As Mitt Romney's losses mount, the McCain backlash from conservatives is growing. Bob Novak describes it in his latest column. There are a whole slew of issues that I disagree with McCain, I voted for him in the last two primaries (2000 and 2008). So I don't mind when McCain has his positions scrutinized. What I don't like is that it is from those who support Romney. He was the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. One doesn't get that position by being a hard right winger. Romney had more liberal views on gay rights and abortion rights than most conservatives, yet he escapes this scrutiny.
Bill the Jet Setter
The New York Times has reported that in 2005, Bill Clinton flew on a private jet to the home of Borat. He was flown there by a Canadian businessman, and Bill used his charms on Khazakhstan's dictator and helped his friend land a sweet mining deal.
Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda
coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s
bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports
democracy. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign
policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among
others, Mr. Clinton’s wife, Senator Hillary
Rodham Clinton of New York.
Within two days, corporate records show that
Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements
giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by
Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.
What did Clinton get in return?
Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s
charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from
Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The
gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the
William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a
place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs
in which friendship with the former president has its
privileges.
Quite a few liberals are not amused, one diarist at Daily Kos labelled it "Borat-Gate"
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