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so I'm looking for something to write,* and thank goodness for that graven idol of that shadowy place where money meets access** direct mail demigod Richard Viguerie, who has become, dare I say it, Shrill in his desire to bend John McCain to his will,*** and who has gifted us on this fine Sunday morning**** with this delicious snapshot of haute political transparency
They'll probably get the promises they want, though, because McCain knows they mean it and he really, really wants this.
Try and remember that this is who we're dealing with, k? These people play hardball, and if they're gunning for your candidate's opponent, it's not because they're on your side. It's because if they take out your candidate's opponent they get to go into battle against your candidate with a little silhouette of a Democrat painted on their fuselage.
Reporters love that shit.
And your candidate is going to have a pretty hard time getting anyone to listen to them when they all of a sudden want the rules to count again.
And if you don't ramp it down, so are you.*******
*because most of what I've been following lately is going to lead me into way too many eleventh commandment violations
**both to friendly media saturation and fungible political loyalties
***and don't think he doesn't mean it, either. Viguerie brags on leading the effort to shank Gerald Ford, and McCain put quite a little stutter in the money flow, some of which sticks to the direct mail guy's hands on every transaction.
****OK, it's a little dank, but it's not Monday and that's what matters, isn't it?
*****which is ironic, because McCain only took on campaign finance after that thing where he got caught with dicey money and had to rehab his reputation for honesty came up again nine years later courtesy of the even-more-heavily-funded-by-sleazebags (Wyly Brothers and Ken Lay much?) Bush campaign. I suppose the amount of organized movement conservative money that went into trashing his wife and daughter didn't help either.******
******although, principled guy that he is, he appears to have decided to forgive and forget [youtube] at least some of the people who were behind that. Actually, quite a few of the people who were behind that.
*******and if you assumed I was talking about your candidate******** and their supporters, you're roughly half right. And on that eleventh commandment misdemeanor I'm taking my kid for a badly needed nice long walk.
********who, btw, sucks.
Richard A. Viguerie, chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, today released the results of a true random poll of 1,000 conservative activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.a True random poll, mind you, because of course CPAC attendees aren't the least bit self-selected for seeing a future on the wingnut welfare gravy train McCain-Feingold is denying funds to,***** and within that group, political activists who are willing to go on record with the startling news that they'd rather lose the four seats on the Supreme Court that are likely to open up in the next four or eight years than let someone outside of their faction take power in their party are even less self-selected than that.
They'll probably get the promises they want, though, because McCain knows they mean it and he really, really wants this.
Try and remember that this is who we're dealing with, k? These people play hardball, and if they're gunning for your candidate's opponent, it's not because they're on your side. It's because if they take out your candidate's opponent they get to go into battle against your candidate with a little silhouette of a Democrat painted on their fuselage.
Reporters love that shit.
And your candidate is going to have a pretty hard time getting anyone to listen to them when they all of a sudden want the rules to count again.
And if you don't ramp it down, so are you.*******
*because most of what I've been following lately is going to lead me into way too many eleventh commandment violations
**both to friendly media saturation and fungible political loyalties
***and don't think he doesn't mean it, either. Viguerie brags on leading the effort to shank Gerald Ford, and McCain put quite a little stutter in the money flow, some of which sticks to the direct mail guy's hands on every transaction.
****OK, it's a little dank, but it's not Monday and that's what matters, isn't it?
*****which is ironic, because McCain only took on campaign finance after that thing where he got caught with dicey money and had to rehab his reputation for honesty came up again nine years later courtesy of the even-more-heavily-funded-by-sleazebags (Wyly Brothers and Ken Lay much?) Bush campaign. I suppose the amount of organized movement conservative money that went into trashing his wife and daughter didn't help either.******
******although, principled guy that he is, he appears to have decided to forgive and forget [youtube] at least some of the people who were behind that. Actually, quite a few of the people who were behind that.
*******and if you assumed I was talking about your candidate******** and their supporters, you're roughly half right. And on that eleventh commandment misdemeanor I'm taking my kid for a badly needed nice long walk.
********who, btw, sucks.
