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Bush smear king joins McCain to handle Palin; same guy who smeared McCain
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by dunkelberg | September 3, 2008 at 08:18 pm
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Sen. John McCain, as he prepares to take the nomination as the GOP candidate for president has hired the man whose smear tactics helped deny McCain that honor eight years ago.
McCain's campaign now has brought on board the man McCain himself held responsible for smears against him and his family in his 2000 race against George Bush. This forms another link between McCain's presidential bid and that of Bush.
McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000September 01, 2008 8:46 PM
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Former officials of Sen. John McCain's 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew.
Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins and Neal Rhodes, were key members of then-Gov. George W. Bush's South Carolina team during the 2000 primaries. McCain and his team long held Bush, Tompkins, Rhodes and Eskew responsible for the various smears against McCain and his family in the Palmetto state during that contentious contest.
Eskew was brought on board the McCain campaign, it was announced Monday, to help prepare Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for her role as McCain running mate. Eskew will help Palin prepare for her Wednesday night acceptance speech at the GOP convention and for her stump speech as she hits the road, brief her on policy matters, and help her handle the media scrutiny a lifetime in Alaska does not necessarily prepare one for.
If you saw some of the George Bush campaign in Gov. Sarah Palin's speech, there was a reason.
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at 20:28 on September 3rd, 2008
so what, cutie.
at 20:38 on September 3rd, 2008
Sorry, but I am straight, and this really isn't a dating site.
at 20:50 on September 3rd, 2008
This is important information because if you listen to any of those speaches where the POLITICIANS are proclaiming AMERICA FIRST, you might get the impression that they are genuinely concerned and interested in America and AMERICANS. You are supposed to get that impression as it was maufactured by powerful people who know what ignorant people like to see and hear. SO THEY WRITE SPEACHES THAT SPEAK TO YOUR EMOTIONS, AND IT WORKS, THEY GET PAID BIG BUCKS TO DO IT....SO THE SAME GUY WHO WAS PAID TO DEFAME McCAIN IN THE PAST HAS BEEN HIRED WORK IN THE HIS CAMPAIGN TO HELP HIM. {ding}
PAY ATTENTION!!
at 20:50 on September 3rd, 2008
McCain has hired, or been told to hire, a guy he knows is a scumbag.
Once again, he is throwing principles to the wind.
at 01:13 on September 4th, 2008
Good Analysis, should not get a victim of speech writer's opinion. I agree
at 20:39 on September 3rd, 2008
dunkelberg, I like this story. It's good stuff. This is getting better by the second~~
at 20:51 on September 3rd, 2008
Thanks.
Now we know why McCain dumped his first slogan - "Character Counts".
at 20:40 on September 3rd, 2008
dunkelberg, I like this story. It's good stuff.
So, Bush, McCain, Palin? What is the difference. Nothing, they like war, shooting, killing, hunting, oil drilling and so on.
at 20:55 on September 3rd, 2008
Well, there is no difference it's four more years of Bush with the McCain-Bush/Palin-Stevens Ticket.
By the way, I like shooting (not a NRA disciple), hunting, fishing and oil drilling is a necessity; it's where you do it that matters.
I like that - More of the same with McCain-Bush/ Palin-Stevens!
at 22:26 on September 3rd, 2008
McSame is taking one for the team. All he had to do what drop his pants and let Tucker castrate him, well what was left of him after he decided to become the new Republican Bitch Boy. But I am sure, seeing as how this is the GOP we are talking about, he will come out of that closet soon. Only after he tells everyone how "immoral" we are, lol.
at 01:16 on September 4th, 2008
dunkelberg, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:24 on September 4th, 2008
Appreciate it.
at 02:16 on September 4th, 2008
Dunkelberg, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:23 on September 4th, 2008
Thanks!
at 03:34 on September 4th, 2008
dunkelberg, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:23 on September 4th, 2008
Thanks! I appreciate it. It will be a tough road for change now.
at 04:31 on September 4th, 2008
dunkelberg, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:39 on September 4th, 2008
Thanks, Rhonda.
at 05:57 on September 4th, 2008
Perhaps Senator McCain has now recognized two things:
1. The south Carolina push-pull poll associated with Tucker Eskew did not smear John McCain. You and I may not like their use, but almost every politician, Democrat and Republican uses them. Eskew is not associated with the "black-baby" smear.
2. You can't fight domestic terrorists with marshmallows, no more than we can fight Islamic terrorists with our criminal justice system.
at 06:08 on September 4th, 2008
Nonsense of course, but it is your opinion and you are welcome to it.
That's right, maybe it was John "Songbird" McCain's desire to raise taxes that messed with him in South Carolina?
Anyway, this is just another example of McCain throwing principles to wind just to win, and why he had to abandon his slogan "Character Counts".
The king of flip flops hires the king of sleeze.
Sad, when one has to come up with lies about one's opponent because one's candidate and his politics are so loathsome to one that the candidate cannot be defended.
at 06:26 on September 4th, 2008
Thanks Zichi.
I think McCain's handlers are forcing to eat his own tail.
It's kind like Faust, except McCain has to endure his hell before his wish is granted.