Senator Saint Celebrity BBQ POW McCain is getting increasingly desperate, taking the Sugar Momma Express Low Road Express manufacturing controversy and going negative, and taking damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t criticism of Obama’s planned visit with the troops. But by calling out Obama’s ‘celebrity’ and comparing him to Paris Hilton (and Britney Spears), he may have inadvertently alienated a prime GOP financial supporters – namely, the Hiltons! Paris’ parents Kathy and Rick have been relatively stingy given their wealth, but her grandfather, William Baron Hilton has contributed nearly $400k [cumulative] according to FEC records via Newsmeat. This excludes any contributions to entitites where disclosure is not required, such as PACs. Keep in mind that the Hilton’s are one of the 18 hyperwealthy American families who collectively pushed for the repeal of the Estate Tax to protect their family wealth. I’m not certain I’d want them against me…
Posts Tagged: karlrove
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Oct 06
The Hunt for Red October Suprise.
Will you people stop this? Your making Rove into a Supervillian, a Keiser Soze. The myth is bigger than the man.
From the Pensito Review via Rawstory:
On Sept. 21, Raw Story reported that Karl Rove was telling conservative groups that he had a surprise scheduled for the last two weeks of October that would turn the midterms in the Republicans’ favor.
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What is Rove’s October surprise? As early as Sept. 8, we suggested that the Bush team could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden recently, and have been waiting to reveal this news closer to the election. Others, including BuzzFlash, had similar thoughts.
