Unkle_John
03-05-2010, 08:06 AM
Cited from many news source (except FOX, because they feel that this isn't real):
"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 fund-raising 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 Thursday morning on "Morning Joe":"
"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. "It's certainly not something that Chairman Steele needs to be dealing with, given his tenure as chair of the RNC, because it seems like just when things quiet down, something else comes up. To me, at least, in reading this and looking at it probably the bigger story is these things just keep popping up under his watch, as opposed to the actual content of this."
Here is a google news search so you can read for your own:
The Google News (http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&topic=n&ncl=d2P1RHKCLMqAbSMVj8b3duNqtM8PM).
"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 fund-raising 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 Thursday morning on "Morning Joe":"
"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. "It's certainly not something that Chairman Steele needs to be dealing with, given his tenure as chair of the RNC, because it seems like just when things quiet down, something else comes up. To me, at least, in reading this and looking at it probably the bigger story is these things just keep popping up under his watch, as opposed to the actual content of this."
Here is a google news search so you can read for your own:
The Google News (http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&topic=n&ncl=d2P1RHKCLMqAbSMVj8b3duNqtM8PM).