Copy of an AuntB post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2498294/posts?page=6#6
Is anyone going to ask John McCain to return the $230,000 he got from Goldman Sachs? There have been demands for the democrats to do so.
This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle.
John McCain Merrill Lynch $373,595
Citigroup Inc $322,051
Morgan Stanley $273,452
Goldman Sachs $230,095 [snip]
Greenberg Traurig LLP $146,437 (Abramoffs firm...OH, the irony)[snip]
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=n00006424
McCAin voted and pushed TARP.
TARP bailed out Goldman, and McCains top donors.
Goldman uses HB1 visas....
McCain got more $$ than any republican.
McCain is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
[snip]But there are at least some new supporters of the campaign. B. C. Clippard, who was national finance chairman of Fred D. Thompsons presidential campaign, has now raised $100,000 or more for Mr. McCain. Former Senator Alfonse M. DAmato of New York also supported Mr. Thompson but recently helped organize a fund-raiser in New York that netted over $1 million for Mr. McCain. Peter Newman, a former fund-raiser for Mr. Giuliani from Pebble Beach, Calif., has since become a Trailblazer for Mr. McCain. The list also includes something of a whos who of his national finance team, including Tom Loeffler, a former congressman, and Lewis Eisenberg, a former Goldman Sachs partner and longtime player in Republican fund-raising.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/us/politics/21bundlers.html
[snip] Over the last year, John McCain supported everything that the grass-roots Tea Party movement has stood against:
*The $700 billion all-purpose, earmark-stuffed TARP bailout;
*The $25 billion auto bailout;
*The $300 billion mortgage entitlement bailout; and *The first $85 billion AIG bailout.
When push came to shove, McCain and his economic advisers (including his hand-picked California GOP Senate candidate, Carly Fiorina) caved to the Chicken Little chaos in Washington every time and joined hands with Barack Obama.
Reasonable people may not assert that John McCain is an unsurpassed paragon of fiscal responsibility.
http://www.desertconservative.com/2010/02/11/mccain-a-rino-see-and-decide-for-yourself/
Tons of info about Goldman Sachs and bailout here:
Obama-nomics link-list
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2464021/posts