Dem Gov (Hillary Supporter) Puts Wind in McCain Sails

[JimGinPA]

PORTLAND, Ore. - John McCain got an unexpected boost in his bid to woo independent and Democratic voters here this afternoon: a shared stage with Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski.

Kulongoski is a Democrat who has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. So local reporters were stunned to see him turn up at wind-power firm Vestas near Portland International Airport along with McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. The event, a major speech on global warming, was designed to pitch McCain's environmental views to moderate western voters.

The governor didn't mention McCain in his brief remarks. Instead, he introduced Jens Soby, the president of Vestas, and promoted Oregon's attempts to be "the renewable (energy) capital of America."

Soby introduced McCain, who did not miss the chance to thank Kulongoski and use his presence to push a second independent-wooing pitch: his ability to work across party lines.

McCain lauded Kulongoski - a former Marine who attends every funeral for an Oregon serviceman or woman killed in Iraq - for his military service. He called him "a great governor" whose leadership had lured Vestas to Oregon.

"As president of the United States," McCain said, "I will sit down with Gov. Ted Kulongoski and all of the governors of this country, whether they are Democrat or Republican, and work for the betterment of the nation."

We're waiting to hear the Clinton camp's reaction. (Both she and Obama, incidentally, panned McCain's global warming speech.)



http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/05/dem_gov_puts_wind_in_mccain_sa.html

[Bicoastal]

1. What the hell is going on here?!

[4themind]

2. Some of these democrats just lurve McCain don't they

The only thing the "D" besides their name should stand for is Disloyal. If they are going to cozy up with McCain , obama just needs to nudge them off the cliff.

[4themind]

7. kick-nt

[Yael]

3. McCain/Clinton '08

[Toucano]

4. Not the wisest thing for a governor to do, but hardly a ringing endorsement

or wind in the sails.

[Thrill]

5. Now her supporters are openly attending McCain events. You can't make this stuff up

[quakerboy]

6. You damn well better believe

I'm going to have something to say to my governor this afternoon.

[kenny blankenship]

8. See, this shit is unconscionable, and it's shit like this

that has real Democrats boiling mad at DLC Clinton at any cost saboteurs. Because by a Clinton supporter lending credibility to McCain and sharing a stage with him as if he were the party's nominee, he's not sabotaging Obama but the WHOLE FUCKING DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

This should matter to everybody and I'm sure it will embarrass and outrage some Hillary supporters. Others are beyond shame I know, but I hope every good Democrat will join in censuring Gov. Kulongoski.

[Beregond2]

9. A tempest in a teapot.

What possible good could this do McCain? 99% of the public will never even know about it.

[Cha]

10. I hope the people of Oregon

create an Obama Victory and this mccain loving governor can eat humble crow.

[AtomicKitten]

11. It's a symmetry that makes perfect sense.

:scared:

[IsItJustMe]

12. I hope with time we can get some of these fake Democrats out of office.

[ShadowLiberal]

13. Outrageous, doesn't this guy care about how much damage McCain would do to the Supreme Court

A democratic governor more then almost anyone should know the dangers of a McCain administration. You thought that some of the latest rulings by the court were bad, just wait until the neo-cons on the court don't even need moderate conservative Kennedy's vote to force their activist neo-con agenda on us.

If this guy was governor of a really red state like Wyoming then I might understand a little bit (seeing as you have to be more of a moderate to get elected statewide there), but this is Oregon, a state that we've won in a lot of the last few presidential elections!

[dorktv]

14. Since the firm is thinking of relocating, who cares if it happened to have Senator McCain there?

Update, 7:06 p.m.: Kulongoski's spokesman, Anna Richter Taylor,, said Vestas' president asked the governor to attend - at a time when the company is weighing where to locate a new research and development center. "Today was not about presidential politics for the governor," she said. "It was about a company that's very important to Oregon and an issue that's very important to our state and this nation."

[rove karl rove]

15. typical for Ted, he fancies himself as a "maverick" as well n/t