Posted on 01/22/2014 4:48:06 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Do you know of a poor politician?
Jan 05, 2012 (a trip down presidential primary lane...):”The quotes in today’s Washington Post by Governor McDonnell lambasting the campaigns of Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum for their failure to get 10,000 signatures seem to be quite out of character. First of all, the issue is the right of his constituents to vote, not the incompetence of the campaigns. The Governor has never acknowledged this aspect of the situation. Even one admits the current situation denies Republicans what should be their right to vote for the candidate of their choice. This doesn’t mean a federal judge will find for the plaintiffs. That’s a legal issue.
But in terms of the politics around the country, attacking your fellow Republicans as incompetent and saying the failure questions their presidential abilities, seems to be a curious political equation for some who wants to be VEEP. Moreover, Romney’s petitions were never counted, that is never going to sell nationally to a lot of people, all of whom will have delegates at the GOP national convention Bad optics really, plus you have the GOP “loyalty” oath issue, clearly aimed at Ron Paul supporters.......................”
He is a piker compared to mcawful.
yes, now VA has Terry “global crossing” McAuliffe as their governor
a real blow against corruption
sarc
“.............McDonnell’s indictment could have ramifications for other Virginia Republicans as well. Senate candidate Ed Gillespie, the GOP front-runner to face Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), previously served as McDonnell’s campaign chairman and as a senior adviser during his transition into office in 2009. Many members of his campaign team also worked for McDonnell in the past.
“It plays exactly into the ‘fixer’ narrative Democrats are pushing — ‘Republicans aren’t as honest as they sell themselves to be.’ They’re going to try to say Gillespie is cut from the same cloth as Bob McDonnell,” said GOP strategist Ford O’Connell, who has worked on a number of Virginia races.
Gillespie expressed sympathy toward McDonnell following the news.
“I was deeply saddened to hear today’s news concerning my friends Bob and Maureen McDonnell,” he said in a statement to The Hill. “Governor McDonnell has been a dedicated public servant, and he and Maureen are in my prayers as they endure a very painful time in their lives.”
National Democrats say they’re already gearing up to tie McDonnell to Gillespie, but one Virginia Democrat offered some kind words for McDonnell following the indictment.
“I like Bob McDonnell,” said Virginia state Senate Minority Leader Dick Saslaw (D). “I don’t think he’s a criminal, I really don’t. Hopefully a jury will see it that way.”
Virginia’s former first couple accepted more than $135,000 in direct payments as loans and gifts from Williams.
The gifts included a New York City shopping spree for McDonnell’s wife, a trip to watch a Final Four college basketball game, a Rolex watch that had the governor’s title inscribed into it and a stay at a vacation home, among others.
The indictment says McDonnell and his wife broke federal law by using the governor’s office to help Williams. The executive wanted one of his company’s supplements to be included as medications covered under the state employee health plan.
The couple also lied on loan applications instead of declaring their debts, the indictment says...........
.....He was on the shortlist to be former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012. His name had also previously been circulated as a possible contender for the Republican presidential race in 2016....”
I think the GOP needs to embrace some Tea Party candidates.
CW - 3rd story I’ve read this AM on this. I get the absurd requests from the 1st Lady of Virginia, it’s embarrassing, Clintonesque, even. Hillary certainly couldn’t afford the accoutrements when she launched on the national stage. But none of these stories mention any detail on what it took Byron 1000 words to get to - stock transactions. Are these people tacky or crooks?
Ditto! The swamp needs to be drained.
BTW, I find Reince's silence so far to be rather thunderous.
This guy and his wife sound like real doozies . . .
She sounds just like Hillary living in Arkansas talking to The McDougal’s during Whitewater. Poor me, don’t have any money, it’s not fair that the governor is so poor!
Just like the Clintons should have been vilified for their shenanigans back then so should these clowns. I don’t want to hear about ‘well McAuliffe was worse’. We’re the party that teaches it’s kids two wrongs don’t make it right and character is defined by doing the right thing when no one is looking. Thank G*d I’m not these two.
there is no “Tea Party” anymore
It’s now called “the right wing extreme Tea Party”
the ads have already started, some babe from Virginia is running for some state office and using ads targeting women to vote for her against “the right wing extremist Tea Party”
right wing anti-choice extremists now being anyone who won’t pay for your birth control and abortion
and the “GOP” is complicit in this
I guess a “respectable Republican cloth coat” wasn’t good enough for the missus?
Or an affordable wedding for her daughter.
Since when do we have to accept their interpretation of conservatives?
This is a watershed.
I wonder who found the money to repay (with interest) all the gifts and “loans.”
“......In a statement Tuesday afternoon, McDonnell said he “deeply” regrets accepting gifts and loans from Williams, which were repaid with interest. The former governor, however, denied doing anything illegal for Williams.”...
Poor politician meaning inept and stupid? In the criminal realm MacDonald has the ranking of stickup man.
My wife nailed this when the matter first became public - it was Maureen doing all the requests.....and that she ruled over Bob, demanding a life beyond their means, pushing Williams......(wife is a saint, and can smell a wicked woman a mile away).
It may be that Bob gets off lightly, but she is the one who gets hard time.
I have had time with Bob twice, seems a sincere and super guy. Very stupid in his involvement here, and in letting his wife rule him. Frankly, I doubt that any of this would have happened apart from her.
Be that as it may, McDonnell was the one holding office.
He was fishing to be Romney’s VP. He is an ambitious man.
He knew his financial situation and yet wore the watch, drove the Ferrari, flew on the plane, accepted the stock, paid his income property mortgages with “gifts”, played golf, charged for merchandise/food with his sons, etc. etc. etc — because his wife made him? Poor guy. So weak and willing to please his wife. Really?
Do you think a Tea Party candidate would magically be free from such potential ethical issues? Politicians are politicians. Just because someone labels themselves a member of the Tea Party doesn’t mean they don’t have the potential for skimming from the till.
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