McCain To Hold Fundraiser With Abramoff Business Partner Ralph Reed

If you read this space, you knew this was coming. But even now that the odd-couple alliance between Ralph Reed and John McCain is complete, you still can't believe that it's true.

On Thursday afternoon, Republicans around Georgia received an invitation from Reed, who will serve as a host of a "special event" for McCain at the downtown Marriot Marquis on Aug. 18.

"John McCain believes in a strong national defense, a smaller, more accountable government, steady economic growth and opportunity, the dignity of life and traditional values," wrote Reed, whose 2006 campaign for lieutenant governor sank under the weight of evidence detailing his relationship with Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff

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Comments

[truthynesslover]

Ralph reed is the creepy poster boy for the religious right fraud machine.How many times do these christians{so called}have to be bamboozeled before they wake up to the fact theve been used?

[JaseAllen]

They never will. You have to remember that the people who follow Reed & Co believe in unquestioning blind faith. Someone like that usually /wants/ to be fooled as long as it agrees with their viewpoint. I believe former MN Governor Ventura's comment about religion being a crutch for weak minded people really does have a basis in reality in most of the followers of the religious zealots, Christian, Muslim, or whatever.

[danoj]

Regulation breeds lobbyists. Not sayin I like lobbyists or we should do away with regulation, but both sides have them. If you regulate businesses those places want representation, viola lobbyists. Heck Harry Reids kid is a lobbyist me thinks. Talk about a conflict at christmas.

[totaldisbelief]

I could not abide a man for president who will consort and befriend people who I view as criminals.Opps...I forgot ..most of our politicians are criminals and they've made the government a criminal organization.

[Graywolf48]

McCain's arrogant. He has very little honor and absolutely no shame.

[NormDPloom]

Proof Positive that McSame would provide four more years of Bushlike dishonesty and incompetence.

[hydenorhare]

hydenorhare
So NOW is it okay to report on Obama's associates past & present?
Posted 10:13 AM on 08/11/2008

- + poco767b
If by associations you mean people he has hired yes. If you mean people he has met at bus stops, or seen in the street or served on charity boards with, then no
Posted 12:38 PM on 08/11/2008

- + dwillisno1
Which ones haven't you regurgitated endlessly?
Posted 10:52 AM on 08/11/2008

- + theMightyT
what associations? could you be a bit more specific?
Posted 10:47 AM on 08/11/2008

ANSWER ...
Look up Stroger, Emil Jones, Mayor Daley along with Chicago corruption for a primer.

(I assume you're all aware of corruption in Chicago/Illinois government)

[in4success]

this is old news -- heard all about it on MSNBC, CNN, ABC CBS FAUXNOISE... so what's your point?

::snck-snck::

[kallopolis]

It's not old news when the people who need to hear it the most don't understand the consequences.

The McCain tax plan is essentially a continuation of the agenda articulated by Grover Norquist and others to achieve piecemeal but radical changes to the U.S. tax code under the heading of "Five Easy Pieces." These changes require huge spending cuts, shift the tax burden away from capital and onto labor, and come at the expense of lower- and middle-income Americans.

[Grannysue]

Oh but I'm sure they will all wear flag pins and carry their little bibles, being the HYPOCRITS they are!

[Binx101]

Ralph Reed and John McCain.

It is so fitting. Why wouldn't the campaign that has more lobbyists than K Street get the Grover Norquist / Jack Abramoff love child as a fund-raiser.

Maverick?

No. No. Sorry ... no.

Desperado !

Binx101
The Almost Daily Binx
http://binx101.wordpress.com

[kallopolis]

Right on!

[darthdarcy]

McCain just naturally seems to gravitate to criminals, crooks and swindlers, doesn't he..?

[SCG2]

It's called the republican party.

[javagirl322]

Birds of a feather....

[SCG2]

" McCain Withheld Controversial Abramoff Email "- February 25, 2008 by Sam Stein

The Huffington Post

"On the stump, Sen. John McCain often cites his work tackling the excesses of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff as evidence of his sturdy ethical compass.

A little-known document, however, shows that McCain may have taken steps to protect his Republican colleagues from the scope of his investigation.

In the 2006 Senate report concerning Abramoff's activities, which McCain spearheaded, the Arizona Republican conspicuously left out information detailing how Alabama Gov. Bob Riley was targeted by Abramoff's influence peddling scheme. Riley, a Republican, won election in November 2002, and was reelected in 2006.

In a December 2002 email obtained by the Huffington Post -- which McCain and his staff had access to prior to the issuance of his report -- Abramoff explains to an aide what he would like to see Riley do in return for the "help" he received from Abramoff's tribal clients. ....."

Continues: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/25/mccain-withheld-controver_n_88304.html

[Americatortures]

He just cannot stay away from crooks and thieves...as there are so many of them in the GOP!!

[pfc1369]

What is truly mind boggling is that every time some foreign difficulty arises, such as the current Georgia slaughter, every commentator on TV takes it for granted that McCain is helped because he is the foreign affairs candidate.

Can someone, anyone, tell me what on earth can this possibly be based on.

Evertime I hear him open his mouth about such things, it is clear he hasn't the foggiest notion about whatever he's speaking of.

[Americatortures]

EXACTLY CORRECT!!! What's he gonna do? We can't even beat a third -world nation(Iraq) with no army,navy and air force!!His banter is for the American trolls who want to "Bring It On" against the Ruskies!!!

[lincat]

I know. I don't get it . It's all part of stupid, I guess. The reality of stupid.

[darthdarcy]

Ralph Reed is a crook who laundered money and was involved with Abramoff up to his neck...

McCain was at those hearings and even led them, and now he's sucking at these criminals breast what a fraud this guy is, these candidates are just disgusting already corrupted and sold out...there's really no hope for things to ever get any better in America....