So, I guess those Neocon connections were not imaginary after all...
Guess it's time to retire this graphic. I'm glad to see she's dumping some of her advisors.
Posted on 05/03/2011 8:24:13 AM PDT by Hawk720
Sarah Palin has parted ways with the neoconservative foreign policy advisers who had been writing speeches and advising her on policy since she joined the McCain campaign.
An aide to Palin, Tim Crawford, confirmed that Orion Strategies' Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb are no longer working for her PAC. They parted, both sides said on good terms.
"Randy flat out said, 'We can't give you the time,'" Crawford said.
(snip)
Crawford said they've been replaced by Peter Schweizer, a writer and fellow at the Hoover Institution who blogs regularly at Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace.
The personnel shift carries an ideological charge. Scheunemann, the former executive director of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, is a longtime neoconservative stalwart, as is Goldfarb, a former reporter and protege of Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol. They crafted for Palin a policy platform and voice reflecting an eagerness to use American force. The pair, who helped Palin with press and debate prep in 2008, were also something of Palin's last link to Washington's political establishment.
But Palin parted ways with that aggressive internationalism in a speech yesterday, condemning U.S. involvement in Libya and laying out a more cautious philosophy of the use of force. Schweizer has articulated a more skeptical view of the use of American force and promotion of democracy abroad.
"Egypt does a lot of things wrong, but they have also been pro-American on a lot of levels," he wrote of Obama's support for protesters in Egypt -- which was being roundly criticized by neoconservatives for being insufficiently vigorous. "When protests broke out in Iran earlier during his tenure in the White House, Obama was not willing to openly back them, at least until he came under considerable fire. But now he is supporting them in Egypt?"
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Haha! Trump, he needs someone to tell him not to use mf in a stump speech.
Or...you pay them to organize YOUR thoughts because you don't have time to write speeches.
It is time to realize that there are fundamental differences working against spreading freedom and democracy worldwide. Genetic or not, the differences are longstanding and deeply embedded in cultures and the very psyche of the people..
“Awe COME ON! she says ‘I hate to say,jeez more ground troop’[ the video shows her saying that as a no! You twisting her words to mean something else”
What?? I’ve seen some Palin supporters make odd arguments before, but she is CLEARLY advocating for troops on the ground in Libya.
She likely has revised/changed/flip-flopped that view, but let’s not pretend she didn’t say it.
First, I'm not sure it's possible to "twist" her words anymore than she twists them herself. She is remarkably inarticulate.
But, you conveniently left off the rest of her statement that comes IMMEDIATELY after the sentence you snipped. She says (in its entirety)...
"I hate to say,jeez more ground troop. When yes, 41 years of Gadhafi. He’s got to go."Maybe "yes" in Palinese means something else. I guess that's possible.
Smart move Sarah. I’m sick of old men (McCain) and old men’s wars.
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Palin adviser worked for foreign governments
Toronto Sun | 10/4/10 | Mark Hosenball
FR Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 by pissant
WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin, seen as a possible Republican presidential candidate, has paid tens of thousands of dollars for foreign policy advice to a U.S. firm that represents three overseas governments, campaign finance documents show. While legal, the adviser’s work as an agent for other countries raises questions about whether Palin is receiving impartial information about foreign relations and could be become a subject of debate if she runs for president or another elected office.
Financial reports filed by the former Alaska governor’s fundraising committee known as SarahPAC, show that between December 2009 and the end of May 2010, it made seven payments to Orion Strategies. The firm is a Washington consulting firm founded and led by Randy Scheunemann, a lobbyist who served as a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain in his 2008 U.S. presidential bid and to Palin when she became McCain’s Republican running mate.
Controversy over campaign advisers who work as lobbyists for foreign or domestic interests can often blight national political campaigns. At least five of McCain’s aides quit his presidential campaign because of their lobbying activities.
The administration of President Barack Obama has put rules in place to try to restrict the hiring of lobbyists for senior government jobs.
Palin’s committee made a $30,000 payment to Orion on Dec. 2, 2009, and six other $10,000 payments to the firm between January and the end of May of this year. The reports say that at least three of the payments were for consulting work on international issues.
Documents filed by Orion Strategies with the Foreign Agents Registration Unit of the U.S. Department of Justice report that from December 2009 to May 2010 — the same period when it was being paid consulting fees by SarahPAC — the firm was formally registered under federal law as an agent for three foreign governments.
Orion directly represents Georgia and Taiwan, and has been retained by Montenegro through a second Washington lobbying firm.
Scheunemann, whose ties to Georgia stoked controversy when he advised McCain’s campaign, is not known to be working as a paid adviser for any other likely presidential contenders. Neither Palin, SarahPAC, Scheunemann nor Orion responded to telephone and e-mail requests for comment.
U.S. law requires U.S. agents representing foreign governments to disclose their activities. But they are not legally restricted from acting as advisers to U.S. political campaigns. Palin has kept herself in the limelight by backing conservative candidates for midterm elections this year and making high-profile appearances. But she has declined to say whether she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Obama in the 2012 presidential election.
