Hard to ignore Soros pumping money into McRino's foundation....actually it's hard to ignore lots of things about McShamnesty......unless someone's position looks like the following:
Posted on 02/13/2008 6:36:21 PM PST by JSDude1
John McCain's ad guru, Mark McKinnon, is on record with his admiration of Democratic front-runner Barack Obama, and has vowed to make no television commercials which would harm Obama's campaign. Paul Weyrich, president and CEO of Free Congress Foundation, said things might have been different if information such as the revelations about McKinnon and WND's report that McCain's foundation has been funded by billionaire George Soros since 2001 had been available earlier. "This validates everything that those of us who have reservations about McCain have been saying,” Weyrich said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Asking again: why did you omit that information in your post #5 which you referenced here:donna wrote: "...George Bush was running in 1999 and I was exposing Dubya’s choice of a big fat liberal as his communications director because it proved that Bush was a big fat liberal just like McCain is, too."
donna wrote: "...If you read my post #5 above, you’ll find that I knew about McKinnon in 1999 and posted all the info then."
donna's post #5
How interesting. So here you are suddenly reemerging after eight years to condemn our elected President.
Donna, perhaps you have been here all along protesting that (your words again) 'Bush was big fat liberal...'.
Are you a metamorphosing butterfly lurking as a conservative poster, or are you one of those disingenuous liberal posters? Which is it donna?
It's uncanny the similarity -- how conservatives right here on Free Republic can't and probably shouldn't trust your loyalty, or your honesty, eh, donna?
Over my head in your double speak and nonsense? Yes, donna, that is quite true. And Donna, I accept your apology.
I have far less issue with this campaign orchestrator and who he fundamentally is than it being SOROS funded infrastructure that is McCain’s base.
The point is they are more comfortable in the company of Democrats, than Republicans!
Does it not matter to you that McCain was at least partly funded by communist George Sorros-either??
No.....the ‘point’ is that the campaign hired someone for their ability as opposed to their party affiliation.
Is your barber a liberal, and if so, why? Who payed to put him through school and why? Were his instructors conservatives, and if not, why not?
If so many of you aren’t able to stomach McCain, fine. Nine months from now you can all gleefully chase down the street after the Obama ice cream truck....
I think we’re going to be entertained with some new scandal at least once/wk. from the time McCain gets the 1191 votes to get the nomination until election day. I want to cry looking at how we’ve been had from in front in this election, but since there’s nothing I can do about it, I might as well enjoy myself as we go to hell in that handbasket!
hehehe
Oh......this is quite something, I don’t care how they spin it.
Hard to ignore Soros pumping money into McRino's foundation....actually it's hard to ignore lots of things about McShamnesty......unless someone's position looks like the following:
Uh... sorry Corsi. It was available earlier! The story had been around for a couple years [ref], but largely ignored. Too bad you weren't screaming it from the rooftops about 6 months ago--or a year. Seriously, this is where Corsi comes off as pompous and loses credibility. He's had some great scoops and done some great work, but he tries to take credit for things that make him look silly.
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Born in Colorado, he ran away from home just before his senior year in high school to get to Nashville, Tenn., and Kris Kristofferson, who had been impressed by a band fronted by McKinnon.
“Kristofferson sort of put up with me, and I just hung out with him and hung out at the studio and wrote songs,” McKinnon said. “Then I decided I was going to spend the rest of my life trying to be Bob Dylan or Kris Kristofferson.”
McKinnon later returned to Denver and completed high school before heading back to Nashville to pursue the musical dream, complete with dishwashing for dollars.
“I wrote a bunch of songs. I had songs cut by, like, the Miss Mississippi 1964 beauty queen. It entered and left the charts at 160,” he said. “There was a song that Elvis was going to cut and then he died the next week.”
Music brought McKinnon to Texas when he won a songwriting contest at the 1975 Kerrville Folk Festival. A year later, he moved to Austin and lived off gigs at a variety of now-defunct venues.
Eventually, his intellectual clock ticking, McKinnon decided to check out the local big state university. He enrolled at the University of Texas and became editor of The Daily Texan.
When prosecutors looked for Iranian students who had disrupted a campus speech by a Shah ally, they asked McKinnon to turn over unpublished photos. He refused, and spent a day in jail until the case moved forward without the photos.
Apropos for McKinnon’s long, strange trip, the prosecutor who had him jailed is now a neighbor.
“I see him and wave at him all the time across the street,” McKinnon said. “I bet he still doesn’t know why he has a flat tire every morning.”
With a UT education, if not a degree, under his belt, McKinnon moved to politics.
The first stop was a house that served as headquarters for then- Texas state Sen. Lloyd Doggett’s 1984 U.S. Senate race. Inside, McKinnon encountered some folks heading for the big time. Cajun James Carville was the campaign manager and Paul Begala was a top hand. Both later hit the big time after signing on with then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton.
