Posted on 02/27/2015 3:22:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
You might recall the name Mark Salter for the role he played as a speechwriter for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) when he ran for president in 2008. In the years that followed his involvement on that failed presidential bid, Salter eventually evolved into a commentator and political analyst.
Following McCains failed campaign, Slater spent much of his time attempting to rehabilitate the image of his friend and former employer. In 2011, Salter wrote a meandering, discursive essay on how George W. Bush had failed to meet the expectations of posterity when he chose Dick Cheney as his running mate.
Why re-litigate history 11 years after the fact? He criticizes my former employer, Sen. John McCain, for losing his temper and abruptly ending a meeting with Cheney about his legislation concerning the treatment of detainees, we discovered in paragraph nine. I can say with confidence that McCain neither lost his temper nor abruptly left the meeting.
And while Salter may be perfectly qualified to opine on the wisdom associated with selecting Republican presidential running mates, he is perhaps less well-equipped to comment on what a winning coalition of voters looks like. That did not stop him from criticizing tea party Republicans in 2013.
Youre a minority. Youre a minority in Congress and youre a minority in the country, he lectured the tea party wing ahead of the ill-fated government shutdown of 2013. So go ahead and follow Sarah Palin. Lets put the Senate on Cruz control. Lets shame those squishes to the firing line. Filibuster the bill. Let Harry Reid pull it off the Senate floor. Shut down the government. I think youll find the Democrats you expected to yield to the persuasive power of your kamikaze tactics are only too happy to test your resolve.
In the interim between Salters effort to recast McCain as noble statesman and lambasting the tea party, the former speechwriter became a conspicuously dedicated booster for former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. In a gripping lament over Daniels decision to pass on a presidential bid in 2012, Salter attacked The Washington Posts conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin and accused her of serving as a one of the most bombastic and irresponsible voices in American politics.
You get the picture.
Given his inclination to cast paternalistic aspersions on even the most modestly conservative elements within the GOP, it might not be surprising to learn that Salter has trained all of his copious powers of condescension on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Why? The Badger States chief executive has dubious honor of being beloved by all those Republicans Salter despises.
Via Business Insider, Salter recently took to his Facebook page to offer some of his unsolicited thoughts on Wisconsins governor. “I want to like him but Scott Walker is kind of a dumb ass,” Salter wrote.
He posted this observation in response to a comment Walker made at CPAC in which he suggested that his ability to serve as a competent commander-in-chief was forged amid his resistance to Wisconsins pro-union protesters. “If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world, Walker said. As a claim to bona fides on the issue of national security, this is rather weak sauce. As an example of political rhetoric, its insulting and offensive to equate American progressives with the unspeakable brutes who make up ISIS. But does this comment lead us to draw conclusions about on Walkers intellectual faculties? Not even slightly. It makes you wonder what Salter was thinking before he issued this unsophisticated schoolyard taunt.
If anything speaks to Walkers intellect, it is his ability to outwit his adversaries on multiple occasions and to win three convincing statewide victories in a blue state. In fact, a measure of Walkers intelligence can be found in his ability to dramatically advance a conservative agenda in a state that hasnt voted for a Republican at the presidential level for over 30 years. None of Salters Republican heroes have enjoyed the same level of success in moving the ball forward for Republicanism. One questionable rhetorical slip up does not detract from the governors bountiful record of achievements.
In fact, if Salter is truly opposed to Walkers candidacy, you might think that he would refrain from making comments that only lead his increasingly broad coalition of conservative supporters to grow more protective of the Wisconsin governor. If Salter truly hoped that Walkers support would eventually dissolve, he would have been best served at this stage by keeping his thoughts on the governor to himself. But that obvious conclusion apparently escaped Mark Salter. I wonder what you might you call someone who lacks that kind of basic foresight?
Juan McAinal grauduated number 5 from the bottom of his Naval Academy class.
“Did ya see the pic of Walker taking a helmet off after riding a Harley.?”
That is a great picture of a real man. Last night I challenged Freepers to come up with the photo of Obama on the bicycle wearing his - and post it next to the Walker photo.