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ONE IS KNOWN BY THE COMPANY ONE KEEPS
(News release circa 2/11) Sarah Palin has added veteran Republican strategist Michael Glassner to serve as COS for her political action committee, Sarah PAC. Glassner, an attorney and longtime adviser to former Kansas senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole, has signed on to steer the former Alaska governor's political operation as she considers a possible 2012 presidential bid. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Glassner managed her vice presidential operations.
ITEM What does this tell you about Glassner: he worked for Dole AND McCain.
ITEM Michael Glassner served as counselor to NY/NJ Port Authority Chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg.
ITEM Eisenberg was one of the first to introduce pro-abortion policies into the Repub Party---was he a stalking horse for the dreaded neocons?
ITEM For many years, Mr. Eisenberg was a partner of Goldman Sachs & Co (at the same time Rahm Emanuel worked for G/S?)
ITEM Eisenberg served on New York Gov George Pataki's transition team and was a key adviser to New Jersey Gov Christine Whitman (both of them not known as staunch conservatives).
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REFERENCE After years w/ Goldman Sachs, in 1990, Eisenberg founded Granite Capital International Group, an investment management company headquartered in NYC. Mr. Eisenberg also served from 1995-2001 as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the NY/NJ Port Authority. The Port Authority is the owner of the World Trade Center, and Mr. Eisenberg led the agency through the first three months of recovery and clean-up after the 911 terrorist attacks. He was recently named a member of New York's Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Authority, which will spearhead the rebuilding of Ground Zero.
Eisenberg's community and charitable activities include leadership in health and healthcare related institutions. He is on the Planning Board of UJA/United Jewish Federation.
Mr. Eisenberg was once elected Finance Chairman of the RNC. He raised millions of dollars for the Republican Party and Republican candidates.
Eisenberg’s support for Republicans appears to be limited..... He also wrote checks to liberal Democrats like Walter Mondale, Dick Gephardt, Tim Wirth, Chris Dodd, Bruce Babbitt, Joe Biden, and others.
Palin is moving toward Ron Paul’s position. Good! However, I prefer the real thing.
If I remember correctly, she advocated a new fly zone.. I think...
Wasn't aware she'd flip-flopped on Libya. Good to hear she's gotten rid of neo-con advice. To whatever extent anyone cares what she thinks about foreign policy, it's best if it isn't neoconservative.
IMHO, neocons are libs who like to start wars for monetary reasons and then send your kids to go fight.
Agreed. Remember: “Neo-Con” (’new conservative’) is nothing but code words for “OLD LIBERAL”.
They simply view our military as another branch of gov’t they can wield to shove their failed liberal philosophies down the world’s throat.
Somebody who isn’t going to run doesnt hire a Hoover Institute adviser instead.....sheesh!
So, I guess those Neocon connections were not imaginary after all...
Guess it's time to retire this graphic. I'm glad to see she's dumping some of her advisors.
LOL. As I said, she should be applauded for moving toward, albeit slowly, to the Ron Paul view. Having said that, most of us prefer the original not an immitation.
ROFLOL,
Bill Kristol just got spanked...I love it
Trivial details like that (/snix). Oh, and the b-i-g-g-i-e WRT how the US was going to pay for it all. One of Bush's top aides was fired b/c he told Bush the neos were low-balling him, and that the Iraq invasion might cost as much as $60 Billion.........now, trillions of dollars later (gag)............
BTW, does anyone know what Feith, Frum, Billy Kristol and the rest of the pukes actually do for a living? None of the pukes have any visible means of support, unless you count:
(1) <> media prostitution,
(2) <> editing stupid magazines subsidized by offshore wire transfers,
(3) <> infiltrating the US government,
(4) <> running endless think-tanks that pontificate on how nice it is to goad the US military into invading foreign countries of the pukes choosing,
(5) cheerleading <> amnesty,<> National Greatness, <> America as Empire, <> endless war, <> John McCain,
(6) <> squatting in the Repub Party destroying it from within,
(7) <> religious cleansing of the Repub Party,
(8) <> kicking so/con Repubs to the curb, and,
(9) <> selling US secrets to our enemies.
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FAST FORWARD TO LIBYA AND MISSION CREEP "No Fly Zone" is another term for nation-building. First you have to eliminate their ability to fly (obliterate infrastructure -- an Act of War), then there is the problem of figuring out what it means to "win" (as young American soldiers are slaughtered and wounded).
And then the fun stuff for neos -- rebuilding with trillions of US tax dollars with little or no accountability. And all those special little secret business arrangements.
There's neo guru, like Richard Perle's war profiteering starting a Mideast oil biz with US invasions. The connivers are salivating as we type---wetting their pants at the chance to get their greedy hands on trillions more US dollars..........with no concern for how many US soldiers and others are killed or have their lives ruined.
But writing , WTF is wonderful isn’t it???
Pukeneo PING
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