The Difference Between Candidate Spending and Super PAC Spending

[Bonestorm]

A candidate can be held accountable for the ads that his campaign pays for and runs, while Super PACs can run whatever filth they want and neither the Super PAC nor the candidate is held accountable for any of it. Hence, Election 2012: ReverendWrightapalooza. This is going to be one ugly election.

WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.

Timed to upend the Democratic National Convention in September, the plan would “do exactly what John McCain would not let us do,” the strategists wrote.

The plan, which is awaiting approval, calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whose race-related sermons made him a highly charged figure in the 2008 campaign.

“The world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,” says the proposal, which was overseen by Fred Davis and commissioned by Joe Ricketts, the founder of the brokerage firm TD Ameritrade. Mr. Ricketts is increasingly putting his fortune to work in conservative politics.

Also, too, this is the best (?) part of the "plan":

The group suggested hiring as a spokesman an “extremely literate conservative African-American” who can argue that Mr. Obama misled the nation by presenting himself as what the proposal calls a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.”

Nothing racist here. No, sireee.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/u...line-attack-on-obama.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

 

[CanceledB]

I got tripped up on the part about attacks that Republicans have thus far shied away from.

What the fuck would those be??

 

[Don Quixote]

A candidate can be held accountable for the ads that his campaign pays for and runs, while Super PACs can run whatever filth they want and neither the Super PAC nor the candidate is held accountable for any of it. Hence, Election 2012: ReverendWrightapalooza. This is going to be one ugly election.



Also, too, this is the best (?) part of the "plan":



Nothing racist here. No, sireee.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/u...line-attack-on-obama.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

the throwing of mud is passe, now they are throwing human excrement

it will only get worse

thank you scotus for citizens united

 

[CanceledB]

the throwing of mud is passe, now they are throwing human excrement

it will only get worse

thank you scotus for citizens united

Thank Congress as well. Most of them are wholly owned subsidiaries of Koch.

 

[RockX]

LOL

When you have the MSM in your pocket, they throw enough slime around.

They should bring up Rev. Wright at every opportunity, show the folks what kind of trash Obama really is.