George W.Bush won re-election in 2004 IN SPITE of Ken Mehlman. Mehlman continued to dismantle the GOP and drove conservatives away so John McCain, Rudy Giuliani or some other RINO could win the nomination. He managed to do that, and the result is Barack Obama. Thank Ken Mehlman.
Mehlman's contempt for Republicans was on-display. He was the stalking horse for the "Destroy Republicans" crowd----religious cleansing of the party was at the top of their agenda. These savages liked nothing more than to kick so/cons to the curb.
BACKSTORY In one example that has never previously come out, on June 8, 2002, the Washington Post and other publications began reporting that a Senate staffer on Capitol Hill had found a computer disk in Lafayette Park across from the White House.
On the disk was a PowerPoint presentation that Rove and Mehlman had given to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in the 2002 mid-term election. As outlined in a series of subsequent press disclosures, the presentation reviewed prospects for individual candidates, including which ones might lose.
The vaunted secrecy of the Bush White House had sprung a leak. According to the Mehlman aide who was in charge of the mechanics of the PowerPoint presentation, the talk was given to a chapter of the California Lincoln Club at the Hay Adams Hotel across from the White House. The aide hooked up his laptop computer to the projector.
"At that time, I used to bring a floppy disk in case there was a computer problem," said the aide, who agreed to tell me what happened without attribution to him. "I took the disk out of my pocket and put it in a folder I was carrying with Karl's hard copy of the presentation. I left the folder on the projector; I'm certain the disk was still in it." The aide said the disk was not lost in the park. "My belief is that someone in the room took it from the folder on top of the projector," he said. "I did leave it there unattended after I tested the projector for a minute or two. I think I went to get a diet Coke."
When the details of the PowerPoint presentation hit the press, Mehlman asked the staffer about it. He said he took full responsibility and offered to resign. But both Mehlman and Rove supported him.
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Mehlman was sucking up to gays even though he now says he "just found out" he was gay (cue hysterical laughter).
When the details hit the press that the top secret PowerPoint presentation given to a chapter of the (gay-centric) California Lincoln Club, Mehlman said he took full responsibility, and offered to resign.
GWB would not accept his resignation.
Besides, Kenny had just heard there was a half-price sale on satin sheets and down-filled duvets at Bed, Bath and Beyond........and he was anxious to get there before the doors opened.
Plus he had to spit-shine his penny loafers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Mehlman#Career
synopsis
“Mehlman received his undergraduate degree in 1988 from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1991, where he was a classmate of Barack Obama.
Mehlman assisted campaigns in Massachusetts (William Weld’s 1990 gubernatorial campaign), as well as the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns.
Mehlman was chief of staff to Representative Kay Granger of Texas and legislative director to Representative Lamar S. Smith of Texas.
Mehlman served as field director for the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush. When Bush became President, Mehlman became director of the White House Office of Political Affairs. He managed the Bush re-election campaign in 2004.
He also is a member of the CFR and serves on the Senior Advisory Committee of the Harvard University Institute of Politics.
Mehlman was Bush’s choice to replace Ed Gillespie as the chair of the Republican National Committee and was elected to the post on January 19, 2005.
He announced after the November 2006 general election that he would not seek re-election to another term as Republican National Chairman.”