But no one took up the challenge. The picture of Walker in his black leather jacket and holding a helmut, caused this old lady’s heart to palpitate! It’s time for the GOP to think about using some sex appeal to promote their candidates. Why not? The Democrats do it all the time - even when their candidates [like Obama] really are a bunch of wimps. Walker, OTOH, is a manly man.
Ahhhh, yes, this is from the guy (McShame’s camp) that told all us that we have nothing to fear from an Obama Administration.....how well I remember that. Please LORD, rapture your church before it gets any worse.
All the more reason that Walker should, and may well be the next POTUS if McLame doesn’t like him. McLame is a has-been that is no longer relevant.
John McCain is a washed-up, senile RINO DUMBASS!
How many of us remember the pictues of Juan McAinal enjoying life with some Isis serial killers?
Here is more on Manchurian Candidate, Juan:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3262347/posts
LEAKED EVIDENCE: Sen. John McCain Involved In Major Islamic Conspiracy To Establish Islamic State
Freedom Outpost ^ | February 5, 2015 | Walid Shoebat
Posted on 2/27/2015, 10:53:19 AM by TBP
Recently revealed conversations between the Pentagon and the Gadhafi regime in 2011 show that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was serving the Muslim Brotherhood by pushing a false narrative to justify the removal of Muammar Gadhafi, as Shoebat.com has reported. With the help of corroborating evidence, we’re closer to proving that Republican Senator John McCain was likely just as invested in facilitating the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya as Hillary was. Before getting to the evidence that implicates McCain, let’s work backward from the Benghazi attacks.
Any discussion about what happened in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks usually includes the topic of weapons shipments to Syrian rebels via Turkey. According to a book written by a former Navy SEAL and Green Beret, the man who would eventually become CIA Director oversaw that operation from the White House:
(Deputy National Security Advisor) John Brennan also ran a highly compartmentalized program out of the White House in regard to weapons transfers, and Stevens would not have been trusted with that type of information. Stevens likely helped consolidate as many weapons as possible after the war to safeguard them, at which point Brennan exported them overseas to start another conflict.
According to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) report completed last August and then released the Friday before Thanksgiving, the mission in Benghazi didn’t involve physically collecting and shipping weapons to Syria but the CIA clearly knew who was. As Shoebat.com reported, this amounted to a distinction without a difference:
From the Annex in Benghazi, the CIA was collecting intelligence about foreign entities that were themselves collecting weapons in Libya and facilitating their passage to Syria. The Benghazi Annex was not itself collecting weapons.
One thing that can be certain is that after the removal of Muammar Gadhafi in 2011, weapons in Libya were being rounded up and shipped to Syria’s rebels. These logistics constitute transitioning from the end of one operation regime change in Libya and the beginning of another regime change in Syria.
Thanks to an explosive three-part series published by the Washington Times, replete with substantiated audio recordings, readers get to see how the weapons got into Libya in the first place and who supported it.
The third installment serves as a stand-alone piece in this regard and even references a lengthy document / manifest of weapons being shipped into Libya:
Libyan officials were deeply concerned in 2011, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was trying to remove Moammar Gadhafi from power, that weapons were being funneled to NATO-backed rebels with ties to al Qaeda, fearing that well-armed insurgents could create a safe haven for terrorists, according to secret intelligence reports obtained by The Washington Times.
The reports included a 16-page list of weapons that Libyans supposedly tracked to the rebels from Western sources or their allies in the region. The memos were corroborated by a U.S. intelligence asset familiar with the documents as well as former top Gadhafi regime official Mohammed Ismael.
“NATO has given permission to a number of weapons-loaded aircraft to land at Benghazi airport and some Tunisian airports,” the intelligence report said, identifying masses of weapons including tanks and surface-to-air missiles.
A major player when it came to the weapons shipments into Libya in 2011 has been revealed as a major supporter of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood terrorists. Once again, we see that regime change in Libya in 2011 served the Muslim Brotherhood agenda:
In a separate conversation with Dennis J. Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat serving in the House, Gadhafi’s eldest son, Seif, told the congressman that Libyan intelligence had observed Qatar, a major U.S. ally in the region, facilitating weapons shipments. Qatar has steadfastly and repeatedly denied arming the rebels.
