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DNC Sees Cindy McCain's Wealth as Fair Game (Future Beergate)
ABC News ^ | July 18, 2008 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 07/18/2008 10:04:38 AM PDT by keepitreal

CNN this week took a look at Cindy McCain's wealth this week, reporting that she "is not only a wife to Senator John McCain, she is also his meal ticket. Her reported 2006 income of more than $6 million exceeded her husband's earnings 16 times over. That money pays for a wealthy lifestyle of high end condos, an Arizona ranch, flying in a corporate jet, and more." The story quoted a writer from the Politico saying that her beer distributorship funded his first congressional campaign and has subsidized his presidential campaign.

CNN correspondent David Mattingly reported that "as president, McCain would run a mammoth bureaucracy with regulatory control over alcohol sales, distribution and consumption. The next administration would probably have to deal with issues of beer taxes, labeling, maybe even the politically sensitive international merger just announced involving the giant Anheuser-Busch. These are all issues that could create a conflict because they could have an impact on the McCain family bottom line."

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Simmons said that shows that McCain is "not in touch where most of Americans are. That month where he was spending $750,000 on credit card debts, it was from March 2007 until the beginning of 2008, middle of 2008. And that's when they were spending all the money of credit cards. They would not have been able to keep the John McCain campaign alive had he not had this personal wealth."

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cindymccain; electionads; elections; mccain
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OMG!!! Cindy's rich and distributes beer!!! The world may come to an end due to conflict of interest in a beer company merger.

Of course selling state secrets to China for campaign contributions is perfectly okay.

1 posted on 07/18/2008 10:04:38 AM PDT by keepitreal
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To: keepitreal

Whatever, just don’t talk about Mrs Obama.


2 posted on 07/18/2008 10:07:35 AM PDT by benjamin032
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To: keepitreal

One word: Teresa Heinz Kerry


3 posted on 07/18/2008 10:08:00 AM PDT by y6162
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To: keepitreal

Let’s see...Which candidate likes to hunt deer on his belly, catches a football like a girl, looks like a blue bunny....and lives off his very wealthy wife??


4 posted on 07/18/2008 10:08:07 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: keepitreal

I bet she soaks her raisins in a fine lager, not gin like another previous candidate’s wife. Good for you! 8-]

Expect the worst from today’s lamebrain media and be prepared to be surprised.


5 posted on 07/18/2008 10:08:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: keepitreal

Hell, of course she is fair game — she is a Republican.


6 posted on 07/18/2008 10:08:25 AM PDT by JimSEA (Kaffur and proud of it.)
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To: keepitreal

So what’s wrong with story? It’s very similar to the one they criticizing John Kerry in ‘04.

Oh, wait. They didn’t write a critical story of lurch n’ Tereeeza, did they?


7 posted on 07/18/2008 10:09:09 AM PDT by papasmurf
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To: benjamin032
You beat me to that line.

[FR thread] BO Blasts Conservative Attacks Against Wife: 'Debate Me Not Her'

8 posted on 07/18/2008 10:09:18 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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OMG!!! Cindy's rich and distributes beer!!!

and is not a lawyer and has big B$%(*@, and appreciates America!

9 posted on 07/18/2008 10:09:22 AM PDT by Freeper (<i><b>)
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To: y6162
Ah,

That's three but point well taken. :)

10 posted on 07/18/2008 10:09:39 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is America's George Galloway?)
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don’t talk about Mrs Obama

You mean the leftist, SDS, bomb-throwing wannabee. No, we won't talk about her.

11 posted on 07/18/2008 10:10:40 AM PDT by reg45
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To: keepitreal

I like Cindy. I like Beer. I like Money. Will people actually make their decisions based on these things? Silly people!


12 posted on 07/18/2008 10:10:52 AM PDT by Chili Girl
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To: reg45

Well she lacks the sin of wealth.


13 posted on 07/18/2008 10:11:27 AM PDT by benjamin032
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To: keepitreal

Let’s see? Two buffoon lawyers (Obama, Michelle) in the White House, or a War Hero with a hot wife who owns a beer distributor!

No contest!


14 posted on 07/18/2008 10:11:36 AM PDT by avacado
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To: keepitreal

Rich beer distributors?-heck I thought they were talking about Jesse Jackson’s sons (who somehow ended up with an AB distributorhip in IL)


15 posted on 07/18/2008 10:14:35 AM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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To: keepitreal
To be fair there was quite a lot of mileage obtained from John Kerry's proximity to the Heinz fortune.
16 posted on 07/18/2008 10:14:51 AM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: keepitreal

Let them whine. They’ll get no where by making that an issue.


17 posted on 07/18/2008 10:15:45 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: benjamin032

Michelle Obama has a $365,000 a year job doing.... what exactly???? But she’s a Democrat, so no one’s allowed to ask. Just like John Forbes Heiress-Bleeper Kerry’s wife Teh-ray-zuh was “off limits”.


18 posted on 07/18/2008 10:15:46 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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To: keepitreal

Republicans should enthusiastically agree! Lets make candidates’ wives “fair game”!!

Cindy McCain is rich, and wears a lot of makeup! Oh no! Michelle Obama is ashamed of her country, participated in a racist church, and is an angry bitter woman.

The “wives” issue an easy winner for Republicans.

H


19 posted on 07/18/2008 10:15:50 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas." -- Davy Crockett)
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To: keepitreal

For every media entity that does this, an immediate comparison should be made to how they covered (or did not cover) Teresa Heinz and her empire of catsup and all of her ‘charitable’ donations to leftwing scumbags.


20 posted on 07/18/2008 10:16:04 AM PDT by Enchante
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