Leaked documents reveal GOP plan to use scare tactics to raise money

[blitzburgh55]

National GOP leaders are doing damage control today after a Politico scoop lifted the curtain on the party's plan to tap voters' "fear" in the coming campaign season. The PR problem started when an absent-minded attendee at the Republican National Committee (RNC) confab on February 18 in Boca Grande, Florida, left a 72-page document from its 2010 strategizing session in a hotel room. Today, Politico reporter Ben Smith's expose is making headlines.

The memo tracks the fundraising presentation that RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart delivered to the RNC's $2,500-a-head annual retreat. The best path to victory in 2010, the document advises, is for Republican candidates to depict themselves as the best hope for resisting the "trending toward socialism" taking shape in a Democrat-dominated Washington.

And the document doesn't shy from making its points graphically. MSNBC showed the images this morning on Morning Joe:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1217

[KansDem]

1. Uh-oh...

The memo also makes fun of major RNC donors, categorizing some as "ego-driven" and easily pacified with "tchochkes" (a Slavic word for toys).

"Major donors?" This to me means "rich folks." So the GOP believes this group of donors can be easily pacified with toys?

Hey, rich folks! See the sparkly trinket? See it? Isn't it pretty? Give us your money! See the sparkly trinket? See it? Isn't it pretty?...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! :rofl: