Gearing Up for '08? McCain Befriends Old Enemies (Wyly brothers)

[ProSense]

Gearing Up for '08? McCain Befriends Old Enemies

He's Receiving Money From People Who Attacked Him in 2000

By JAKE TAPPER
April 23, 2006— - Once they were "coyotes." Now, they're pals.

Some of the very same men who helped derail Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign in 2000 using techniques the Arizona Republican alleged were illegal -- and whom McCain likened to the prairie carnivores -- are now leading financial supporters of his "Straight Talk America" political action committee and possible backers of his anticipated 2008 presidential run.

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In March 2000, in the thick of that highly-charged GOP presidential competition between McCain and then-Gov. George W. Bush, Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly -- major contributors to Bush -- funded a $2.5 million advertising campaign by a group calling itself "Republicans for Clear Air" that ran an ad against McCain in California, New York and Ohio.

Initially the Wylys did not acknowledge they were responsible for the ads -- and once it came out that they were they and the Bush 2000 presidential campaign denied any coordination, which would have been a violation of Federal Election Commission laws. McCain's campaign filed a complaint with the FEC alleging the Wylys broke the law.

The candidate himself referred to the brothers as "Wyly coyotes" and asked a campaign audience in Boston, "Are we going to allow two cronies of George W. Bush to hijack this election? Tell them to keep their dirty money in the state of Texas, my friends. Don't spread it all over New England and America."

But now the candidate from Arizona, planning a potential run for president in 2008, seems to have a different relationship with the coyotes.

Sam Wyly and his wife Cheryl have given McCain's political action committee a total of $10,000, according to records on the PAC's Web site. Additionally, Sam, Cheryl, and Charles Wyly are all co-chairing a May 15 fundraiser for McCain's PAC, to be hosted in Dallas, and featuring Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1880630&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[Fridays Child]

1. McCain is a whore's whore, isn't he?

If you waved a dollar bill in the air three blocks away, he'd probably "alert" on it and come running. And, evidently, that dollar can even be buried under a pile of shit named Wyly.

[DanCa]

2. Where money lies honor dies.

General Clark would destroy this Mccain thing in a heart beat.