"BGR, Rogers Helped Warner Too"

Email from the Moran campaign, March 26, 2009:

...Sadly, Terry McAuliffe would rather work with Republicans who oppose the president's agenda, like Republican operative Ed Rogers. Terry held a fundraiser this week at the lobbying firm of Rogers and Haley Barbour, Vice-Chair of the Republican Governors Association.

Rogers has worked to defeat scores of Democrats nationwide, including leading some of the most bigoted attacks against President Obama last year. Ed Rogers isn't Rush Limbaugh but he is pretty darn close, and yet Terry McAuliffe is more than happy to take his money.

So many Virginia Democrats, including me, are proud of the work we have done over the last decade here electing Mark Warner, Tim Kaine and Jim Webb, and Democrats around the country are so proud of the work they did to elect Barack Obama. For a Democrat to turn around and embrace the people making the ugliest attacks against him is unconscionable. It's offensive for Terry McAuliffe to be taking this money...

Uh, Moran campaign? I think you might live to regret having said that.

Washington Post, April 3, 2009 (article by Anita Kumar):

...it turns out BGR and Rogers hosted a fundraiser for another Virginia Democrat.

A fundraiser honoring U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner of Virginia was held in October 2008 when the former governor was running for Senate. The invitation included Rogers, along with nine other lobbyists with BGR, including former Bush aide Eric Burgeson, Lanny Griffith, who worked in the George H.W. Bush White House and Bob Wood, chief of staff to former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.

Moran criticized McAuliffe last week for his relationship with Rogers, who helped carry the Republican message on TV last year with pointed references to President Obama's middle name, Hussein.

So what does Moran say now?

Good question by Anita Kumar. What DOES Brian Moran say now? "It's offensive for Mark Warner - the most popular politician in Virginia BY FAR - to be taking this money?" Or maybe, "I'm sorry for attacking you, Governor 'Most Popular Politician in Virginia By Far' Warner?" Ha, nice job, guys!

P.S. Can we say "not ready for prime time?" How about "the gang that couldn't shoot straight?"

UPDATE: Teacherken picks up on this, writing about "the danger of criticizing your opponent's fundraising." Again, big mistake by Brian Moran (Teacherken writes, "one usually does not want to put out something that might be seen as critical of Mark Warner").