Dear Terry,
The Democrat National Committee (DNC) released a memo late yesterday attacking you as a right-wing extremist.
We saw this sort of vitriolic rhetoric this past April when Democrats smugly dismissed grassroots protests against their out-of-control spending. These Tea Parties were ruthlessly mocked by the liberal elites and the mainstream media.
Now as public support for the Obama Democrats' government-run health care plan unravels, they're using this fear-and-smear tactic to silence ANY American who disagrees with their risky scheme to nationalize one-fifth of our economy and limit your health care choices. It's a page out of their standard playbook of name calling and outright lies to stifle all debate.
Terry, Republicans want responsible health care reform that makes health care more affordable and accessible, and keeps you and your doctor in charge of your medical choices -- but we want to get it right and we want to do it without ramming it through Congress on a trumped-up deadline.
Help Republicans fight back against Obama and his political attack dogs' dishonest vitriol and tell them your voice will not be silenced. Please read the memo below from the DNC and make a secure online contribution of $25, $50, $100, $500 or $1,000 to counter the Democrats' outrageous and false charges today.
Sincerely,
Michael Steele
Chairman, Republican National Committee
This is in response to a Democratic National Committee email, which Mike helpfully (and stupidly) includes:
Statement from DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse on the Republican Party and Allied Groups' Mob Rule
The Republicans and their allied groups -- desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill -- are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country.
However, much like we saw at the McCain-Palin rallies last year where crowds were baited with cries of 'socialist,' 'communist,' and where the birthers movement was born -- these mobs of extremists are not interested in having a thoughtful discussion about the issues -- but like some Republican leaders have said - they are interested in 'breaking' the President and destroying his Presidency.
These mobs are bussed in by well funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives and funded by the special interests who are desperately trying to stop the agenda for change the President was elected to bring to Washington. Despite the headline grabbing nature of these angry mobs and their disruptions of events, they are not reflective of where the American people are on the issues -- or the hundreds of thousands of thoughtful discussions taking place around kitchen tables, water coolers and in homes.
The right wing extremists' use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy, breathlessly questioning the President's citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols and the like just shows how outside of the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are. This type of anger and discord did not serve Republicans well in 2008 - and it is bound to backfire again.
Geez, given that all of this stuff is true, do you really want to play the politics of grievance here, Mike? It doesn't really look much like you guys are the party wronged here.
Of course, he's referring to a Dept. of Homeland Security draft report on the dangers of right wing extremism -- a report that was later shown to be spot on after a spate of violent crime by right wing extremists. People died here, Mike. This phony "right wing extremist" outrage blew up in your -- and our -- face the last time you tried it.
This whole teabagger town hall mob is getting out of hand and here's the head of the RNC pouring gasoline on the fire. If one of the gullible nuts of yours goes postal on this issue, you're going to be in a deep, deep, deep hole.
This demonstrates two major failings of the GOP these days; an inability to learn from past mistakes, tied to an inability to predict the entirely predictable.
1 comments:
We "ruthlessly mocked" the teabag protests? Seriously, how do you mock a clown?
And who is this "Terry" that they're all so anxious to talk to?
I hate to say it, but there is a point - and actually quite a good one - buried in Steele's silly rhetoric. If people like you, Wisco, go about referring to all Republicans or their sympathisers as "right-wing extremists", you're not doing anyone any favours. It's a way to ghetto-ise your own party - after eight years in power, if you talk and think like this, you'll end up looking crazier than the Repubs now do.
(I've seen it happen in Britain, three times - to Labour, to the Tories, then to New Labour. The pattern is always the same - if you succeed in marginalising your opponents, you end up marginalising yourself.)
Obama knows this, that's why he tried to put so much emphasis on "bipartisanism", even though it doesn't seem to work in the short term. Take your cue from him, he's a wise man.
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