Jack Abramoff highlights:
-organized Massachusetts campuses for Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign.
-After a campaign managed by Grover Norquist and aided by Ralph E. Reed, Jr., Abramoff was elected chairman of the College Republican National Committee. "It is not our job to seek peaceful coexistence with the Left," Abramoff was quoted as saying in the group's 1983 annual report, "Our job is to remove them from power permanently".
-Abramoff "changed the direction of the committee and made it more activist and conservative than ever before," notes the CRNC.
-Abramoff joined Citizens for America, a pro-Reagan group that helped Oliver North build support for the Nicaraguan contras
--joined the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, which once described him as "directly involved in the Republican party and conservative movement leadership structures and is one of the leading fund raisers for the party and its congressional candidates."
Yes, he's a Republican. And a lobbyist. The GOP is not infallible, neither is the Pope, and no, there is not really a Santa Claus.