Originally Posted By FaMulan <a href="http://www.aolnews.com/the-point/article/fundraising-memo-reveals-gop-plan-to-exploit-fear-of-obama/19383182" target="_blank">http://www.aolnews.com/the-poi...19383182</a> "Democrats were quick to pounce on their opponent's fumble. Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse fired off a statement charging that the presentation erased all doubts that "the Republican Party has been taken over by the fear-mongering lunatic fringe" and has "sunk to new and unbelievable lows.""
Originally Posted By FaMulan Now for my take on the article. I hate it that Politics has become a winner-take-all, loser-obstruct-everything GAME. These politicians have the lives and well-being of thousands (municipal) to hundreds of millions (National) people on their hands and all they can think about is discrediting the opposition and not working together to find and enact solutions to all the problems facing the country.
Originally Posted By snappyfun "the Republican Party has been taken over by the fear-mongering lunatic fringe" This from a party run by union thugs and groups like ACORN. Boy if people could only look in the mirror and see the truth we would all be better off.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy ^^ Do you really hate minorities and poor people that much? Bigotry is not a good character trait.
Originally Posted By snappyfun "Bigotry is not a good character trait" Bigotry and hate excludes no party or group.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Just be glad you're not a republican politician, and have to stand in front of microphones and cameras and try and defend opposing a health care bill and a jobs bill. Do they think they can say that americans don't want health care and they don't want jobs? With a straight face? They'll sure try. All while blocking unemployment benefits, COBRA benefits, medicare payments to doctors, and causing currently employed people to be furloughed. They'll say that the stimulus "didn't create a single job" on the SAME DAY their own CBO credits it with creating or saving jobs. AND YET - we get chowderheads like 'snappyfun' and a million more just like him who'd rather deny the reality in front of their nose and spout crap about acorn and unions like some dutiful parrot. Make no mistake - this is the core of the GOP - directly attributale to the actual Republican National Committee - not some whack fringe group. And what to they do? They include images of the president as the Joker, label him as socialist, portray the speaker of the house and the senate majority leader as Cruella deVille and Scooby Doo, and refer to them as the "Evil Empire". Funny, huh. >> The presentation also outlined how donors will be encouraged to give to Republicans at a time when the party holds neither the White House nor Congress: "Save the country from trending toward Socialism!" << >> [The document] cites "fear" and "extreme negative feelings toward existing administration" as reasons why donors might contribute to the GOP. << Translation: Fearmongering and demogoguing - the only tricks the GOP has left. Along with flat out lying and smearing. How despicable can these people get?! How low can they sink and still maintain credibilty the the yahoos out there who believe in them? What does this say about the ethics and morality of your garden variety rank and file republican that they would tolerate this? No comment from GOP party chairman Michael Steele. Who's surprised. Instead he sends out an underling - >> GOP spokesman Doug Heye said "It will not be used by the Republican National Committee - in any capacity - in the future." << Ah. "In the future". Got it. Then there's this - >> Raynard Jackson, a GOP activist who has worked to attract blacks and other minority members to the party, was outraged by word of the presentation. "This is just beyond the pale," he said. "And the best we can get is Michael Steele issuing a statement through a spokesman? And they wonder why they can't get minorities, especially black people, involved in the party?" << He's just now getting the news? I'm sure he'll be joining the stampede of respectable people away from the republican party. It just took him longer than most. >> GOP aides privately said that the document might hurt the RNC because it suggested that its major donors may be "ego-driven" to give to the party and that they might be motivated by "tchotchkes." << More evidence that republicans have nothing but contempt for the american people - including their own contributors. Such loathesome and shameless people.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 How about responding to the topic at hand? What's your take on the document, which isn't from some fringe group, but from the party? Doesn't this show contempt for their own donors?
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< How about responding to the topic at hand? >>> You'll notice that the far right around here will almost *NEVER* address the topic at hand when the argument goes against them. Plenty of clever quips, one-liners, distortions of what someone else has said, and distractions from whatever the topic at hand, yes - but actually discussion the issue? Probably not.
Originally Posted By dshyates My take on Snappyfun is that He/she is eat-up with the rhetoric. Can't separate the words from the reality.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>The highest value in the conservative moral system is the perpetuation and strengthening of the conservative moral system itself!!<< <a href="http://www.truthout.org/obama-tea-parties-and-battle-our-brains57089" target="_blank">http://www.truthout.org/obama-...ins57089</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck Woops! >>The controversial RNC fundraising presentation released earlier this week is now creating a stir among members of the Tea Party movement. "They don't get it," Judson Phillips, the organizer of last month's National Tea Party Convention, told the Daily Beast about the RNC. "They freaking don't get it." "Can they be any more insulting? I guess they could have called us teabaggers, but Holy Cow, I'm so blown away by the whole thing I'm just sitting here stunned," Phillips said, according to a report by the Daily Beast's Benjamin Sarlin.<< <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/05/rnc-fundraising-presentat_n_487220.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...220.html</a>
Originally Posted By gadzuux What's a teabagger to do? They loathe the democrats, and the republicans privately diss them. It's a topsy-turvy world when teabaggers are more sensible than the republican party.
Originally Posted By Mr X And this just as the GOP is trying to woo the baggers "back into the fold". I wonder if this might not be the tipping point where the fringes go third party. They wouldn't be all that important by themselves (though still harmful to the right wing), but imagine if some of those "major donors" decide their ego driven contributions can be better served elsewhere?
