2010 fundraising
Cliff
"Republican Party's 2010 fundraising strategy: fear"
"Leaked document gives look into way RNC thinks of its donors; what's revealed
isn't pretty "
[
It hasn't been terribly hard to divine the Republicans' strategy for motivating
their base this year -- they've made it pretty clear, after all. It's fear. Fear
of President Obama, fear of change, fear of some giant socialist revolution, of
death panels, of government bureaucrats and liberals and anything else that
might pop up. Still, you wouldn't expect the Republican National Committee to
come right out and admit to that.
That's exactly what RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart did, however, as part of a
presentation he gave to donors and fundraisers last month. The presentation,
obtained by Politico's Ben Smith, includes several slides that portray the GOP's
own supporters in a very negative light, giving the impression that the RNC
believes its donors are stupid, and that it plans to treat them that way.
One of the slides (three can be seen below; the full presentation is available
for download in PDF form here) divides donors into two groups -- major donors
and smaller ones who are reached through direct marketing efforts. The latter
group, the slide says, gives for visceral reasons: "Fear" and "Extreme negative
feelings toward existing Administration" are listed. The slide also tags this
group with a term usually used in an less-than-flattering sense: "Reactionary."
The major donors don't fare much better; they give, the slide says, for
"Networking Opportunities" and "Access" and they're "Ego-Driven."
Another slide sums up the message this way: "What can you sell when you do not
have the White House, the House or the Senate ...? Save the country from
trending toward Socialism!"
....
"If you had any doubt, any doubt whatsoever, that the Republican Party has been
taken over by the fear-mongering lunatic fringe, those doubts were erased today.
The Republican Party, which barely 20 percent of Americans will even admit they
belong to anymore, seems hell bent on damaging their battered brand even further
by engaging in the most despicable kind of imagery, tactics and rhetoric
imaginable," DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse said in a statement
e-mailed to reporters.
"It's no wonder the RNC reacted with alarm when they learned the American people
would see this presentation. This revealing document proves what the Republican
party has long denied. But now, by their own admission, the express strategy of
the Republican party is not to offer new ideas, but 'fear.' Republicans can no
longer deny that they are peddling fear when they are literally selling it as
their path back to power."
One former RNC official told Salon he believes the story here is not the
contents of the presentation but the fact that it became public because,
according to Smith, a copy was left behind at the hotel where it was given.
"I would be kicking somebody's ass for leaving something like that lying
around," the former official said.
....
]
How very open & transparent of them.
Wingers & rethugs are born suckers.
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Cliff
Lookout
I just read a good story on this. Absolutely fascinating..and just
like the immature little twats in here.
Cliff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030405052.html
"Republicans try to control damage from fundraising document"
[
National Republican leaders scrambled Thursday to control damage caused by an
internal party document that caricatures President Obama as the Joker and stokes
fear of socialism to raise money in a critical election year.
The 72-page PowerPoint presentation reveals the blunt appeal to emotion that
both parties use to motivate donors and prefer to keep private. But its release
online and consequent cable chatter became an unwelcome distraction for
Republicans, because the strategy it outlined fit squarely with Democrats'
portrait of the GOP as the party of "no."
"You don't defend it," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele
said Thursday in an interview on Fox News.
....
]
Then rethugs jump in to defend it .....
"Some Republicans declared the largely mundane slideshow to be much ado about
nothing. "
[
His spokesman, Doug Heye, said he also had not seen the document and would not
say who approved it beyond Robert Bickhart, RNC's finance director, who made the
presentation to donors in Boca Grande, Fla.
Listed on the document is RNC Finance Chairman Peter Terpeluk Jr., a former
ambassador to Luxembourg and the co-chairman of President George H.W. Bush's
1992 reelection campaign. Terpeluk, who lives in Chevy Chase, was a major
fundraiser for Republican Sen. John McCain's White House bid in 2008. He did not
return a phone call Thursday requesting comment.
]
As in Palin & bushco ....
Wingers & rethugs really are idiots.
They fall for this stuff all the time.
Anyone found those "WMDs" yet?
Wingers lied.
People died.
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Cliff
Lookout
A first class Cluster Fuck.
Palin belongs on the top of the ticket!
Cliff
>> As in Palin & bushco ....
>> Wingers & rethugs really are idiots.
>> They fall for this stuff all the time.
>>
>> Anyone found those "WMDs" yet?
>>
>> Wingers lied.
>> People died.
>
>A first class Cluster Fuck.
>Palin belongs on the top of the ticket!
A quick search finds no Palin-related newsgroup
other than alt.satanism.
That's a bit odd.
Alt.stupid?
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Cliff
Lookout
Alt.youbetcha?
Cliff
There REALLY ought to be a NG about Palin by now.
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Cliff
torquemada
Lookout <mrLo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A first class Cluster Fuck.
> Oh LOOKIE who's back!
>
> Let's review some of your ueslessnet boasts, ya wannabesex-freak:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:52:43 -0600
> Message-ID: <3p8bn5p27s4d8f336...@4ax.com>
>
> "I can show you pics
> of my then girlfriend and now wife naked in the barracks."
>
> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:22:33 -0600
> Message-ID: <p1d4n5pedrchnffd7...@4ax.com>
>
> "And as I said I had several 3somes with two girls and me so hey..I was all for it."
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> MBWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!
>
> Come on kiddo, post the pics!!!!
>
> LOLOLOLOLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!