Carl Hiaasen: Fat Cat Urged To Bankroll Anti-Obama Hatefest
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Fat Cat Urged To Bankroll Anti-Obama Hatefest
May 22nd, 2012 12:00 am Carl Hiaasen
Joe Ricketts has decided not to spend $10 million on hate. Good call.
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Who knows if the Ricketts Plan would have been executed had it not been leaked so early to the press. Davis, the so-called vendor, is not a rookie and he certainly wasnt operating in a vacuum.
The question is why Republicans would attempt something as risky as using the disavowed commentary of a black preacher to attack Obama.
Why spend $10 million of a fat cats money on an advertising barrage thats bound to dredge up the worst kinds of reactions?
Unless that was its purpose not to implant racial fears so much as
to fire up the bigots who are already out there, and make sure they go to the polls. Romney isnt a racist, but some in his party clearly believe he cant win without a
heavy turnout of people who cannot stomach the notion of a black guy in the White House.
Those are the votes that the banner planes were after. When hate is what youre selling, always go low.