McCain Advised On Catholic Issues By Former Bush Adviser Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
McCain Advised On Catholic Issues By Former Bush Adviser Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
As Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) courts the Catholic vote, “part of a larger effort to build bridges with religious voters,” The New York Times reports today that his “informal adviser” on Catholic outreach is Deal W. Hudson. In 2004, Hudson advised Bush-Cheney ‘04, serving as “the architect of a Republican effort to court Catholic voters.”
But Hudson was forced to resign after “accusations of sexual misconduct,” as the Times reported on August 19, 2004:
”No one regrets my past mistakes more than I do,” Mr. Hudson wrote in a column posted yesterday on the online edition of National Review announcing his resignation.
”At the time, I dealt with this in an upright manner, and the matter was satisfactorily resolved long ago,” he wrote, without specifying the accusations. Mr. Hudson, 54, said he had been happily married to his current wife for 17 years. Called for comment, he declined. […]
A person involved with the university’s investigation said that a freshman in one of Mr. Hudson’s classes reported to the university that, after she had become drunk at a bar, Mr. Hudson made sexual advances toward her. After a period of weeks, she charged him with sexual harassment. The accusations were made near the end of a school year, and Mr. Hudson left academia.
Hudson’s ties to the Bush administration are extensive. He reportedly said of Karl Rove after the 2000 election, ”I have to be careful what I say because I might make him sound like he is God or something.”
McCain has come under fire from Catholics for seeking out and accepting the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee, who had previously referred to the Catholic Church as “the Great Whore” and “anti-Christ.” A search of McCain’s campaign website returns one result for Hudson.
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April 15th, 2008 at 2:36 pm...
Nah!!! Too easy!
Why am I sooooo not surprised...?
April 15th, 2008 at 2:36 pmAhhh, GOP 'family values' at work once more.
SNARK!
April 15th, 2008 at 2:37 pmAt least he can advise McCain on which bars to pick up coeds. Isn't Johnny boy looking for the next ex-Mrs. McCain?
April 15th, 2008 at 2:38 pmOh let's be fair. If McCain can't hire Republicans who have been accused of sexual misconduct then he'll have to staff his campaign entirely with unpaid interns.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:47 pmHudson, a frequent White House visitor and confidant of Bush political strategist Karl Rove.
That says is all right there. Someone else not to be trusted. This administration is like a virus, it infects everyone it touches.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pmMoral standards of behavior are only for Democrats to be compared with. Not the rich nor their paid mouth pieces.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:52 pm***tap... tap... tap...***
Uncle Ho??? What did I say earlier?
Hmmmmm?????????
***tap... tap... tap...***
April 15th, 2008 at 2:52 pmfletc3her Says:
Oh let’s be fair. If McCain can’t hire Republicans who have been accused of sexual misconduct then he’ll have to staff his campaign entirely with unpaid interns.
April 15th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Interns?
When did McCain put Mark Foley on payroll?
April 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pmHudson sure looks the part, doesn't he?
April 15th, 2008 at 2:54 pmHere is the National Catholic Reporter story that led to his departure from the RNC.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pmReally it will be nice when the Democrats can start focusing on this stuff won't it?
April 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pmShayne, here's something else the Democrats can start focusing on.
John McCain is a creature of myth. There are many facts about him that the majority of the American people know nothing about, and to date, mainstream media has not sought in anyway to refresh people’s memories. Here is one example of McCain’s “support of the troops” behavior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g
April 15th, 2008 at 3:03 pmFreedom Rebel Says:
This administration is like a virus, it infects everyone it touches.
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Rove, Bush, McCain, Feith, FAUX News, more McCain, Romney, $3Trillion for Iraq War, Kristol (ewwww), more McCain, LIEberman (grrrr), Cheney.........(she screams and pulls out her hair). I can't take it anymore!!!! I detest these destructive people!!! I know they suck and I don't want to be fixated on their dysfunction.
When can we talk about what we need to do? As a country?
When can we discuss our priorities?
The people all listed at the top of my post are bringing this country down! They all need to be marginalized.
I hope I haven't been infected by their virus!! I feel sick. It's hard to be effective when you feel sick.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:09 pmtr0s! better watch out, Larry Craig may be lurking about...
April 15th, 2008 at 3:13 pmTROS- And what did I say earlier about my insubordinate behavior?
April 15th, 2008 at 3:14 pmLarry Craig????????
Where?????? Where???????
Now I'll be afraid to use a public rest room, RU.
T'anks alot...
April 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pmTROS- for your own sake, don't do any of that toe-tapping in a men's room.
snark, snark
April 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pmThat it didn't do any good ta try 'n discipline ya back then so it won't work now?
Then by all means... Snark away, soldier!!!!!!!!!!
