Thread: GOP Memo Leaks... Advises 'Visceral' Outreach To Grassroots Donors Via 'Fear'...

Not like this is anything new or different for the "Party of No" ideas;

http://www.politico.com/news/stories...866_Page2.html

Originally Posted by Politico

Exclusive: RNC document mocks donors, plays on 'fear'


(ACTUAL RNC IMAGE!!!)

The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on “fear” of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism."

The strategy was detailed in a confidential party fundraising presentation, obtained by POLITICO, which also outlines how “ego-driven” wealthy donors can be tapped with offers of access and “tchochkes.”

The presentation was delivered by RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart to top donors and fundraisers at a party retreat in Boca Grande, Florida on February 18, a source at the gathering said.

In neat PowerPoint pages, it lifts the curtain on the often-cynical terms of political marketing, displaying an air of disdain for the party’s donors that is usually confined to the barroom conversations of political operatives.

The presentation explains the Republican fundraising in simple terms.

"What can you sell when you do not have the White House, the House, or the Senate...?" it asks.

The answer: "Save the country from trending toward Socialism!”

Manipulating donors with crude caricatures and playing on their fears is hardly unique to Republicans or to the RNC – Democrats raised millions off George W. Bush in similar terms – but rarely is it practiced in such cartoonish terms.

One page, headed “The Evil Empire,” pictures Obama as the Joker from Batman, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leaders Harry Reid are depicted as Cruella DeVille and Scooby Doo, respectively.

The document, which two Republican sources said was prepared by the party’s finance staff, comes as Chairman Michael Steele struggles to retain the trust and allegiance of major donors, who can give as much as $30,400 a year to the party.

Under Steele, the RNC has shifted toward a reliance on small donors, but the document reveals extensive, confidential details of the strategy for luring wealthy checkwriters, which range from luxury retreats in California wine country to tickets to a professional fight in Las Vegas.

The 72-page document was provided to POLITICO by a Democrat, who said a hard copy had been left in the hotel hosting the $2,500-a-head retreat, the Gasparilla Inn & Club. Sources at the event said the presentation was delivered by Bickhart and by the RNC Finance Chairman, Peter Terpeluk, a former ambassador to Luxembourg under President George W. Bush.

The RNC reacted with alarm to a question about it Thursday, emailing major donors to warn them of a reporter’s question, and distancing Steele from its contents.

“The document was used for a fundraising presentation Chairman Steele did not attend, nor had he seen the document,” RNC Communications Director Doug Heye said in an email. “Fundraising documents are often controversial.

“Obviously, the Chairman disagrees with the language and finds the use of such imagery to be unacceptable. It will not be used by the Republican National Committee – in any capacity – in the future,” Heye said.

The most unusual section of the presentation is a set of six slides headed “RNC Marketing 101.” The presentation divides fundraising into two traditional categories, direct marketing and major donors, and lays out the details of how to approach each group.

The small donors who are the targets of direct marketing are described under the heading “Visceral Giving.” Their motivations are listed as “fear;” “Extreme negative feelings toward existing Administration;” and “Reactionary.”

Major donors, by contrast, are treated in a column headed “Calculated Giving.”

Their motivations include: “Peer to Peer Pressure”; “access”; and “Ego-Driven.”

The slide also allows that donors may have more honorable motives, including “Patriotic Duty.”

A major Republican donor described the state of the RNC’s relationship with major donors as “disastrous,” with veteran givers beginning to abandon the committee, which is becoming increasingly reliant on small donors.

The party’s average contribution in 2009, according to the document, was just $40, and the shift toward a financial reliance on the grassroots may help explain Steele’s increasingly strident tone toward the Obama Administration.

While the crude portrayal of Obama may be - as Steele ‘s spokesman put it - “unacceptable,” other elements of the presentation may be of equal interest to close political observers.

The RNC plans to raise $8.6 million from major donors alone in 2010, less than 10% of its total 2009 fundraising take, which was primarily from small donors."

The center of that plan is an extensive, and colorful, schedule of events. Along with traditional fundraisers with conservative luminaries including Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes, the party plans to raise $80,000 for a trip to London to meet David Cameron, the British Conservative Party leader, on September 17.

The RNC’s “Young Eagles” – younger major donors and the only group, according to a major donor, continuing to pull its weight financially – are invited to a “professional bull riding event” in October, expected to raise $50,000, and to a no-holds-barred Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Las Vegas the same month, expected to raise $60,000.

