Palin-bashing CPAC/ACU Chair donated $2,000 to Arlen Specter, endorsed Romney

opensecrets.org ^ | 7/9/09 | Antonnius

[Antoninus]

David Keene, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union trashed Sarah Palin publicly today on NewsMax. However, a quick search of Mr. Keene's recent political contribution history reveals the following:

David Keene, Managing Associate of the Carmen Group Lobbying Firm, and Head of ACU, Alexandria, VA.

Political contributions in 2008 election cycle:

KEENE, DAVID, ALEXANDRIA,VA 22314 THE CARMEN GROUP/EXEC 5/1/07 $1,000 Specter, Arlen (R)

KEENE, DAVID, ALEXANDRIA,VA 22314 THE CARMEN GROUP/EXEC 12/19/07 $800 Specter, Arlen (R)

KEENE, DAVID, ALEXANDRIA,VA 22314 THE CARMEN GROUP/EXEC 12/19/07 $200 Specter, Arlen (R)

What I want to know is, how does a guy like this get to be the chairman of the ACU? Has the American Conservative Union turned into the American Liberal Republicans Who Are Now Democrats Union when we weren't looking? Apparently so.

That said, if I were Sarah Palin, I'd take this guy's advice and toss it in the bin with the rest of the fish guts.

[Leisler]

"Credit for starting from a consumer-centered approach goes principally to former Governor Mitt Romney and his administration. Credit for the details of the end product goes principally to the Massachu­setts legislature"

September 21, 2007 The Massachusetts Health Reform: Assessing Its Significance and Progress
by Edmund F. Haislmaier
Heritage Lecture #1044
Delivered June 28, 2007

Mittbots said Mitt was a Wictim of evil Heritage types.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/hl1044.cfm

[red meat conservative]

Antoninus,

Don’t you find it funny how the RINO bottom feeders in the GOP establishment conduct themselves? Last year when McLame was the RINO and Romney was considered the conservative challenger (yes, thats how low we sunk during last election that someone like Romney really was the conservative alternative)they all savaged Romney to support Mclame. Now that it appears that Palin is in the picture as the real conservative candidate, they look towards Romney as their savior.

[Leisler]

You left out David Broder, the MSM idea of a ‘conservative’.

[Friendofgeorge]

That`s terrible!!! Speaking of Sarah bashing...Rick Santorum trashed her last night on Gretta Fox News. I only mention this here because Santorum also endorsed Arlen Specter over a good Christian Republican...name slips my mind at the moment.

[mountainbunny]

Thank you so much for posting this.

It’ll be interesting to see if he remains head of the ACU.

[Ann Archy]

ARLEN SPECTER???? I USED to kind of like Keene....NO MORE!

[Antoninus]

Events: Massachusetts Healthcare Reform

The Significance of MA Healthcare Reform

Romney's Mission: Massachusetts Healthcare

And in case all that feel-goodism makes you think RomneyCare was a good idea:

The RomneyCare Crackup Continues, and Is Becoming a Chasm

Heritage sold their souls...

[red meat conservative]

“Many media conservatives are more media than conservative (Hannity, Hewitt prime examples).”

I always felt that they are pundits and strategists first, emotionaly charged conservatives second. They are not out for the success of conservatives and they our country, they are out to be right in their political projections. This is especially true for Carl Rove. Anyone who really cared about the future of the country would not publiclly undermine the defacto leader of the conservative movement. No good could come out of it even if you disagree with them.

I am just unsure what you mean about Hannity. Is he criticising Sarah?

[ejonesie22]

In Heritage's defense, and I say this as one of the most loathed of all “Mitt bashers” (I'm famous ya know) It is not the entirety of Heritage that has endorsed it, just the health care work group, which is a bit winky like all health care orgs. Obviously the Parent organization has not contravened it for the sake of harmony, but they don’t make a big deal about it either (hence why you have never seen much about it in their publications)

The Plan that Romneycare was based on was a study, Heritage itself never even floated it out past the ‘think tank” stage.

So keep Heritage on your good list for now, just know there are some doctor wonks that got a wee bit giddy their idea got out, despite the fact it should never have seen the light of day in the real world...

If you want to know more, spend some time at Heritage reading up, and it will take time to see exactly where they really are as a group on this.

[Antoninus]

So now even CPAC isn’t conservative enough for “true conservatives?”

Based on the fact that this bozo running things is clearly hostile to Sarah--I don't blame her one bit for backing out. Someone on the inside probably told her it was a set-up.

If ACU/CPAC's chair is donating money to Arlen Specter (and practically no one else), that should tell you something.

[MrDem]

The head of CPAC donating to help super RINO’s??!!! PURE INSANITY! WHAT A FRAUD!

[rlmorel]

hah...guys will be guys.

A nice picture...:)

[Antoninus]

Rick Santorum trashed her last night on Gretta Fox News

Really? Is there a transcript?

I'd like to read his comments.

[ejonesie22]

Oh my...

The irony flows like a river...

[TADSLOS]

I blew off CPAC the day McCain and his buses of koolaid drinkers drove up to their convention and they welcomed him like the 2nd coming of Christ while Ann Coulter was pushed into a side room.

[Antoninus]

I am just unsure what you mean about Hannity. Is he criticising Sarah?

Not as far as I know. But Hannity was Rudy's pimp in the last election--disgracefully so. He picked the most liberal Republican candidate available and pumped him up practically from January 2007.

I'll never listen to Hannity again. Ever.

[mountainbunny]

And if you posted Romney’s campaign platform without a name on it, you’d get widespread approval here at FR for the conservative positions he was espousing.

Which platform? The one where he's pro-abortion? Or the one whee he's marginally pro-abortion? Or the one were he's lukewarm anti-abortion, but doesn't know where life begins (his latest one, I think).

The one where he's proud of socialized medicine (Massachusetts Romney Care) or the one where he's against socialized medicine?

The one where he claims an NRA endorsement he never got, or the one where he said he would since the assault weapons ban?

Please, be more specific. Which Mitt Romney platform are we talking about? If you could narrow it down to a month & year, it would be helpful.

[La Enchiladita]

I don't blame her one bit for backing out. Someone on the inside probably told her it was a set-up.

So is Victimhood now the premier conservative virtue? I'm getting a Nixon vibe out of this....

[Leisler]

Yeah, this is the Massachusetts I know, with Mitt fathered Romneycare.

"A large and regressive tax increase on low-income workers is not the solution to America's health care problems. Some people might gain coverage, but all will lose take-home pay, and many will lose their jobs entirely."

Robert A. Book, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics in the Center for Data Analysis and Edmund F. Haislmaier is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Health Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm2516.cfm

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

He did not bash or trash Sarah Palin. He stated the obvious and gave wise advice

Bullshit this hack criticized Palin because she "whined" about the media, which simply isn't true. There was no wise advice given. Read the original thread that dissected his article.