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July 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“I think it’s a strong endorsement for Romney by a very visible
conservative figure in the Republican Party, and I think that’s a big plus
for Romney that will help the enthusiasm of a lot of people on the
conservative side,” said John Bolton, who served the Bush-Cheney
administration as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Though the men are not close, Romney and Cheney are united in their belief
that Obama must be defeated. Many of Romney’s foreign policy positions have
been cheered by “neo-conservatives” associated with Cheney.
Taking the microphone as Cheney sat alongside him, Romney went through a
litany of complaints about Obama, chiefly on the weak state of the US
economy.
“I think they’re wondering why in the White House, why has it gone so
wrong,” said Romney. “And the answer is they tried to put in place
liberal economic policies and liberal policies don’t work.”
It was red-meat rhetoric for the gathering of Republican donors who paid
either $1,000 to attend the reception, $10,000 for a photo with Romney, or
$30,000 to have dinner with him at Cheney’s house, the first time Cheney had
opened his home here for a political fundraiser.
Jackson Hole resident John McQuillan, who had camped in the Tetons at the
9,500-foot level on Wednesday night for recreation, came down out of the
mountains to attend the event.
“I’m a hard-right, Tea Party guy,” said McQuillan, who said of
Romney, “He’s conservative enough for me.”
Jackson Hole’s rustic chic is reflected in its faux Wild West theme. The area
combines fancy, ranch-style spa resorts with tourist attractions like a huge
pile of elk antlers stacked into an arch in Jackson’s main square.
The Million Dollar Cowboy bar, featuring bar stools made out of horse saddles,
is a popular draw. Buildings are done up with a log-cabin veneer, from Ace
Hardware to the stores at Powder Horn Mall. Rising in the distance are the
Tetons themselves, which top about 14,000 feet.
The hawkish Cheney had emerged from seclusion in April after receiving a new
heart to call Obama an “unmitigated disaster” and declare that
Romney is doing a “whale of a job.”
While popular among conservatives, Cheney is a polarizing figure for many
Americans. He was a strong proponent of the unpopular Iraq war launched by
President George W. Bush and pushed the use of controversial interrogation
techniques for terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The dinner, with about 200 guests, was co-hosted by Dick Scarlett, chairman
and chief executive of United Bancorporation of Wyoming, and his wife
Maggie, and Allan Tessler, former chief executive of Data Broadcasting
Corporation, and his wife Frances.
Cheney’s house adjoins the 18th green of the country club golf course and the
meal took place under a tent there with golf carts parked under a trees.
Cheney noted that he and Scarlett go hunting.
“Dick’s a man of great courage and I know that, because he hunts with me,”
said Cheney, who once accidentally shot and wounded a friend in Texas while
bird hunting.
The Wyoming gathering brought Romney’s two-day fundraising haul to about $5.5
million after a $1.5 million fundraiser on Wednesday in Montana. This is on
top of the $106 million he and Republicans raised in June, a figure that far
outpaced Obama’s total of $71 million for the month.
In spite of Romney’s fundraising prowess, he faces major challenges in
defeating the seemingly nimble Obama campaign, which has been attacking him
over his past as a private-equity executive and demanding he release more
information about his personal wealth to try to keep him off balance.
Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia,
said appearing with Cheney could create an awkward image for Romney with the
broader voting public.
“There are certainly more popular politicians that Romney could choose to
associate himself with,” he said. “But the assumption is that $4
million is worth one bad headline in July.”
Romney is benefiting from the Republican apparatus left by the Bush-Cheney
administration, although he was not a player in it.
Top aides Matt Rhoades and Ed Gillespie were veterans of the Bush years, but
Romney’s inner circle is also made up of Massachusetts loyalists like Eric
Fehrnstrom and Beth Myers who have been at the former governor’s side for
years.
Of the powerful Bush political family, Romney is closest to former President
George H.W. Bush, for whom Cheney served as defense secretary. The elder
Bush, largely confined to a wheelchair, held a formal endorsement event for
Romney at his Houston office back in the spring.
There has been no such event for Romney from Bush’s son, George W., who has
vowed to stay out of what he calls the “swamp” of politics,
although he has declared his support for Romney.
Source: agencies
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