Lest we forget: Ambassador Joseph Wilson was a Bush/Cheney campaign donor

[Bozita]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/9/94615/61143

Q: On the Daily Show on July 24, 2003, you showed a letter from Bush/Cheney '04 asking you to participate in the re-election campaign. What was the date on that letter?

A: The date of the letter was after the appearance of my article on July 6, 2003. The point of my showing the letter was to make a joke about bygones being bygones since Cheney had signed a letter asking me to be a co-chairman of the DC committee to reelect Bush/Cheney.
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IIRC, Wilson donated the maximum to the Bush/Cheney 2000 campaign.

[w13rd0]

1. And like many Republicans...

...after having watched Bush lie time and again, he realized the error in his support of these jackasses (well, that and they ruined his wifes career and service to this nation). The bullshit coming from the RNC is...disgusting.

[Wetzelbill]

2. well, he donated to Gore too

A lot of people donate to both parties. Guys that work at State and so forth.

[Bozita]

3. So, which donation made him a partisan?

Assuming both donations were the same.

[Wetzelbill]

4. that I do not know

All I know is he said he gave to both candidates and that after Bush smeared McCain in South Carolina he quit supporting him altogether.

[President Jesus]

5. Donation records of both Wilson and Plame

Valerie Plame:
http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Valerie_Plame.php

Joe Wilson:
http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Joe_Wilson.php

[Bozita]

7. thanks

[LiviaOlivia]

6. Joe Conason interviews Joe Wilson

May 3, 2004
Salon.com

"It isn't a partisan issue. It's a truth issue."--Joe Wilson


Bold=Conason
Italics=Wilson

~snip~

In this memoir, you give us a broad picture of your life and your upbringing. One of the things that's very clear is that you're not exactly a left-wing pinko. Former Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker, who was your boss in the Reagan State Department, apparently was kind of shocked that you were suddenly being portrayed as a left-winger.

As I recall in the book, I once had a little discussion about this with Tony Blankley . He told me that you become a caricature in these sorts of debates -- and that's clearly what they've tried to do. I grew up in an old California family where politics, and especially state politics, were the staff of life around our table. We had an uncle who was mayor of San Francisco and later governor of California. We had another uncle who had been a congressman.

~snip~

In 2000, you at first supported George W. Bush.

I contributed to his campaign, which is different. In the primary season, I supported him as the candidate who best represented those core Republican values. Now that didn't mean I was going to vote for him. In fact, I declined an opportunity to sign a letter supporting him from former ambassadors for Bush. I always sort of thought I would vote for Al Gore, whom I had known since I was a congressional fellow. But I still believe that the campaign and the platform that was being advanced by Bush were more in our interest than what was being advanced by John McCain.

But at a certain point, you became disgusted with the Bush campaign.

After they lost New Hampshire and decided that their tactic would be to move to the hard right. And then they ran this push-poll campaign denigrating McCain's service to the country, his wife's medical problems and mischaracterizing their adoption of a child -- I believe from South Asia. Pushing that racist button was beyond the pale --

~snip~

http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/03/wilson/print.html

[cynatnite]

8. It does not matter whose campaign he donated to

A CIA operative was outed. Period. This isn't about politics. It's about national security. Period.

[President Jesus]

9. you're in a fantasyland.

Of COURSE it's about politics.

You know that famous phrase "whenever someone says it's not about money, it's definitely about money"? Well...

If Rove were not a political enemy we'd all be saying exactly what they're saying over at freepland. You know it. I know it.