Posted on 12/06/2011 1:30:12 PM PST by ColdOne
Yes, he was.
RNC Decides Not to Criticize a President Who is Cynically Dividing and Destroying the Country!
December 06, 2011
He’s going to talk more about it tomorrow -— along with what he said was “the most outrageous speech Obama has given. Cookie sent me six or eight sound bites, and I said, “Look, with all that I’ve gotta do here in our remaining half hour, there just not enough time to get ‘em all in there with appropriate commentary.” So I said, “Just wait ‘til tomorrow. It isn’t gonna be long.” bttt
These republican feckless, ball-less ones are mistaken: nobama is a loser...UBER-loser.
Let me see . . . That means Repubic National Committee.
Doesn't it?
This man is a disgrace!
Thanks for the heads-up. I will make a point of listening tomorrow. Thank goodness he’s online.
http://www.rushradio1200.com/main.html
LOL Priebus is no more my boy than Steele was. Besides, I haven’t donated to the RNC in years.
I swear, you’re retarded!
We are up to the armpits in people too ignorant to recognize Obama for what he is, a Marxist revolutionist.
Shows a serious lack of judgment on your part.
Which was why I did a regular whoop and holler when I saw your name on the thread last january 14.
You're probably the guy who asked the moderator to delete my post ~ which he did.
LOLOLOLOL.
Right. They don’t get it and they’re beyond stupid.
I think, (and hope) their phone calls to me have ceased.
Haven’t received RNC mail for quite a while.
Speaking of mail. I just sent a FR mail to you.
You’re welcome. bttt
Here’s an 3:40 PM UPDATE to the original article at Yahoo.
Scroll to the bottom for the scared-ass RINO ape’s update (because they got “caught” in what was supposed to be a “private” RNC phone call):
On private call, Republicans say attacking Obama personally is too dangerous: Yahoo News exclusive
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/yahoo-exclusive-republicans-disclose-private-call-too-dangerous-175828684.html
By Rachel Rose Hartman Political Reporter
Republicans on a private Republican National Committee conference call with allies warned Tuesday that party surrogates should refrain from personal attacks against President Barack Obama, because such a strategy is too hazardous for the GOP.
“We’re hesitant to jump on board with heavy attacks” personally against President Obama, Nicholas Thompson, the vice president of polling firm the Tarrance Group, said on the call. “There’s a lot of people who feel sorry for him.”
Recent polling data indicates that while the president suffers from significantly low job approval ratings, voters still give “high approval” to Obama personally, Thompson said.
Voters “don’t think he’s an evil man who’s out to change the United States” for the worse—even though many of the same survey respondents agree that his policies have harmed the country, Thompson said. The upshot, Thompson stressed, is that Republicans should “exercise some caution” when talking about the president personally.
On the call—which Yahoo News was invited to attend because of a mistake by someone on the staff of the Republican National Committee—Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary for George W. Bush, encouraged Republicans to turn around Democratic attacks lobbed at the GOP presidential candidates (Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, for starters) for “flip-flopping.”
“I don’t like playing defense,” Fleischer said. He suggested the listeners to Tuesday’s call label the president as a flip-flopper on the following issues: opposing tax increases for those making under $250,000, opposing the Bush tax cuts, opposing raising the debt limit, and opposing a health care mandate.
“When it comes to flip flopping, Barack Obama is the king of flip flopping,” Fleischer said. “You can offer that to anybody,” he suggested.
Thompson noted that Obama may be boxed in by similarly strong personal approval numbers for Republican lawmakers as he ponders attacking the GOP House majority during the 2012 campaign.
“Obama running against Congress is not going to work,” Thompson said.
In a poll conducted in early November by the Tarrance Group and the Democratic group Lake Research for Politico and George Washington University, voters gave their personal member of Congress a 46 percent approval rating—even higher than the 44 percent personal approval numbers for Obama in the survey, Thompson said. (The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.)
Fifty-eight percent of the voters surveyed disapproved of how Obama is handling relations with Congress, according to Tarrance’s November poll.
“It’s a tough road for him when you look at those numbers,” Thompson said of the president.
Thompson said that his group’s research suggests that voters are giving Obama higher approval on foreign policy than on the issue of jobs and the economy.
Voters aren’t simply looking at the president as the symbol for a “broken Washington,” Thompson said.
Update 3:40 p.m.: Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer followed up with Yahoo News to say the story “misses the point” and that Tuesday’s call wasn’t about ways to avoid attacking the president, it was about sharing the best strategies for attacks. “It makes more sense to focus on his failed policies than on personal attacks,” Spicer told Yahoo News of their data regarding the president.
Ari Fleischer also emailed Yahoo News to share his complete list of Obama flip-flops, which, in addition to the points above, includes: promising to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term; vowing to lower unemployment below 8 percent following the stimulus; falling short on shovel-ready jobs; contradicting himself on constitutional rights— condemning Bush but then supporting “warrantless wiretaps, indefinite detentions, secret renditions and kept [Guantanamo] open; giving lobbyists waivers to work at the White House after saying they wouldn’t work there; and refusing public financing in 2008 after vowing to accept it.
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Rush:
RNC Decides Not to Criticize a President Who is Cynically Dividing and Destroying the Country!
December 06, 2011
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/12/06/rnc_decides_not_to_criticize_a_president_who_is_cynically_dividing_and_destroying_the_country
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Read your own link, dummy. Link
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I always liked Ari.
Priebus has decided to give it up and go with the pollsters. That's hardly a plan to bring victory in the next election.
BTW, just to make it perfectly clear where I stand, Obama is undoubtedly the second worst President in American history ~ and he attained that distiguished lack of accomplishment with seeming ease. It is unfortunate Priebus would like for us to not tell anybody that.
I agree, it’s a perfect logo for Republicans.
I heard part of this on Rush today and flipped out. These people do not speak for us at all, it’s the same crap as always - they are just looking to protect themselves and their cushy jobs - lose, but retain standing in DC. They simply cannot be this stupid. I’m sure McCain approves of this approach though, he’s still around...yes this approach served him well.
This is the MSM line for avoiding damage to The Cause by the logical inferences people might draw from his policies -- the disconnect is between intent and effect. DA's always argued that "intent follows the bullet", but the MSM is attempting to ensure, by its sympathetic coverage of Obama's baleful and deliberately hurtful policies, that the People do not follow the same logic with respect to their agonist.
People like that don't worry about anything as workaday as a job; they're more concerned about their social status, and not being bracketed by the Democratic Slime Machine with those pointy-headed, knuckledragging racist Southerners -- the Texas Chainsaw hatepuppets.
Rush was very emphatic about that in his last hour today. Nobody ever won squat, he pointed out, playing D.
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