McCain, Clinton Take Strange Bedfellows
2008 Race Proves Old Adage True
By JAKE TAPPER
May 12, 2006 — - The race for the White House in 2008 has already begun, so strange bedfellows and curious political alliances abound.
Case in point: On Saturday morning, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who during the 2000 campaign called the Rev. Jerry Falwell an "agent of intolerance," will deliver the commencement address at Falwell's Liberty University. It was a heated moment during a vicious primary battle in 2000. McCain was under attack from many in the GOP establishment and, during the South Carolina primary, elements of the Christian Right. "I reject individuals such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, who take our party in the wrong direction," McCain said then.
During that ugly primary battle, McCain also found himself attacked in secretly funded television ads. It was "the biggest infusion of anonymous money in American politics since that bag stuffed with $2 million was found during Watergate," one good government type told me at the time. McCain ultimately filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against Texas brothers and Bush allies Sam and Charles Wyly. On the campaign trail, he urged audiences to tell then-Gov. George Bush's "sleazy Texas buddies to stop these negative ads." Now the Wylys like McCain. This Monday in Dallas, they will co-host a fund-raiser for him...
Another case in point is with McCain's possible opponent in 2008: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. During the throes of the Lewinsky scandal, Clinton decried, "This vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president." This week comes news that one of the men whom liberals fingered as a key cog in that "conspiracy" -- Fox News Channel chieftain Rupert Murdoch -- will host a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser for Clinton, saying she's been effective for New York.
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