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Political action committee specializing in electing Democratic women to office, EMILY's List (short for "Early Money Is Like Yeast" -- it makes the dough rise), announced the launch of its new campaign, "Sarah Doesn't Speak for Me" today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The Website, SarahDoesntSpeakforMe.com went live as of 10:30am today.
Stephanie Schriock, president of EMILY's List, spoke at the press conference.
She said she launched the campaign because EMILY's List didn't want Sarah Palin's voice to go unchallenged. As a fellow Westerner from Butte, Mont., Schriock said she personally feels strongly about fighting back against Palin, saying she is attempting to harness the "independent spirit of Westerners" to push a "backwards agenda" with her "Mama Grizzly" video after "abruptly" leaving her role as governor of Alaska. (The EMILY's list anti-Palin Web site has a video mocking Palin's "Mama Grizzly" video.)
Schriock said Palin predicted a rising tide of these so-called "Mama Grizzlies" voting against the right to choose, health care and unemployment benefits.
"EMILY's List understands the power of the rising tide," Schriock said, so the group wants to create its own rising tide of pro-choice Democratic women.
She called Palin "extreme and bad for America."
She also noted that women only make up 17% of Congress and that it's critical that more women run for office.
On what the campaign will do, Schriock said, it will work to recruit women voters for progressive female candidates like Barbara Boxer and Patty Murray to challenge candidates Palin has endorsed like Carly Fiorina -- who she called a "failed" corporate CEO who reportedly laid off 10,000 people "herself"; Michelle Bachmann, who Schriock noted called it "extortion to make BP take responsibility for oil spill"; Sharron Angle, citing that she wants teen victims of rape to "make lemonade out of lemons."
She said the Web site, which will be used to raise money, will also serve as a source for "truth," Schriock said, about Palin's agenda -- with a detailed grid about what candidates Palin has endorsed. It will also serve as a "get out the vote" hub and an action center for women to engage with one another.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The post clarifies that Schriock said Palin predicted a rising tide, not that Schriock predicted a rising tide.
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Sarah WHO??
I think they're talking about the Tundra Tart!
‘If God had not intended us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?’
Sarah Palin
Can't wait to hear what the Twit will tweet about EMILY's List!
Feisty- is this the same Sarah that asked Todd Palin if he wanted super sex, and the dude replied "I'll take the soup"?
No, this is the Sarah who appreciates your support. And Emily's.
That be her! I'd take the soup too..
He NEEDS to stay as far away from Ol' Fertile Myrtle possible...
Feisty....you're such a negative, ignorant, and probably unattractive, mouthy, opinionated, and I repeat ignorant woman, the guys must run right away from ya. I love how women hate on Sarah, you are all just so jealous of her past and present accomplishments.................and those future accomplishments. Step away from the keyboard and leave the comments to the people with intelligence and experience.
These are very powerful, rich Democrat women. The Democrats in charge are all very rich and powerful.
Beau:
Do us ALL a favor and STOP thinking with your little head will ya?
New study shows that each Sarah Palin Tweet causes decrease in reader’s IQ.
Read this article, it is FUNNY.
http://www.dailygoat.com/?p=1821
This should be fun, Sarah will give them plenty to talk about. She is probably inventing new words to use right now.
No one, I mean NO ONE loves Sarah Palin more than Sarah Palin... Well, maybe FOX noise...
I'm not sure if it's just an extreme case of self importance or she's just delusional...
Either way, people, be afraid - be very afraid...
Lyn, would that be the SAME "fair and Balanced", UNBIASED, "News" outlet that just gave the Repub Governor's group 1 MILLION dollars?
Yes!!!!
it`s about time someone took her on...........
Go get`em.......er go get her EMILY`s List.
I am so tired of them trying to make mkiss sara out of something that she really isn`t.
A drop out Gov......
Yes!!!
Wow, Sarah has long coattails. They aren't so much as taking her on as they are capitalizing on her.
You know for people who say she's insignificant, you sure seem interested in her.
