Coulter Zings Palin: 'A Few Million Fanatical Followers, You Can Make Money'

Yesterday from the Daily Caller via Shark Tank, Ann Coulter takes a shot at Sarah Palin:

“And just a more corporate problem is I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party,” she said. “I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people — as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.”

On February 25 PJM published La Shawn Barber’s reporting on activist Ward Connerly’s very profitable, non-profit:

In a five-page letter (PDF) through her lawyer, Gratz said Connerly’s organizations — ACRI, the American Civil Rights Coalition, and the American Civil Rights Foundation — have been in financial crisis since March 2010. Recent tax documents show Connerly’s annual salary (over $1 million) totaled more than half ACRI’s revenue. His handling of donor funds “raised questions about whether the organization’s mission has been subordinated to Mr. Connerly’s personal interests.”

There’s plenty of money out there for charismatic ideological warriors who live to hustle.

Ron Paul figured this out decades ago when his antisemitic newsletters turned a profit:

Video researcher Andrew Kaczynski unearthed a clip in 1995, before the newsletters had become an election issue in his district, in which Paul discussed the publication as one of his passion projects in his years out of Congress. He described it as a “political type of business, investment newsletter.”…

In addition to the objectionable content of the newsletters, his odd explanation contrasts heavily with his hard-earned brand as an unconventional anti-politician who always tells the truth as he sees it and never waters down his views to pander to voters. It’s hard to square this with a candidate who claims that he somehow never bothered to read a newsletter published under his own name that generated as much as $1 million in revenues in just one single year.

Was the “unconventional anti-politician who always tells the truth as he sees it” ever more than a business model?

And why do relaxing images of Greek cruises, a 6-figure credit lines at Tiffany’s, and $25 K a month for doling out a “historian’s advice” come to mind?