A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center.
Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside.
Another source said there were concerns about the media covering the event.
Bush’s Arizona fundraising effort for McCain is being moved to private residences in the Phoenix area. A White House official said the event was being moved because the McCain campaign prefers private fundraisers and it is Bush administration policy to have events in public venues open to the media. The White House official said to reconcile that the Tuesday event will be held at a private venue and not the Convention Center.
Convention Center personnel confirmed the event has been canceled at their venue.
Tickets to the event were to range from $1,000 to $25,000 for VIP treatment. Money was to go toward McCain’s presidential bid and a number of Republican Party organs.
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You two can Cut and Run, but you cannot hide…
I feel like Yoda
“What a pity, cannot hold a fundraiser young Jedi.”
Do the Republican Party organs include the heart and brain?
“it is Bush administration policy to have events in public venues open to the media”
Wow, when I was a kid if I told a whopper like that it was time for a visit to the woodshed. No kidding, I grew up on a farm and when I told a lie like that I got my backside severely whomped on. Not only did my Father hate liars, he considered someone telling him a bald-faced total lie like that a personal insult.
I only did that once. Quite obviously no one took the time to make sure that little Bushie knew that lying like that is a BAD. BAD thing and look where we are now because Poppy and Babs didn’t do their jobs as parents.
Toes @ 3:
That phrase hit me the same way. I don’t think they’re going to have enough money to buy all the repubs a heart who need one.
I’m surprised anyone would pay to attend this shindig. Just tossing their money in the trash would make about as much sense.
“Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling enough tickets to fill the Convention Center space, and that there were concerns about more anti-war protesters showing up outside the venue than attending the fundraiser inside.”
I doubt any anti-war protesters would pay $1000 to attend anything inside with bush and McCain. But in seriousness, I understand the intent of the sentence.
How funny that would be. A whole bunch of protesters outside and a hand full of repubs rubbing elbows inside with bush and McCain.
save your money, don’t go to the show.
don’t you eat that neo- con snow job.
From my perspective, this figures. The Republicans are finding that they are running out of friends but are gaining a lot of enemies. McCain’s dumping of those two Pastors and Bush’s past use and then throwing away of the Christian right has surely pissed that voting block off. Now, you have the veterans who know they will get the shaft as soon as they leave the service even though they had served in the wars that this incompetent and crooked Administration started. Add to that, every other person that also received this same treatment (I.E. Katrina victims) from them and you have a very large and growing, angry crowd.
You know the “party organs” didn’t include the heart or soul - because the re-PIG-lic party doesn’t have them.
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What are we supposed to do with this information?
Poor ticket sales.
This is funny.
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L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Laugh.
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L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Enjoy it!
My Friends, some call you the elite, but I call you my base (al quaeda).
Note that sidewalks are public places, even in front of “private residences”. Also note that if you fill a water balloon with dogshit, you can then pressurize it normally with water. A quick shake to mix the contents, and you have a PERFECT “donation”. The story SAID they needed more donations….
What I want to know is what the 25k VIP treatment would entail…
rusted flagpin enigma4ever of Watergate Summer @ 7:
I was curious about this myself.
jjasonham @ 18:
You get a picture taken with the Prez. Then you put that up at home and in the office and it looks like your a personal buddy to the Prez. Then people think, OMG this guys the Prez. He must really be important.
jjasonham @ 19:
I was curious about this myself.
Nothing. It’s the same old stuff. Hillary Bad, Obama Good, McCain Old. . .
Fear? The Republicans getting a dose of their own medicine? Wonder how much they like it?
So .. who’s gonna drop out first .. Hillary .. or McCain?
I think I could spend a few hours just having fun captioning that photo that accompanies this post.
We might need an open thread to see how everyone is planning to spend this weekend. Just a thought.
Old School Patriot @ 17:
I’ll hold the dog. You hold the balloon.
L.A. Confidential @ 21:
Nothing. It’s the same old stuff. Hillary Bad, Obama Good, McCain Old. . .
This morning I read all the comments from the open thread last night and it seemed to me that everyone got to have their say and opinion on the matter. There was even in one comment a link to Keith’s special comment.
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Watch and learn.