April 15th, 2008 at 3:16 pmThanks impeachcheneythenbush, I put that up at TheZoo.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:23 pmWe don't have to end McShame's campaign.
He's doing a fine job on his own.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:24 pmOn the plus side Craig is like a rattlesnake, you always can tell where he is by the tap, tap, tapping.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:25 pmmy catholic dittohead-in-law sent an email the other day, with the "whitey" buchanan screed attached... y'know the big problem the idjits have with barack attending his church for 20 years, listening to the reverend wright ... (doesn't matter that the condemned wright comments were post-9/11, which changed everything, not?)
so, i replied:
seconds out of countless hours over 30 years, and you think you know what that man and his congregation are all about...
the catholic church is full of child abusers and pedophiles...
what does that make YOU?
no reply...
April 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pmI'm no fan of sexual misconduct, but Hudson hardly appears to endorse it, and in the unlikely event that Hudson advises McCain to make sexual advances toward intoxicated 18-year olds, I trust McCain to have enough sense to ignore that advice. Compare this to Hagee, who apparently DOES endorse hatred against the Catholic Church, hatred against gays, and hastening The Rapture, among other rather unsavory beliefs.
More bothersome than Hudson's past sexual peccadilloes is his connections with the Bush administration. McCain is doing this interesting bungee game -- close to Bush, far away from Bush, close to Bush, etc. -- but getting advisors out of the Bush camp is letting us know where his heart really is.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:27 pmKaty says:
the Catholic church is full of child abusers and pedophiles... what does that make YOU?
no reply...
sounds like your dittohead-in-law has to think about that one.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pmKaty says:
the Catholic church is full of child abusers and pedophiles... what does that make YOU?
no reply...
sounds like your dittohead-in-law has to think about that one.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pmooops, sorry about the double posting.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pmCathoholics, Alcoholics, Sexoholics, McCainoholics, aren't they all similar in that they deny exactly what attracts them?
McWarmonger put the 'fun' back in dysfunctional.
April 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pmHey Zimzone...
April 15th, 2008 at 3:45 pmAll Alcoholics and Sexoholics are not bad.
Thanks, Art, I guess I forgot about myself...
April 15th, 2008 at 3:47 pmMuch as I enjoy seeing Republicans torpeoed, making sexual advances to a woman in a bar--even if she's your student during the day--doesn't by itself constitute sexual harassment.
April 15th, 2008 at 4:05 pmJust one day before lambasting Barack Obama over his recent comments about religion, John McCain was a no-show at Sunday's CNN Compassion Forum on faith. That's because when it comes to discussing his own religious beliefs, the Republican presidential nominee believes that silence is golden. And judging by the fawning stories from the Washington Times, CNN and the Politico, the press corps seems to agree. But McCain's reticence to speak about his faith doesn't represent a generational preference for private piety. No, McCain's silence is an essential strategy to avoid alienating his party's evangelical base and independent voters alike by drawing attention to his confusing religious conversion, his myriad past gaffes and his current backing from extremist ministers.
For the details, see;
April 15th, 2008 at 4:08 pm"For McCain, Silence on Religion is Golden."
Ooh, ooh, I know this one. "A Republican!"
April 15th, 2008 at 4:20 pmDude if your marriage is so great, why were you trying to get laid with a "non-wife" type?
April 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pmwell, shayne, that's how he votes... these days, calls himself "libertarian"..
you know how it is...
and,
Squeaky Wheels - "making sexual advances to a woman in a bar–even if she’s your student during the day–doesn’t by itself constitute sexual harassment."
yea, i think it does... and evidently she thought so too...
April 15th, 2008 at 5:38 pmand, most importantly, he thought it serious enough to resign...
you know how it is...
.
McCain is corrupt, inept and a whole lot more. Suggest you watch the video referenced in post 14, then send it to your friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g
April 15th, 2008 at 5:46 pmSqueaky Wheels - “making sexual advances to a woman in a bar–even if she’s your student during the day–doesn’t by itself constitute sexual harassment.”
We can disagree about that but this certainly is:
Read the whole thing here.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:00 pmDeal W. Hudson says, ”No one regrets my past mistakes more than I do,”
Nope, he's just pissed she pressed charges.
April 16th, 2008 at 2:23 amRove, Bush, McCain, Feith, FAUX News, more McCain, Romney, $3Trillion for Iraq War, Kristol (ewwww), more McCain, LIEberman (grrrr), Cheney………(she screams and pulls out her hair). I can’t take it anymore!!!! I detest these destructive people!!! I know they suck and I don’t want to be fixated on their dysfunction.
When can we talk about what we need to do? As a country?
When can we discuss our priorities?
The people all listed at the top of acer travelmate 353 battery,acer travelmate 354 battery my post are bringing this country down! They all need to be marginalized.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:02 am