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GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« on: March 04, 2010, 08:39:25 PM »
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1217

National GOP leaders are doing damage control today after a Politico scoop lifted the curtain on the party's plan to tap voters' "fear" in the coming campaign season. The PR problem started when an absent-minded attendee at the Republican National Committee (RNC) confab on February 18 in Boca Grande, Florida, left a 72-page document from its 2010 strategizing session in a hotel room. Today, Politico reporter Ben Smith's expose is making headlines.

The memo tracks the fundraising presentation that RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart delivered to the RNC's $2,500-a-head annual retreat. The best path to victory in 2010, the document advises, is for Republican candidates to depict themselves as the best hope for resisting the "trending toward socialism" taking shape in a Democrat-dominated Washington.

And the document doesn't shy from making its points graphically. MSNBC showed the images this morning on "Morning Joe":

The presentation portrays the Obama administration as "The Evil Empire," including the now-infamous image of President Obama made over in the makeup Heath Ledger used in his performance as the Joker in the 2008 Batman movie "The Dark Knight." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears as Cruella De Vil from "101 Dalmatians," and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the witless cartoon dog Scooby-Doo. The memo candidly confirms that the aim of such caricature is to amp up "fear" among the GOP's conservative base. The memo also makes fun of major RNC donors, categorizing some as "ego-driven" and easily pacified with "tchochkes" (a Slavic word for toys).

The embrace of harsh rhetoric and the swipes at the large donor set seem to signal the GOP establishment's growing comfort with employing tactics associated with the activist Tea Party movement—and with plying Tea Party sympathizers for cash. Of course, it isn't unusual for parties out of power to court controversy and play with fire to rile up donors and grass-roots activists. The RNC has caught heat for fundraising tactics in the past, most recently when it was caught sending out fake census forms to raise money. And Democrats have shown a demagogic streak in the past, depicting George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as Bond-like supervillains and playing up alleged GOP plans to kill Social Security to rally voters behind a popular entitlement program.

When asked by Yahoo! News if the leaked presentation reflects a coordinated effort to appeal more to the Tea Party movement, RNC spokesman Doug Heye replied that the group's chairman, Michael Steele, "was recently invited by Tea Party activists to a meeting, which he was happy to do. Following the meeting, it was clear those in the meeting shared a common goal: stopping the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda." As for plans to further that alliance with the inflammatory material in the memo, Heye reiterated what he'd told Politico earlier: "The language and the imagery will not be used in any capacity in the future."

There's no question that the Obama-as-Joker image—long a familiar icon at Tea Party rallies—is a toxic association for the GOP establishment. Oddly enough, though, that image's origins can be traced to the activist left. As revealed by the Los Angeles Times last year, the image was created by a supporter of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a University of Illinois student named Firas Alkhateeb, who told the Times that he uploaded the photo onto his Flickr page, and a conservative activist promptly snatched it up.

Such are the odd convergences of movement politics. However, the RNC may have more trouble distancing itself from the equation of Democratic policy with socialism, however, since Michael Steele is credited with originating that meme in the health care debate.

 

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2010, 08:43:43 PM »
I'm sure there are plenty of examples of the democrats printing and distributing similar literature from the top levels of leadership, as we see here.

Somebody please post them.  Thanks!

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2010, 06:44:07 AM »
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The memo candidly confirms that the aim of such caricature is to amp up "fear" among the GOP's conservative base. The memo also makes fun of major RNC donors, categorizing some as "ego-driven" and easily pacified with "tchochkes" (a Slavic word for toys).

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2010, 06:47:55 AM »
BWAHAHAQHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1217

National GOP leaders are doing damage control today after a Politico scoop lifted the curtain on the party's plan to tap voters' "fear" in the coming campaign season. The PR problem started when an absent-minded attendee at the Republican National Committee (RNC) confab on February 18 in Boca Grande, Florida, left a 72-page document from its 2010 strategizing session in a hotel room. Today, Politico reporter Ben Smith's expose is making headlines.

