McCain’s lobbyist purge: ‘Everyone gets the joke.’
McCain’s lobbyist purge: ‘Everyone gets the joke.’
Five lobbyists have resigned from the McCain campaign, causing many other Washington lobbyists to ask: “So this is the thanks we get?” Said one McCain supporter: “I find it a little offensive. It was good enough to get my $2,300 donation. If we’re not good enough, then send my check back. It pisses me off.” But McCain still has 115 lobbyists raising money and helping to run his campaign. And apparently, they all understand McCain’s anti-lobbyist efforts are simply for show:
At 4 p.m. Monday, campaign finance chair Susan Nelson convened a conference call with lobbyist supporters and fundraisers to assuage their bruised egos and pass along positive polling data, according to two participants in the session.
“I think they were trying to make the point that this is not an attack on lobbying or any of the people on the campaign,” said one participant in the conference call, speaking on condition of anonymity. “They want to move forward. My sense is everyone gets the joke.”
A McCain fundraiser said it’s hard “getting enthusiastic about McCain because there’s this long history of kind of castigating the lobbying community while hanging around the lobbyists.”
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well hardy, har, har
5 down, 110 to go
May 21st, 2008 at 12:43 pmmcbush is trying to have his cake and eat it too. embarrassing, isn’t it?
May 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pmBut how do we get the Republican rank and file to understand this? We have too often seen McCain portrayed as a latter day saint, a Maverick and a straight talker. The lobbying issue will not be played up by the media. A Democrat would be called a liar, hypocrite and so forth. The real McCain is exposed by the very fact that 115 lobbyists remain on the payroll and that the 3 left only because they were exposed by what little independent media is left.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pmHe’ll purge, but I wonder when the binge is.
If he got rid of the lobbyists he might as well drop out.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pmIt’s obvious the best way to serve white, working class voters is to cave to lobbyists and special interests before acknowledging citizens at large.
Right?
But of course McCain can’t just pick one, so he has all kinds of lobbyists.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:04 pmVOTE OBAMA.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:04 pmWe have to fire you now so we can take your bribes again later. Don’t you get it? We look like we are corrupt with 3,246 lobbyists on the bus all the time? The “people” that vote will think that we are doing a “good thing” , hah, simpletons all!
May 21st, 2008 at 1:08 pmWhen we get the election fixed, we can call you back on, and give you cabinet posts and make you ambassadors and get right back to the payola.
hold your horses, please, oh…. and your checkbooks
Everyone gets the joke alright, except McInsane.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:16 pm“…this is not an attack on lobbying or any of the people on the campaign,”
Um, yes it is.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:21 pmShorter McSame:
I fired 5 lobbyists!! (wink, wink, nod, nod) [crosses fingers behind back]
May 21st, 2008 at 1:51 pmSaid one McCain supporter: “I find it a little offensive. It was good enough to get my $2,300 donation. If we’re not good enough, then send my check back. It pisses me off.”
TP – Please put the above in gigantic, 600 point bold font.
It says that giving a candidate $2,300 is a payment for favors and if the candidate doesn’t obey that contract, then the person paying the money is pissed off (dare I say has every right to be pissed off ?).
May 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pmRepublicans who think this race will be close are fooling themselves. I predict Obama trouncing McCain by about 15% points in the popular vote when all is said and done. McCain is making the same mistake Mitt Romney made; staying connected to Bush and Bush’s policies. McCain’s only chance was to distance himself from and even criticize Bush. Instead, he got in bed with all the same Bush neo-con clowns.
Notice how McCain had a huge drop in the polls coming out today? I think that is in reaction to McCain defending and promoting Bush’s failed cowboy diplomacy. There was McSame immediately agreeing with Bush, which just reinforced that a McCain Presidency would be 4 more years of Bush.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pmGrampy McSame says – My friends back in the day we all had lobbyists, we kept them in the kitchen in cans, that kept them fresh, why I remember one time I opened a can of lobbyist and it had gone bad, stank to high heaven, nothing like the smell of rotten lobbyist, at my BBQ’s I serve lobbyists all the time, why congress critters would stand in line for hours for some fresh lobbyist…I think I sat in an warm apple pie again.
Grampy, if you are serving lobbyist you should run out sooner or later, but then they do breed like rats (no wonder, rats = lobbyist)
May 21st, 2008 at 2:24 pmHar-har-har. So GD freaking funny I forgot to laugh.
Especially since their effing laughs are at MY expense. And yours.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:32 pmA conference call by the McCampaign to kiss the milk stools of a bunch of nervous milkmaids waiting to grab a teat on the giant cash cow?
May 21st, 2008 at 2:36 pmIf you are telling me that McCain would try to campaign on an Image that is the exact, polar opposite of how he truly is, I just don’t know if I can believe you anymore. Next you’ll tell me that he’s against Veteran’s educational benefits, or something.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:15 pmThat’s the oldest joke in the Republican party. They have been making the American people the butt of that joke since the Ulysses Grant administration.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:08 pmThe more light shed on McCain the better…
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Thanks ya’ll
May 21st, 2008 at 9:16 pmalmost as funny has counting all the votes american’s cast…
ah ha ha…
you have no authority to make comments about ethics or morals when the millions of votes cast by americans are being ignored to further your own goals.
which by the way is far more evil than having a lobbyist on one’s campaign.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:55 am