Republicans Portray Obama as the Joker in RNC Fundraiser Presentation
This is slide #31 from a PowerPoint presentation used at an RNC fundraising event in Florida. The Obama caricature has been around for a while, and this is the first time I’ve seen Pelosi as Cruella de Ville, but Scooby Doo? Harry Reid? Really?
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 [Robert] Bickhart and by the RNC Finance Chairman, Peter Terpeluk, a former ambassador to Luxembourg under President George W. Bush.
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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.
That’s probably because Republicans rarely even understand satire, so when they try producing it themselves, it turns out to be a failure – pretty much like everything else they do. Although if obstructing progress counts as “doing something” they have turned pro in that regard.
U said this is not unique to the RNC. Oh yea? What is the DNC equivalent of this discrace?
I didn’t say that. The person who wrote the Politico article said it. I don’t have an example of an equivalent slam produced by the DNC. Perhaps you should leave your comment on the Politico site.