The memo tracks the fundraising presentation that RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart delivered to the RNC's $2,500-a-head annual retreat. The best path to victory in 2010, the document advises, is for Republican candidates to depict themselves as the best hope for resisting the "trending toward socialism" taking shape in a Democrat-dominated Washington.

And the document doesn't shy from making its points graphically. MSNBC showed the images this morning on "Morning Joe":

The presentation portrays the Obama administration as "The Evil Empire," including the now-infamous image of President Obama made over in the makeup Heath Ledger used in his performance as the Joker in the 2008 Batman movie "The Dark Knight." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appears as Cruella De Vil from "101 Dalmatians," and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the witless cartoon dog Scooby-Doo. The memo candidly confirms that the aim of such caricature is to amp up "fear" among the GOP's conservative base. The memo also makes fun of major RNC donors, categorizing some as "ego-driven" and easily pacified with "tchochkes" (a Slavic word for toys).

The embrace of harsh rhetoric and the swipes at the large donor set seem to signal the GOP establishment's growing comfort with employing tactics associated with the activist Tea Party movement—and with plying Tea Party sympathizers for cash. Of course, it isn't unusual for parties out of power to court controversy and play with fire to rile up donors and grass-roots activists. The RNC has caught heat for fundraising tactics in the past, most recently when it was caught sending out fake census forms to raise money. And Democrats have shown a demagogic streak in the past, depicting George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as Bond-like supervillains and playing up alleged GOP plans to kill Social Security to rally voters behind a popular entitlement program.

When asked by Yahoo! News if the leaked presentation reflects a coordinated effort to appeal more to the Tea Party movement, RNC spokesman Doug Heye replied that the group's chairman, Michael Steele, "was recently invited by Tea Party activists to a meeting, which he was happy to do. Following the meeting, it was clear those in the meeting shared a common goal: stopping the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda." As for plans to further that alliance with the inflammatory material in the memo, Heye reiterated what he'd told Politico earlier: "The language and the imagery will not be used in any capacity in the future."

There's no question that the Obama-as-Joker image—long a familiar icon at Tea Party rallies—is a toxic association for the GOP establishment. Oddly enough, though, that image's origins can be traced to the activist left. As revealed by the Los Angeles Times last year, the image was created by a supporter of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a University of Illinois student named Firas Alkhateeb, who told the Times that he uploaded the photo onto his Flickr page, and a conservative activist promptly snatched it up.

Such are the odd convergences of movement politics. However, the RNC may have more trouble distancing itself from the equation of Democratic policy with socialism, however, since Michael Steele is credited with originating that meme in the health care debate.

 

How is that a "leak"? We've known the GOP's been planning such a strategy to do this for weeks. You're late to the party.....again.

Your fear is that such a strategy will be effective, and your previous claims of an indefinite Democratic hold on Washington go UP IN FLAMES in a matter of months.


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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2010, 06:52:14 AM »
^^ Retard is posting again.

What part of the article title where it says "LEAKED" did you miss?  Or did you just not read the original source?
Perhaps you should share your little observation with Yahoo News then?  Hmmmm? 

The surprising thing is that it was found in a hotel room and not in the typical Repub hangout of a public men's restroom stall. 

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2010, 06:57:18 AM »
^^ Retard is posting again.

What part of the article title where it says "LEAKED" did you miss?  Or did you just not read the original source?
Perhaps you should share your little observation with Yahoo News then?  Hmmmm? 

The surprising thing is that it was found in a hotel room and not in the typical Repub hangout of a public men's restroom stall. 

Or Banery Franks' apartment.

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2010, 07:07:27 AM »
So the RNC's marketing department must consist of a seventh grader with a 6 year old Dell and dial up internet connection.

What is the purpose of including Scooby Doo on that ad?  Does it imply using Scooby Snacks as the "tchochkes" to give the pea brain fear mongers once they get riled up?  Maybe they should offer wealthy GOP donors butt plugs, adult diapers and Truck-Nutz instead.

The GOP obviously see incompetence as a selling point to their base.  Nice Job!


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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2010, 07:09:34 AM »
^^ Retard is posting again.

What part of the article title where it says "LEAKED" did you miss?  Or did you just not read the original source?
Perhaps you should share your little observation with Yahoo News then?  Hmmmm? 

