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On private call, Republicans say attacking Obama personally is too dangerous: Yahoo News exclusive
YAHOO ^ | December 6, 2011 | Rachel Rose Hartman

Posted on 12/06/2011 11:02:53 AM PST by maggief

Republicans on a private Republican National Committee conference call with allies warned Tuesday that party surrogates should refrain from personal attacks against President Barack Obama, because such a strategy is too hazardous for the GOP.

"We're hesitant to jump on board with heavy attacks" personally against President Obama, Nicholas Thompson, the vice president of Tarrance Group, a Republican polling firm, said on the call. "There's a lot of people who feel sorry for him."

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On the call--which Yahoo News was invited to attend because of a mistake by someone on the staff of the Republican National Committee--Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary for George W. Bush, encouraged Republicans to turn around the Democratic attacks lobbed at the GOP presidential candidates-- Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, for starters-- for "flip-flopping."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012election; attackobama; elections; exposeobama; fubo; gop; gopattackobama; kenyanvillageidiot; obama; revealobama; rinos
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1 posted on 12/06/2011 11:03:01 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Nobody is going to take anything from Obama until they’ll say the words ‘Hussein’ and ‘Alleged birthplace’.


2 posted on 12/06/2011 11:04:31 AM PST by Sundog (When Hollywood defines reality there is no reality.)
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To: maggief

Even I agree that Zer0 is (a) sorry (excuse for an American, mush less a “leader”).


3 posted on 12/06/2011 11:05:05 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: maggief

Awwww...for EFF’S SAKE!!!!!

Ugh!

The Stupid Party strikes again.


4 posted on 12/06/2011 11:05:30 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: maggief

This woman is part of the problem. IMHO, a candidate has to run against Hussein. Otherwise, what’s the point?


5 posted on 12/06/2011 11:06:35 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: maggief

Their real response is to join him.


6 posted on 12/06/2011 11:06:49 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: maggief

This woman is part of the problem. IMHO, a candidate has to run against Hussein. Otherwise, what’s the point?


7 posted on 12/06/2011 11:06:56 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: maggief

Yeah, because the same strategy worked so well for John McCain....


8 posted on 12/06/2011 11:07:08 AM PST by PGR88
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To: maggief

The power of political correctness, and the fear of the enemy media rears it’s ugly head, yet again.

And we only have ONE candidate that even stands a chance of getting the message out above the din of media hate.


9 posted on 12/06/2011 11:08:46 AM PST by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: maggief

I think Rush is going to talk about this after the top of the hour. He said...”Repubs have had orders from ‘the top’ and I don’t think you’re gonna like it.”


10 posted on 12/06/2011 11:08:57 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (A MUST WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KeOLurcQaqI)
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To: maggief

I wish you would grow some huevos republican party, even though I know it’s a futile dream. There are numerous areas in which Obama richly deserves to be attacked!


11 posted on 12/06/2011 11:09:07 AM PST by jpl (The government spent another half a million bucks in the time it just took you to read this tagline.)
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To: Sundog

Amazing that Obama has denied the hospital in Hawaii where he was born (whichever one that is) a special visit. I mean, surely it would be great public relations for the hospital.


12 posted on 12/06/2011 11:09:24 AM PST by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: maggief
Better to put a proposal out there and stick him with a response.

For example, Overturn Obamacare. Let him tell us why we need this....again....Kinda like hitting his head against the wall.

13 posted on 12/06/2011 11:10:05 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: maggief
Obama can be beaten on the issues. It's a no brainer.
14 posted on 12/06/2011 11:10:24 AM PST by McGruff (Hold the House, retake the Senate.)
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We are going to get four more years of obama because the GOP hacks in DC want obama in office. Don’t kid yourselves, McCain, Boehner, Mcconnell, TNR, the GOP party hacks, all love obama.

I am so sick of the GOP - a total waste of a party.


15 posted on 12/06/2011 11:11:17 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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We are going to get four more years of obama because the GOP hacks in DC want obama in office. Don’t kid yourselves, McCain, Boehner, Mcconnell, TNR, the GOP party hacks, all love obama.

I am so sick of the GOP - a total waste of a party.


16 posted on 12/06/2011 11:11:33 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: maggief

The fix is in. The left wing of the BOHICA Party gets to stay in the WH. The right wing of the BOHICA Party gets Congress.

And we the people get it in the end, AGAIN.


17 posted on 12/06/2011 11:12:35 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

they are EFFING pathetic....i hate to make this comparison but its like the abused wife that will not do a damn thing to stop the abuse- does nothing but continues to take the abuse...

i am someone whose fought liberals in the streets at counter protests with other Freepers and Protest Warrior...this gives a green light for obozo and the criminal liberal media to continue attack against conservatives with no fear of retribution...UTTERLY PATHETIC!!!


18 posted on 12/06/2011 11:12:44 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: maggief

yea, it’s not like Americans can handle multiple issues at once.

quick... pick one item, hang your hat on it and then blow it handing the election to the dems

great plan!! morons.

how about start with eligibility, forcing him to explain how he didn’t have split allegiances at birth... then move to the unConstitutional 0bamacare... then the war expansion without explanation... then the economy... next would be the unemployment rate followed by his treatment of our allies, gun walker, cash walker, insider trading, and finally about his multiple social security numbers. while you’re at it, demand an explanation why he submitted an obviously forged birth certificate

how these people can lose the election is beyond me.

but the GOP will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory all the while blaming dems. grats!


19 posted on 12/06/2011 11:13:17 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: maggief
GOP: Photobucket
20 posted on 12/06/2011 11:15:32 AM PST by Fast Moving Angel (Proud Right-Wing Trash -- stick it, Alec.)
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