more political endorsements that banked a lot of chits. Ted Cruz, who gained momentum in 2012 after securing Palin’s endorsement in a tough primary in Texas, has said he “would not be in the U.S. Senate today if it were not for Governor Sarah Palin.” Even in 2014, six years after her vice-presidential run, Palin could draw a crowd in many states. In Kansas that year, when she spoke at a rally for then-Sen.
Today, Palin’s campaign filing shows assets of at most $2.4 million and possibly as little as $950,000. She gets about $90,000 in advertising revenue from a right-wing content farm that she has operated with the aid of some conservative media entrepreneurs. Most of her money these days comes from Cameo, a service that allows people to buy a personalized greeting from a celebrity, which earned her about $212,000 last year.
in a steep career decline and adrift, the Times editorial had reopened a painful wound in an unworthy manner. “I didn’t have any TV contracts, I didn’t have that platform,” she later told a courtroom. “There I was up in Wasilla, Alaska, going up against those who buy ink by the barrel, and I had my No. 2 pencil on my kitchen table.” It might have been a canned line, but it wasn’t a bad one.
The Anchorage and Bethel forums weren’t the only ones Palin missed. She had also skipped a forum in Juneau, the capital, a week earlier. “You mess with some of these Republican women, and they’ll reach down your throat and yank out your lungs,” Suzanne Downing, publisher of the conservative website Must Read Alaska, told me over dinner in Anchorage.
John McCain did something terrible to Palin when he offered her the spot as his running mate. At the time, she was a governor with high approval ratings in her home state, north of 80 percent in some polls. She was a staunch conservative but not a firebrand, and she didn’t mind working with the opposition party.
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