A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC†era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from. …
… The plan, which is awaiting approval, calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whose race-related sermons made him a highly charged figure in the 2008 campaign.
King of takes your breath away, doesn’t it? Followed by a hearty WTF????
Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade, is spending $10 million of his own bucks on this, um, plan, which tells us that just because you’ve got a lot of money doesn’t mean you aren’t an idiot. Like we didn’t get Rev. Wright rubbed in our faces enough times in the 2008 campaign? And you’ll notice how that turned out.
Update: Steve M suggests there could be less to this story than meets the eye. It appears (reading between lines) that the proposal was leaked to the press by the Romney campaign, which then let it be known that Mittens is against the proposal. This allows the Romney campaign to announce that Romney is above petty character assassination.
This actually makes sense to me, in a demented way. Mittens has taken some hits lately for not standing up to the fringe, such as letting go of a gay foreign policy adviser without a whimper, and standing dumb as a stump while a supporter accused the President of treason. Since Mittens cannot be spontaneously principled, they have to choreograph him being principled.
Yeah, but why would Ricketts go along with that idea?
Very weirdly, this afternoon Ricketts denounced the plan himself. Political theater, I say.
Two things:
1. I guess they couldn’t find the teacher at the school (Madrassa?) that the President went to in Indonesia.
I’m waiting for them the say that he/she (though, more probably a he), killed himself as a suicide-bomber somewhere along the line.
2. And Ricketts sister, Laura, is an Obama ‘bundler’, and the only openly gay owner of a major sports franchise, the Chicago Cubs – along with her brother and co-owner, the Mitt-financing asshole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ricketts
HA!!!
That must make for some real interesting family get-togethers!
And, what is it exactly that Rev. Wright told/taught President Obama that will all of a sudden, manifest itself in his 2nd term, that he kept on the down-low in the 1st?
Truth, really, IS stranger than fiction.
It’s just too bad that we don’t live in fictional times!
This hatred and insanity, sadly, is non-fictional.
Cartoonish, yes – but definitely non-fictional.
Oh, sweet corn on the cob. Why does Omaha + billionaire always = nutjob?
Well, OK, Uncle Warren’s only half-gonzo, but Herman Cain’s been oxygen-deprived for a long time obviously, and I’d never heard of this a**clown Joe Ricketts until today, thank goodness.
btw, my hometown rag the Omaha Weird Harold says Ricketts is denying he ever planned any such scurrilous hatemongering. Meanwhile, the NY Times reports:
[Ricketts’] group suggested hiring as a spokesman an “extremely literate conservative African-American*†who can argue that Mr. Obama misled the nation by presenting himself as what the proposal calls a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincolnâ€
…and I wonder, how is that Abe Lincoln crack anything but a compliment?
*Allan West, ya s’pose?!
The Reverend Wright issue is so last election.
Too bad it was nixed. It would have opened up the discussion on Romney’s religion. Or could that be the underlying reason he spoke out against it?
Chris: I’ll take Wright vs. Golden Salamanders any day. One position is rhetorically excessive; the other is just plain nutso.
mittens would have not been well served to have supported this the last thing he wants is for people to focus on the candidates religion.He is still trying to get the right to forget about his own religion, which is a tough pill for the evangelical base to swallow.Mitt is the parties man. The right is counting on it’s base to vote on hate for Obama, not love for mittens.
As I said earlier I think it is soo cute that all these little righties have so many ideas to take down Obama..it is like watching monkeys throwing poop hoping to find that one turd that will stick and take Obama down. Yet all of them put together lack any ideas for how to move this country forward.And yes I grasp that they have ideas alright..but they are so bat shit crazy that they cannot tell the masses. The right has a product line that no one would buy. So they play the shell game with voters.
I still think this circus goes on until America see’s them face to face.Mittens will look like a slimey used car salesmen (no offense to those in pre- owned sales) and Obama will look like a calm steady leader who makes wise choices over knee jerked ones. No matter who you plan to vote for you can already SEE Obama as President..one has to paint ones own picture of mittens as one and that is going to get very hard for people to do after seeing them together.What I am waiting to see is Obama giving mittens the verbal pat on the head , the “awww isnt that cute?” moment where grown up Obama explains to little mittens why grown folks are in charge of the white house. That little public scolding mittens is CERTAIN to set himself up for is all it will take to send mittens back to Mass.
What wouldn’t I give to hear a sarcastic President Obama comment on Romney’s generous discretion,
“That’ mighty white of ya, Mitt!”
Ricketts isn’t running for anything. He just took one for the team. Cheaper than the other plan by 10 million
All I can say is, the debates are gonna be a hoot.
Romney will be like a ferret on crack, and the upitty nigra Muslim commie ferin’ born ill-eagle guy’s gonna wipe the floor with him.
I’m voting for the usurper. Better a uspurper with character than an unprincipled vulture capitalist without.
I almost wanted to feel bad for Mittens that he HAD to out-crazy the other repgus in the primary, and now he wants to be his regular boring businessman self but can’t, but really, this is karma. When money says “jump!” you say “How high?” and Mittens is not used to being the one saying “how high?”
“I stand behind all the misstatements I have made.” Mittens? No, Dan Quayle, vp under Bush I. There are at least 26 such scratch-your-head “statements” made by Dan that could easily have been made, and are being made by Mittens.
I don’t know anyone, Republican or Democrat, who ever thought that Dan would be made president should George I kick the bucket. And now we’re actually considering a clone of Dan becoming president? I’m beginning to think that alQaeda has dumped something into our water system that is slowly but surely eating away at our brains.
Felicity,
Quayle, for all of his many, many, faults, was a combination of Socrates, Gandhi, and Einstein, compared to Mittens.
Mitt is “Baby Doc” Bush II, without the, dare I say it – charm – and boyish qualities, that endeared W to people whose IQ’s register at below 100, have a high fear/racist/misogynist/homophobe, level, or bright, sociopathic authoritarian Conservatives.
Mitt is a “Baby Doc” Bush Conservative, without an atom of ‘compassion.’