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Rumsfeld had role in Perry meeting
Politico ^ | July 20, 2011 | Ben Smith

Posted on 07/20/2011 5:47:03 PM PDT by Clairity

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped organize Rick Perry's foreign policy and national security briefing in Austin last Wednesday, Rumsfeld's staff confirmed today.

Perry's aides have been tight-lipped about the gathering, which National Review reported included former Rumsfeld aides Doug Feith, Daniel Fata, and William Luti, as well as the magazine's Andrew McCarthy and others.

He (Rumsfeld) is watching the current field with interest and is particularly interested in the candidates' positions on foreign and national security policy and their prospects in winning in November 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; perry; rickperry; rumsfeld
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To: truthfreedom
Karl Rove has never disclosed how much he was paid by the McCain campaign.

Also, McCains campaign stated that Rove worked for them (Game change, and also the article).

How much Rove was paid, is disputed. He also worked as a so-called informal advisor to Senator Hutchinson (who ran against Perry in the recent Texas Governors primary).....

I'll concede that, since I can't prove he was paid well to try and make Palin the Vice President of the United States, but its pretty clear, he never the less worked for that campaign, and his protege Steve Schmidt (Karl Rove HAS referred to him repeatedly, in his book, and in the NY Times, he is Roves guy).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/us/politics/07schmidt.html?_r=1

McCain/Palin was a Rove campaign, just as much as Hutchinson was. How much he was paid, we'll never know (though I doubt he worked for free, but hey, anyone is free to believe that).

41 posted on 07/21/2011 12:10:28 AM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: truthfreedom

By the way, do you consider Dick Thornburgh to be a Rove guy, and someone who will always be a Rove guy ?


42 posted on 07/21/2011 12:12:54 AM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Clairity

It’s odd that I haven’t read about Sarah Palin’s coaches on foreign affairs.


43 posted on 07/21/2011 12:16:53 AM PDT by hocndoc (http://WingRight.org (I've got a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.) (RIAing)
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To: Clairity

It’s odd that I haven’t read about Sarah Palin’s coaches on foreign affairs.


44 posted on 07/21/2011 12:16:56 AM PDT by hocndoc (http://WingRight.org (I've got a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.) (RIAing)
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To: truthfreedom
I don't why the damn link didn't post earlier, but here it is....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/us/politics/03manage.html?ex=1372824000&en=e4df6854417b9483&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

It should have been attached to the one that mentioned Steve Schmidt....Sorry that it looked weird the way it cut out.

45 posted on 07/21/2011 12:27:30 AM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: hocndoc
It’s odd that I haven’t read about Sarah Palin’s coaches on foreign affairs.

Crap, I just read that she had actually hired one, and that was a couple of months ago, and it was on here, but I have no idea where that article is going to be.

46 posted on 07/21/2011 12:31:55 AM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I know...it’s HuffPo...but worth the read.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-m-defrancesco-soto/latino-love-bush-v-perry_b_874631.html

There is no love lost between Bush and Perry.


47 posted on 07/21/2011 1:17:28 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery will always overcome youth and arrogance!)
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To: Leaning Right
Donald Rumsfeld is this generation's Robert McNamara.

I would call it a three way tie with Gates thrown in. We definitely do not need a third Rummy Sec of Defense tenure. I doubt one in one hundred remember his first tenure. The tenure under Gerald Ford which was the beginning of what they call the Hollow Carter Military.

48 posted on 07/21/2011 2:09:25 AM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Clairity

Rumsfeld was W’s problem.

You are only as good as your advisers.


49 posted on 07/21/2011 3:50:51 AM PDT by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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