The RNC’s aim, according to one section of the document: “Putting the Fun Back in FUNdraising.”

Oh the horror...the horror
Now back to our previously scheduled programming---


Obama Now Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes?
Obama names brother of undecided House Dem to Appeals Court.

BY JOHN MCCORMACK
March 3, 2010 6:15 PM


Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

“Scott Matheson is a distinguished candidate for the Tenth Circuit court,” President Obama said. “Both his legal and academic credentials are impressive and his commitment to judicial integrity is unwavering. I am honored to nominate this lifelong Utahn to the federal bench.”

Scott M. Matheson, Jr.: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Scott M. Matheson currently holds the Hugh B. Brown Presidential Endowed Chair at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1985. He served as Dean of the Law School from 1998 to 2006. He also taught First Amendment Law at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government from 1989 to 1990.

While on public service leave from the University of Utah from 1993 to 1997, Matheson served as United States Attorney for the District of Utah. In 2007, he was appointed by Governor Jon Huntsman to chair the Utah Mine Safety Commission. He also worked as a Deputy County Attorney for Salt Lake County from 1988 to 1989. Prior to joining the University faculty, Matheson was an associate attorney from 1981 to 1985 at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C.

Matheson was born and raised in Utah and is a sixth generation Utahn. He received an A.B. from Stanford University in 1975, an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980.

So, Scott Matheson appears to have the credentials to be a judge, but was his nomination used to buy off his brother's vote?

It would work better and be more acurate if the raised money using HORROR instead of simple fear.

I suspect alot of that "fear" is that he is going to take away white people's stuff and give it to black people. I know that's Rush's "fear".

The trend to socialism? I supose that's a platform and agenda that is TO THE RIGHT of Richard Nixon.

Heck- even his proposed health reform plan is similar, if not TO THE RIGHT of what republicans proposed in the early 90's.

Is the fear that they are worried about spending and increased debt? Republicans forget that Clinton had imposed paygo rules and handed Bush W a surplus. The republicans then got rid of paygo - leading to the crisis we have now.

Is the fear that he is soft on defense? Obama has escalated the war in Afganistan and done nothing substantial to draw down troops in Iraq. He has continued Bush's policy on terrorists.

Where's the socialism?

Alarm, anxiety, awe, consternation, dismay, dread, fearfulness, fright, horror, intimidation, panic, shock, trepidation, trepidity TERROR???

Oh Noes!! The Socialism is gonna get me!!!

Honestly I'm pretty sure these people don't even know what socialism means.

Nutcase is a racist

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

Nutcase is a racist

I'm also a socialist, a marxist, a communist, and fascist. And a muslim.

Originally Posted by nutcase

I'm also a socialist, a marxist, a communist, and fascist. And a muslim.

I'm Kenyan.

Drop your knee - squat to pee.

David Brooks mentioned the other night that Ronald Reagan couldn't even make it into the House of Representatives these days.

Fucking socialist.

Originally Posted by nutcase

I'm also a socialist, a marxist, a communist, and fascist. And a muslim.

Your pastor is too.

Originally Posted by char

David Brooks mentioned the other night that Ronald Reagan couldn't even make it into the House of Representatives these days.

Fucking socialist.

My favorite tidbit about Reagan is the split between him and Brady after the assassination attempt. One was the target who soon after spoke at an NRA conference. The other was forever wounded and we now have important background checks because he and his family fought for them. Reagan was in support but talked a good game out both sides of his mouth. Kinda like that joker poster.......


My second favorite is the little incident of gassing students during a peaceful protest at Berkley when he was Gov of CA.


That guy was a beacon of morals.....

"The 72-page document was provided to POLITICO by a Democrat, who said a hard copy had been left in the hotel..."

This is my favorite part. Not really sure why. Maybe because I am not sure why being a democrat matters.

Originally Posted by mock vomit

Not like this is anything new or different for the "Party of No" ideas;

You really got your White House media talking points down MV. The party of No Ideas. How origonal.

You really mean "Party of No Ideas - that I like"

See if it's a left wing idea, it's an idea. But if it's a right wing idea, it doesn't qualify as an idea. Therefore, No Ideas.

It must be nice to live in your world.

