Palin raises money for GOP in liberal Oregon town

[onehandle]

Source: AP

EUGENE, Ore. – Sarah Palin praised Republicans at a fundraising dinner in a liberal-leaning Oregon town for having the boldness to invite her to speak Friday evening.

The former governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate was the headliner in Eugene for the Lane County Republican Party's Lincoln Day dinner. She spoke as about 150 demonstrators gathered peacefully outside the fundraiser.

Eugene, home to the University of Oregon, is a Democratic stronghold in a blue state, and Lane County registers nearly twice as many Democrats as Republicans. But local GOP officials invited Palin to rally the GOP faithful.

Praising the spirit of the tea party movement, Palin exhorted local Republicans to run for office to take the country back from Democrats.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100424/ap_on_el_ge/us_palin_liberal_town

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There's a sucker born every minute.

About 13 hours and 20 minutes worth of them were in that room.

[Speck Tater]

1. As a Eugene resident, they can take my city from me when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

This is a Dem stronghold. The people here are too damned intelligent to be Republicans.

[pinboy3niner]

4. You guys in Eugene missed the boat

If you'd REALLY been on the ball, you would have hidden all the bendy straws in advance, and voila, visit cancelled. (Gimme a call next time you need some expert strategery.) :)

[crim son]

14. Hah!

Simple yet effective...

[happygoluckytoyou]

19. IN A RELATED STORY-- Eugene Republicans vote to move to Arizona (raising the avg. IQ of both states)

[chollybocker]

2. Quite the jet-setter, she is!

(For someone with no actual job.)

'Testifying' coast to coast... she's Aimee Simple MacPhalin!

[tulsakatz]

3. I guess she likes being a loser.......

...not much chance of inspiring republicans in Oregon!!! I've never been to Oregon but I email a good friend who lives there. And from what I've heard, I'd like to move there someday!

It would be definitely better than Oklahoma!!!

[tqla]

26. I know someone very well in Oregon

He's a very good guy, I like him a lot. Although he did vote for Bush, as soon a Palin came into play he voted for Obama. I really don't think the Palin has the positive impact that the media tends to imply.

[Democat]

5. This is the top story on many new sites - not the good economic news!

If Palin winks, it's the top story on CNN, MSNBC, and Yahoo.

If the housing market starts to recover and unemployment drops, it's buried in tiny text somewhere.

More proof that the right wing media is trying to undermine Obama.

[edwinmathews]

21. The housing market

started to recover ? Unemployment dropped ?

[boppers]

6. 800, at $250 each

$200,000 bucks. Wow.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Let me guess...no Q&A...no Sarah talking off script.

She's a lightweight who only fools the rubes that pay money to listen to someone who dazzles them with her winks and youbetchas.

[AlbertCat]

16. Just like Dubya! Only his schick was playing a cowboy. (and Prez).... neither very well.

But, boy, am I sick of the news rushing to smell every Sarah Palin fart and then tell us about it. The Teabaggers are just annoying and tired at this point. I hope the steam runs out soon, but with th elections on the way....

[ixion]

8. And by "boldness" she meant "cash"

As in: "I'm glad you had the cash to invite me to come con you."

[joanmj]

9. Too much money

:kick:

[Bombero1956]

10. bold=stupidity

That these Repugs coughed up $200,000 to hear her speak when they stand zero chance of changing the minds of the majority of the citizens there shows just how really stupid they are. Sarah Palin is the modern equivalent of a snake oil salesman.

[activa8tr]

11. Let her take all the money from the few Republicans in that town

the fools that would give her money deserve to be poor.

[CreatureFeature]

12. Eugene is my home town.....

I had a chance to get back there a few times in the last 5 years. There are a lot of very well educated and thoughtful people there...... and a few that are, how shall we say, reality deprived!

[crim son]

13. Cool, drain the ten Eugene rethugs of their money.

I went to U of O and know the town. It isn't going to turn red any time soon.

[depakid]

24. My sentiments exactly

[NikRik]

15. I wish we could all agree .........

not to give this unimportant,uninformed and a waste of time person any more space on this web site ! Let her coverage go to the rags that also cover the Elvis is still alive story !
Take Care NikRik

[Tarheel_Dem]

18. Thank You! I'm not sure why we haven't come to that conclusion before.

When will we figure out that Palin is a media creation, and the more we talk about her, the bigger her bank account grows. I'm all for a moratorium on this site.

[Turbineguy]

17. I have to wonder...

Would Lincoln have sought to preserve the Union had he known these people would proclaim themselves "The Party of Lincoln" or would he have said "Ah, fuck it!"

[xxqqqzme]

20. I thought 'Lincoln Day' was

in February. Or do they celebrate his assassination(April 15)?

[Cha]

22. They don't know..

:silly::silly:

[bluedeminredstate]

23. She doesn't speak for free.

I wonder how much fundraising the GOP had to do to cover the cost of her oft-repeated, hackneyed, rambling, uninspiring, lame-ass, cliched speech?
I could probably get up there and recite it myself and save the Eugene repubs a shitload of money.

"Eugene, do you like your FREEDOM?" "We're kicking it old school with my poor man's teleprompter" (holds up scribbled-upon hand)
I could go on but I'm sure you all know it by heart too.

How this lightweight gets the coverage she does is simply amazing. I've never seen a potential presidential candidate treated this way - it's like she's a celebrity instead of a politician. She's supposedly a viable candidate in the next presidential election and yet she doesn't do interviews, isn't held accountable for her disinformation and uses Facebook as her primary method of expressing her views. If this were a male candidate he would be a laughingstock.

[L. Coyote]

25. The Pukes complained that she got "most" of the money!

[maxsolomon]

27. a Blue island in a sea of Red that is S. Oregon

south of Eugene it's Teabag country - Roseburg, Grant's Pass, Klamath Falls. they likes their guns, their private property, and their gubmint subsidies.

pretty much the typical pattern for the PNW.