Fact of the matter is, that Gheen, as he has always done, wanted top dog billing for the event. Total credit where credit wasn’t due, and the organizers were not having any of it.

After heated phones calls between Gheen and some of the organizers, calls in which Gheen acted at times like a petulant little child in knee pants, and other times, threw temper tantrums on the phone, he realized he wasn’t wanted at the event. The result, he spun it his way.

Here is a couple of article laying it all out.

http://immigrationclearinghous.....n-exposed/

And

http://immigrationclearinghous.....o-implode/

As Gheen has publicly stated on more than one occasion, “If there wasn’t money to be made in the debate, I’d have nothing to do with it”.

And he sticks by those words

Pearce is a liar who has gone on CNN, FOX and other primetime mainstream media and preached fear and lack of patriotism. Pearce is a liar and he splurts lies in order to put fear in AZ residents so they support his racist agenda: Here are some of lies he has made to people who are too lazy to research his lies. Pearce went on cnn and said that 50 percent of homicides in az were commited by illegal aliens. While this got uuhh and ahhhs he does not have any solid data to back up his fear spreading slander. The data is not possible since only 50 percent of the murders were solved. He, also, spread more fear by saying that in 1 day there were 69 murders along the border. Making people think that they occurred in the US but 0 occurred in the US. Some of those murders occurred in mexico city that day but he led people to believe that they occurred in AZ. What a complete sack of psychological bs and straight out lie.. Further he claims that 67 percent of cops killed were killed by illegal aliens but he has no proof nor does the fbi, phoenix pd or dps. Another blatant lie and another politician who will say whatever it takes to put fear into people. Also surveys they did included mostly whites and have been used to make it seems that 1070b is widely supported (the surveys are corrupt and misleading). They even have gone out and said that Hispanics support it when almost all Hispanics oppose it

I kind of agree with you there. In my mind Rand is not so much a racist as an amateur idealogue with no vocation for politics (lacking wisdom, subtlety, or both), living in the shadow of his father whose principal claim to fame is going against the grain.

It’s hard to understand why this lightweight has all of a sudden gotten so much attention. I see it as a sign of desperation from the right wing to emerge from the ashes of the Bush Administration.