When you turn the lights on, cockroaches tend to scatter

[CatWoman]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic.

An aide to Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, said the proposal to draw the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the presidential campaign – and the issue of race, by extension – went too far.

The New York Times reported Thursday that Ricketts' Ending Spending Action Fund, a conservative super PAC, was considering a proposal for a $10 million TV ad campaign highlighting Wright's sermons.

The blueprint, titled "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: the Ricketts Plan to End His Spending For Good," was devised by a group of Republican strategists, one of whom confirmed its contents for The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss private working sessions.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/mitt-romney-jeremiah-wright-attack-super-pac_n_1524274.html

[RKP5637]

1. The republicans never have meaningful solutions for most things, other

than to engage in negativity, bullying and bellicose behavior.

[mainer]

2. Or maybe his daughter's outrage discouraged him?

I read somewhere that Ricketts' daughter is a big donor to Obama.

[monmouth]

3. Apparently they saw this tactic as the "loser" we all knew it would be. Voices from

"higher up" must have put the kabosh on that one...LOL.

[Sherman A1]

6. Not necessarily a loser

it's got us and the media discussing it. Certainly in negative terms, however sometimes you just float a trial balloon and see where it heads off to....

[monmouth]

10. Good point. Before the big bucks are spent let's take 'er for a test ride...n/t

[emulatorloo]

4. Reverend Wright? Seems like any idiot can be a Republican Strategist.

If I didn't know better, I might think these were Liberal Dems posing as Republican strategists.

[aquart]

5. "End his spending for good"

GOP reveals plans to spend only for evil.

[CatWoman]

7. ROFL!!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Ann Coulter wannabe SE Cupp was doing the Jackie Gleason "humanahumanahumana" this morning.

She was tripping all over her tongue trying to say that this was something "cooked up by a couple of guys in a back room" and not the Republican party (on Now with Alex Wagner, MSNBC). Right now, Tamron Hall is saying the billionaire douchebag who planned this says he's not going to do it after all.

[Ganja Ninja]

9. Oh well never mind.

[librechik]

11. Of course Mitt rejected it--he doesn't want the same tactics used on him!

which he deserves so much more than PBO!

[longship]

12. Keep roaches away with illumination!