{"id":15043,"date":"2012-05-17T18:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=15043"},"modified":"2012-05-17T18:30:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:30:29","slug":"plan-to-take-obama-down-to-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/05\/plan-to-take-obama-down-to-defeat.html","title":{"rendered":"Plan to Take Obama Down to Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>G.O.P. \u2018Super PAC\u2019 Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama<\/h1>\n<h4>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\u00a0 &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;\u00a0 [With] highlights [of] Mr. Obama\u2019s former ties to [charges of race-baiting ] Mr. Wright, who espouses what is known as \u201cblack liberation theology.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15044\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/05\/Obama-Defeat-Him-GOP-Super-PAC-Playbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15044 \" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/244\/2012\/05\/Obama-Defeat-Him-GOP-Super-PAC-Playbook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A campaign playbook by high-profile Republican strategists.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h6>By <a title=\"More Articles by Jeff Zeleny\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/z\/jeff_zeleny\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" rel=\"author\">JEFF ZELENY<\/a> and <a title=\"More Articles by Jim Rutenberg\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/jim_rutenberg\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" rel=\"author\">JIM RUTENBERG<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Published: May 17, 2012<\/h6>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 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 \u201c<a title=\"More articles about Super PACs.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/c\/campaign_finance\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">super PAC<\/a>\u201d era and attack <a title=\"More articles about Barack Obama.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">President Obama<\/a> in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/05\/17\/us\/politics\/20120517-founders.html?ref=politics\"> Character Matters PAC: Key Players<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/05\/17\/us\/politics\/17donate-document.html?ref=politics\"> Document: \u2018Super PAC\u2019 Plan to Link Obama to Rev. Wright<\/a><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/17\/romney-campaign-rejects-using-the-rev-jeremiah-wright-against-obama\/?ref=politics\"> The Caucus: Romney Rejects Using the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Against Obama<\/a> (May 17, 2012)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/17\/ricketts-disavows-super-pac-proposal\/?ref=politics\"> The Caucus: Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy<\/a> (May 17, 2012)<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/05\/17\/us\/politics\/17donate-document.html\">The plan<\/a>, which is awaiting approval, calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. <a title=\"More articles about Jeremiah A. Wright Jr..\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/w\/jeremiah_a_wright_jr\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.<\/a>, whose race-related sermons made him a highly charged figure in the 2008 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is about to see Jeremiah Wright and understand his influence on <a title=\"More articles about Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Barack Obama<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Read A Whole Lot More<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/17\/us\/politics\/gop-super-pac-weighs-hard-line-attack-on-obama.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/17\/us\/politics\/gop-super-pac-weighs-hard-line-attack-on-obama.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;hp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"1\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">~\u2020~<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Posted by Donna Calvin \u2014 Thursday, May 17, 2012<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~\u2020~<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please share this Watchwoman post on your Facebook page, Linkedin, Google+1, Twitter to all your friends, Please click \u201cLike\u201d, Share, and Leave Comments.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit Word Warriorette, a free Yahoo Group, and subscribe to be notified (one email a day) of new posts on Watchwoman.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/WordWarriorette\/\">http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/WordWarriorette\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">~\u2020~<\/p>\n<h6><em>DISCLAIMER: Beliefnet puts paid advertisements on \u201cWatchwoman on the Wall\u201d blog site including some that would never be approved of by the King James Bible, Pastor Ernie Sanders of Doers of the Word Church, What\u2019s Right-What\u2019s Left Radio Ministry, the Voice of the Christian Resistance, Geauga County Right to Life and Donna Calvin.\u00a0 We at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrwl.org\/\">www.WRWL.org<\/a> do not condone, endorse, adhere to, practice or believe in many of the topics and some of what other bloggers promote or their religions at Beliefnet.\u00a0 However, Mrs. Calvin has no control of what Beliefnet displays.\u00a0\u00a0 She blogs at Beliefnet because she is in the missionary field ministering to true believers posting articles and commentaries informing pro-life, conservative Christians of recent anti-Christian acts and hostile legislation to God\u2019s Agenda and His Will for the world.\u00a0 Hopefully, unbelievers will read these along with the salvation message of Jesus Christ as written in the Gospel of John, Chapter 3, according to the King James Bible, and be saved.\u00a0 A missionary must go into the unbelievers\u2019 territory to reach them.\u00a0 Her mission is to Proclaim Warning to a Nation that has forgotten their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the only Truth, the Life, and the only Way to the One God the Father.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=4928\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=4928<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p align=\"center\">~\u2020~<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G.O.P. \u2018Super PAC\u2019 Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama 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\u00a0 &#8211; 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