And, again, we have the usual hate-filled comments with nasty names. At least, I didn't see a certain person trying to "hide" her dirty words by using symbols. For those of you who can only call names and speak in filth, you show your ignorance. I don't care if you like Sarah Palin or not, but you could at least express yourselves like grown-ups instead of like children "talking dirty" on the school grounds.
Well put, thanks. It gets old reading adolescent comments from people with nothing to back them up. Probably need to get a job and get off unemployment.
Dirt, have you made the comments to those who call President Obama names? I don't like Sarah Palin and have opinions about her that are not complimentary but I won't call her names. The same with Mr. Obama's prececessor other than Dubya which is a nickname his own family calls him. I don't like George W. Bush or Dick Cheney either and believe they should be in prison but calling them names really accomplishes nothing but makes the name caller feel better. (are you reading this Eric in Salinas?).
So Adler, what is it that you don't like about the policies that Sarah Palin supports? Hmm.... waiting.....waiting....... I'm sure when you do respond they will simply be talking points you picked up off of Keith Olberman or Chris Matthews.
J.H.:
Sarah Palin has policies? What? The ones written on her hand?
She's an embarrassment to the GOP. Given enough time (and media love), she'll bring down the brand.
I especially admire Palin's reading habits. Let's see, which newspapers does she read? Oh, that's right.... "all of them". Wow, talk about an overachiever...
I don't think Sarah Palin ever proclaimed to speak for Democrats.
WTF is an EMILY's list anyway? Sounds like an old prostitute looking to get even with all of her former johns.
They need to spend their money on elections, not attacking a private citizen. Waste of money. I bet it is a bunch of white women wasting their husbands money.
That is precisely the problem nowadays people are telling others what to do and how to do it. Who says Emily's list can't spend THEIR money any damn way they want? You? Who are you to determine what this organization can do with their money? You call yourself "in the middle", you are hardly in the middle but more strongly leaning right.
I must have struck a nerve...GOOD....and it is STILL a waste of money with all of these hungry azz people out here.
I agree with you Adler,,
Who does the president and the Democrats think they are telling Private american Citizens how to spend our money. You know like on the HCR bill. ect ect ect..
If this is the best the lefties can do, they are even more pathetic than I thought.
I like this article liberal of course it is after all CBS but trying to put Emily's list in the same class as Sarah Palin or that they could somehow rally against her is patiently absurd. Most if not all conservative woman would not be caught dead on such a liberals list. If this was not so funny it would be insulting to the intelligence of woman everywhere. You can not be a true woman unless you are a liberal according to liberals what a bunch of elitist crap.
Wow, Sarah Palin must scare the hell out of you limp-wristed liberals and feminazis. I see all that you mental midgets on the left can do is attack her character with no mention of the policies she supports. Typical left wing drivel from the bottom feeders in society whose time at the public trough will be finished come November. Have a nice bottle of champagne on ice and will pop that cork when Barbara Boxer, Patty Murray, and the rest of the nags go down to defeat!
I'll wager that if this was a conservative group (tea baggers for example) then it would be fine with you because it is conservative but let a liberal group raise money for their causes and it is the worst thing since Eve ate the apple.
Hypocrisy of the right never ceases to amaze me.
Sarah Palin is a private citizen. She isn't running for office. Why are these nags so scared of her? Oh, as far as your derogatory name for the those who consider themselves part of the Tea Party, they'll be celebrating come November and you'll be commiserating with Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews.
If she is a private citizen then why is she commenting publicly on things like the NYC mosque/community center and campaigning for Republican/Tea Party candidates? Sorry, you can't have it both ways!
That's about as silly a comment as I've heard on here. There are ex-Senators, Governors, etc. that comment and campaign all the time (perhaps you've heard of this guy named Clinton).
J.H. Moore. You are a private Citizen.. Why are you here commenting on this site?..
She's endorsing candidates. That's proof she's involved in the election. And proof that she's a legitimate target for opponents.
If you have a problem with Emily's List (or any other group involved in elections), get over it. The Citizen's United case opened the flood gates to let everyone in without restrictions. So pipe down.
My apology J.H. Moore.. that should have been Directed at DrDr..