“The Qataris have spent more than $100 million on this, and they have an agreement with the rebels that the moment you rule Libya you pay us back,” Seif Gadhafi told Mr. Kucinich in a conversation recorded in May 2011.
Here is an excerpt of a phone conversation between Rep. Kucinich and Seif Gadhafi in 2011, via the Washington Times:
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Such a stance by Kucinich who resisted calls for regime change in Libya was both welcome and rare. In 2003, he rubbed elbows with Bassam Estwani, chairman of the notorious hornets’ nest for Muslim Brotherhood-inspired terrorism, the Dar al-Hijrah mosque, as Shoebat.com reported. Estwani sits on the Board of the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), which seeks the removal of Bashar al-Assad. The Executive Director of SETF is a man named Mouaz Moustafa, who previously served in the same capacity on the Libyan Emergency Task Force (LETF), as Shoebat.com also reported.
Moustafa and McCain are quite familiar with one another, as are Estwani and Moustafa.
Perhaps the most explosive paragraph in the article involves a Libyan intelligence report showing Qatar sending “ tanks, missiles, truck and military advisers to the rebels”. When coupled with where McCain was and what he was promoting at the time, we see a Senator whose behaviors and words reflected almost exactly, an agenda shared by Hillary Clinton (note the dates in bold):
“On 15th of March the ship loaded with arm[s] arrived to the seaport of Tobruk. On 4th April 2011 two Qatari aircraft laden with a number of tanks, [ground-attack] missiles and heavy trucks was arranged. On 11th April 2011 a number of boats departed Benghazi for Misrata, the shipment comprised assistance including SAM-7 [anti-aircraft] missiles. On 22nd April 2011,800 rifles were sent from Benghazi to Misrata,” the report said.
That year, the annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum (US-IWF) an event co-sponsored by the nation of Qatar and the Brookings Institute was held in the U.S. for the first time, from April 12-14. Prior to that, it had been held in Doha, Qatar. McCain attended the 2011 edition and was part of a panel. In this bizarre excerpt, McCain referred to the Arab Spring as a “seismic event” he was thrilled to be a part of and said he hoped it would spread to Russia and China:
Keep in mind the aforementioned paragraph from the Times article. Note that on April 22, 2011, hundreds of rifles were “sent from Benghazi to Misrata,” according to the report. Something else happened on that day. McCain was in Benghazi with U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and told an Al-Jazeera reporter that the Libyan (Muslim Brotherhood) rebels were his “heroes” on the same day they were receiving weapons:
Little more than one year later and just 90 days before the Benghazi attacks, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) sent a letter to the Inspector’s General office of the State Department. In that letter, Bachmann raised legitimate concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood connections of very close Hillary Clinton adviser Huma Abedin. It was John McCain who further implicated himself in the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood by defending Abedin and denouncing Bachmann, as Shoebat.com has reported.
Off topic: BTW, Jeb Bush is a maggot.
The Republican Party exists to keep REAL opposition parters from arising.
He evidently doesnt understand that his ad hominem attack on Walker means more points for Walker.
All these recent attacks on Walker tell me the Democrats fear him as a formidable opponent. And they know that unlike a McCain, Walker will stand on his principles.
Scott Walker does not support terrorists.
John McCain does.
Danke Muoy Buono and Thanks!!!
One of McNasty’s flying monkeys is loose again.
Agreed.
It is funny how the REAL Wacko Birds come from McCain’s staff.
I’d be willing to bet that 1/2 of his staff are really RATS working for McCain just so they can get inside info to Reid.
Why does this jackass think anyone cares if progressives are insulted?
Says the abject moron who crashed five planes.
Hacienda unt Glutan Tag
“You might recall the name Mark Salter ...”
Yes, I think I’ve seen it written on public restroom walls with a phone number to contact for a good time!
That makes me support Walker even more. McCain is way past his prime and has become a jealous little boy.
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