Posted on 09/13/2009 8:04:37 PM PDT by RushingWater
Republican strategist and former Bush advisor writes an article "Send Joe Wilson Home" and donates $1000 to Joe Wilson's opponent.
I have a radar that goes up when I come across something that identifies the source of the GOP's problems - especially the George Bush administration. There was so much potential - squandered. Why did he not pardon Ramos, Campean, Hernandez and Scooty Libby. Full pardons and not the partial pardon when he is walking out the door. Why did he not call the Democrats hand and always seem to wander in the squishy middle?
Well in the middle of the Joe Wilson debate, Mark McKinnon, former Bush advisor shows his true colors.
Read the summary from the Charlotte Observer below or the full ugly article he wrote here from the Daily Beast.
Summary from the Charlotte Observer, desperate to quote a Republican critical of Joe Wilson:
Mark McKinnon, a prominent Republican strategist based in Austin, Texas, who has advised President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain, called for Wilson's election defeat next year.
"That is the only way to change the political discourse in America today," McKinnon wrote Friday on www.thedailybeast.com. "Because as long as louts like Joe Wilson can spout off and call the president a liar and get rewarded with re-election, then louts will continue to spout off. And we will continue to claw our way to the very bottom of the political swamp."
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
It’s one of the things that made GWB such a bad president-—his inability to pick good people.
Isn’t this bozo the guy who jumped ship and went over to kiss Obama’s feet once Obama got the nomination?
Why didn’t he do all of these things and more? Because he was a weak kneed, mushy wimp like his old man. Man I wish Cheney had been president instead!
IMHO McKinnon is a fraud.
He’s no Republican. Not even as much a Republican as McCain alleges to be.
He actually quit the McCain campaign because he didn’t want to oppose Obama. His words are meaningless.
why didnt the Republicans go to the right instead of the left.
“It’s one of the things that made GWB such a bad president-—his inability to pick good people.”
He picked the sort of people that reflected his own views. The fault was his own.
NO question. The fault was definitely his own. I didn’t mean to suggest otherwise. Maybe rather than say his inability to pick good people, I should say his habit of picking bad people.
McKinnon has been a turncoat from day one. A Democrat working for Bush.
Uh, McKinnon showed his true colors years ago: BLUE.
Better idea...send Obummer home...to Kenya.
All GOP administrations have a few turncoats in them. They are people who came to DC as Republicans and are not mentally nor emotionally strong enough to resist the dominant view in the city. The often come from places where the GOP was the dominant party.
It happened with the best president of my adult life, G.W. Bush. It happened with the second best GOP president of my adult life Reagan. It happened with the third best president of my adult life, G.H.W.Bush. I happened with Ford, Nixon and probably Ike though I am too young to remember the latter presidency.
And they show themselves with moves like giving money to the opponent of the GOP hero of the moment. He almost surely dislikes Gov. Palin too.
Mike Murphy, Matthew Dowd, and Mark McKinnon were political consultants for Dubya. Now these 3 consultants fawn over Obama. The bad three are talking heads on the various news shows who are supposed to represent the conservative view point. When unaffiliated voters see these guys on tv, is it any wonder why conservatism gets a bad rap?
McCain Adviser Won't Fight Obama
A top adviser to John McCain said Wednesday that he will step down from the Arizona senator's presidential campaign if ...
“I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama,” said McCain adviser
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970086/posts
McCain strategist keeps Obama vow, leaving campaign (McKinnon)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019562/posts
Mark McKinnon: The GOP’s Suicide Mission (RINO Alert)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260918/posts
GOP Sees Protest As an Opportunity [but McCainiacs say full of “right-wing nutballs,” “freaks”]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337867/posts
That Mark McKinnon. He is worse than Arlene Specter, and about as worth listening to as a worm.
He is of no consequence.
It was this Bozo who “let” his worker give up the Prep debate with Al Gore..evidently she was very close to him..W did hire way too many Demorats..bad hiring skill can’t trust them
Execpt a few like Joe Wilson,
I’ve changed my mind about Joe Wilson. I’ve sent him money.
HIs argument would at least be less hypocritical if he didn’t refuse to work against Obama after Obama lied repeatedly in last year’s election.
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