I'm saying, she can't have it both ways. When you involve yourself giving public endorsements and campaigning for candidate after candidate, speaking at public rallies, you give up the "private citizen" label. Same as ex-Senators, etc., Clinton included.
Sara: is so much against the Demacrats" she could never represent everyone in the country!!!
These women are jealous because they probably are a bunch of old maids without social values like home, family and a sense of right and wrong. Far left liberals that lean to a socialist/marxist view like Obama and his muslim slip of "lower Manhatten" - which clearly showed his view on the mosque and the next day tried to lie out of it. The Democrats will be out in November and maybe some of the damage can be corrected that they have caused the USA!!!!
Geez RcTx3" I can see why you are so enamored of Palin. Without her good ole adjectives, adverbs, nouns, etc. to copy you wouldn't be able to speak or repeat - such as "muslim slip", "far left liberals that lean to a socialist/marxist view, "next day tried to lie out of it", "without social values like home, family and a sense of right and wrong". Sounds like a recording to me.
She's just a great word salad, isn't she? One of the signs of schizophrenia.....follow along all you loyal T-baggers. Don't forget to staple them to your heads.
Seemingly all of the lesbians are upset with Palin............
Sarah just gets awesomer and awesomer. (Hey, if she can make up words, I can too!)
What's a word for 'baby-macihne'? She's at least that, if nothing else.
First I am not American. Some of us Non-Americans see Sarah Palin as a disgrace to some of the more talented, knowledgeable women politicians there is in your country. How does she see herself travelling to Russia to represent the United States, what a joke? The Presidency of the United States is global and will always be. Americans you are better than that, you all are missing out on the best of what you have to offer. Not Sarah Palin!!!!!
It will be nice to have a counter to the crap Sarah spews. I feel bad for the Tea Baggers at the rallies, cheering away as she tells them they will cut all their bennies. Do these people listen, or are the in a trance watching her. Whatever, I hope she will take her millions and go back to Alaska come December.
I can't get my fingers to type fast enough to get on this website. What a perfect name--Sarah doesn't speak for me. Hits the nail on the head. Someone said she's a private citizen? What a croc. If that's the case, what's she doing out in the media, day after day after day after day.... She says nothing of any value, reads from her hand, talks in folksy gibberish, quits being governor, and people actually think she has a brain. Just goes to show, you can't account for class.
Dee-it appears the media are the ones giving her all the air time. It would be no different if they followed you around everywhere you went and reported every word you spoke, intelligent or ignorant. People can choose to listen or ignore.
Double
While I agree you can either listen or ignore, it's hard to ignore when she's out there daily on Fox News spewing her euphenisms. The media doesn't follow her around, she makes herself available at every turn.
Wow, you libbies are still worried about Sarah Palin, aren't you? Why??
It can't get any worse than it is...
We are worried on your behalf, you idolize an idiot.
It is laughable to hear the right wingnuts suggest that the left's focus on Sarah is due to their jealousy of her "accomplishments" at a time when the right has set such a low bar for "accomplishments". After eight years of buffoonry and butchery of the english language by their chief dunce it is easy to see why they would consider it an "accomplishment" for a Repub politician to be capable of proper sentence structure. Why then is Sarah lauded by the right when she repeatedly fails even their own low bar? Because, in their desperate search for a leader they are willing to forego her gaffes, incoherence, Bush-isms, unproven education, razor-thin resume and blinding idiocy to regain power even if (or because) her strongest/best attribute is her appearance. They reason that she would most definitely appeal to some segment of the population with like-minded IQ. It is also why even the smartest of the Republican lot would simply acquiesce during the 2008 election, or worse, despite all evidence to the contrary, suggest with the straightest of faces they could muster, that she was capable of leading the country! Republican inside operatives have all but told us that they held their noses through this whole episode. And these devious creatons want those of us who are capable of more than sentence structure to vote for them or turn a blind eye to Sarah.
