Ralph Reed doesn't show up for McCain fundraiser
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Aug 20, 2008 8:30am
As Logan noted last week, Abramoff crony Ralph Reed was supposed to host a fundraiser for his pal John McCain Monday night. Well, apparently the McCain camp realized how bad that would have looked for their candidate, and although they won't admit they explicitly told him to stay away, Reed never showed up and no mention was made of him.
WSJ:
Ralph Reed was a no-show at a fund-raiser for John McCain Monday evening, following nearly a week of considerable drama surrounding his involvement in the senator’s campaign.
The Republican candidate had come under fire for associating with Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition who fell from grace after his involvement with lobbyist Jack Abramoff. McCain was one of the leaders of the investigation of Abramoff’s lobbying activities that led to his imprisonment. Reed was never charged.
Kudos to the Obama campaign for jumping on this right quick:
That didn’t stop the Obama campaign from issuing a “response” to the absence. “Faced with the embarrassing prospect of holding a fundraiser with one of Jack Abramoff’s closest associates, the McCain campaign scrambled today scratch Ralph Reed from tonight’s program,” Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement. “The real question isn’t why Reed isn’t showing up, but why a so-called reformer would invite him at all.”
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But... but... but... John McCain is a Maverick! He couldn't associate with these corrupt guys, not the John McCain who helped destroy our Savings & Loan part of our national banking system!!
“The real question isn’t why Reed isn’t showing up, but why a so-called reformer would invite him at all.”
Oh, that's an easy answer. He's a MAVERICK!
Reed got a free pass from McCain in the Jack Abramoff mess. Waxman is waiting like a shark for Reed to come out and play. KKK member and K Street wiz Grover Norquist lost his membership because he married a woman of color from Pakistan. Yes Grover couldn't even buy an American Girlfriend with the millions he stole so he married a Foreign younger woman so she could get her US citizenship papers. Everything worked out Grover got a wife and his wife got her papers. Only problem is Grover can't play with his racist friends anymore at lease he can't bring his colored wife with him.
This is probably one of those, "Politics makes strange bedfellows" kind of things. The Senator's campaign committee probably figured that, well, that Reed fellow wasn't all that bad when it comes to raising money but let's just keep him at arm's length so it doesn't give the other side any ammunition.
Strange bedfellows, indeed!
If you want more of the same vote McCain.
MacCain = Bush in 2008
Mabus 2008
Where was Ralph?
http://www.ralphreed.com/photos.htm
L.A. Confidential @ 6:
My guess is fishing on the Big Horn River in Montana
Maybe he was at Fire Island working on his tan.
Liberal AND Proud @ 2:
He sure is! His own commercials say so!
What was Drew Barrymore doing with him? I am shocked. She's not a wing-nut, is she?
FastMovingCloud @ 10:
Yeah...no shit! WTF?
And Ralph Reed....wow...might not actually BE gay...but he sure looks like, he'd hold one in his mouth until the swellin went down....what a fuckin NancyBoy!
Hide the gimp!
McCain's campaign is full of gimps (e.g. criminals, uber lobbyists, shameful icky bushies ,etc) but the MSM adores the Maverick!! He's a POW so the MSM gives him a handicap. My uncle is a POW and a war hero and he just got layed off from Ford, so f*ck McC*nt.
liberalNmoderation @ 11:
He's probably a boy-sex-slave to the closet repugs like Craig, Graham, and Boehner . They pass him around and occasionally dunk him in the Potomac to wash off the crust.
I think that the progressive web sites should have not reported this right away they shuold have waited till reed and all his little freinds were with mcbush and then busted him on it..then he would really have somethin to try to exlaine
McCain's campaign would more aptly be called, The Slimeball Express. You can't whack em fast enough, another pops out to stinks up the room. I'd laugh at the middle and low income voters who cast their ballot for these monsters, if it didn't give me dry heaves thinking about it.
Omg, Reed totally has gay face.
