**Statement from Donald Luskin to Ron Paul Supporters**

[The Only Woj]

McCain needs Don Luskins help. You know, I do feel bad that he left Ron Paul ... but you know what? McCain needs to get his shit straightened out. And if this injects a little Dr. Paul into McCain, amen to that.

 

[The Only Woj]

Don is going to negotiate the new GOP ticket

McCain/Paul 2008

 

[revolutionary8]

Perhaps HIMSELF?

I can understand why Luskin would not want to play second fiddle to Schiff in a needless role as "advisor". But going to McCain.. I wonder who broached this idea, Luskin or McCain? Either way it looks like betrayal.

My bet is Luskin saw something in HQ which didn't sit well with him. Perhaps a general unidentifiable malaise of the kind no good intentions can surmount but can only be cured by excision en masse.

Luskin was in the inner circle just long enough to learn all the campaign strategies for every contingency. Things HQ would never dream of divulging to the grassroots for instance. And now they are dropped in the lap of McCain courtesy of Mr. Luskin. Now Ron cannot argue that McCain is ill equipped to handle the economy since his former advisor is now assisting him. Looks like we lost several things with Luskin's change of loyalties.

Yeah. That is my guess. HIMSELF in the mirror. At one point, Luskin was probably a "good guy"
At least now we and his children and family know.

 

[specsaregood]

Luskin said in the you tube video with Neil Cavuto that Dr. Paul does not need an advisor. Maybe he meant that. Dr. Paul is very well self-schooled in economics. Could be he knows more than Luskin.

He has Peter Schiff as an advisor after all who is very highly regarded.

I have noticed a very STARK difference in how the media treats Luskin and Schiff.

Luskin is treated friendly, respected, etc.
When Schiff is on, there is always other "experts" on that laugh in the background while Schiff is talking, demeaning, he is painted as nut. Sound familiar? It is just like the republican debates with giuliani giggling.

Now the question is this, who has been more right over the past 8 years? Schiff or Luskin? or in the near future. I think I know the answer.

 

[literatim]

All he is going to do is make McCain sound more conservative. He won't actually be more conservative.

 

[Molly1]

There is no way the neocon 100 years war Mccain can ever hope to institute Ron Paul's economic plan. That dog don't hunt.

So don't tell me that Luskin is going to be any help to Mccain. Mccain would have to disavow the neocons and their desire to conquer the world, first. And that's not going to happen.

Sound bites do not make you a conservative. Policy does and substance does, and Mccain has neither.

 

[thuja]

I'm still curious as to who's idea was it to put up the precinct captain on Ron's website so that anyone could sign up and get names of people voting for Ron Paul and addresses.

Those names are not supposed to be easy to obtain!

So who's bright idea was this?

what, exactly, does this mean?

 

[Menthol Patch]

He is a fascist and a traitor. It is that simple.

 

[RickyJ]

Donald L. Luskin

I don't know who he is or care. I assume he is a traitor. McCain is going nowhere. McCain knows it, that's why he emphasizes leading the Republican party. He knows his time in the limelight will be short. Hillary is assured of the win. The folks at Diebold guarantee it, just like they did for Bush in 2004.

 

[RickyJ]

Don is going to negotiate the new GOP ticket

McCain/Paul 2008

When hell freezes over. Ron Paul is either going to be President in 2009, or he will be going back to Congress for two more years. VP is mostly a ceremonial job unless the President dies.

 

[dannno]

Lord knows McCain needs the advice!

Yes, and we need the intelligence (in a cia way )

 

[Shink]

I asked Don over email if I could pass along a message from him to the grassroots, because many of us were confused by his move.

Here is Luskin's official statement to Paul supporters, which he just sent me a few minutes ago:



I think there is more to this situation than meets the eye. Ron himself might have supported this and might be pleased to have Luskin moving into McCain's inner circle. Lord knows McCain needs the advice!

Fuck Luskin. He jumped ship for political expediency. He'd rather go down in a leaky yacht than stay afloat in a sturdy little tugboat.

 

[macfly]

the vice president job IS the president..for republicans since reagan. as long as it was george bush senior or one of his insider criminals (cheney). bush senior ran the show with reagan, especially after he tried to have him assassinated.

 

[Sauron]

Fuck Luskin. He jumped ship for political expediency. He'd rather go down in a leaky yacht than stay afloat in a sturdy little tugboat.

He got on board the tugboat. Just went back on board the yacht to plunder the jewels before it sinks. He'll be back.

 

[Original_Intent]

is he our sleeper cell or theirs?

 

[Shink]

He got on board the tugboat. Just went back on board the yacht to plunder the jewels before it sinks. He'll be back.

What's there to plunder? Is McCain hiding Mr. T-style gold necklaces under his giant chinfolds?

 

[revolutionary8]

Grrrrr

My fear is that Luskin might have been told by RON that an indepenent run was ruled out. Thus, knowing that the GOP nod was out of reach, he decided to move on. Luskin seemed to be pushing for an independent Ron by Ron this year.

Barf bag provided?
Nawww, too cheap.
McPain is a disgusting PIG and now we know Luskin is a pig skin.

 

[Grandson of Liberty]

I didn't get through all 14 pages of threads so maybe someone already mentioned it, but I've got a hunch McCain will be using Luskin not to help develop economic strategy, but to tutor him on economics and how to sound like Ron Paul so he doesn't look like a deer in the headlights whenever he gets a big-boy question.

 

[ShaquitaWilliams]

I have not read every post here on this topic yet, so I apologize if I post something already stated here. I'll read all after this post.

But listen, for our man, especially an economic advisor, to have embedded himself within the Republican front-runner's campaign -- that's REALLY BIG news! I cannot stress how HUGE this really is either!

Think about it for a minute. John McCain takes the economic advisor from an otherwise "Crazy Lunatic" also running for President! Can't you see? This whole thing gives Dr. Paul credibility, like, BIG TIME -- especially within his economic ideas.

The sincerest form of flattery is to mimic another -- to steal their ideas -- and although the media is largely silent on this, if it had been Mitt Romney's, or Huckabee's economic advisor changing camps, you can be sure that it would be HUGE news.

It's even BIGGER news that Ron Paul's advisor has found a WELCOMING home in the "Non Crazy" Republican front-runner's campaign, although it's in the best interest of the Republican party, including John McCain, to not make a big deal of it. For that would give Ron Paul credibility, which is not what they're they're prepared to give him at the moment, for he represents a threat to the Republican Party establishment.

But rest assured, this is GREAT NEWS, make no mistake about it! Some of you may be a little young, not that that's bad, but trust me, this is VERY GOOD NEWS!

I'm sorry that so many of you cannot seem to see through this.

 

[ShaquitaWilliams]

One last point. Please do not fall into that simple-minded trap of W's, ok? "You're Either With Us Or Against Us" mentality is what got us into a HUGE mess to begin with.

Life is so much more complex than that.