No Real Surprise: O'Neill Lies About Presidential Support

[returnable]

On last night's Harball, liar for hire John O'Neill says he hasn't supported a Republican presidential candidate since the 80s:


O‘NEILL: Absolutely. I haven‘t voted for a Republican since 1988.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5694561/


And yet he kicked in $1,000 for Daddy Bush's 1992 campaign:

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=TX&last=O%27Neill&first=John


Does he actually think he can get away with this bullshit?

[Kierkegaard]

1. He's trying like hell

and doing it with a straight face, to boot. I can't believe there isn't some kind of law we can use to cage this little prick for a few decades.

[Junkdrawer]

2. Works for Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, O'Reilly etc, etc...

O'Neill has oozed from that same swap.

[DrWho]

3. let me get a little gross

only cause I'm pissed at this little group of swfit boat liars...

Their ass is getting fist pounded!


ok, i feel a little better

[readmylips]

4. There's no one out there attacking that bastard O'Neill

The democrats confronting him are not doing a good job. I watched Carvell on Crossfire (by mistake) and he lost his temper which just what those republicans like. Carvell came across as a lunatic. Let Kerry's honorable record speak for itself and don't give any more ammunition to those liers.

Let Al Sharpton face O'Neill. He's the only who would turn it around and ask O'Neill to come up with bush's band of brothers. This is not about Kerry. It is about bush's AWOL status. Where are bush's band brothers, instructors and the likes.

[calico1]

5. Chris Dodd was on Imus

this morning and said pretty much that. He said Kerry doesn't need to be responding to all of these attacks and ploys by the GOP because if he does that lets them define the campaign. And he is doing fine in his campagin talking to people about issues they care about. Responding to every attack an lie defensively is exactly what the GOP wants so that then they can be in control of the campaign. I thought it was a good point and something that I think is lost on a lot of people. Kerry staying above the fray and not lowering himself to their level is not a sign of weakness in my opinion. I think most people are seeing these desperate attacks for what they are. If they were all working Bush would be way ahead in the polls.

[ibegurpard]

8. Overall, I would say you are correct

but that strategy has to be adaptable to deal with stuff like this if it appears to be gaining a foothold, which this was.

[Joanne98]

6. Here's the donations he's made. Spread it around.

Un-political O'Neill has made nearly $15,000 in contributions to federal races -- all Republican



Appearing on CNN's Crossfire on August 12, John O'Neill, co-founder of the anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and co-author of the Regnery book Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, denied he had links to the Republican Party: "I've had no serious involvement in politics of any kind in over 32 years."

But, as Media Matters for America noted on May 4, O'Neill has long-standing ties to the Republicans, having worked under the direction of the Nixon White House and clerked for Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist in 1990.

Moreover, since 1990, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, O'Neill has contributed $14,650 to federal candidates or national political organizations -- all Republicans:

2004: $2,000 to Duane Sand (ND)

1999: $1,000 to Peter Staub Wareing (TX)

1998: $250 to Rudy Izzard (TX)

1996: $1,000 to Brent Perry (TX)

1994: $2,500 to Texas Republican Congressional Committee

1993: $2,500 to Texas Republican Congressional Committee

1992: $1,000 to Texas Republican Congressional Committee

1992: $1,000 George H.W. Bush

1992: $1,000 to Clark Kent Ervin (TX)

1991: $1,000 to Clark Kent Ervin (TX)

1990: $400 to Hugh Dunham Shine (TX)

1990: $1,000 to A Tribute To Ronald Reagan

[noonwitch]

7. Money speaks louder than words

Good job tracking the donations.

[olddem43]

9. Of course donating to them doesn't mean that he voted Repug.

He said he voted for Gore in 2000. I think he did vote for Gore because he voted by absentee ballot. He and Scott Peterson were in Paris together on election day.

[Killarney]

10. He said on Hardball he voted for Perot twice and then Gore.

WTF?

I can believe Perot. But Gore? riiiiiiiiight.