Posted on 02/15/2008 5:44:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
McCain-Soros: A false trail
The Internet and cable TV have been rife with allegations that George Soros funds John McCain. One of the sources for this claim is a book I co-authored last year called The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party.
What we reported was that Soros made a contribution to McCain's political organization when McCain was devising the McCain-Feingold bill. If you oppose that bill as I did and do, that's the end of the story.
Soros is an anti-American radical, who thinks George Bush is responsible for the war on terror and that Israel is the aggressor and genocidal armies like Hamas the victims. On these critical issues of our time, John McCain has absolutely nothing in common with George Soros. For Soros "American supremacy" is the greatest threat for world peace. For McCain, American military supremacy is the greatest guarantor of world peace. That's quite a difference.
What is a Main Street Republican?
Are we supposed to have a secret handshake or something?
I liked Hunter but was learning to accept Thompson and even gave money to both men.
As it Is I’ll probably write Hunter in.
So even though the man who wrote the story doesn’t believe that McCain is in Soro’s pocket, you still don’t want to let go of your distrust.
The enemy, within. Another Soros funded project.
http://michellemalkin.com/2005/11/28/exposing-the-main-street-republicans/
Uh-oh, McCainbot noob alert!
Horowitz should check to see if Arianna Huffington is on the board.
OMG - does Horowitz even read what he writes? Or does he just not care?
Glad to see all the Fooferah was for nothing.
Arianna Huffington was (at least) on the Advisory Committee
when McCain first established the Institute.
(along with a bunch of other lefties).
The Reform Institute
From archive.org cache of www.reforminstitute.org/about/advisorycommittee.shtml (as of July 2001)
The Advisory Committee
Senator John McCain, Chair of Advisory Committee
Michael Alvarez Associate Professor of voting and elections at California Institute of Technology
Former U.S. Senator David Boren President of University of Oklahoma
Tami Buhr Director of Research at the Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard University
Professor Anthony Corrado Professor and Government Department Chair, Colby College
U.S. Representative Lindsey Graham
U.S. Representative Amo Houghton
Arianna Huffington Nationally syndicated columnist and author
Marion Just Professor of politics and mass media at Wellesley College
Former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey President of New School University
Charles Kolb President of the Committee for Economic Development
Thomas Mann Brookings Institute Senior Scholar
Ron Michaelson Executive Director of Illinois State Board of Elections
Norm Ornstein Senior Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
Cameron Quinn Director of the Elections Board for the State of Virginia
Raymond Wolfinger Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley
Curtis Gans Executive Director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, election reform advisor.
Okay. It’s not the end of the story. But why do you persist with this story when the real story is McCain-Feingold? Please stick with the relevant topic.
McCain and Soros are identical perhaps on the passing of this legislation. Please advise me of other examples where they are identical on free speech.
Please also expound on John McCain’s plan to try jihadists before the OJ jury. How has he proposed that will happen?
Cheers and good partisan and conservative wishes,
Thompson-Romney donor (I’m out five bills this cycle.)Jim
To be fair, that piece on Soros from 2005 was written by his co-author, Richard Poe. But it was hosted on his website and certainly many of the other groups contributing to McCain are categorized under the "left" and "radical" labels that he has on the DTN website. And then there are the list of liberals working as directors and advisors for the Institute, as you pointed out. Don't you always look to Berkeley professors and the Brookings Institute for conservative and moderate voices? LOL You won't find any!
I think David is splitting hairs. He says, Yes, McCain took money for a project with which Soros agreed but that doesn't mean that McCain was doing it because Soros gave him the money. There seem to be several policy issues on which they are in agreement -- should we feel better about it because McCain pursues liberal policies purportedly on his own volition? I don't!
Reading comprehension problem?
Ahh..run off, for awhile independent thinkers were very unwelcome here, hope that it will be different soon.
OH a Obama pest alert!
I agree.
John McCain funded by Soros since 2001
McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero
McCain-Soros Toppled GOP Candidates Nov. 21, 2006
Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)
Ping.
Some people don’t want to see. If McCain was a Dem with a D they’d be screaming about the connection and saying, “See, I knew he was a globalist stooge!” But McCain’s a Dem with an R, so the same people are saying, “There’s nothing to see here, move along.”
I bet most of the naysayers won’t even bother to read the articles or look up the Reform Institute’s supporters to see who McCain really hangs with politically. Sadly, a lot of people don’t want to deal with anything that challenges their preconceived notions or takes them out of their comfort zone. To paraphrase a line from Jack Nicholson, “They can’t handle the truth.”
McCain and Soros pal around together in the Council on Foreign Relations.
They are both globalist anti Americans, as are all the Council.
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