First off, the entire guilt-by-association is a lose-lose proposition for McCain.
Obama “tied to” Ayers. As are Ohio Republicans, including those who support McCain.
Fred @ 135 notes some not-so-stellar McCain associations, to include the horrid G. Gordon Liddy…
Oh, and the list can go on and on and on…
Gunstar1, McCain wasn’t completely “exhonerated” otherwise he would not have had to apologize for it as he did in his books. Of course, he certainly hasn’t fessed up to running interference with the DEA during their investigations into Cindy, her charities and stealing prescription drugs. I will say that Keating was a long time ago, but reveals early McCain judgment problems.
ACORN absolutely has problems in terms of its voter registrations. But it is a community-based organization (but we know how white righties fear any type of “community” organization) that does a lot of good. A few bad apples cannot ruin a tree.
Again, it is laughable that Republicans are crying foul with this voter stuff. Voter caging = huge GOP tactic. If you don’t believe me, review Ms. Goodling’s congressional testimony.
Further, Rove is connected with Mike Connell who is also connected with Rick Davis (of Fannie/Freddie lobbying fame):
Snippet 1: Michael L. Connell was served with a subpoena in Ohio on Sept. 22 in a case alleging that vote-tampering during the 2004 presidential election resulted in civil rights violations. Connell, president of GovTech Solutions and New Media Communications, is a website designer and IT professional who created a website for Ohio’s secretary of state that presented the results of the 2004 election in real time as they were tabulated.
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Snippet 2: More recently, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff has revealed that John McCain’s presidential campaign paid nearly a million dollars for web services to a firm called 3eDC, created and partly owned by McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. According to an archived version of a 3eDC webpage from 2007, that firm’s five “strategic partners” included not only Connell’s New Media Communications but also Campaign Solutions – a firm run by Connell’s sometimes-partner, Rebecca Donatelli – and a component of SmarTech called AirNet.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Republican_IT_consultant_subpoenaed_in_case_0929.html
