Posted on 05/17/2012 2:46:35 PM PDT by Qbert
In a statement, Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades repudiates the plan being hatched by GOP operatives for an ad campaign tying Obama to Reverend Wright:
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And that’s good. The problem, though, is that it turns out that Romney himself attacked Obama over Wright on Sean Hannity’s show on February 7th of this year, during the GOP primary.
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The point here, as evidenced by Romney’s repudiation today of the GOP plan to revive Wright, is that leading Republicans know it’s not acceptable to play the race card as overtly as this. As Adam Serwer notes today, it’s basically as crass an exercise in race-baiting as portraying Obama as the “type of black man they cross the street to avoid,” and Republican leaders know this is a nonstarter, morally and politically.
At the same time, large swaths of the GOP base, and even of the conservative commentariat, are heavily invested in a deeply paranoid view of Obama that goes far beyond whether Obama sat in the pews and nodded along with Wright’s anti-American venom.
GOP leaders are very careful to declare Wright off limits, but leading Republican officials and opinionmakers have fed this broader and deeper strain of anti-Obama paranoia for literally years now, in all sorts of ways. By hinting that Obama doesn’t really wish the country well. Or by suggesting that he’s overly sympatheic towards America’s enemies. Or by failing to forcefully condemn birtherism.
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The quote above from Romney to Hannity captures this well. The problem isn’t just the invocation of Wright; it’s the broader message on display — that Obama harbors a secret desire to secularize the country. The invocation of Wright is just a symptom of the larger problem here.
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Establishment rinos are dims... it explains everything.
LS
I’d bet if it was something as clear cut as Obama having been a member of something called the Black Communist Party of the U.S.A. they couldn’t call him a communist because that’d be using the race card.
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Precisely why Soros chose a person who is 1/8 — or whatever — black to be POTUS.
Both Obama and his wife where/are members of the “new party”. The new party was formed by those who did not want to be readily identified as communists. The list of its members might astound you. On that list is nearly everyone whose name has been mentioned as a Chicago friend of the Obamas.
The list of its members might astound you.
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Sicken me, perhaps, but not astound me. The ObaMaos are just a cog in the wheel of the Soros-funded nation destroying apparatus.
The list of its members might astound you.
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Sicken me, perhaps, but not astound me. The ObaMaos are just a cog in the wheel of the Soros-funded nation destroying apparatus.
The Rinos and GOP knows exactly what they’re doing. Either they want obama to win because they know a crash so big is coming they don’t want to be in charge when it hits
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They’re simply doing what they’re told.
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