DeLay and Blackwell Team Up

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TOWNHALL -- www.townhall.com/blog/g/9384a879-4ebb-4786-b0c0-41a525ee1ac0
DeLay and Blackwell Team Up
Ken Blackwell is a busy man. Aside from serving as a contributing writer for Townhall.com and a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and Ohio's Buckeye Institute, he's also the new chairman of the Coalition for a Conservative Majority. I attended an "on the record meeting" with Blackwell, CCM president (and former U.S. House Majority Leader) Tom DeLay, and CCM Chairman David Keene. So what's the purpose of this new group? To empower conservatives to compete again.

http://www.ccmajority.org/

I didn't click the Townhall link. I just pasted the excerpt from www.salon.com

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1. Truly two of the most nefarious Machievellian political hacks ever

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2. Add Ohio GOP chair Bob Bennett to that list

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4. Bob Bennett ranks

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3. no kidding.

The thought of Blackwell who got his ass handed to him in the last election and DeLay who was forced out in the face of scandal, joining forces to redeem conservative values is almost comical.

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5. The alternative press reports on "Uncle Tom’s Comeback"

Uncle Tom’s Comeback: Ken Blackwell, Tom DeLay form Coalition of Crazy
Tue Nov 20, 2007 at 01:53:42 PM
http://blogs.clevescene.com/cnotes/2007/11/uncle_toms_comeback_ken_blackw.php

Uncle Tom Blackwell, the former Ohio Secretary of State, right-wing nut-job, and the man to call when you need an election rigged, is making a political comeback after being trounced in the 2006 gubernatorial race by Ted Strickland. He’s found a maybe-not-so-unlikely ally in former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is still under indictment in Texas for laundering campaign donations. Together, the pair has formed the Coalition for a Conservative Majority (CCM for short), a supposed grass-roots Republican organization.

Exactly who else belongs to the group or what the group actually does is anyone’s guess. But if Blackwell and DeLay are behind it, you can bet it involves sinister laughter, gay people burning in eternal hell-fire, and, ummm, Blackwell and DeLay laughing sinisterly while gay people burn in eternal hell-fire? The two men talk strategy in this recent clip from Hardball with Chris Matthews. Notice that, while DeLay describes the group as being “outside of the beltway,” he happens to be standing in front of a backdrop of the Capitol dome in Washington, D.C. -- Jared Klaus

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6. When nobody wants you in the club, you start your own.

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/13621.htm...

Is there really some niche that the “Coalition for a Conservative Majority” expects to fill? It’s not as if the movement is hurting for organizations:

* There are already plenty of groups that have been around for years (Norquist’s outfit, the Heritage Foundation, AEI, Council for National Policy, Arlington Group, Young Americans for Freedom)

* Religious right groups (Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, American Family Association, Traditional Values Coalition)

* And a bunch of new groups that have popped up recently to revitalize the conservative movement (Freedom’s Watch, The Vanguard, Victory Caucus, Gingrich’s new outfit, Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, Reagan 21, Move America Forward, and the revitalized Citizens For The Republic)

DeLay and Blackwell are looking at this landscape and thinking, “You know what conservatives really need? Another activist organization for the right.” How very odd.

Of course, one wonders what will happen to this new group if DeLay is convicted on the criminal charges he’s currently facing….

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7. The CCM funders probably want to control the message carefully

...in this "nonprofit" corporation. They are probably petro millionaires just trying to get more republican votes however they can. I did not look them up, though.

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8. why am I not surprised