While Ralph Reed's ties to the Theocratic Right and to Jack Abramoff are extremely important, let's not forget Reed's ties to Bush and Enron.

Reed was the Southeast coordinator for the Bush re-election campaign. Just one more sign that McCain is running another Bush Campaign.

Then, there's Reed's consulting gig with none other than Enron (thanks to Karl Rove). According to CNN, "The White House acknowledged Friday that in 1997, as George W. Bush was deciding whether to run for president, his senior political adviser Karl Rove recommended GOP strategist Ralph Reed for a consulting job with Enron Corp. Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, went to work for Enron as a strategist, making from $10,000 to $20,000 a month, according to The New York Times."

John McCain - Lobbyists First. America Last.

I'm pretty sure this is somehow Obama's fault.

Ralph Reed is the scum of the earth. His involvement in the Jack Abramoff scam of American Indians is so disgusting I hate to mention Reed's claim to be a Christian. The guy is rotten all the way through. Of course we all make mistakes but Reed has never apologized about his illegal behavior. McCain's association with Reed shows the depths he is willing to sink to raise money. Poor McCain has lost his soul and Reed it helping him destroy any shred of believability McCain had left, and that was not much.

I wonder if some enterprising individual/ group could youtube the hearings where McCain was so outraged by the Tribes being ripped off - with a voice over talking about Ralph Reed's fund raiser .. paging Eli Parisier -
( This is really a long way from the heady days of McCain _ Feingold campaign finance reform ..)

Ralph Reed's New Role
Jan 10, 2008
....Reed's much-publicized role in the Abramoff scandal cost him the 2006 Republican primary for Georgia lieutenant governor--the first rung on what was widely expected to be a climb into national politics.

Now Reed's on the sidelines, handicapping McCain's prospects.

"Can he go on from here?" CNN host Anderson Cooper asked Reed on Tuesday. "Does he have the organization in Michigan and South Carolina?"

"I think the jury is out on that," said Reed, explaining that McCain would encounter more conservative voters and fewer independents in the upcoming South Carolina primary. "This is the same challenge that he had with George W. Bush eight years ago," said Reed. "That's where it gets tough for him."

Reed would know. It was in South Carolina that he and other Christian conservatives succeeded in mounting a furious effort on behalf of George W. Bush eight years ago to defeat McCain, then, as now, coming off a big win in the New Hampshire primary.

"Last night was the first time we've seen or heard Ralph Reed since the campaign began," said South Carolina McCain strategist Trey Walker....

Reed wasn't the only Abramoff scandal casualty seeking to cast doubts on McCain's prospects after the New Hampshire vote. Former House majority leader Tom DeLay, who left Congress and is still under investigation by the Justice Department in connection with the Abramoff probe, predicted to MSNBC's Chris Matthews that McCain won't fare well with conservatives in the South.

New Hampshire, he said, was "a blip, an aberration in the nominating process of the Republican Party."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/10/post_270.html

So how much is being paid to have a change of heart in a matter of 8 mo, hummm...
4 more years of the same!
Soul Selling For the Right Price!

As the Nuns used to tell us long, long ago;

"Show me your company and I'll tell you what you are."

So McCain's coming to Georgia to mix with the scum of the earth. Typical of "ethical" politicians to do that.

You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

The "Book of Ralph" helps explain why Reed lost his bid for lieutenant governor in Georgia:

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A20871

Nice CDB reference and oh so fitting.

This makes for an interesting conversation but will stop right here. The MSM will not even refer to Ralph Reed's past. This incident, as well as many others that concern McCain, will barely be a footnote with the talking heads. I can almost hear it:

"Senator McCain will be holding a fundraiser in Atlanta, Georgia next week, but Senator Obama is now having trouble with...."