Tim Griffin working on plan to swiftboat Obama

[samplegirl]

The shorthand, widely repeated by the news media, is that the Republican candidate must not "Swift boat" Obama. That amounts to unilateral political disarmament by McCain. McCain is not about to disarm. His campaign has no intention of fighting this battle on Democratic turf. During the more than five months ahead, Republicans will explore the mindset of this young man who is a stranger to most Americans. That includes his association with the Chicago leftist William Ayers, who has remained unrepentant about his violent role as a 1960s radical. This will not be popular with McCain's erstwhile admirers in the mainstream news media, but America has not heard the last of Bill Ayers in this campaign. Indicating what lies ahead is the McCain campaign's plan to bring in Tim Griffin, a protege of Karl Rove, who is a leading practitioner of opposition research -- digging up derogatory information about opponents.

[LSparkle]

1. Let them try ... I think the Clinton campaign already did ...

Wright and Ayers are about the best they could come up with.

[librechik]

2. let's indict him first. Ball's in your court, Chairman Conyers

(i think he's the man)

[angstlessk]

3. this just means they have to start from scratch for Obama..they already

have the Arkansas project to resurect should Clinton win...just sayin...it ain't about Obama it is about the crooks in the republican party!

[gateley]

4. Are you CONCERNED? nt

[samplegirl]

6. I just really hate to see the Elderly be brainwashed.

[Frustratedlady]

5. Isn't this the same Griffin involved in the attorney scandal...

beneficiary of a job or whatever? Isn't there going to be a hearing on that issue? He should maybe be busy preparing for that, or isn't he a witness of some kind?

[samplegirl]

7. He was replaced by one who was fired.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Why, yes it is...

..we at Wikiality.com have been following the little shit since June 3, 2007.

Please come over to our satirical page about him (here)

I am currently working on making a picture of him for the page.

Anyone have any suggestions?

BTW, here is one I made for Mike "All Black People Should Be Shot" Huckabee

[samplegirl]

9. thanks for the link

[ColbertWatcher]

11. You're welcome. If you have any ideas for a Tim picture...

...drop me a note!

[Frustratedlady]

13. Clever site...

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Thank you and you're welcome to add as you see fit. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

10. Who is Griffin? McCain hasn't stopped using sleaze in his campaign!!

[samplegirl]

12. He was Karl Roves assistant.

[annabanana]

18. Griffen was with the original swiftboats... when he went to work for

Rove he made an ass of himself during the US Attorney firing hearings... This sleaze bucket needs to be chipped so we can keep an eye on him.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. Why the heck isn't he under arrest for voter caging????

[Ilsa]

16. If they can't find something significant, they'll make up lies.

We need to get the word out that the lies are on their way. If they choose to believe it, remind them that they disregarded Bush's personal behavior as recent as his 40th birthday, and his business incompetence beyond that.

[stillcool]

17. more of the same...

I wonder if Mark Penn is going to help out Charlie Black.

Hillary Clinton's chief strategist is Mark Penn, and Charlie Black, John McCain's top adviser, is chairman of BKSH, the DC-based lobbying subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller -- of which Mark Penn is CEO.

Yes, this is the same lobbyist Barack Obama was referring to when he criticized John McCain for allowing lobbyists to conduct their business on board his bus.

BKSH is a bipartisan lobbying firm. Black, the chairman is the top Republican. The top Democrat is R. Scott Pastrick, who like Penn, supports Hillary Clinton.

Mark Penn's personal interests would clearly be best served by a Hillary Clinton victory.

A McCain presidency wouldn't be a bad consolation prize, however. It would be far better to have the head of his lobbying be tight with the president than to have a president like Obama who sought to impose new restrictions on his lobbyist operation.

Burson-Marsteller's work is primarily for corporations, ranging from Blackwater to Microsoft to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund of the government of Abu Dhabi that recently purchased a 5% stake in Citigroup.

As Ari Berman's Hillary, Inc. details, there's every reason to be skeptical of Mark Penn's willingness to help Democrats. He's criticized Al Gore for running to far to the left in 2000 and when he was brought into the Clinton's orbit by Dick Morris, he wasn't even a political operative.


http://www.jedreport.com/2008/02/mark-penns-lobb.html

[L. Coyote]

19. Where are you getting your Griffin info from? The media reports are different.

Tim Griffin is going to work for the RNC, per TPM.
What he did in opposition research was identify black voters to cage them.

SEE: TPM: You Just Can't Keep Tim Griffin Down = RNC rehires vote-cager.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3327085

[annabanana]

20. (mentioned on KO tonight). . . n/t

[L. Coyote]

22. I just found it too, on Think Progress = Robert Novak reports

Former Rove-Protege Tim Griffin Joining RNC Opposition Research Shop To Help McCain ‘Turn His Fire’ On Obama
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/22/griffin-rnc-mccain/


Last year, in the middle of the U.S. attorney scandal, former Karl Rove protege Tim Griffin resigned as the interim Eastern District U.S. attorney in Arkansas. Griffin had become the poster boy for the politicization of the U.S. attorney process after the Justice Department fired Bud Cummins to make way for him.

Now, Robert Novak reports that Griffin will be returning to his roots as a member of the RNC’s opposition research team. According to Novak, Griffin is being brought in as part of “the McCain campaign’s plan” to “turn his fire against (Sen. Barack) Obama“:

[notfullofit]

23. Here we go again! nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. I wish all this Republican research into schemes and scams to win elections

could be diverted to research on getting us out of the energy crisis we're now facing. Just think what all this wasted money and evil brain power could do if it were directed for the good.