We've heard about Sarah Palin's $100,000 speaking fees -- you know, get up at the bowling convention and string together her stock platitudes and rake in the bucks.
Required campaign reports with the state Elections Commission now reveal that Karen Handel's campaign paid $92,000 to charter the plane that brought Sarah Palin to a rally in Atlanta on the eve of the Republican gubernatorial primary and another $13,000 hotel rental fees for the event.
Apparently, Palin wasn't paid a speaker's fee; but reportedly she had previously said that she would cover expenses for such campaign appearances our of her political action committee. Not this time, it seems.
Handel might have done better to spend the same amount of money on more TV ads to denounce Nathan Deal for smearing, not only her, but Youth Pride, the honorable and invaluable Atlanta community resource for gay youth. It was one of the more despicable dirty Republican campaign smears since Saxby Chambliss smeared triple-amputee and Viet Nam war hero Max Cleland as unpatriotic.
But, given the climate of the Georgia elections, Chambliss won, and Deal won. Republicans smear, shamelessly and offensively, and they win. Even Sarah Palin's star power didn't pull it off for Karen Handel. Nothing beats pandering to the patriots who cling to their guns and oppose abortion and homosexuality. It's a winning combination in Georgia.
Ralph
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