Car dealer emerges as front-runner for ambassador to UK

[Cocoa]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1516052,00.html

A CALIFORNIAN car dealer emerged yesterday as the latest front runner to become US Ambassador in London.

Robert Holmes Tuttle, a major fund-raiser for President Bush who runs one of California’s biggest car dealerships, is being vetted by the White House to determine if he is suitable to fill the post, which has been vacant for seven months.

The US Ambassadorship to the Court of St James has been vacant since July, when William Farish, another big fundraiser who failed to impress in London, announced that he was stepping down after less than three years in the job.

Mr Tuttle, who lives in Beverly Hills, has been a prominent California Republican for 30 years and is a Bush “Pioneer”, part of a group who raised at least $100,000 each for Mr Bush’s re-election. He also gave $100,000 towards Mr Bush’s inauguration celebrations in January and is a friend of Brad Freeman, a fellow Californian who is Mr Bush’s chief West Coast fund-raiser and a confidant of the President.

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[aint_no_life_nowhere]

1. Why not, if a pest exterminator can become the most powerful man

in Congress. Only in Bush's America.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

2. I can see it now

"What will it take to get Parliament to back this US proposal? Are you ready to drive this idea home today?"

[solinvictus]

3. "Look at this baby..."

"She's been driven daily since March of 2003, so you won't have to worry about her setting idle. Yep, I see the nicks and dings, but those are character marks. She'll only cost you a couple of billion dollars because we've got an Iraqi rebate comin' to ya from the oil fields, so this baby will practically pay for herself. So, what'ya say? What's it gonna take to get you to drive this girl home with ya?"

Yep, let's turn over our foreign policy to some POS fund raiser.

[applegrove]

4. Desperate to find Kool-Aid drinkers. Rats from a sinking ship. Except

for those in the "convincing arts".

[justgamma]

5. Remember the cons outrage

and accusations that Clinton was renting out the Lincoln bedroom.

Shrub just rents out whole embassies.

[BiggJawn]

6. "... a major fund-raiser for President Bush ..."

DUH!!!!!

A Car Dealer. Oh, why the fucking hell NOT?
If Rich ReTHUGlicans who own car dealerships, farms and grocery stores are fit people to creat laws that I'm either gonna have to kow-tow to or go sit in a Whacking-Hut run facility for 10 years, why can't one of the un-educated, un-cultured Boors be ambassador to GB?

Between this ass-wipe and Bush's pick to be UN ambassador, maybe somebody will actually get fed up enough with Murka's shit to really declare "war" on us.

[Moderator]

7. kick to combine

[emad]

8. Ambassadorial residence was forfeited in UK lawsuit last year:

ONE SMALL PROBLEM FOR BUSH: the US lost ownership last year of the ambassadorial residence Winfield House at Outer Circle, Regents Park:

to the owners of St John's Lodge and The Holme at Inner Circle, Regents Park, in a long-running harrasment/defamation lawsuit.

So where's *--- gonna put his latest Poodle-sniffer then, Bed and Breakfast accommodation on the Isle of Dogs???

[drthais]

10. well, I am absolutely SURE

...that if those in London 'failed to be impressed'
with *'s last choice,
theyre gonna LOVE a big car dealer from California!!!!

these appointments are reaching the assinine level

[emad]

11. Texan second-hand car dealer Mike Burgdorf - Mark Thatcher's

father in law?........

Times snip:
The post has been the subject of much speculation. Other names mentioned have included Mercer Reynolds, a key Bush fundraiser, Paul Bremer, the former US envoy to Iraq, and even Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State.

US ambassadorships have long been awarded by presidents to political donors as a reward, and Mr Bush has certainly upheld the tradition. A third of his top fundraisers in 2000, or their spouses, were appointed to positions in his first Administration that included thirty ambassadorships and five Cabinet seats. Since he was first elected Mr Bush has now appointed 188 Pioneers, or Rangers — donors who raise at least $250,000.

Mr Tuttle, who spent six years as an aide to Mr Reagan, is known as an engaging businessman steeped in Republican politics. His father, Holmes Tuttle, built the first Ford dealership in California and famously sold a car to Ronald Reagan in 1946, when he was an out-of-work actor.

They became friends, and Mr Tuttle Sr was one of three California businessmen who helped to convince Mr Reagan to run for governor. His son has been involved with the Republican Party since 1979, when he became a member of Mr Reagan’s election team.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-1516052,00.html

[TyeDye75]

9. He can kiss my British arse....

[lumpy]

12. Ben Franklin is rolling around in

the grave. Well I guess a car salesman is used to convincing people to buy the product, whether it is of value or not. " Interest free as long as you keep up the payments".

[FightinNewDem]

13. I think I know this guy...