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3-23-2006 5:44 PM294 views
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3-23-2006 5:55 PM
Guillaume
That need to be quoted:

CALLER: Thanks, I had a question for the senator. For a reformer, I'm kind of curious why he would hire a guy like Terry Nelson as a senior advisor.

Here's a guy who was actually in the indictment of DeLay on his money laundering charges. When he was at the RNC, he agreed to take the corporate contributions from DeLay's PAC and then recycle them back into the Republican congressional races.

And he was also, this guy Nelson was also the supervisor of James Tobin, who was the guy convicted last year for helping jam the Democratic get-out-the-vote lines in New England a couple years ago.

So I'm curious why would you hire someone with such a shady background?

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3-23-2006 7:17 PM
egoldstein
will be interesting to see if McCain follows up on that. Other than we he basically kissed Bush's ass during the 2004 camaign i have liked McCain. Hopefully, if what the caller said is true, McCain will can this guy.
3-23-2006 7:31 PM
Guillaume
That is quite surprising that he hired this guy at such a high position without even knowing about what was apparently basic knowledge.
3-24-2006 10:50 AM
kmcolo
He realized that he lost because he was considered an outsider within the party (much like Dean lost the Democratic nomination for the same reason). So he's trying to suck-up (OK, that's my spin) to the party insiders so that he might have a shot at the nomination. I liked him quite a bit in 2000 and was thinking of voting for him but the man lost my support with his strong backing of Bush in 2004. There is no excuse for his backing him, it should always be what’s best for the country before what’s best for the party.
3-24-2006 11:15 AM
Kore7
McCain's still the 2008 GOP frontrunner as I view it, but he and all the candidates have really got their work cut out for them. W was probably the best president in recent times that conservative leaders will ever have: a stubborn yet incurious drifter with a desire to leave his footprints in world history...yet with a malleable, playdough mind just asking to be manipulated first one way by the Religious Right, the next way by Wall Street, and then the next way by the Neoconservative movement. He'll be hard to "top".
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