Some Big Conservative Donors, Unhappy With Bush, Say They Won't Back His C

[Robbien]

Some Big Conservative Donors, Unhappy With Bush, Say They Won't Back His Campaign

Some major donors to the Club for Growth, a principal fund-raising engine of the conservative movement, have said they plan to sit out this year's presidential election to protest what they see as the administration's big-government tendencies.

At a dinner in Manhattan on Tuesday for about 20 prominent members of the club, President Bush's credentials as a limited-government conservative became the subject of heated debate. Many of those present criticized the president's Medicare plan as too expensive and his erstwhile support for steel tariffs as inefficient, several participants said. Many also complained that Mr. Bush had betrayed their cause by providing pivotal support for Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a moderate Republican, in a primary challenge by Representative Pat Toomey, a conservative supported by the club, participants said.

One mainstay of the group, the investment manager Tucker Andersen, told other members that he planned to withhold his vote and his money from the president. "I would be surprised if more than half the people in the room actually wrote checks for him," Mr. Andersen said in an interview yesterday. The Bush campaign has raised a record sum of more than $200 million already, and the club's president, Stephen Moore, said he still hoped to raise $10 million from members to buy advertisements related to the presidential race. But the discord within the club may represent a larger slip in the support for the president in his conservative base.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0604-08.htm

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. I guess this wouldn't be the place to go looking for heart donors

they don't have any to donate. This would have to be the biggest gathering of my-shit-doesn't-stink look-right-through-you fat cat bastards in one place. Even bush isn't right wing enough for them, sheeesh.

[loudsue]

2. Very wealthy neocons.....the most evil, slime-bellied, wag-jawed bunch

on the face of the planet.

These are the most vile of the vile...... HOWEVER, if they want to keep their money rather than give it to bush, I hope they keep it, and choke on it anyway!

These folks should be in jail for being so hateful to their fellow Americans....the ones they want to make slaves of.

:kick:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. "Very wealthy neocons.....the most evil, slime-bellied, wag-jawed bunch"

>>These folks should be in jail for being so hateful to their fellow Americans....the ones they want to make slaves of.<<


They will tell you that it is good for the country... by country they mean "themselves". It is ok for the ones they despise to fight their wars though... don't ya know. By their fruits you shall know them.

www.globalizethis.org

[kodi]

3. Club for Growth: "Bush is not destructive enough for us."

what a great group of guys there.

[denverbill]

4. I'd like to know how many of these asswipes live off the govt.

Just like the Bush family. Spouting off about high taxes and govt spending, but every damned one of them probably has a govt contract for some damned thing, or has taken an SBA loan, or has an unpaid student loan. Not to mention, they probably all use illegal tax shelters to further avoid their personal responsibilities, and undoubtedly, there are no veterans amongst them.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. "I'd like to know how many of these asswipes live off the govt."

>>Just like the Bush family. Spouting off about high taxes and govt spending, but every damned one of them probably has a govt contract for some damned thing, or has taken an SBA loan, or has an unpaid student loan. Not to mention, they probably all use illegal tax shelters to further avoid their personal responsibilities, and undoubtedly, there are no veterans amongst them.<<

Sounds like this will make you smile even more.... You are smiling I take it... a little... right??

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=82&contentid=418&page=2
>>So, exactly what is BioPort Inc. and who runs the company?

BioPort is the only corporation in the United States with a license to make the Anthrax vaccine -- except that BioPort doesn't actually make the vaccine. BioPort simply bought the laboratory that does make the vaccine, Michigan Biologic Products Institute, from the State of Michigan in 1998. Less than a month after it took over the business from the state-owned Michigan Biologic Products Institute in September 1998, along with the actual Anthrax vaccine, BioPort acquired Michigan Biologic Products Institute's sole and exclusive customer for the vaccine, the US Department of Defence, and an exclusive $29 million contract with the Department of Defence to "manufacture, test, bottle and store the anthrax vaccine."<<


http://www.rense.com/general50/vacc.htm
>>* It also turned out that the old vaccine had been tested in college students at various dilutions, and a 20% (1 in 5) dilution yielded as much protection as full strength vaccine. Thus the existing US stockpile was sufficient to vaccinate at least 400 million people before any additional vaccine was purchased. However, that did not stop DHHS from purchasing nearly a billion dollars of new vaccine, which used the identical virus strain that was in the older vaccines.<<

[denverbill]

10. Yep. And they call it 'entrepreneurship' and 'free enterprise'.

Just like Boy George himself. He starts an oil company using money from Daddy's wealthy friends. Just as it is about to go under, it's bought by another one of Daddy's friends and he's appointed to the Board and given lots of stock. Just before THAT stock tanks, he uses inside information to sell and save himself several hundred thousand bucks (way way more than Martha Stewart saved). He uses that $1 million to buy a 10% interest in the Rangers which was worth $10 million (but discounted for the son of the Vice President, dontcha know). He then proceeds to have way more land condemned than is needed to build a new stadium, and converts the excess land into extremely profitable businesses, lofts, etc, making millions in extra profits, essentially stolen from the landowner whose property was unfairly condemned. The state sued Bush to recover his illegal profits and he stiffed the state, so taxpayers coughed up the money.

That's the Bush business model. Fail, get rescued. Use the government to steal. Make millions. Screw everybody else.

Look at the whole damned family. GHWB was a congressman, CIA chief, VP, and President. He's lived his life on a govt paycheck. His brother Jeb defaulted on a $1 million SBA loan before becoming governor. Neil Bush cost the govt $1 billion when he drove Silverado Bank bankrupt.

That doesn't even count the Carlyle Group money or who knows what else.

If you'd just cut the Bush family off from the government teat, we'd have a balanced budget in no time.

[TrogL]

5. These are true conservatives - more power to them

[Dover]

6. What is their alternative?

Besides, Bush doesn't seem to be hurting on the money issue...plenty have filled up his coffers.

[AP]

9. These fools make it sound like Bush is too moderate. Annoying.

[geek tragedy]

11. The jackals are turning on each other

er, rather, I salute these fine Americans for standing by their principles.