Bash Romney cause he is MORMON:COOL...Talking HO! and WRIGHT!

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Shocker: The “Romney’s a Mormon” media suddenly aghast at mention of Jeremiah Wright









Here’s a fun exercise for Hot Air readers. Go to the New York Times website and do a 12-month search for “Romney Mormon,” and see how many hits come back. I’ll end the suspense — “about 12,000 results,” according to the search I conducted earlier today. Now, do a search on “Obama Jeremiah” in the same time frame, and you’ll get 4,190 hits, which is more than I expected but only about a third of the Romney-Mormon search results. Actually, the same search only turns up 4,330 hits since 1851, which means that before mid-2011 the Times only had less than 200 hits for that search item. The media has been asking questions about Romney’s faith all throughout this cycle’s 365 days, whether it has to do with polygamy (473 hits), racism (501 hits), contraception (265 hits), or contributions (2,040 hits). That’s more than article a day that mentions Romney, Mormon, and polygamy at once.

But when independent groups start asking about Barack Obama’s 20-year association with Jeremiah Wright? Horror!


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.

Timed to upend the Democratic National Convention in September, the plan would “do exactly what John McCain would not let us do,” the strategists wrote.

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.

“The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. Mr. Ricketts is increasingly putting his fortune to work in conservative politics.

Chuck Todd led his Daily Rundown today with some straightforward analysis of the risk/reward of such a strategy:



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Mitt Romney wasted no time in “repudiating” the idea, but pointed out the personal attacks from the Obama campaign last week:


Unlike the Obama campaign, Gov. Romney is running a campaign based on jobs and the economy, and we encourage everyone else to do the same. President Obama’s team said they would ‘kill Romney,’ and, just last week, David Axelrod referred to individuals opposing the president as ‘contract killers.’ It’s clear President Obama’s team is running a campaign of character assassination. We repudiate any efforts on our side to do so.

Guy Benson got an exclusive extended statement from Romney himself:


“I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they’ve described. I would like to see this campaign focus on the economy, on getting people back to work, on seeing rising incomes and growing prosperity — particularly for those in the middle class of America. And I think what we’ve seen so far from the Obama campaign is a campaign of character assassination. I hope that isn’t the course of this campaign. So in regards to that PAC, I repudiate what they’re thinking about … It’s interesting that we’re talking about some Republican PAC that wants to go after the president [on Wright]; I hope people also are looking at what he’s doing, and saying ‘why is he running an attack campaign? Why isn’t he talking about his record?’”

Team Obama played the victim, blaming Romney for his “tepid” reaction:


“The blueprint for a hate-filled, divisive campaign of character assassination speaks for itself. It also reflects how far the party has drifted in four short years since John McCain rejected these very tactics,” Messina responded. “Once again, Governor Romney has fallen short of the standard that John McCain set, reacting tepidly in a moment that required moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his own party.”

Jennifer Rubin notes the hypocrisy:


The hypocrisy takes your breath away. After months and months of ”Mitt Romney is a MORMON” coverage and endless insinuation that Romney’s faith will be problem for him (or that he is obliged to defend the precepts of his faith), the mention of possible ads featuring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the left-wing media in hysterics.

If you want to argue that religion is off bounds and that what counts is a candidate’s public record, the candidates’ own words and his own explanation for how faith affects his public conduct, then that standard should be equally applied. If, however, you want to hold candidates accountable for the precepts of their place of worship, then that standard should also be applied even-handedly.

Whether exploration of faith for a given candidate is productive for his opponent is an entirely different matter. I’ve argued to my friends on the right that it’s useless to go back to the albeit-troubling record of President Obama in Wright’s church and his association with characters like Bill Ayers; Americans don’t care. Moreover, the far better evidence of Obama’s left-leaning ideology is his own record. Instead of recounting what Wright said about Jews, it’s more relevant to recount what Obama has said to and about (“You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you”) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

I agree with Romney and Rubin that the Wright issue is a loser in this election. Republicans have this notion that people are unaware of Jeremiah Wright’s ranting, but the truth is that voters largely didn’t care in the economic collapse; they just wanted a change. The best argument against Obama will be Obama’s record, and every moment spent by the Romney campaign or major outside PACs talking about anything other than the core issues of the 2012 campaign — jobs, economy, deficits, debt, and Iran — play into the distraction strategy that Team Obama is desperate to use.

However, it’s ridiculous to put the onus on Romney for the action of an outside super-PAC that might focus on Wright while the media has been pursuing the “Mormons are strange” trope for the last twelve months, at literally more than a story a day.