“I love the rascal like a wayward stepchild,” Begala said of McKinnon.
Begala believes Bush may be McKinnon’s little red sports car. “As a friend, I think maybe it’s a bit of a midlife crisis,” he said of McKinnon’s current job.
For McKinnon, the Doggett campaign led to a stint as a press aide to Democratic Texas Gov. Mark White and a string of Democratic candidates, including Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer and Texas Gov. Ann Richards.
After the 1987 Roemer win, McKinnon moved to New York to work with political media mogul David Sawyer’s firm. He returned to Austin in 1990 and became communications director for Richards’ bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He left after Richards won the primary, moving on to 17 other clients he had across the nation.
By 1996, McKinnon, whose operation was folded in with Public Strategies, an Austin-based consulting firm, was very good at what he did and very unhappy about it.
“I’d learned how to manipulate the system, and I used all the tricks of the trade to help elect my candidates,” he wrote in Texas Monthly. “There’s a bottom line to political consulting: winning. Nothing else matters.”
McKinnon went corporate, concentrating his talents on Public Strategies’ non-political clients.
“Life was good,” he said of not dealing with candidates.
Life was so good that McKinnon was doing things like dining with his Public Strategies cronies and Bush in the fall of 1997. From afar, McKinnon was intrigued by Bush.
“He was a Republican governor who was for things instead of against everything,” he said. Nevertheless, McKinnon headed to the dinner “prepared not to like him.” He failed.
“I was disarmed almost instantaneously by his humanity, by his integrity. I expected to meet a great politician. I just was unprepared to meet such a great human being,” he recalled.
Eventually, McKinnon was approached to do the ads for Bush’s 1998 re-election campaign. His coming-out party came at the GOP state convention in June 1998. McKinnon strolled into the Tarrant County Convention Center, surveyed the crowd and joked about needing a flak jacket.
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There were a handful of recently-converted Democrats that went to work for Bush 2000. I don’t remember all of the names. Some of them went to work for Schwarzenegger in the recall election, and thereafter.
McKinnon was one. Matthew Dowd was another - If you find his name in “keywords,” you will see he has also turned out to be a turncoat.
Not that they were ever anything more than ideologically-void whores in the first place (IMHO).
lol! I agree w/you - scandals/lies (true and not true) will come from the dimwits. And they are the ones who could care less about scandals because ‘everything/anything goes’ is their lifestyles and they could careless about the good of this country. But it’s us conservatives that get upset if our candidate has done something wrong. The change they speak of is changing the constitution, IMO.
So for us ‘in the know’, nothing should surprise us about McCain and more scandals surfacing - we already know enough to know that there is more. It won’t make him any worse in my eyes. But the libs will do it ‘just because they can’ - while they, themselves, live by lies. Their tactics is used to expose our beliefs in what is good for our country and our high ideals - and then point out how our candidate isn’t living by them. With their propaganda - they are trying to hold us conservatives at our level of ‘things being done right and our expectations’ of a candidate. But we already lost that battle, so screw the scandals.
But watch - all those who only wear the conservative hat for fighting - the ones that constantly come here saying McCain is a conservative, after all he’s a war hero DUH! and all the other tactics used to show his conservatism - are the VERY ONES - in the 11th hour will turn it around and plead not to vote for him because of ‘this new found revelation’ about him. And then throw in the 3rd party voters and stay at home ones.
I’m w/you - there is nothing w/can do about it and nothing more will bother us - so we can enjoy our ride, hope for the best as we go one giant step down in what is not good for our country. Knowing the truth does set us free from certain things!
It’s people like you, penowa, that will make this ride easier for those of us that see this for what it is - we know we aren’t alone no matter what. Who knows what can happen in the next few months? Who would have expected this? Maybe, hopefully, there is something, unexpectantly, good ahead.
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what is this relationship with soros ur posting about?
I think that this Mark McKinnon is about 22-25 years younger than the one associated with that murder for hire in NJ. The one that got convicted must be in his upper 60’s by now, and this Mark is 44. I can’t remember how long Billy Wayne got sentenced to, but the hubby got life. According to the book, Billy was in the Dixie Mafia, and robbed banks thruout the south.
WND also known as World Nut Daily is not the gospel. However, the voting records and the endorsements by many good men and women that have spent their lives involved in politics and service to this nation COUNT!
if you think George Allen is a faux conservative you must be politically illiterate.
WND is the equivalent of The New York Slimes in reverse. Only out to make money at the expense of those that refuse to read and research facts.
Farah also runs a sloppy subscription service ...I know!
Sounds like McCain's kind of guy. A Democrat.
too bad you rely on talking heads and slanted news sites to educate you. Try reading voting records and avoiding spin.
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