The surprising thing is that it was found in a hotel room and not in the typical Repub hangout of a public men's restroom stall. 

You mean hotel rooms where Dems pay for whores and get pinched? OOPS!!!

Or in their offices where Dems "harrass" male staff workers, as part of the "most ethical Congress in history"?

Keep on yapping and thinking the Dems have Washington on lock.

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2010, 07:11:02 AM »
Steele and plenty of GOP operatives have come out criticizing this.

So defending it is pointless - the dems and repubs are publicly saying this kind of shit isn't necessary.

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2010, 07:12:23 AM »
Steele and plenty of GOP operatives have come out criticizing this.

So defending it is pointless - the dems and repubs are publicly saying this kind of shit isn't necessary.


its a non-issue meant to divert attention away from the rolling disaster that is the Maobama Admn. 

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2010, 07:12:43 AM »
So the RNC's marketing department must consist of a seventh grader with a 6 year old Dell and dial up internet connection.

What is the purpose of including Scooby Doo on that ad?  Does it imply using Scooby Snacks as the "tchochkes" to give the pea brain fear mongers once they get riled up?  Maybe they should offer wealthy GOP donors butt plugs, adult diapers and Truck-Nutz instead.

The GOP obviously see incompetence as a selling point to their base.  Nice Job!



So says the new candidate for Amber Lee Ettinger's "Obama Girl" gig, who keeps having to swallow the fact that the object of his lust (Harvard degree and all) can't tie his own shoe, even with a (one-time) supermajority in the Senate, a majority in the House, and news anchors eagerly bowing before him.


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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2010, 07:12:50 AM »
the GOp put this out to protect obama?

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2010, 07:14:09 AM »
the GOp put this out to protect obama?

No, all the attention the left wing side show and their msm lemmings are giving to this.

 

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2010, 07:14:27 AM »
its a non-issue meant to divert attention away from the rolling disaster that is the Maobama Admn. 

And, it ain't working.

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2010, 07:18:31 AM »
No, I meant like gay bars where GOP "Family Values" members hang out getting shafted up the ass in the back room.

Or the motel room where the members smoke pole and meth alternatively.  

Or outside the kindergarten rooms where they lurk in their white vans.  Maybe that is the point of including Scooby Doo in their crappy power point presentation.  Who knows.  They would certainly come off better by actually going into the school and learning something.  Like say math for example.

That page 10 of 72 is hilarious: “raised a total of $81,255,000 million”
gee, those elitists claimed to have raised $81.255 trillion and they’re whining about Obama spending a measily $1 trillion?

Bunch of retards.  


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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2010, 07:18:58 AM »
I'm sure there are plenty of examples of the democrats printing and distributing similar literature from the top levels of leadership, as we see here.

Somebody please post them.  Thanks!
240 - When Bush was president there were internet ads in 2004 claiming the republicans wanted to burn black baptist churches... ALthough if this "leak" is true it does no good for the Republicans. I agree. But this sort of thing goes on on both sides. Remember John "I was in Viet Nam" Kerry? What was his M.O.? That he was a vet Bush dodged the war, and he knows how to run a war. Meanwhile we find out Kerry was, um, let's say, a bit exaggerating his viet nam record a bit. Bush was a draft dodger so he automatically was unfit to serve us as president.
My how times have changed tho, right 240? Now that little pre-requisite is not important anymore for your side isn't it? Obama, some say he wasn't even born here, let alone a vet. I'm no "lifer" but I'm just saying...  :P

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2010, 07:21:17 AM »
No, I meant like gay bars where GOP "Family Values" members hang out getting shafted up the ass in the back room.

Or the motel room where the members smoke pole and meth alternatively.  

Or outside the kindergarten rooms where they lurk in their white vans.  Maybe that is the point of including Scooby Doo in their crappy power point presentation.  Who knows.  They would certainly come off better by actually going into the school and learning something.  Like say math for example.

That page 10 of 72 is hilarious: “raised a total of $81,255,000 million”
gee, those elitists claimed to have raised $81.255 trillion and they’re whining about Obama spending a measily $1 trillion?