StirFry @ 13:
LOL!!!! Naaaahaaasty!
StirFry @ 12:
The MSM is OUR handicap.
Bummer about your uncle; welcome to that Bushco economic prosperity we've all learned to
lovesuffer under.Anyone know if Tom 'The HAMMERED' Delay is still NOT voting for McSame ?
Chico Hussein @ 19:
I think he had his mind changed for him.
fastfeat @ 18:
thanks. Yeah, he's got something line up already.
Yep, unfortunately, the MSM is our handicap. Most people aren't smart or aware enough to realize it.
DEAR RALPH..... We are having a party at your house... appreciate the free jets and wonderful gifts... could you please STAY AWAY until the photographers and newbunnies are gone--- we love you but it would be a F'ing embarassment.
Love
John THE BUSH REPUBLICAN McCain
That picture looks like a line up for a firing squad!
Those traitors should all be shot and fed to the sharks.
bateman @ 16:
I don't know what a "gay face" is, and what is wrong with being gay?
Reed's problem is that he is a greedy white religious criminal.
Yes, he is a good rethuglican.
fastfeat @ 18:
Well all this suffering under Bush has cracked the GOP
In a stunning development which fell with the silence of a feather yesterday, 9 Republicans broke with their iron-fisted party voted to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich's article of impeachment HR 1345 to the Judiciary!
The biggest suprise was Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC)
Republican Walter Jones, represents Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, one of the largest Marine bases in the country, and one which has borne heavily the sacrifice of the Iraq War.
john j @ 25:
No shit? I haven't heard squat. Have a link?
If Obama continues to get in McCain's shit about this, he has all he needs to win.
OT--
In women's soccer/futbal gold medal game, US just went up 1-0 on Brazil in OT.
john j @ 25:
Don't read too much into that impeachment thing.
The GOP has not cracked. They were told that if they needed to break away from Bush in order to win reelection, then they should do it. The GOP endures only if they don't lose their seats.
Politics is today. George W. Bush is yesterday. They'll throw him over the side, once he no longer serves a purpose politically. Oh, and that doesn't mean that all of a sudden, the Bushes don't count. Of course they do. It is simply business, not personal. The mafia always had a history of removing people once it was expedient to do so.
fastfeat @ 26:
WOW!!! Though...I just can't see a republican doing something like this without some ulterior motive.
Simon White-Thatch Potentloins @ 27:
I like his quick responses, but he needs ads on the national level. Ads like this. The Obama campaign should hire Plisko.
Underground Pirate @ 24:
There is nothing wrong with being gay man.
I'm insinuating that Reed is likely just another closet case Republican, carrying out an anti-gay agenda.
You know, the neocon status quo.
What a bunch of frickin losers that republican party is... honestly! That is one effed up bunch of fucktards!!
fastfeat @ 26:
Daily Kos has more
american in holland @ 8:
That's what I thought too... interesting.
john j @ 36:
The only Military man or men I want to see going against Bush is a firing squad.
Liberal AND Proud @ 29:
I don't trust them either, but when a Military man goes against Bush it makes me happy
john j @ 34:
Thanks.
fastfeat @ 28:
US beats Brazil 1-0 to win the gold.
bateman @ 32:
Not a damn thing wrong with being gay. But it's such a bad thing to the republican/xtianofascist, and seeing as how their ranks are filled with so many closet homesexuals, I take great delight in callin them out on it.
thank you liberlNmoderation
Sorry if I offended anybody, unless of course you are a gay-hating-closet-case repig ;)
bateman @ 41:
Anytime my friend!
StirFry @ 31:
Good one! This ad says it all.
John McCain is smart to bounce Ralph Reed from his own party.
Just maybe . . . McShame learned to use "teh internets" and read the revealed court documents/emails between Tom DeLay and Ralph Reed calling the right wing evangelical population they were pimping "whackos who are so stupid they'll believe anything we tell them..."?
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