Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 02:37 am Post subject: RNC document mocks donors, plays on 'fear'
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The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on “fear” of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism."
The strategy was detailed in a confidential party fundraising presentation, obtained by POLITICO, which also outlines how “ego-driven” wealthy donors can be tapped with offers of access and “tchochkes.”
The presentation was delivered by RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart to top donors and fundraisers at a party retreat in Boca Grande, Florida on February 18, a source at the gathering said.
In neat PowerPoint pages, it lifts the curtain on the often-cynical terms of political marketing, displaying an air of disdain for the party’s donors that is usually confined to the barroom conversations of political operatives.
The presentation explains the Republican fundraising in simple terms.
"What can you sell when you do not have the White House, the House, or the Senate...?" it asks.
The answer: "Save the country from trending toward Socialism!”
Manipulating donors with crude caricatures and playing on their fears is hardly unique to Republicans or to the RNC – Democrats raised millions off George W. Bush in similar terms – but rarely is it practiced in such cartoonish terms.
One page, headed “The Evil Empire,” pictures Obama as the Joker from Batman, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leaders Harry Reid are depicted as Cruella DeVille and Scooby Doo, respectively.
The document, which two Republican sources said was prepared by the party’s finance staff, comes as Chairman Michael Steele struggles to retain the trust and allegiance of major donors, who can give as much as $30,400 a year to the party.
BEN SMIT, Exclusive: RNC document mocks donors, plays on 'fear' - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/33866.html (last visited Mar. 3, 2010). _________________ David Traver
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 04:04 pm Post subject: RNC document
What follows is a serious RANT
Wow! I saw the picture of the President and I didn't see him as the Joker. I saw an african-american man in Whiteface. I am old enough to remember the old minstrel shows where white "actors" dressed in blackface portrayed "uppity, stupid, criminal or otherwise stereotyped persons of color. Amos & Andy was a very mild example. Hate seems to be way up these days. Guns @ Starbucks, Death panels, the "deliberate attempt to destroy our free enterprise system", an American President who is both a "socialist" and a non-American, all that the "founding fathers" set up being subverted. Where are we going?
One idea proposed in a book maybe 10 years ago was that the USA was essentially divided into about 5 very different areas of the country & maybe they can't be reconciled.
I don't know if the Czechoslovakian & Quebec Libre solutions are the answer but we seem to be getting closer and closer every day "Hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today" and "Jail to the Chief" are truly polite conversation compared to the stuff that is voiced today by television. print, etc instead of stuff shouted in a park
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blasted the Republican National Committee on Sunday for producing a fundraising presentation that mocked the President and congressional leadership as cartoon villains and socialists.
Asked about the document -- which outlines how "ego-driven" wealthy donors could be persuaded to take out their checkbooks -- the Kentucky Republican called it "certainly not helpful" to the Republican cause.
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