On private call, Republicans say attacking Obama personally is too dangerous

Yahoo News ^ | 12-06-11 | Rachel Rose Hartman

[Lazlo in PA]

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."

Recent polling data indicates that while the president still suffers significantly low job approval ratings, voters still give "high approval" to Obama personally, Thompson said.

Voters "don't think he's an evil man who's out to change the United States" for the worse--even though many of the same survey respondents agree that his policies have harmed the country, Thompson said. The upshot, Thompson stressed, is that Republicans should "exercise some caution" when talking about the president personally.

[no-to-illegals]

Dear RNC,
Just go ahead and concede. You bunch of losers!
Dang, now the Tea Party will be blamed .. again!

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

This reminds of reading how the GOP choked away the 1948 Presidential Election.

The party told Dewey to play it safe and not go after Truman.

[Biggirl]

I will simply disregard it, period. Done with the GOP!

[Fu-fu2]

My relatives and friends feel the same. With the media in the tank for Obama,they will destroy anyone who goes after their guy. And there are too many uninformed people who don’t bother to look too deeply into anything. They just believe the pictures they see on the big box.

[RockinRight]

The “high personal approval” might not stick if people knew the truth about him.

[babyfreep]

OK, if they want to be proper (not “PC”) - don’t talk about his wife’s looks and don’t talk about his children at all. Everything else is up for grabs and any and all of it should be screamed from the mountaintops. That’s they way it should be when you put yourself out there and run for POTUS. The media won’t do it so somebody has to. These republicans should go on every news channel with it all...not just Fox. They should force interviews and bring up all of his past and present. They are scared because he’s black. They are allowing Obama to bully them and he and all of his crappy administration and all of his crappy fans know it and use it to their advantage.

[EternalVigilance]

Of course, the same people have had no problem personally attacking conservatives over the years.

[ScottinVA]

I highly doubt there`ll be a civil war.. but we`ll talk about it a lot!

[Batman11]

FUBO!!!! Oh, and FU Nicholas Thompson!

[who knows what evil?]

"There's a lot of people who feel sorry for him."

He's in Hawaii, and people feel SORRY for him????? WTF?

[cousair]

I want to see every nasty evil despicable language there is on the face of the earth about this guy, Barak Hussain Obama, mmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm!! He has one intent in his vendictive nature, to put all Americans on the list of “you owe me because I say so. You will pay to the point I will run a looksee at your bank account, your 401’s and any savings or investments you might have. Try that one on America....” Yea thats the guy we elected who has never said a sentence that wasn’t filled with lies. Whoever says don’t attack him, go pound sand. Attack is what we need, bigtime.

[Parley Baer]

“Newt will attack him if nobody else will!!!”

He sure will and is already doing it. The RINOs are upset with Newt for doing it.

[PENANCE]

Looks like a repeat of 2008. You know what, I'll just wait for the civil war to start.

Just what I've been thinking.

I'll do what I can to help avoid it (like voting against any of the clowns on this conference call that I'm able to vote against); but these days, it ain't looking too promising.

[TribalPrincess2U]

They don’t need to ‘attack’. 0 shows his colors every moment.
People are well aware and it will be shown the next election.

The let the ‘attacks’ begin!
The whole damn corrupted administration out the door.
No more pussy-footing around.

This is the Republicans last chance.

IMO

[mkjessup]

Those effin idiots would rather spare 0bama's feelings and see him re-elected than to play smashmouth politics which is what the 'Rats do ALL the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

WTF is wrong with these losers?!? Oh wait, I just said that magic word, LOSERS, they are institutional losers because they are not Republicans, they are nothing more than 'Rat-lite, 0bama and his illegitimate regime are waterboarding America in Marxist/Socialist programs, policies and dogma, the GOP is just dunking our heads in a bucket of that crap, but the end result is going to be the same, sooner or later we're all gonna DROWN in it!

I want to see the Republican Party become a REAL opposition party and a CHOICE, not an echo! (as the great patriot Phyllis Schlafly titled her book)

It is Comrade 0bama who has made ALL politics personal, remember those comments about "bitter clingers", and how America has become "lazy"? 0bama ought to know about 'lazy' because you'll find his slack ass more on the golf course, watching basketball games, on vacations all over the place, MORE than you see him actually doing WORK in the White House, which is what he was elected to do ... ironically his 'base' (meaning everyone who hates America) is running out of patience with their l'enfant terrible, who hasn't delivered all of the far left's demands and has fallen short of their expectations. THEY (the left) have been savaging the Kenyan Kid, so why in Hell would Republicans want to give him a pass?!?

Oh wait, the precedent was set in '08, when that treasonous douchebag John McCain assured everyone that "we had nothing to fear from an 0bama Administration", and threw the election to those bums.

We need to be trashing 0bama 24 hours a day without pause, without mercy, and all we have to do is TELL THE BLOODY TRUTH about him, tell the TRUTH about how prices are up, inflation is up, unemployment remains UP, how the economic ratings on the United States are NOT optimistic, about the expansion of federal power into every corner of our lives, the NON-transparency of this regime, who PROMISED "transparency", the murders of Americans, the gun running to Mexican drug cartels, the corrupt back room deals with Solyndra and their ilk, the utterly stupid underwriting of the GM 'Volt' (aka the "DOLT" to match the IQ of the Pretenda), the illegal use of U.S. troops without Congressional oversight, the wholesale war on civil liberties, religious freedom, the trampling of our Constitution and our historic traditions, there is SO MUCH MATERIAL out there, that ANY half-wit politician ought to be able to take down 0bama IF THEY WANT TO WIN!

If the Republican Party is going to adopt this approach to next year's election, quite frankly we might as well begin planning to go third party, because THIS kind of story only confirms that the GOP is indifferent at best, complacent and complicit with the 'Rats at the worst. A FReeper whose name I cannot recall right now called the 'Rats and Republicans the 'UniParty' and that rings true in light of THIS nauseating story.

It is absolute effin lunacy and I am sending this rant of mine to every elected Republican I can get an email or actual mailing address for, because to quote the late Peter Finch,

"I AM MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT
GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!"

[GourmetDan]

The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.

[sand88]

So true. I can’t even find one person who will admit they voted for that POS.

I have ex-relatives who can't wait to vote for Obama. Believe me, this race will be close. There is a large segment of our society who have little critical thinking skills. They are driven by the evil of envy and irrational hatred of anything Conservative.

It will take a miracle to turn our Republic towards Liberty.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Newt might not want to get the campaign on the low road of personal attacks over lifestyle choices. He should think twice.

Besides, Newt could DESTROY Obama by sticking to the issues and Obama’s inept stewardship of the country for the last 3 years.

[Batman11]

“Newt will attack him if nobody else will!!!”

Yup, and that is what must be done to this narcissist! Take every opportunity to pound Zero, especially to his face. He will not be able to stand it. I really believe that this guy is sick, he will crack!

[Buckeye McFrog]

It is easy for Obama to get “high personal approval” responses when Clinton set the bar for Democrat Presidents at “degenerate reprobate”.