Posted on 12/06/2011 11:02:53 AM PST by maggief
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."
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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 the Democratic attacks lobbed at the GOP presidential candidates-- Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, for starters-- for "flip-flopping."
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Nothing helps you win an office like not clearly and directly pointing out the flaws of your opponent. Can’t do that without going after him. Attacking his policies are an attack on HIM, jerks. Even if you think it isn’t that’s how these lib knobs will spin it and then the media will pick it up and then you’re pooping yourselves and will tone down even further.
God we have such limp wristed pussies, if this is what they are really thinking.
Further why project this and allow it to get into the media and have Obama learn you’re scared sh1tless to do a frontal attack on him?
Way to go GOP. Apparently you want Obama to win in 2012.
They have zero perspective. 2012 is critical not to lose. The gloves need to come off. They will on the other side because they will do anything to win. Country cannot handle another 4 more years. Country cannot handle 3 more extreme liberal SCOTUS justices.
Words like ""risky, perilous, unsafe, chancy, costly, rewardless, discriminatory, unproven, dangerous, needlessly expensive, costly, abandoning the middle class, not thought out, proven ineffective, precarious, shaky, uncertain, insecure," work every time WHEN USED TO DESCRIBE HIS PROGRAMS, IDEAS, PLANS, RECORD, ETC, (BUT NOT HIM PERSONALLY) personal attacks, such as calling names personally just breeds sympathy.
I have been a Republican since my first vote in 1962. I left the GOP in 2006 when the RAT party took control and the GOP/Bush would not stand up and refute the lies being peddled by the RAT party. But if the GOP ahears to this “speak no evil of Zero†policy I will leave the Presidential box unchecked and write in Palin. The GOP will never get another penny. NO to mittens.
Ah, the RINOs strike again.
"Sir, the target is in sight!"
"Stand down, stand down."
Leaked to Yahoo. It looks like the lockstep traitors aren’t without moles. Vote Loudly with your letters and your wallets. I am on such good terms with the R(ino)NC that they hang up if I answer the phone rather than my kind wife.
The republicans.....the party of NO (backbone)
Obama must be called on his fake BC, his Connecticut Social Security Card, the imigration file held by Homeland Security, many more but these three will do for now. This guy has to hammered for the liar and treasonous bastard that he is.
Yeah, that's why that tactic failed with Cain, right?
The Rats do nothing BUT attack the person. They are the party of personal destruction. Hillary's ENTIRE career is based on absolutely nothing but personal threats.
THAT is the real world. Denying it means you lose. Encouraging people to deny it means you're teaching them to lose.
This is POLITICS we're talking about here. The DEFINITION of politics is that there are NO rules except to WIN.
THAT is the "philosophy" of the enemy. They bring guns to knife fights. The lie, and slander, and smear, and threaten. And they consist of PEOPLE who do these things. Not pointing out who those people are, and what they've done is called SURRENDER.
I got an auto-reply but I followed my email up with another response that really has me ticked off too. The leadership of the RNC stood idly by while the whole liberal establishment successfully personally smeared Herman Cain’s presidential run and we’re suppose to be all politically correct with Obama? Screw that!
Because any attacks will be called racism.
The GOP is the real reason this guy is in the WH. Where's the Tea Party? I can't stand the GOP.
On private call, Republicans say attacking 0bama personally is too dangerous: Yahoo News exclusive
Article, then # 49 , # 64 # 71.
[Thanks maggief, interesting comments in the thread.]
If they mean trying to make Obama appear some kind of monster, then I agree. He’s done all he can to make himself appear to be a husband with a wife and kids who loves to vacation and golf.
It’s a better approach to acknowledge he’s nice to his kids and his golf partners, but that he’s incompetent in the job.
Nothing personal...just can’t do the job.
When drafted they thought he’d be a rookie sensation. Reality has proven to them that he’s not. But, those who voted for him will have to defend their choice, and where they’ll defend it is with the “nice guy” label.
Agree that he loves golf and vacations and his kids, but the he’s not been able to do the job.
I actually see where they’re coming from. One of the main reasons Bush won in 2004 despite the country being lukewarm about his presidency were the vicious, unfounded, and mean-spirited attacks on him from the libs. We don’t want Obama to be able to paint himself as the victim. Stick to his failed policies, that’s what the American people hate.
THE GUTLESS PARTY STRIKES AGAIN
AARRGGHHH
RNC is being run by a bunch of puzzies. The libs are the ones that declaired war, and war it is. The Tea Party is taking all the flack that the RNC don’t want. Screw them. My money is going to the Tea Party and my candidate of choice.
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