There are conservatives who think that the way to rule is buy fear and secrecy, from “the gut” rather than with facts, humility, or humanity. And for 7 years, that is exactly how Bush/Cheney ran this country. With no regard for anyone but their own power-mongering selves. And, as a result, this is what has happened to them.
Fear is not any way to govern. It might work in the short-term, but in the long-term it always ends badly. And this is the archetypical example of how badly.
Damn, now what am I gonna do on Tuesday? I had my sign already:
Imprison Bush
Defeat Mccain
Guess I’ll stay home and do my nails.
Might I suggest that McCain and Bush take their fundraiser down into a local sewer. They would feel right at home there. After all, that is where their fellow rats hang out.
jjasonham @ 19:
Same here. Can’t be an oversight, it is obviously a deliberate act, and it is also indefensible. Anyone care to try? Anyone?….. Bueller?……
pissed off patricia @ 26:
Yeah “pastor problems” . .flag pins, race cards, gender bias, exit polls, “kitchen sinks” and all the rest.
MountainMan23 @ 23:
I figured that they would merge and run together. In denial.
There isn’t much going on in my garage right now if the Repubs want to plan a fund raiser here in Florida sometime soon. There are a few boxes in there, bikes, a mower and our car but since it’s a two car garage we have plenty of room for them.
Bridget Jones @ 32:
Hold on sweetie
Bridget Jones Says @ 32:
MountainMan23 @ 23:
So .. who’s gonna drop out first .. Hillary .. or McCain?
I figured that they would merge and run together. In denial.
I figured THAT out a long time ago. All this talk about an Obama/Hillary “dream ticket” is bullshit…that is the ONLY way Obama could lose the election! Instead it has been obvious foror months now that Hillary is running for the REPUBLICAN VP slot…since she has been running LIKE a rethug.
Bridget Jones @ 32:
Haven’t they already? Okay not officially but sorta.
L.A. Confidential @ 34:
It might be funny. Though, I think their first argument would be over who is going to be on top. :)
Old School Patriot @ 35:
I think obama is too smart to pick Hillary. He’ll just talk to her about it so that he will be hisusual diplomatic self, but in the end - it’d be political suicide for him to pick her - especially after her RFK comments yesterday.
“the McCain campaign prefers private fundraisers and it is Bush administration policy to have events in public venues open to the media.”
soooooooooo, by implication mccain is more secretive than bush? :-O
what ever part of this statement resembles anything looking like fact is the part of the statement that was not included in the statement. allow me to demonstrate: “it is bush administration policy to have events in public open to the media (with pre-screened bushie attendees complete with an array of planted pre-written compliments, questions, comments and topics).
t-bone @ 30:
Okay I looked around and according to some blogs people are saying that Hillary wants to kill Obama so she can be President of the U.S.A. That what she said yesterday was like some kind of secret code or something and she will do ANYTHING up to and including taking him out to win.
Bridget Jones @ 32:
Personally, I think McCain will finish last. Finishing last will probably do him some good. It will remind him of his days at the Naval Academy where he pretty much finished close to last as well.
pissed off patricia @ 36:
Oh yeah. The day she started attacking Obama.
I was initially for John Edwards. When he bailed, I had a difficult time choosing between Clinton and Obama because I thought they were both qualified - but by Super Tuesday, I picked Obama. In the weeks since, I have lost more and more respect for Clinton over her behaviour. It’s sad really - I always considered her such a strong role model for young women.
Joe O. @ 42:
And he was the best that the Republicans could do? Scary how far they’ve fallen since Abraham Lincoln first started their team…
In Obama’s campaign response to Hillary’s comments yesterday, they said something about there being no room, or something, in this campaign for comments like that. I think that told us there will be no dream/nightmare ticket.
I’m thinking the McCain folk are getting nervous now. They realize they are going to be really running against one of the sharpest and classiest people they have seen in the Democratic party in a long time.
Bridget Jones @ 44:
Regardless, you better prepare yourself for $8 a gal.
pissed off patricia @ 45:
He is slick. I agree with that.
“Tickets to the event were to range from $1,000 to $25,000 for VIP treatment. Money was to go toward McCain’s presidential bid and a number of Republican Party organs.”
Does Larry Craig’s organ get VIP treatment in the Convention Center men’s room?
Bridget Jones @ 43:
I lost a good friend several years ago due to an argument we got into as I was defending Hillary. How strange that seems now.