 

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Pretty Please? High-Level GOP Strategists Working With Super PAC To Mount Ad Campaign Targeting Jeremiah Wright And His Relationship With Obama…




Romney will publicly distance himself from this and I don’t have a problem with him doing it (plausible deniability), the stuff Jeremiah Wright said is racist and ugly so any ad based on it will be extremely brutal, but Obama has to be held accountable for what he learned during his 20+ years in Wright’s pews and a Super PAC is the perfect vehicle to carry it out. Anyone think for a second the Dems would let Romney slide if he had a decades long relationship with an extremist pastor?


WASHINGTON — 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.

Timed to upend the Democratic National Convention in September, the plan would “do exactly what John McCain would not let us do,” the strategists wrote.

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.

“The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. Mr. Ricketts is increasingly putting his fortune to work in conservative politics.

The $10 million plan, one of several being studied by Mr. Ricketts, includes preparations for how to respond to the charges of race-baiting it envisions if it highlights Mr. Obama’s former ties to Mr. Wright, who espouses what is known as “black liberation theology.”

The 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 Lincoln.”

A copy of a detailed advertising plan was obtained by The New York Times through a person not connected to the proposal who was alarmed by its tone. It is titled “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good.”

 

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thats what my wife says

 

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its OK

to shit on A RELIGION and A WOMAN and a BLACK, so long as there is an R

 

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well OF COURSE it wont run


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LETS ATTACK MORMONS



Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy

By JIM RUTENBERG and JEFF ZELENY


2:30 p.m. | Updated Joe Ricketts, the billionaire behind the proposal to run ads highlighting President Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, has released a statement disavowing the politics it represents. The statement, released through Brian Baker, president of his “Super PAC,” the Ending Spending Action Fund, asserts that the proposal was merely that.


Joe Ricketts is a registered independent, a fiscal conservative and an outspoken critic of the Obama administration, but he is neither the author nor the funder of the so-called Ricketts Plan to defeat Mr. Obama that The New York Times wrote about this morning. Not only was this plan merely a proposal — one of several submitted to the Ending Spending Action Fund by third-party vendors — but it reflects an approach to politics that Mr. Ricketts rejects and it was never a plan to be accepted but only a suggestion for a direction to take. Mr. Ricketts intends to work hard to help elect a president this fall who shares his commitment to economic responsibility, but his efforts are and will continue to be focused entirely on questions of fiscal policy, not attacks that seek to divide us socially or culturally.

But in an interview on Wednesday evening, Mr. Baker did not reject the contents of the advertising proposal. The statement from Mr. Baker was released on Thursday as the Ricketts family sought to respond to the fallout from the story.

The proposal, however, indicates that Mr. Ricketts was more than a passing participant.

It opens with a quote from Mr. Ricketts saying if an advertisement about Rev. Wright that Mr. McCain’s team had produced four years ago – which Mr. McCain rejected – had aired, “They’d never have elected Barack Obama.”

And, a note about staffing for the effort reads, “With your preliminary approval at the New York meeting, we have discussed this plan in highly confidential terms with the following proposed team members. All are ready to jump into action upon plan approval.”

 

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THE INTIMIDATION STARTS



Ameritrade (Moral) Stock Is Plummeting






This morning we learned about the latest far-right smear campaign in the works, aimed at using race against President Obama in a series of SuperPAC-funded ads.

The confidential planning memo published by the New York Times makes it clear that Republican extremists will stop at nothing when trying "to inflame their questions on [Obama's] character." This deplorable effort demands a swift and strong response. If Republicans won't be the adults and repudiate this awful plan, we need to take action. The only way to get through to a person who is willing to stoop this low is hit him where it hurts.

The man behind this plan is Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. We need to use our voices -- which in this case is our money. I'm joining with other groups and activists in asking all those who have a TD Ameritrade account to close it. For Ricketts, the sound of TD Ameritrade accounts closing will echo loud and clear -- this divisive behavior will not be tolerated. That message will resonate across the corporate spectrum: consumers will not reward those corporations that spread hate with their business.

We will not stand idly by while these billionaires use their massive wealth to spread a message of character assassination. This concrete action can halt this outrageous spending that threatens to drown out voters' voices. This effort has a proven track record of working -- when you jeopardize a company's bottom line, executives tend to pay attention.

It is clear Republicans and their supporters will go to any length to win this election, but, as consumers, we do have a chance to change that. We have to say we will not permit our money be co-opted by firms whose founders, owners or major stakeholders promote division. We are putting the heads of these corporations on notice -- sponsor hate at your own risk.

 

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The left seems to forget Harry Reid is a Mormon too.

 

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The left seems to forget Harry Reid is a Mormon too.