Dubya Paid $250K to Perform for Casino King Sheldon Adelson

[DonViejo]

This weekend, some prez wannabees will knock on casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson’s door. And a group he bankrolls is paying the retreat’s featured speaker—George W. Bush—$250,000 to wow them.

Mark down this weekend as one of the important early dates on the Republican primary calendar. No, it’s not Iowa or New Hampshire, not yet. But it’s a noteworthy day nonetheless: It’s the latest round in the Adelson primary.

And so Saturday will see at least three potential GOP presidential hopefuls—Texas Senator Ted Cruz, former Texas Governor Rick Perry, and Indiana Governor Mike Pence—descend on casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson’s Venetian hotel-resort in Las Vegas to address the annual spring meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a hawkish pro-Israel group that Adelson, the GOP’s top mega donor in 2012, has historically bankrolled with millions of dollars in recent election seasons.

While Cruz, Perry, and Pence may not have the political sizzle of other White House hopefuls—especially Pence, after the disastrous couple of weeks he’s had—they all boast the kind of credentials on Israel that makes them potentially attractive candidates to Adelson and other wealthy RJC board members. And it’s clear that the RJC and its marquee donor Adelson have a strong magnetic pull for party heavyweights: Former President George W. Bush, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders are slated to attend parts of the three-day weekend gathering that begins Friday.

Bush, who is to be the featured speaker at a Saturday dinner gala, will be well compensated, receiving a fee of about $250,000, according to two GOP sources. (A spokesman for the RJC told The Daily Beast that they do not comment on these “issues.”)

Last year’s RJC meeting at Adelson’s Venetian drew potential candidates led by Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, and John Kasich. But these RJC bashes are only part of a longer and intense—though sometimes whimsical—Adelson primary wherein candidates court the multi-billionaire while he has an opportunity to size up their policy positions, qualifications, and characters. In recent months in Las Vegas and Washington, Adelson has had several one-on-one chats or attended small events with other GOP hopefuls seeking to win his heart, mind, and big checkbook.

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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. You would think these disgusting spectacles would change some righty minds, but it never does

They must become extinct by evolution or the human race will not survive.

[hifiguy]

2. Here's a pic from the event/performance

[okaawhatever]

12. +100 nt

[summerschild]

3. Wow.

$250,000 to listen to a guy who can't pronounce 'nuclear'.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Bush Cash for "speaking fees" from the very man(?) he is speaking to and licking the boots of for more?

Nothing to see here! What happens in Vegas.....

Watch the media totally forget there even is a GOP primary this entire weekend until the boot lickers have left town.

There is no corruption or bribery going on if the media is not reporting on it and it is out there in the open, you see.

[rhett o rick]

5. I bet he has quite a standup act. nm

[jmowreader]

6. I read that title ALL wrong...

The way it was written, it looked like Shrub had to give Adelson a quarter-million to be allowed in.

Which reminds me of a good Bush joke...

It seems that a group of researchers found an animal they believed to be the Missing Link between man and the lower primates. To prove it, they had to cross-breed it with a human. None of the researchers would do it, so they put an ad in the paper: "$50,000 to Mate with Ape."

The next morning George W. Bush called.

"I have three conditions." Okay, let's hear them...

"First: my wife must never know." We can do that.

"Second: the children must be raised Republican." We can do that too.

"And if I can pay in installments, I'm definitely interested."

[bvf]

10. The title struck me that way, too. n/t.

[Dragonfli]

7. Peanuts compared to what Goldman Sachs pays Clinton to perform. /nt

[hifiguy]

9. Indeed.

But HRC can speak grammatically correct English, so there is that.

[bvf]

8. That'll pay for another

solid gold toilet in the GWB library.

[stranger81]

11. Is it wrong that I immediately pictured

him dancing in front of an organ grinder, right down to the little red suit?

[beam me up scottie]

13. Maybe, but it's funny as hell!

[hifiguy]

14. Not even a little

I think Adelson's wearing a false beard in that pic, though.

[pansypoo53219]

15. BUTBUTBUT hillary is worser!!! WHITEWATER! andandand she is a DEMOCRAT.

[UTUSN]

16. R#8 & K nt