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April 11, 2008
Soros and David Brock Plan $40 Million Hit On McCain
David Brock, Dems plan $40M hit on McCain
Politico for complete article !!
Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Senator John McCain. And it will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist.
The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as the ex-conservative founder of the liberal group Media Matters, last month quietly assumed the chairmanship of what's expected to be the main vehicle for independent Democratic attacks on McCain, now called Progressive Media USA.
The move comes after the groups that had been expected to spearhead attacks on McCain – the Fund for America and Progressive Media USA's previous incarnation, the Campaign to Defend America – failed to raise the money needed to dent McCain's armor.
"We're a little behind where we need to be," he said.
But after a dinner Tuesday night at the Manhattan apartment of liberal megadonor George Soros, at which Brock and the consultant Paul Begala laid out the group's plans, Brock said his group now has commitments worth $7.5 million – almost twice what the Fund for America is expected to report raising in the first quarter of this year. He said the group would begin running ads before it meets its $40 million goal.
Brock suggested that the group could do the work of a press corps that, he says, has "fallen down on the job" when it comes to McCain.
Brock's remarkable emergence as a leader of the Democratic party's shadow campaign efforts marks a milestone in a long personal journey that began in the early 1990s with the notoriety he gained from magazine stories written for The American Spectator, a conservative monthly. Among his controversial articles was one alleging that Bill Clinton had used Arkansas state troopers to facilitate his philandering, a piece that set the wheels in motion for Paula Jones to file suit against Clinton for sexual harassment. In 1993, Brock authored The Real Anita Hill, a critical book about the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
Brock later apologized to Clinton in a public letter and broke publicly with the conservative movement. He wrote about his disillusionment in his 2002 memoir Blinded by the Right, and Hillary Clinton later helped him establish Media Matters, which criticizes reporters for alleged right-wing "misinformation."
Brock is now seen in political circles as closer to Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign than to Senator Barack Obama's, but Brock said he has already met with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a close Obama ally.
Wild Thing's comment........
Well this will be interesting to say the least. The deal is made and Paul Begala will consult with political mercenary David Brock backed mostly by Soros to go after McCain who thanks to Rick Davis McCain's Campaign Manager is also funded by Soros indirectly through various groups.
This is weird because McCain is also on the Soros dime, not as much as Hillary and certainly not as much as B. HUSSEIN Obama. Soros has covered himself every which way.
a post I did months ago
McCain and Connections To Soros ~ Ugly Stuff
So let's see the admitted liar David Brock... or the flaming homosexual David Brock... or the greedy propagandist David Brock... or the Marxist David Brock is joining with communist/socialist America hater Soros who is known for hedging his bets are in political "bed " together.
The Dems are still smarting over the fact that a group of Swift Boat Vets proved their candidate in 2004 was a serial liar.
Through McCain-Feingold, John McCain can truly be said to have fed the hand that bites him.
Photo of Brock with Barney Frank
What we know too is that Hillary wants this so bad she can taste it. She and Bill never were never punished for their many crimes, 'gates", suspicious deaths of those that came in contact with them, but even so she is not someone to mess with.
Obama has turned this election into a total race card, and that is UGLY anyway it is done. The terrorists want him to be elected as we saw in the video of the Palestinians doing what they can do gain support of Obama.
Besides being such an important election for the future of America it sure is turning out to be a truly ugly one and we still have months to go.
Posted by Wild Thing at April 11, 2008 02:55 AM
Comments
SOROS spelled backwards (in evil speak) is $ORO$!
Love the Barny Frank / FWAAANK ... YMCA photo!!
Don't drop the bar of soap in the shower, eh?
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at April 11, 2008 06:29 AM
Sheesh. When that picture of Barney and his boy toys scrolled up, the room filled up with the stink of Axe and Neosporin.
Posted by: Rhod at April 11, 2008 06:57 AM
Chickens have come home to roost for McCain. His McCain-Feingold campaign reform act, the one that deprives private citizens of their Constitutional Rights is what's allowing Soros to set up these organizations to go after McCain.
In his zeal to squash the voice of the "little" people, McCain magnified the voice of the wealthy Soros.
On Fox last night they broke this down on how Sorros is able to set up these organizations which allow him to funnel unlimited money to left wing candidates.
Posted by: BobF at April 11, 2008 09:20 AM
This will be interesting. I don't know that vast amounts of money will be that important in the general election as the public will not have to be awakened in this one.
This election will be a real war. Obama needs this type of big wheel support as he is a weakling. McCain will be attacked unmercilously, and he is vulnerable in many ways. But, McCain is a fighter and very tough. He can take the heat. If he will drop that high road bullshit he can mount one hell of an offensive against an equally or more vulnerable Obama.
Obama is vulnerable via his inexperience and his unrealistic proposals for major problems. He is now open for allegations of blatant racism. That alone could kill his chances. This will be an interestinfg election
A lot also depends on who each candidate picks as a running mate.
Posted by: TomR at April 11, 2008 09:34 AM
Truly a sad day has come to America's shores, when Americans no longer pick our leaders because we're too afraid of foreigners with billions of dollars to throw around. Anyone who couldn't be bought by Soros was pushed out of the way. Soros wants to run this nation, but he can't run because he wasn't born here.
Posted by: Lynn at April 11, 2008 10:14 AM
Tom raises an interesting point....McCain being attacked. McCain's background and experience is the reservoir for his bad temper. He's permanently pissed off, and you deal with these triggers by avoiding conflicts and idealizing the comfort of good relationships. Too bad that this is impossible and unrealistic, but you sometimes avoid your demons.
I think Obama's campaign thugs will try to rub McCain raw; testing his limits, and trying to make him lose his temper. That might be a mistake. The high road is littered with enough junk to sink Obama without McCain losing his mind.
Posted by: Rhod at April 11, 2008 01:18 PM
John McCain has a legislative record (McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman) that will be used against him from all factions across the electorate in his quest to become President. McCain-Feingold and the tens of millions of dollars it allows from wealthy Democrats like George Soros to be used against John McCain is something that he brought about himself. This legislative abomination will not only hurt McCain but if will hit Republicans at all levels of local, state, and federal elected government office.
The Democrats despite being chronic complainers, defeatists in the war on terror, do nothing hypocrites in Congress, attackers of anything patriotic, and the party of hate have raised far more money than Republicans and are in a position to buy the election and give the Republicans their biggest defeat ever.
This is a sad election year that may set back the country for decades from it's greatness and everything that it used to stand for.
Posted by: Les at April 11, 2008 05:06 PM
Darth, LOL I found the Barney photo by accident.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 11, 2008 10:57 PM
Rhod, hahahaahahaha sorry.
lol But it was such a perfect photo to er ah show a-hem. hahahaa
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 11, 2008 11:00 PM
Bob, thanks for sharing about the info. from Fox news about Soros.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 11, 2008 11:05 PM
Tom, yes I really want to know who McCain will pick for his VP.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 11, 2008 11:08 PM
Lynn, you right he is trying to buy America and control the leaders in his own way. I agree too it is very sad.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 11, 2008 11:09 PM
Rhod, I agree, and there is plenty out there on Obama and it keeps pouring in on all the various news services.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 11, 2008 11:11 PM
Les.....
"This is a sad election year that may set back the country for decades from it's greatness and everything that it used to stand for.".....
I agree so much.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 11, 2008 11:13 PM