Bunch of retards.  


But at least they pay their taxes ...  :o ;D

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2010, 07:21:34 AM »
Steele and plenty of GOP operatives have come out criticizing this.



Steele's reply = "Zoinks!"

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« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2010, 07:22:46 AM »
240 - When Bush was president there were internet ads in 2004 claiming the republicans wanted to burn black baptist churches... ALthough if this "leak" is true it does no good for the Republicans. I agree. But this sort of thing goes on on both sides. Remember John "I was in Viet Nam" Kerry? What was his M.O.? That he was a vet Bush dodged the war, and he knows how to run a war. Meanwhile we find out Kerry was, um, let's say, a bit exaggerating his viet nam record a bit. Bush was a draft dodger so he automatically was unfit to serve us as president.
My how times have changed tho, right 240? Now that little pre-requisite is not important anymore for your side isn't it? Obama, some say he wasn't even born here, let alone a vet. I'm no "lifer" but I'm just saying...  :P

240 has a VERY selective memory.  


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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2010, 07:24:58 AM »
No, I meant like gay bars where GOP "Family Values" members hang out getting shafted up the ass in the back room.

Or, offices, where Dem "Family Values" members knock up staff members, while their wives battle cancer. Then, deny their bastard children for two years.

Or where they get their Brokeback on with staff members (while married with kids), then blubber about being a "Gay American".




Or the motel room where the members smoke pole and meth alternatively.  

Or outside the kindergarten rooms where they lurk in their white vans.  Maybe that is the point of including Scooby Doo in their crappy power point presentation.  Who knows.  They would certainly come off better by actually going into the school and learning something.  Like say math for example.

That page 10 of 72 is hilarious: “raised a total of $81,255,000 million”
gee, those elitists claimed to have raised $81.255 trillion and they’re whining about Obama spending a measily $1 trillion?

Bunch of retards.  


Yet, the Harvard grad, from whose nuts you can be separated only with the "Jaws of Life" is floundering before your very eyes, threatening to crush your claims of a indefinite Democratic lock on Washington into face-powder in a mere matter of month.


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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2010, 07:25:16 AM »
Haha oh wow. The comments on the Politico story are fantastically well thought out, extensively researched, and intelligently argued. One such comment literally reads as follows: “Obama is a socialist. Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!”

I have no idea why this commenter orgasmed before he could finish writing his post. I’m roughly 60% certain that I don’t want to find out.



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« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2010, 07:28:40 AM »
Haha oh wow. The comments on the Politico story are fantastically well thought out, extensively researched, and intelligently argued. One such comment literally reads as follows: “Obama is a socialist. Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!”

I have no idea why this commenter orgasmed before he could finish writing his post. I’m roughly 60% certain that I don’t want to find out.




And none of this masks the fact that your beloved Obama is on the fast track to political doom, taking his party along with him.


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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2010, 07:32:11 AM »
^^ Retard having a meltdown.  Given the limit number of brain cells, it is a short melt.

RNC response = "Darn those meddling kids.  We almost got away with it"

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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2010, 07:35:15 AM »
This is some funny shit, I mean by listening to MSM you would think this document was written and hand delivered by satan himself.

Lets see
Repubs - Are racist, want old people to die, want children to starve.
Dems - Are socialist/communist, hate America


Guess what fear tactics have been around as long as politicans. Unfortunatly there is a large enoug segment that buys into this bullshit.
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Re: GOP campaign strategy leaked.
« Reply #24 on: March 05, 2010, 07:40:31 AM »
Haha oh wow. The comments on the Politico story are fantastically well thought out, extensively researched, and intelligently argued. One such comment literally reads as follows: “Obama is a socialist. Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!”

I have no idea why this commenter orgasmed before he could finish writing his post. I’m roughly 60% certain that I don’t want to find out.



I wonder if the same person who "leaked" this was the same person who "leaked" Bush's draft records.... Remember that? Didn't work out to well for liberal communists like Dan Rather and CBS did it... But, Rather states it is true if only he could prove it!! Sounds like Al Gore has been hanging out with him.