Palin adviser worked for foreign governments

Toronto Sun ^ | 10/4/10 | Mark Hosenball

[pissant]

WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin, seen as a possible Republican presidential candidate, has paid tens of thousands of dollars for foreign policy advice to a U.S. firm that represents three overseas governments, campaign finance documents show.

While legal, the adviser’s work as an agent for other countries raises questions about whether Palin is receiving impartial information about foreign relations and could be become a subject of debate if she runs for president or another elected office.

Financial reports filed by the former Alaska governor’s fundraising committee known as SarahPAC, show that between December 2009 and the end of May 2010, it made seven payments to Orion Strategies.

The firm is a Washington consulting firm founded and led by Randy Scheunemann, a lobbyist who served as a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain in his 2008 U.S. presidential bid and to Palin when she became McCain’s Republican running mate.

Controversy over campaign advisers who work as lobbyists for foreign or domestic interests can often blight national political campaigns. At least five of McCain’s aides quit his presidential campaign because of their lobbying activities.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Liar and crazy.

[The Cajun]

WTF did you think McCain-Kennedy was?

So it was McCain-Kennedy and not Palin-Kennedy.....am I understanding you right?

[pissant]

Was McCain-Kennedy amnesty or not?

[pissant]

Look at the ad that McCain-Palin released in spanish only. Lamenting its demise.

[gov_bean_ counter]

The one that has amnesty nowhere it it??

[gov_bean_ counter]

Did it say amnesty? Nope.

[CAluvdubya]

ayup....crazy lying liar...creepy lying liar (in the style of Lawrence O’Donnell)

[pissant]

I assume you supported McCain Kennedy. It did not call itself amnesty.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Nope, I never supported anything Kennedy put his name to even if it didn't mention amnesty.

[The Cajun]

Look at the ad that McCain-Palin released in spanish only.

McClatchy news service and Washington Post, what's not to believe.
Impeccable non-biased news sources as usual!!!

[pissant]

That folks, in a nutshell is it. Cultists like Bean Counter here did not think McCain-Kennedy, otherwise known as Comprehensive Immigration Reform, was amnesty.

This is the mental midgetry masquerading as “Sarah doesn’t support amnesty”.

We all wasted our time fighting Bush and Mccain and Kennedy and the GOP leadership on this. We should have let it pass. It really wasn’t amnesty. Who knew?

[TitansAFC]

The truly funny thing about this thread is that Randy Scheunemann is a close friend of one of pissant’s heroes, Jim DeMint, and has worked closely with Donald Rumsfeld and John Bolton for years (The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Project for a New American Century, et al).

Add that to the fact that there is, literally, nothing wrong with what Randy has done (and that foreign policy was one of the things McCain was strong on), and you have a real laugher with this thread. LOL

[pissant]

They linked to the ad

[TitansAFC]

Uh-oh.......this’ll get repeattive now.

pissant pinged the Legion of Doom.

[pissant]

Malkin covered it as did many on the right. But you should know that.

[gov_bean_ counter]

pissant pinged the Legion of Doom.

Check again. :)

[The Cajun]

They linked to the ad

Played the ad, at the end John McCain said he approved the message, didn't hear Sarah Palin say she approved the message.
Did you hear, in your own little head, that Sarah Palin said she supported the message???

[gov_bean_ counter]

Hey, btw, the only player from my college (that I know of) to make it in pro football is a starting corner for the Titans (Finnegan).

[gov_bean_ counter]

Did you hear, in your own little head, that Sarah Palin said she supported the message???

I think he hears all kinds of voices in his little punkin' head.

[pissant]

She just went on Univision and supported it, as you well know.