Well, ain't gonna happen. She is one you've bestowed Messianic status on. You've put her on a pedestal. We pay attention to her not for what she is or says or even how she looks. We pay attention to her because of what she represents: a backwards ass group of regressives who crave power at all costs with an agenda that will surely send us back to the pre-civil war, pre-civil rights era. She represents the glorification of stupidity at a time when we are desperately trying to regain educational dominance. So, she must be silenced, blunted, marginalized and if necessary, annhilated (for you right wing nuts that's a metaphor). Now if we could only get the Palin-lovin' media on board. Also.
Mad,
Dayum dude you have just described about 95% of Democrats...oooops ...PROGRESSIVES.......except for the looks.
Mad
Every word of what you said is true. And you notice the response you get from the right-wing loonies? See In the Middle post 18.1.
Just like Sarah- no substance, just rhetoric. Notice the cute little euphenism at the beginning?
Dee:
First of all I'm not a Right-Wing looney. I am a dayum American with an opinion just like YOU. I can call you a LEFT-Wing looney judging from your reaction alone.
What exactly in your response is of substance?
Kick rocks trick.....
IntheMiddle, TX
Did you read the republican 10trillion dollar plan if they get control of the senate?
read it. please.
Sarah Palin has what?- a two year degree from Wasila community college and that seems to be enough to outsmart her fan base, as a leader of anything more than Wasila (as mayor) she can't cut it. She could not finish her term as governor and her only accomplishment was to picked as a VP canidate by McCain. What has she accomplished?, far less than Hannah Montana, or Lindsay Lohan she has accomplished celebrity that is all. As a national canidate she is an embarrassment because quit frankly she is ignorant. I have listened to her interviews when she was a VP canidate and she sounded stupid, real stupid, when asked hard hitting questions like "what newspapers do you read". Her reply "all of them" which not only makes her sound stupid but dishonest and vain. In any event she has celebrity status, but so does Ronald McDonald. I guess the kicker is that she seems to blame the media for her ignorance, they make her look stupid is her line of thought, and this becomes another thing that indicates her ignorance.
It is about time some women stand up and say what an "Air Head" Palin is and how she diminishes intelligent women out there both Republican and Democrats. I am still puzzled as to why the News Media gives her so much credibility. She has nothing of substance to say to advance an intelligent dialogue on some of the most important issues facing this country. All she does is flame throw and use code words for racist incitement of the electorate. Palin is out for Palin. I cannot believe the Real America she talks about and I Want my Country Back Folks truly believe in what this woman has to say, unless of course they are low information voters and Air Heads like her.
Following are a couple of quotes from a recent article on China addressing their impressive progress: "And while the United States and the European Union are struggling to grow in the wake of the worst economic crisis in decades, China has continued to climb up the economic league tables by investing heavily in infrastructure and backing a $586 billion stimulus plan.", a statement that would seem to indicate their 'liberal' programs are working; and the following statement "While the country is still relatively poor per capita, it has an authoritarian government that is capable of taking decisive action — to stimulate the economy, build new projects and invest in specific industries." points out their apparent ability to easily control and contain the negative pressures of unchecked capitalism (such as run-away greed, gross dishonesty and self-indulgence) that other governments can literally be stalemated and even corrupted by.
In contrast to China is America actually rapidly declining, facilitated by an unchecked 'more for me for nothing' mentality, and heading quickly towards 2nd class status? Without ever advocating the dismantling of Democracy or the acceptance of a totalitarian government but instead conscientiously asking whether America is actually loosing ground - like in the 'fall of the Roman Empire' - with it being the natural result of excessive self-indulgence? If that is the case then the people, the voters, have to be co-responsible for blindly following where self-interests are being promoted, for not holding their representatives to a higher standard of honesty and responsibility, for self-servingly accepting the subterfuge offered to rationalize the irresponsibility and for being naive in thinking ‘the piper doesn’t have to be paid’. In 2001-2008 we saw and suffered the drastic affects of government being totally focused on the few while giving the majority only apathy, the costs and an abundance of subterfuge to justify and manipulate – we can’t allow ourselves to now be conned into returning to ‘more of the same’. The people/voters have to first be responsible in order to then make government responsible.