A Window Into The Republican Mind

[babylonsister]

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/window-the-republican-mind

A Window Into The Republican Mind
Jonathan Chait



The Republican National Committee drew up a memo advising its top-fundraisers how to appeal to potential donors. Unfortunately for them, one member left a copy laying around a bar where a Democrat found it and leaked it to Politico.

Apparently, the party is under no illusions about what motivates its base:

The small donors who are the targets of direct marketing are described under the heading “Visceral Giving.” Their motivations are listed as “fear;” “Extreme negative feelings toward existing Administration;” and “Reactionary.”

Major donors, by contrast, are treated in a column headed “Calculated Giving.”

Their motivations include: “Peer to Peer Pressure”; “access”; and “Ego-Driven.”

So, let's see, you've got your paranoids, your reactionaries, your corrupt greedheads, your spineless cowards, and your all-around arrogant jerks. What, no category for "racists," "repressed self-hating gays," "the terminally heartless" and "philandering televangelists"? I thought they were going to hit every single Republican stereotype.

The document also features this lovely image:

[Blue Owl]

1. Not a lot of critical thinking going on in that mind

Just a lot of reacting to fabricated, twisted talking points in a fear-based environment.

[progressoid]

2. Here's the document (pdf)

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM136_100303_rnc_finance_leadership.html

Page 29 has the info from the op.



Also interesting is their list of major targets for the next election.

16 Gubernatorial seats:

OH, MA, CO, IL, IA, WI, KS, OK, MI WY, NY, PA, OR, NM, ME, TN



Top Senatorial Targets:

Reid - NV
Lincoln - AR
Bennet - CO
Specter - PA
IL - open
ND - open
PA - open
DE - open
CT - open



Wildcard Senate Seats:

Gillibrand - NY
Boxer - CA
Inouye - HI
Feingold - WI
Schumer - NY


edited for speling

[Jennicut]

5. Schumer? Are they nuts? And in CT, Blumenthal has incredible

poll #'s.

[FrenchieCat]

3. This just proves that the Tea Party Movement is nothing but a GOP PR stunt....

that the media is happily pushing.

The Obama done in White Face is really about as much disrespect one party could have for another,
and has racism written all over it.

What I don't get is why the media isn't talking about this shit 24/7!
I know they covered Reid's comments on Pres. Obama being a Light Skinned Negro....
and this is 1000x worse!

[NecklyTyler]

4. K&R