Reminder: buy up as many marked down Christmas ornaments as you can to make Hillary and Sarah ornaments for Iowa
All of the Christmas ornaments will go on sale today — reaching 75% at some point.
We buy up as many of the round red and blue bulbs as we can find — really, any color will do but we think the red and blue look the nicest for political purposes.
Then, we find nice pictures we like of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin and print them off the computer, using our finest decoupage skills to make little Hillary and Sarah Christmas ornaments.
We started doing this in 2007 when we went to Iowa for the first time and campaigned for Hillary Clinton in the primaries. In our hotel room, while we were watching all the biased coverage the MSM provided, pushing Dr. Utopia and Mike Huckabee to win in their respective fields, we made dozens of Hillary ornaments that we handed out to families we met while canvassing in Waterloo, Des Moines, Clinton, Dubuque, you name it. People really enjoyed receiving them, and almost every person we gave one to immediately walked over to the tree in the living room and hung the ornament with pride in a prominent position.
We’d bet more than a few of those ornaments are on trees again this year.
Palin supporters, in particular, should pay particular attention to this posting — there is now under two years until campaigning will start in Iowa. More likely than not, Palin will declare her candidacy in early 2011…and we do not want to see her make the mistake Hillary Clinton made and wait too long to start working Iowa. As much as we hate this reality: because of the nature of the nominating contests, Iowa is everything. If Palin wins there, she’ll win New Hampshire and South Carolina right after that, and become the nominee.
On a grassroots level, just imagine what we could accomplish if we started prep work for her campaign now, and had two years of crafting time to make as many little goodies like Christmas ornaments as we could, so that we could hit the ground running in Iowa early, blowing Mitt Romney, John Thune, Charlie Crist, Bobby Jindal, or whomever else the MSM tries to run against Palin right out of the water.
We’re going to buy up as many ornaments as we can here in Chicago and will start crafting for Palin. We’ll even make trips into Iowa in November/December 2010 to start passing these out, using our old Hillary Clinton campaign lists of moderate Democrats to canvass for Palin in Iowa. Good thing we saved all those names and addresses from 2008; some of those people will have moved, obviously, but 70% of the lists should be good.
Our job will be, as always, to encourage moderate Dems and independents to defy the DNC and deny Dr. Utopia a second term. Conservatives have the job of getting your own members off their lazy, lazy butts and actually making it to the polls to vote this time. Dr. Utopia’s presidency is all their fault, in our opinion, because they decided to sit 2008 out.
As of the new year, we have just two years to make sure that does not happen again.
Together we can do it, but we have to start now…and starting with Christmas ornaments seems as good a place to start as any.
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http://www.findingmyselfinalaska.com/2009/12/christmas-friendship-dinner-in-wasilla.html
Was bored this a.m. and found these pics from a Christmas dinner in Wasilla and thought you all would enjoy them..
Thank you. I enjoyed the article and the pictures. Sarah energizes us to keep up the fight!
This was awesome.
thank you so much for the link, mark! those pictures brought tears to my eyes! sarah palin truly does have a servant’s heart, and if she chooses to campaign (yesyesYES!!!) i solemnly promise to do all i can to help her get elected.
*heads out to buy decoupage glue and ornaments*
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Video from the Wasilla book signing event..from last week..
I’m not very crafty -could you post a picture of one your baubles for inspiration?
Yes, could you post a few ideas for the craft-challenged.
And I know this is a dumb question but I just want to be sure:
If we make ornaments but probably won’t travel to Iowa, do you want us to ship them to you
to give out in Iowa (too fragile to send?) or do you want us to give them out in our neighborhoods?
You should make the ornaments and keep them ready for 2012.
When Palin opens campaign offices in 2012, you can send them there and they can make use of them.
We hope we will still be around in 2012, and if so we are sure we will have personal field offices open between us ourselves on the ground or friends who are working for the campaign at that point…and then you can send them to us.
But, in the meantime they stay with you, as you keep making them, and hopefully have a giant crate to ship when they are needed.
One of the challenges of 2008 was there weren’t enough Hillary items to pass out to people who wanted them in Iowa when we were campaigning there — this will solve that problem for Sarah in an inexpensive and personal way, through grassroots crafting.
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I am very tech challenged so can you please provide a picture of Sarah and maybe a sample of one ornament that you made as I’m not very creative either?
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Maria
How many ornaments could you use? Target will go to 75% off in the next few days, and there are lots of red ornaments left. I will decorate them for you, and get them to you somehow (I’m in Colorado). Let me know ASAP.
Mary Jane,
We’re buying as many ornaments as we can find and stockpiling them.
This is the only time to get them on the cheap…and then the rest of the year can be spent making them into Hillary and Sarah ornaments. As you start making them, store them away for December 2011, because that is when they will be needed for Sarah.
We’ve been picking them up here in Chicago for $2-3 dollars a box, for 12 in a box, which is a good price. That means with decorations such as glitter and the printouts from the computer, each ornament is costing us under fifty cents each to make, easily. So, by 2012 we could make a few thousand of these and have them ready for Iowa.
Actually, talking to you here, we should be smart and make them Iowa specific — with town names so that the ornaments can go right to those towns, and that might make people put them on their trees more easily. Personalization.
If Sarah wins Iowa, the nomination will be hers. So, all effort should be put on seeding Iowa as Palin Territory.