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On private call, Republicans say attacking Obama personally is too dangerous
Yahoo News ^ | 12-06-11 | Rachel Rose Hartman

Posted on 12/06/2011 11:25:33 AM PST by Lazlo in PA

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 Tarrance Group, a Republican polling firm, said on the call. "There's a lot of people who feel sorry for him."

Recent polling data indicates that while the president still suffers 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.

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To: Lazlo in PA
"There's a lot of people who feel sorry for him."

So the wimp RNC says: "Don't tell the truth about him".

How's this for an Obama add: "Vote for my sorry a$$ because I can't handle loosing."

21 posted on 12/06/2011 11:34:23 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Sounds more like a conference call between Leno, Letterman, Stewart, SNL, etc. None of the pop culture “jokesters” seem to be able to find anything to comment on about Obama.


22 posted on 12/06/2011 11:35:19 AM PST by Fu-fu2
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To: Lazlo in PA

Cowards every last one of them.F*&king scum sucking cowards.


23 posted on 12/06/2011 11:35:31 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Lazlo in PA

Anybody who went after the Clintons drowned in a sh*tstorm. Going after Obama would be 100 times worse. When you have the leverage of the media on your side, you can’t lose. You can’t even be seriously damaged. But people leading the cause will be destroyed. Look what they did to Herman Cain and all he wanted to do was run against Obama. (I think Cain, who is authentically “black,” patriotic and American down to the bone, scared the liberals to death.)


24 posted on 12/06/2011 11:35:45 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Lazlo in PA

All you have to do is run an ad letting voters know that every time there is bad news, Zero runs to the golf course or goes on vacation and gets in several rounds of golf.


25 posted on 12/06/2011 11:35:53 AM PST by VicVega (LSU is with out a doubt the #1 team in the nation. GEAUX TIGERS)
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To: Lazlo in PA; Fred Nerks; LucyT

Attack Obama on his record and his style like any other bastid president who has deserved it during our history.

Affirmative action ends at the White Hut portico.

Feel sorry? How many Dems felt sorry for Nixon? These so called Republicans need to switch over to the Dem party, where they belong.


26 posted on 12/06/2011 11:36:23 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: TSgt
I admire Senator Obama and his accomplishments and I will respect him.”

But I have to tell you, I have to tell you, he is a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared as President of the United States.”

"Now, I don't mean that has to reduce your ferocity, but that just means it's got to be respectful. Ok?”

-- John McCain

(Three weeks before the November elections)

27 posted on 12/06/2011 11:36:23 AM PST by Obadiah (Obama's America: His Own Private Venezuela)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Some ‘private’ call.


28 posted on 12/06/2011 11:37:36 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Buckeye McFrog

So true. I can’t even find one person who will admit they voted for that POS.


29 posted on 12/06/2011 11:37:53 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: OCCASparky

For what the Marxist/Muslim has done to this country:

http://theobamafile.com/

People need to know his filthy, dark past.


30 posted on 12/06/2011 11:38:14 AM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Rush is taking care of the “problem” right now. Taking no prisoners.


31 posted on 12/06/2011 11:39:13 AM PST by BilLies (ABCBSNBCNN, NYTimes, WaPOSt , etc., hates your Traditional American guts!)
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To: Lazlo in PA; sauropod

And no, I don’t believe for one minute that Yahoo News was invited by accident.


32 posted on 12/06/2011 11:39:19 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Lazlo in PA

So it’s all about FEELINGS and EMOTIONS. Don’t you dare say anything naughty despite it being truthful because, you know, you might make the NYTimes editorial board mad.

Republicans are LOSERS!


33 posted on 12/06/2011 11:39:19 AM PST by Obadiah (Obama's America: His Own Private Venezuela)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Duplicate:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2816760/posts


34 posted on 12/06/2011 11:39:19 AM PST by maggief
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To: Lazlo in PA
Looks like a repeat of 2008.

You know what, I'll just wait for the civil war to start.

And, just a word of advice to our NWO socialist elite ruling class in this country, you might want to study up on your history on what happens to the leadership in failed socialists countries after the revolution.

35 posted on 12/06/2011 11:40:29 AM PST by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Scurrying little cockroaches in the dark


36 posted on 12/06/2011 11:41:08 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

I have frequently said that there is no need to choose between the theories that Obama is stupid and incompetent, or that he is evil and destructive. He is both. They are not incompatible.

And I would add a third component. He is insane. Malignant narcissism.

Should we feel sorry for him? All well and good, once he is shoveled out of the White House. Give him a nice padded cell and some nice attendants to keep him happy. Even let him out to play golf, with an ankle monitor and a few guards.

But the White House is not the place for people that you feel sorry for because they are all screwed up. Molested and abandoned as a child, drunken lout of a father, self-centered mother who couldn’t be bothered to have him around, Stalinist pederast to tutor him as a boy, brought up by Communists, taught to love himself and hate everyone else. Terrorists and mobsters and gay bathsters to complete the job in Chicago.

OK, he needs help. But not the presidency.


37 posted on 12/06/2011 11:41:08 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Lazlo in PA
S U R R E N D E R - M O N K E Y S
38 posted on 12/06/2011 11:41:49 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Romney, Newt, any chance whatsoever you might sometime pander to U.S. Citizens vs the illegals?)
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To: Lazlo in PA

I am convinced the Republican establishment craves minority status.

I went independent after the lame-duck disaster last winter. This just reminded me why it was a wise move. Those damned RNC elitists have all the spine of goose down.


39 posted on 12/06/2011 11:41:49 AM PST by ScottinVA (I miss America.)
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To: maggief

Worth repeating.


40 posted on 12/06/2011 11:42:17 AM PST by BilLies (ABCBSNBCNN, NYTimes, WaPOSt , etc., hates your Traditional American guts!)
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