{"id":7800,"date":"2012-05-18T13:12:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7800"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:12:46","slug":"ricketts-republican-racism-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/ricketts-republican-racism-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricketts: Republican Racism Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somewhere in the depths of the joint planning between the GOP and the corporate PACS, that isn\u2019t supposed to exist, is a Republican with a conscience.  He or she prevented the Ricketts Plan, a racially based attack on Barack Obama, planned to coincide with the Democratic Convention, from being carried out.  He or she did so by leaking the plan and deserves our thanks.  Ricketts is lying through his teeth, and RMoney is etching his sketch so fast that the plastic knobs are on fire.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18Ricketts\"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 \u201csuper PAC\u201d era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.<\/p>\n

Timed to upend the Democratic National Convention in September, the plan would \u201cdo exactly what John McCain would not let us do,\u201d the strategists wrote. <\/p>\n

The plan<\/a>, 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. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on Barack Obama for the first time in a big, attention-arresting way,\u201d 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<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The $10 million plan, one of several being studied by Mr. Ricketts, includes preparations for how to respond to the charges of race-baiting it envisions if it highlights Mr. Obama\u2019s former ties to Mr. Wright, who espouses what is known as \u201cblack liberation theology.\u201d <\/p>\n

The group suggested hiring as a spokesman an \u201cextremely literate conservative African-American\u201d who can argue that Mr. Obama misled the nation by presenting himself as what the proposal calls a \u201cmetrosexual, black Abe Lincoln.\u201d \u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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There is no depth to which Republicans will not descend.<\/font><\/p>\n

Lawrence O\u2019Donnell covered this outrage in two segments with panels.  In the first, he discussed potential benefits.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

I agree that this racist plan was dropped only because it was leaked. It’s good for us, because it reveals Republican intent.<\/font><\/p>\n

In the second, he covers the Republican motive.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

This proves that Ricketts’ denials are lies. Down with the Cubs and TD Ameritrade!<\/font><\/p>\n

If a group so lacking in integrity is this intent on destroying Obama\u2019s presidency, isn\u2019t that a powerful reason to keep him in office?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somewhere in the depths of the joint planning between the GOP and the corporate PACS, that isn\u2019t supposed to exist, is a Republican with a conscience.  He or she prevented the Ricketts Plan, a racially based attack on Barack Obama, planned to coincide with the Democratic Convention, from being carried out.  He or she did […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}