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Bad news for 99% of our neo-con members........lol.... http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/yahoo-exclusive-republicans-disclose-private-call-too-dangerous-175828684.html 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 polling firm the Tarrance Group, said on the call. "There's a lot of people who feel sorry for him." Recent polling data indicates that while the president suffers from 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. 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 Democratic attacks lobbed at the GOP presidential candidates (Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, for starters) for "flip-flopping." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RNC conference call: Republicans wary of attacking Obama http://news.yahoo.com/rnc-conference-call-republicans-wary-attacking-obama-201605345.html Someone at the Republican National Commitee is probably kicking himself after inadvertently letting a Yahoo News reporter in on a private strategy session. During the conference call, various Republican affiliates expressed concern that attacking President Barack Obama may prove too dangerous for the GOP. “We’re hesitant to jump on board with heavy attacks” said Nicholas Thompson, vice president of Republican polling firm the Tarrance Group. “There’s a lot of people who feel sorry for him.” Yahoo News reports that, “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.’” “When it comes to flip-flopping, Barack Obama is the king of flip-flopping,” added Fleischer. “You can offer that to anybody,” he suggested. Thompson also noted that Obama’s Truman-esque campaign strategy of running against a do-nothing Congress may backfire, according to poll data collected by his company. Tarrance found that while the public’s disapproval of Congress in general remains extremely low, 46 percent approve of their own representative, compared to Obama’s approval rating of 44 percent in the same survey. “It’s a tough road for him when you look at those numbers,” Thompson said. The same poll showed that 58 percent disapprove of Obama’s handling of relations with Congress.
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"As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals" President Obama
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