Sarah Palin, the $12 Million Dollar Woman
13 April 2010 6:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
Since leaving office at the end of July 2009, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee has brought in at least 100 times her old salary – a haul now estimated at more than $12 million — through television and book deals and a heavy schedule of speaking appearances worth five and six figures. – Sarah Palin Has Earned an Estimated $12 Million Since July (With A Steady Stream of Six-Figure Speaking Gigs, The Former Alaska Governor’s Haul May Be Even Bigger)
Buffalo Springfield is playing in my head.
There is something happening here…
What it is isn’t exactly clear.
But from all appearances and poll numbers, what it isn’t is the making of a presidential candidate. At least not yet. Palin couldn’t even seduce Sen. Scott Brown into joining her at her Massachusetts Tea Party rally.
However, quitting pays. And since Sarah Palin is the main breadwinner of her family, no doubt it has come in handy.
Between Glenn Beck’s $32 million, and Sarah Palin’s $12 million, which is money since July 2009 and doesn’t include the $1 million an episode she’ll get for her Alaska travelogue for TLC, it’s clear that something is happening on the right, which can be monetized in a very big way.
The question I put to everyone last week, which caused quite a stir when I put it up on Huffington Post remains. Never mind that people wanted to dumb down what I was asking to “The left doesn’t want a Sarah Palin, because she’s stupid.” Expanding the question further, I ask it again, who on the left can effect the voting public like Beck and Palin, while cashing in on it at the same time?
The energy and big bucks remain on the right.
With Tina Fey’s sign off the only thing that’s really clear… So, there you have it. All Palin all the time until 2012, when I haven’t decided what I’m gonna do, but I’m probably going to run for president.
Its hard to tell what Sarah Palin is planning on doing for the future. I have heard from some of my friends different things that she might be doing. She could run for president,or run for senate or congress,be the head of the republican national committee, or a famous celebrity. She keeps everyone guessing. Even her daughter Bristol Palin is doing ads on teenage pregnancy and doing guest appearences on tv shows. So it seems even her kids are doing great. I can see Bristol Palin running for office in the future.I am surprised that Senator Scott Brown won’t join his Queen at the tea party rally in Boston, but Sarah Palin can hold her own thats for sure. Thats going to be interesting to see the Sarah Palin rally in Boston, Massachusetts of all places. In this country, the more money you have,the more power you get. Its sad but its true. It seems after the 2008 election, Sarah Palin got bigger instead of fading away. It seems Sarah Palin will be around for year to come.
I think the more money she makes the less likely she is to run. More power to her on the money thing. I think running for office would be too confining for Sarah.
As for money generation on the right I would imagine that someone well versed in marketing could explain it very well. It is all about the brand and the sound bite. Easily digestible,catchy,jargon.After all it does not need to be true or even make sense.Does anyone who buys Air Jordons think it will improve their ability to leap into the air? Probably a few. Good Lord, look at the multi-million dollar lose weight wihout really trying industry.What did P.T. Barnam say?
Obama understands that he used Nike iconology.Worked very well for him the first time around.
The answer to your question is nobody. President Obama is the only person right now who could even give it a run, but he’d have to make some real changes and buck up a bit. Of course, it’s not really fair to compare folk like Palin and Beck who are essentially entertainers. It’s like arm-chair quarterbacking — they don’t have any reality to face.
Sarah Palin is a perfect match for what’s going on with the Tea Party. They’re a bunch of pissed off people and she’s could at fanning the flame with sounds bites. But at the end of the day, she doesn’t have anything to back up her rhetoric. I hate to agree with Gingrich, but I’m afraid she’s a king-maker and will never be a serious candidate.
I watch Palin a lot. I see her becoming more polished…as an entertainer. I am looking for her to become more polished as a politician. I have no idea what is going on inside that pretty little head of hers or what is her next move. But I have a feeling SHE knows what she is doing. At some point she will have to start sounding and acting like a presidential candidate. She will at some point have to start trying to draw in her skeptics and the people she needs to appeal to other than the Tea Party. Will she? can she? No one knows…yet.
But I have a feeling SHE knows what she is doing.
I agree. 12 mil. in 9 months time – incredible. For being so “stupid”, she sure has done better than most. She seems to be the captain of her own destiny with options available. I’d quit the governorship, too.
Well said, getty.
Agreed. She knows *exactly* what she’s doing.
However far she can take this ride she will. Whatever spoils if she doesn’t reach the presidency will be in piles.
Besides, people forget that she’s got 15 years at least, as she’s young.
She knows exactly what she is doing.
What difference does it make that she is the main breadwinner in her family?
Actually, I think it’s a huge part of the story that traditional and new media, but especially her haters, leave out.
See Joe Scarborough, who left his office for his family.
Sarah Palin had serious legal bills by the end of 2008. Few take into consideration that she was responsible for paying them, calling her simply a “quitter” without respecting what men have to do all the time: pay the bills.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was also the main breadwinner during WJC’s governor days when he was making a pittance.
Very few female politicians are put in this role. It’s a dimension to Mrs. Palin that is serious, but is never written about.
I see your point.
Well, just cry me a river and boo hoo hoo!
Apparently – at least, judging by this particular comment of yours – even fewer take into consideration that Sarah Palin herself provoked a lot of the litigation against her through her repeated and wanton abuse of the inherent powers and privileges of the Office of the Governor.
I certainly don’t recall anyone forcing her to seek vengeance on behalf of her disgruntled sister by trying to fire her former brother-in-law Mike Wooten from his job as an Alaska state trooper.
Who twisted her arm to fire her own public safety director, former Anchorage Police Chief John Monegan, when he rightly refused to abuse his own office to carry forward what he characterized as her family’s personal vendetta against Mr. Wooten?
And from what I could best determine, nobody in any responsible position of judicial or civil authority ever gave his or her okay to charge Alaska taxpayers for the costs associated with her own family’s personal travel throughout Alaska and even down to the lower 48 – which even included sending the Palin children on the taxpayer’s dime to watch Todd Palin compete in a snowmobile race.
Look, I don’t begrudge anyone their right to earn money and make a living, which includes their right to cash in on their fame and notoriety while still a hot commodity, P.R.-wise. Sarah Palin has since made over one hundred times what she would have earned by continuing as governor of Alaska. And while I might argue that one should honor the implied commitment to one’s constituency by serving out the full term when elected to any public office, I can’t disagree that she made a calculated decision that in retrospect proved to be in her family’s best financial interest.
That said, I do very much resent what I see as your aid and abetment of a fact-free woman who so effortlessly spews vitriole and venom at fellow Americans with whom she happens to disagree politically, and then further seeks to recast herself as a victim of the so-called “liberal media” when she’s called out for her obvious B.S.
Are there double standards in existence when it comes down to evaluating and judging men and women who in the public eye? Obviously, yes. But Sarah Palin’s overriding problem is that one has to first dig a fairly deep trench in order to determine the exact height of her own professional standards in the political arena. And that, I would offer, has little or nothing to do with one’s gender, and everything to do with one’s personal code of ethics – or Ms. Palin’s case, the obvious lack thereof.
Aloha.
That picture of Tina Fey really doesn’t capture Sarah’s essense. The black leather needs to go.
Did you see her at the McCain rally in Arizona. It’s like, totally Sarah, for now, anyway.
I say she’s not going to run; she’s aiming for power broker, not Prez.
That’s my guess too.
Tea Party Wheel of Fortune: “OBAMAR IS A TERRIST.”
That was priceless, and pretty much sums up that too-cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs crowd in a nutshell, no pun intended. Tina Fey is simply brilliant.