Abramoff's First Casualty (hypocrisy hits Reed)

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Opinion

Abramoff's First Casualty

The Nation
Thu Apr 20, 4:10 PM ET

The Nation -- Let's hope Rudy Giuliani picked up a copy of the Wall Street Journal today. In its pages journalist Jeanne Cummings asks whether Ralph Reed will "become the first casualty of the Abramoff scandal?" Something for Rudy to remember when he campaigns for the onetime boy wonder's Lt. Governor bid in Georgia next month.

Reed's campaign, Cummings notes wryly, "is having trouble squaring his opposition to gambling with his work on behalf of Mr. Abramoff's casino clients." Here's the juicy backstory:

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Mr. Reed's work--and his emails--came to light last year during hearings by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and became a campaign issue. The Abramoff affair even shadowed the campaign kick-off, headlined by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. In 2002, when the two men's lobbying firms had been on opposite sides of a Louisiana gambling fight between Indian tribes, Mr. Abramoff had bragged in an email to a colleague that Mr. Reed would get James Dobson, head of the conservative advocacy group Focus on the Family, to attack Mr. Barbour.

"Let me know when Dobson hits him. I want to savor it," Mr. Abramoff wrote in a separate email to Mr. Reed.

It's a testament to the enduring power and blindness of the religious right that Reed is still even in this race. But at least some of his former followers, Giuliani notwithstanding, are beginning to see the light.

As a former Christian Coalition activist who quit the Reed campaign put it: "Nobody likes to be a hypocrite and nobody likes to follow a hypocrite."

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[cantstandbush]

1. SWEEEEeeeeeeT ! n/t

[blondeatlast]

2. The hypocrisy is so obvious, yet it's always spun away.

Even the Radical Religious Right are seeing the light, but the opportunists like Reed just coast along blissfully ignorant.

If it doesn't win us votes, at least I can laugh about it.

So far, anyway.

Recommended.

[stepnw1f]

3. Thank You Jackoff!!! (nt)

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Y'ever notice ......

.... there's a uniformness about them all.

Even when you google for an image under the generic words 'college republican' you find 'em .....

[Erika]

6. Yep, they look alike

add in the phomy smiles of Falwell, Robertson, Rove.

[Erika]

5. A Biblical quote (paraphrased)

In the last days, the good will be seen as evil, and the evil as good. I see nothing Christian about these phony right wingers who flash you a smile in return for your bucks, and who sell out their constituents.

[vssmith]

7. I am constantly reminded of the parable told by Jesus

of the Pharisee and the Publican by these right wing sanctimonious fundamentalists. These guys fit so well the image of the Pharisee.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

8. If Bush is Christ-Like, I'm a water buffalo

nm

[vssmith]

9. You're not a WB, but Bush is like the Pharisee!!