Even the new Rolling Stone is calling attention to the Repub's obstructionist genius... (It really is politically very savvy) Rolling Stone is pretty conservative right?

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

See if it's a left wing idea, it's an idea. But if it's a right wing idea, it doesn't qualify as an idea. Therefore, No Ideas.

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What ideas do they have to fix health care and the economy? Seriously, lay them out here.

Originally Posted by nutcase

What ideas do they have to fix health care and the economy? Seriously, lay them out here.

For example...

http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/

One Bill... of many submitted by party members.

http://www.roadmap.republicans.budge...WI_050_xml.pdf

Don't forget, I'm not a republican.

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

For example...

http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/

One Bill... of many submitted by party members.

http://www.roadmap.republicans.budge...WI_050_xml.pdf

Don't forget, I'm not a republican.

I think its hilarious when you guys point to Ryan's proposals to claim the republicans have ideas. Even the republicans won't support his proposals. Personally I think he has some ideas that at least deserve some discussion- but the republicans are disowning his proposals.

Again- show me some actual ideas that the republican leadership has.

Originally Posted by nutcase

I think its hilarious when you guys point to Ryan's proposals to claim the republicans have ideas. Even the republicans won't support his proposals. Personally I think he has some ideas that at least deserve some discussion- but the republicans are disowning his proposals.

Again- show me some actual ideas that the republican leadership has.

You asked for Republican ideas. Theres a shit load. Ryan is the leadership. He's a leader, he's leading. The rest of them can fuck off, they are why I'm not a republican. You expecting me to defend Repubs? Not as a group, unless of course the group is doing the right thing, like opposing the health care bill.

Which Repubs won't support Ryan? They are as much a part of the problem as the liberals. Someone eventually has to have the balls to fix this shit. Ryan has the balls AND gets elected - In liberal S.E. WISCONSIN!. See it can be done.

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

You asked for Republican ideas. Theres a shit load. Ryan is the leadership. He's a leader, he's leading. The rest of them can fuck off, they are why I'm not a republican. You expecting me to defend Repubs? Not as a group, unless of course the group is doing the right thing, like opposing the health care bill.

Which Repubs won't support Ryan? They are as much a part of the problem as the liberals. Someone eventually has to have the balls to fix this shit. Ryan has the balls AND gets elected - In liberal S.E. WISCONSIN!. See it can be done.

I was just responding to you saying that they are not the party of no. Ideas from one member that noone will support does not mean they have ideas. One republican has ideas. The rest of the republicans have zero ideas. AS a party they are the party of NO.

Originally Posted by nutcase

I was just responding to you saying that they are not the party of no. Ideas from one member that noone will support does not mean they have ideas. One republican has ideas. The rest of the republicans have zero ideas. AS a party they are the party of NO.

http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare

Originally Posted by Downbound Train

http://www.gop.gov/solutions/healthcare

Dude, like 50% of the statements in the beginning of that page start "Speaker Pelosi’s Government Takeover of Health Care..."

I think that's what bugs me most about Conservatives/Republicans in our US Senate and House... They are 99.9999% talking point bullshit 99.999% of the time. Seriously, you know and I know that the whole "Speaker Pelosi" and "Government takeover of health care" lingo is used because it poll tested the worst... Both parts are LIES PURE AND SIMPLE.

The Conservative/Republican "ideal" in almost every category from Health Care Insurance Reform to Corporate Corruption to Pollution is pure 1984 double speak. Period.

Originally Posted by mock vomit

Dude, like 50% of the statements in the beginning of that page start "Speaker Pelosi’s Government Takeover of Health Care..."

I think that's what bugs me most about Conservatives/Republicans in our US Senate and House... They are 99.9999% talking point bullshit 99.999% of the time. Seriously, you know and I know that the whole "Speaker Pelosi" and "Government takeover of health care" lingo is used because it poll tested the worst... Both parts are LIES PURE AND SIMPLE.

The Conservative/Republican "ideal" in almost every category from Health Care Insurance Reform to Corporate Corruption to Pollution is pure 1984 double speak. Period.

I agree, those are poll tested talking points. I also agree, they undermine the point for someone who is paying attention because they are so blatantly talking points. But thay are not lies. They are true. They are 100% accurate statements. This bill represents the ultimate result of 100 years of progressive erosion of American values. It is the tipping point, the point of no return. It's all over for America when this passes.