McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000

[RedEarth]

Source: ABC

September 01, 2008 8:46 PM

Former officials of Sen. John McCain's 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew.

Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins and Neal Rhodes, were key members of then-Gov. George W. Bush's South Carolina team during the 2000 primaries. McCain and his team long held Bush, Tompkins, Rhodes and Eskew responsible for the various smears against McCain and his family in the Palmetto state during that contentious contest.

Eskew was brought on board the McCain campaign, it was announced Monday, to help prepare Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for her role as McCain running mate. Eskew will help Palin prepare for her Wednesday night acceptance speech at the GOP convention and for her stump speech as she hits the road, brief her on policy matters, and help her handle the media scrutiny a lifetime in Alaska does not necessarily prepare one for.

"He's one of the best and most collaborative talents in Republican politics," McCain senior adviser Nicolle Wallace told Politico, speaking of Eskew. "He also has a wit and an ability to turn a phrase like no one I've ever met before."





Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/mccain-hires-go.html

[still_one]

1. and the irony will be those who destroyed him in 2000 will cause him to lose in 2008 /nt

[hedgehog]

2. But this time he's paying for the privilege!

[Zorro]

9. Thank you Sir!

May I have another?

WHACK!

[bitchkitty]

3. McCain is so full of self-hatred, and

this confirms it without a doubt for me. After the way he was attacked, his family, even his young daughter, then he lays out money for the architect of all that?

He's beyond scum - he's laying in the muck now.

[Zorro]

4. He's in charge of spreading the rumor

that Obama's got a black child.

[truthisfreedom]

5. This explains why he hugged the guard from his POW days...

http://www.omgili.com/newsgroups/alt/true-crime/1d5a6fa2-d6ca-482b-b701-6700b0c8d7d1x41g2000hsbgooglegroupscom.html

POW families were even more angered when they saw McCain actually
bonding with his former torturers during and after the 1992 Senate
Select Committee hearings on POW/MIA Affairs. Psychologist have
identified behavior in which a prisoner emotionally bonds with an
abuser as the Stockholm Syndrome.

The first display of bonding occurred when Col. Bui Tin, a former
senior colonel in the North Vietnamese Army who had actually
interrogated McCain and other U.S. prisoners, testified before the
Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs.

During a break in the hearing, McCain moved to where Col. Bui Tin was
seated. Instead of grabbing Bui Tin by the neck and demanding his
arrest for war crimes against U.S. POWs, McCain reached out and warmly
hugged his former interrogator as if he were a long lost brother.
Never mind that at least 55 American POW were murdered by
interrogators and guards while in North Vietnamese prisoner of war
camps.

[torbird]

6. How will this help Palin?

Eskew is going to teach her to say during her convention speech that "Obama has a black baby!" ???

[darkstar]

7. Now that's what I call party unity!! Wheee

Duh....

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Talk about selling one's soul to the devil.....If it is in the dictionary, McSame's pic must be

next to it...

[hvn_nbr_2]

10. The South Carolina smear brigade is preparing Palin.

She'll probably be claiming that Obama has black babies!

[Janice325]

11. Fucker ....er...Tucker Eskew?????

What's with these creepy Rethuglican dudes named Tucker??? Ewwwwwwww......

[Binka]

12. The F Is Just Below The T On The Keyboard

They make typos. :evilgrin:

[Janice325]

13. Ohhhh, that explains it!!

Thanks!:rofl:

[davidinalameda]

14. you deserve a DUzy award for that one

:woohoo:

[Hekate]

15. I wonder sometimes what the price for McCain's soul was? This is heinous. nt

[Solly Mack]

16. Oh....now I'm all but convinced the nod to McCain was an intentional burn job