Posted on 11/16/2006 8:18:33 PM PST by Registered
I don't get it. Where are the chickens?
Personally, I think it's better that we expose the riffraff in our own party before the New York Times does.
Nor do the OBL Bots.
To call him a Bush sycophant is simply untrue. I don't know why he changed his opinion of Dr. Keyes, although I think he gives us a clue by noting the many different fund-raising organizations all staffed by the same people.
Registered has pointed out a failure in the conservative movement: we are so desperate to affect change and find people to believe in that we are too eager to donate our money without looking at the organization closely.
There are a whole lot of people who make money from conservatives through 501C3 organizations and through the publication of books and newsletters. How much good does our money actually do?
In the months after this latest election I bet all of us get solicitations from groups who will claim to "bring out the truth on Nancy Pelosi" or "stop the democrats from teaching homosexuality on TV" or whatever. Most of these letters will simply be "boob bait for the Bub-bas" and will represent organizations that won't accomplish a darned thing.
Each one of those flags costs some extra bucks, but they are attatched to the fence in your name for only $25.
Or so they say. The perfect present for someone who has everything, and can't check the authenticity of your personal flag gift along the border fence. I think they send a certificate, though.
Asking for apologies from folks like you is next door to useless. I only did it at the beginning to illustrate your hypocrisy, and highlight the fact that you people are on a political witchhunt that has little to do with objective reality. Thanks for continuing to prove my point.
LOL...are you even an American?
You know, I'd trust your honest concern about this if you and your friends were looking at the RNC, Newt Gingrich, the financial operations of thousands of politicians and political organizations, the K Street lobbyists, et al, and applying the same standards to them.
Our political establishment has flushed hundreds of millions of dollars through their fundraisers, pollsters, consultants, et al for a generation now, with precious little results to show for it.
Go expose that, then come back and talk to me as an honest critic.
As far as 501c3 organizations, I have long believed that ALL of them should be required to list donors, in the same way that political parties do. I am mistrustful of groups with agendas, whether right or left, being able to inject themselves into American political and cultural life without the public knowing the source of their funds.
I still don't understand why, if they received all of that fencing material as a donation, that it isn't listed as an asset. No one has ever answered that question.
Perhaps it is as simple as the fact that the reporting is from last year, and they didn't receive the fencing until this year. It looks to me like quite a number of Simcox's critics have stumbled over things as simple as that.
You have yet to answer me on how MCDC paid Maureen Otis' company caging fees, yet she is listed as an officer of the MCDC on the Form 990, and it claims she has no relationship to any of the companies (such as her caging company) that were paid by MCDC.
Isn't that, if not a "lie", at least a "mistake" on the Form 990?
I don't think, at this point, that Newt has much influence except as a "talking head", and I don't foresee him running for or winning any offices any time soon. That said, no, I haven't looked into his finances yet, but since you think there is a problem there, why don't you? For that matter, why aren't you looking into the other organizations you seem to suspect are corrupt?
I daresay you have very little idea what I do "in real life", but you might notice that Ralph Reed did not succeed in his campaign for Lt. Gov. down here in GA because of his associations with Abramoff, etc. -- that is, his connections to corruption didn't play very well down here, even though his connections to the Christian Coalition should have, and did in fact provide him some "cover" among some segments of the electorate.
I have also castigated my own dear Jack Kingston severely for not remembering the details of the Contract with America, which got him elected. Jack seems to have decided to become a career politician rather than a "citizen legislator", and currently is much more worried about "bringing home the bacon" to SE GA than about reducing the size of government and the Federal budget. The last straw for me was when he was bragging recently about adding earmarks to the budget - which seemed, at the very least, either highly arrogant or politically tone-deaf.
I've noticed that you yourself don't mind criticizing certain Republicans, as long as they don't have financial ties to Keyes. Does that qualify you as "an honest critic"?
*Yawn*
If you'd take the blinders off, you'd notice that who I criticize has nothing to do with such things.
*Yawn*
Well, maybe you and I should both go back to bed and give up on beating dead horses.
Grifter's Lament?
Knowingly defending fraud and frauds makes you a fraud.
See, there's your problem. You haven't proved "fraud" by anyone. All you've done is acted like a Democrat and tried to slime good people with lies and innuendo.
You're the fraud, hanging out on a conservative website, pretending to be a conservative.
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