Gordon Smith's super-secret Iran-Contra plan
Kari Chisholm
So, I got the following email from a friend of BlueOregon - who wanted to remain anonymous, for reasons that will be apparent in the text.
Pretty funny stuff....
You see, for various long and complicated reasons that don't actually involve me giving Republicans any money, I've wound up on a "donor list" somewhere and I get solicitation calls for Republican candidates all the time.As an amusing pastime, I enjoy being friendly with whomever is calling but "tight" with my money, which results in a colossal waste of time for them when they could be spending it talking to somebody who really would fork over money.
Tonight, a person representing the Gordon Smith campaign called our home.
He immediately launched into "We're trying to defeat Jeff Merkley, the tax and spend liberal, who was funded by New York politician Chuck Schumer for $5 million dollars" and then went on to say all the great things Gordon Smith was going to do.
I interrupted and said "I like the idea of keeping this a Republican seat, but didn't Gordon smith give up on what we're trying to do in Iraq? I don't like that."
The caller responded "That's not true at all. In fact, Gordon Smith is working on an Iran Contra program to help fight the terrorists."
I said "What? Can you say that again?"
He repeated the "Iran-Contra" line.I asked "I'm not sure that's right... do you know what Iran-Contra was?"
He said, "Maybe I misspoke. He's working on this with President Bush to help out in the fight against Iran."
He then moved quickly to talk of money, and I told him to mail me whatever literature he could and I'd read it over, but I wasn't committing to a specific dollar amount right now.
I think I got him off-script with the Iraq question -- I don't think even the worst-managed campaign would put "Iran-Contra" on a script, but clearly this guy had no idea on what "Iran-Contra" really was -- the words were just floating around in his head.
I hope he keeps using that line on other callers!
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12:45 p.m.
Oct 20, '07
What odd words to have floating around in his head. Hopefully he is a high-volume caller:).
2:29 p.m.
Oct 20, '07
So how much money will Slick Gordy be funneling to the Contras? "Fire up the shredders, Ollie, it's gonna be a long night!"
Oct 20, '07
When a candidate is accepting money from inside and outside of state - it is for sure there will be a pay back to donors by giving them highest pay jobs and/or give a contract and etc. It is political prostitution, selling the People of Oregon and the USA. It is a sale of our democracy and an idiots get elected, therefore so many our soldiers are paying but own blood.
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Pavel Goberman - Candidate for US Senator www.getenergized.com/vote.html
1:12 a.m.
Oct 21, '07
Umm...interesting "campaign" site you got there Mr. Goberman.
Oct 21, '07
Well he may have used the wrong phrase, but he may have been referring to what is really going on inside Iran. Perhaps Gordon Smith has been briefed on the covert activity.
Oct 21, '07
The only briefs Gordo is getting from the White House these days are made by Fruit of the Loom, and he's been passing those along (unopened to the best of my knowledge) to Larry Craig.
Oct 21, '07
Maybe he thinks Iran-Contra means 'against Iran', i.e. contra Iran?
Then again maybe he's just a complete idiot, being a Republican and all.
10:46 p.m.
Oct 21, '07
Does this make the Contras part of the "coalition of the willing?"
Relax, Kari--in response to a letter I sent him a couple months ago, Senator Smith replied to let me know there are no plans to invade Iran "of which he is aware," so I'm sure it'll all be OK...
1:51 p.m.
Oct 22, '07
Well Darth Cheney thought it was wrong of Congress to pass the Boland Amendment which outlawed aid to the contras, which Ollie and Ronnie then went and broke. So it actually would not shock me at all to hear of BushCo/Darth doing the same thing again.
<h2>Cheney and crew think that the Executive has unlimited powers to do anything at all in foreign policy and Congress has no authority to tell the president no. That is why I almost laugh when people are shocked at the arrogance of this administration who have as a core principle the Nixon world-view of foreign policy which boils down to the concept that if the President does it, it makes it legal and Congress can say boo about it.</h2>