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Meg Whitman Blasts Van Jones
Weekly Standard ^ | 09/04/09

Posted on 09/04/2009 9:21:19 AM PDT by BunnySlippers

“My husband and I met him and many others on a cruise sponsored by National Geographic and The Aspen Institute. He talked about supporting job growth in California, but of course I did not do a background check of his past over dinner. As these reports have surfaced, it’s clear that he holds views that I entirely reject; any suggestion otherwise is ridiculous.” --Meg Whitman

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flipflop; romney; romneybot4obama; romneyflipflop; vanjones; whitman
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To: heiss

The problem is that she made supportive statements without knowing who she was supporting. That shows poor judgment. We have a current governor who has poor judgment, do we want another?


21 posted on 09/04/2009 9:37:20 AM PDT by stop_fascism (Georgism is Capitalism's best, last hope)
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To: BunnySlippers
but of course I did not do a background check of his past over dinner.

You left out the description by The Weekly Standard.

"Yesterday Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California and former eBay CEO, got caught up in the growing controversy over the statements made by White House green jobs czar Van Jones. A tape surfaced of Whitman praising the "marvelous job" Jones had been doing in his environmental work.

Whitman made the statement in May, a year after she'd met Jones on a cruise through the Arctic

-- and long before Jones's radical Communist past and connections to the 9/11 Truth movement had been reported. THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked the Whitman campaign for comment and received the following statement from the Republican hopeful:
22 posted on 09/04/2009 9:42:08 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: BunnySlippers
It does not sound like a flip flop to me. Sounds like she just met him and now he is VERY obviously a NUT.

Trashing Whitman is more conservative BS spin where you trash people unfairly who you don't like and you spin it as positive if you like them.

FR has become a trash dump for this stuff.

If it were Duncan Hunter, it would be "Duncan Hunter, bold and decisive in changing direction" If it were Arnold it would be "flip flopping rino arnold covering his rear with lies".

23 posted on 09/04/2009 9:45:53 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: stop_fascism

This is the heart of the problem. There is nothing in her background or public performance that shows she is anything more than a corporate bureaucrat at her core. One of the things that distinguishes great leaders such as Reagan and Thatcher from financially successful mediocrities like Arnold and Whitman is intellectual depth. Non-entrepreneurs like Whitman all too often survive in the corporate world by being “pragmatic”, or, to put it less politely, by being unprincipled in any serious sense. Whitman is McCain in a skirt.


24 posted on 09/04/2009 9:48:15 AM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: BunnySlippers

In major CYA mode!


25 posted on 09/04/2009 9:49:51 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: staytrue

Here she is a year later strongly endorsing the man and getting absolutely gushing in her praise and description of his effectiveness, she is trying to sell him to this reporter as she keeps describing herself as a “huge fan” of his work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn37TMXZO8&feature=player_embedded


26 posted on 09/04/2009 9:56:11 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: RummyChick

That video of Meg on Love Boat is very funny....Meg & Myth in a twee, wee wee wee! Where do these creepy politicians come from, da Moon?


27 posted on 09/04/2009 10:01:12 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: BunnySlippers

Too late Meggie.


28 posted on 09/04/2009 10:06:50 AM PDT by Califreak (If it's Astroturf, why are you trying to mow it?(sign seen at a town hall meeting))
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To: BunnySlippers
I was somewhat agnostic on Whitman, thinking "Hey, it's California. How much better could the GOP really do and still have a realistic chance of winning?".

But, Van Jones aside, if she's stupid enough to think that there really is something called a "green job", then she's plainly just too stupid to be a governor of anything, let alone the fourth or fifth biggest economy in the world.

29 posted on 09/04/2009 10:09:30 AM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: iopscusa
"Where do these creepy politicians come from, da Moon?"

Pretty close...Harvard. Same as Obama and Romney. Wow, what a coincidence.


30 posted on 09/04/2009 10:10:26 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: OldDeckHand

She did not talk to him about “green jobs”, she only spoke about “job growth in CA”. Very different.

I can imagine that a chat on a cruise would not yield much.


31 posted on 09/04/2009 10:12:21 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: heiss; Admin Moderator; Politicalmom; girlangler; KoRn; Shortstop7; Lunatic Fringe; Darnright; ...
As for the McCain pic in this thread, even that wacko free-speech hater, Fred Thomson was in much more connected with McCreepy.

Who the he!! are you calling a free speech hater, n00b?? You'd best put on your asbestos underwear to protect your private parts because they're about to be roasted!

32 posted on 09/04/2009 10:35:56 AM PDT by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: BunnySlippers

If Meg Whitman was on a cruise sponsored by National Geographic and The Aspen Institute, it’s clear she is a RINO. So is Carly, Kalifornya can’t catch a break no way, no how.


33 posted on 09/04/2009 10:38:10 AM PDT by RicocheT
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To: heiss

Fred Thompson, a free speech hater...........you sir or gal are a nut.


34 posted on 09/04/2009 10:40:33 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Kakaze; jellybean

I think the leading “sc” was omitted from that screen name by mistake.


35 posted on 09/04/2009 10:42:07 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: jellybean

uh..

so you are saying that FT (when he was in Senate Centrist Coalition) was not the key activist pushing unconstitutional campaign finance reform with McCreepy and liberals? okay, maybe i made up this /sarc


36 posted on 09/04/2009 10:42:21 AM PDT by heiss
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To: ansel12

Jesse Helms was my favorite, a true southern gentleman....loved him.


37 posted on 09/04/2009 10:43:21 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: BunnySlippers

A a conman, charming charlatan, a rasputin — never men one should give a live ear to. Too dangerous. Meg Whitman took the morphine offered by the charming Death Dispenser.

And she did it on a Death Cruise.


38 posted on 09/04/2009 10:45:39 AM PDT by bvw
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To: BunnySlippers

Weak.


39 posted on 09/04/2009 10:45:54 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: heiss
...wacko free-speech hater, Fred Thomson...

An ill-informed n00b?

Quel cliché...

40 posted on 09/04/2009 10:46:07 AM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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