Donald Segretti was Co-Chair of McCain's 2000 Orange Co. Campaign!!

[barbaraann]

Wow! I was just researching the GOP Dirty Tricks All-Stars and came across that info. I had no idea Segretti was even still alive. The Republican Party is rotten and apparently has always been rotten--to the core. Also, it looks like they have used prostitutes as dirty tricks operatives for a long, long time. Hmmmmm....

"Watergate dirty trickster. Got ahold of some of letter from Edmund Muskie's office and issued a bogus letter containing offensive comments about blacks and (falsely) revealing that Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson had fathered an illegitimate baby by a teen prostitute.

Checked into the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon in September 1971 carrying $500,000 in cash. Segretti was in the middle of a very well-financed dirty tricks campaign against Senators George McGovern and Scoop Jackson. The plan in Portland apparently was to hire prostitutes to seduce Senator Jackson.

In 2000, Segretti served as co-chair of John McCain's campaign in Orange County, California."

http://www.nndb.com/people/359/000024287/

[acmavm]

1. And I will say again for the umpteenth time, McCain ain't a squeaky

clean guy himself.

Charles Keating and all that.

[barbaraann]

2. He just plays one on tv.

;-)

[Mitt Chovick]

3. How can that be?

Tweety and Undrea Mitchell love him.:shrug:

Of course you are right about McKeating.

[bluestateguy]

4. Donald Segretti the ratfucker?

n/t

[barbaraann]

5. Well, that's what he called Democrats.

n/t

[Elidor]

6. Holy shit! No one put a fuckin stake through this guy's heart yet?!?!

That's insane, that a scumbag like Segretti could make a comeback from dirtbag of the decade to plague us again. Not that he was worth a fuck to McCain, obviously, but still, it's the principle of the thing.

If I'm not mistaken, Segretti knows Rove and likely worked with him or at least associated with him back during the Nixon days. He certainly operates from the same shameless playbook. They're almost soul mates when it comes to ideology and methodology.

[barbaraann]

7. Isn't it amazing?

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."...as they say.

[Elidor]

8. Here it is from Demopedia: Rove is a protégé of Donald Segretti

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Karl_Rove

I thought it was the other way around. So Rove is the bastard political offspring of Donald Segretti, that wretched piece of filth who helped pioneer 'ratfucking' for Nixon. What a pedigree.

[barbaraann]

9. I was wondering today who Segretti learned it from.

n/t

[Elidor]

10. They both knew Lee Atwater

And he may have been the key to that whole scene.