GOP plans to throw ‘the book’ at Obama 2012: President’s own words will be used against him in elect [View all]
GOP plans to throw ‘the book’ at Obama 2012: President’s own words will be used against him in election
PETER WALLSTEN; The Washington Post • Published January 02, 2012
WASHINGTON – With Republican voters in Iowa set to finally begin picking a nominee to challenge President Barack Obama, GOP officials in Washington are quietly and methodically finishing what operatives are calling “the book”– 500 pages of Obama quotes and video links that will form the backbone of the party’s attack strategy against the president leading up to Election Day 2012.
The document, portions of which were reviewed by The Washington Post, lays out how GOP officials plan to use Obama’s words and voice as they build an argument for his defeat: that he made specific promises and entered office with lofty expectations and has failed to deliver on both.
Republican officials say they will leverage the party’s newly catalogued video library containing every publicly available utterance from Obama since his 2008 campaign. Television and Internet ads will juxtapose specific Obama promises of job gains, homeowner assistance, help for people in poverty, lower health insurance premiums and stricter White House ethics standards against government data and news clippings that paint a different reality.
The willingness of GOP officials to discuss their strategy at this stage underscores the view, in both parties, that the general election campaign has begun– even if an official Republican nominee has not been selected.
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