Former George W. Bush aide rips Jeb Bush for ‘kissing the ring’ of billionaires (via Raw Story )
Matthew Dowd, who was chief strategist for George W. Bush’s 2004 campaign, on Sunday ripped Republican presidential hopefuls for lowering themselves to “kiss the ring” of billionaires like Las Vegas casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson. During a Sunday…
"ring"?
ReplyDeleteOf course, it's hardly limited to Jeb.
Oh, I get it. "Ring" as in "sphincter".
ReplyDeleteConspicuous for his absence from the Shelly Adelson primary in Las Vegas was Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
ReplyDeleteThere is a palatable anti-Zionist flavor to that sect of the GOP Ed...
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Matt - Not sure what you mean. Sect?
ReplyDeleteEd,
ReplyDeleteSee for instance:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/u-s-elections-2012/ron-paul-is-not-anti-semitic-but-is-anti-israel-former-aide-says-1.403805
"sect": A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political or philosophical belief system.
The 'sect' is the right-libertarian cohort within the GOP... more or less currently represented by Rand Paul since the retirement of his father... they see our US support of Israel leading to MENA wars, etc... and they dont like the wars as they "waste our scarce money", etc...
So contrast that with Jeb/Christie courting Adelson who has the mucho dinero (worth over $20B) and connections to even more mucho dinero to fund a big campaign... the Bush wing is pro-Israel and has no problem with Adelson ... Adelsons wife has dual citizenship... more info on Adelson:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/04/26/8465/donor-profile-sheldon-adelson
Why knock on a bunch of doors when you only have to knock on one big one?
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"The 'sect' is the right-libertarian cohort within the GOP... more or less currently represented by Rand Paul since the retirement of his father... they see our US support of Israel leading to MENA wars, etc... and they dont like the wars as they "waste our scarce money", etc..."
ReplyDeleteI agree with them that we should not be getting involved in more MENA wars on behalf of Israel. Israel could make mince meat out of any of its would be adversaries in its neighborhood one at a time or all at once.
Decent Time article on Shelly Adelson's Vegas sweepstakes primary showing how far the big GOP donors are willing to go to take down Rand Paul if he gets too much traction.
ReplyDeletehttp://time.com/43216/rand-paul-2016-rjc-sheldon-adelson/