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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Politics Leaked Republican Memo: Donors Are "Fear and Ego Driven"

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:01 AM

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OMG this is the best day Democrats have had since November 4th, 2008. First, anti-gay Republican legislator Roy Ashburn is arrested on a DUI after allegedly leaving a gay club and NOW Politico has gotten ahold of a leaked Republican fundraising strategy that basically confirms all our cynical jokes about what the leaders for of the RNC must be thinking.

Here are some highlights of the 72-page Powerpoint (pdf) Politico says it got from a Democrat who found a discarded copy at a posh Republican retreat.

Politico notes: "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."

"The Republican National Committee thinks its funders are so stupid that they can soak them the basis of “fear,” “socialism,” and tchotchkes," says the Daily Beast.

My main concern: Republicans can raise millions of dollars but they can't hire a goddamn graphic designer? What is this country coming to? More images from the memo below the cut.

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This has to be a joke. Is the Onion behind this?
Posted by Abusive on March 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM · Report
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Christ, what an awful powerpoint. Looks like it was made by a fifth grader with no regard for the "one slide per minute" rule. You can be sure that most of the audience was dozing by slide 30.
Posted by pork chop on March 4, 2010 at 12:09 PM · Report
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I thought it might be a hoax, too, Abusive. That's definitely a possibility, especially given the crappy graphic design. But Politico has "two Republican sources" who confirm where it came from so...
Posted by s.mirk on March 4, 2010 at 12:30 PM · Report
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Why hasn't anyone brought up the Obama in whiteface? Republicans protest that they're not racist, but if it makes presentation like a racist...
Posted by natureboy on March 4, 2010 at 12:45 PM · Report
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Is whiteface racist? I thought it was just for mimes and Desire-era Bob Dylan.
Posted by Dave Bow on March 4, 2010 at 1:26 PM · Report

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