Update: GOP Fear Factor

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Daily Kos has some interesting updates to last week's embarrassing revelations for the GOP (they demean their own contributors). 

This past week's focus on the RNC's scare-the-shit-out-of-donors plan has led to a DNC ad that will be running on cable:

The fallout from Republican Party contributors has already begun. Via Ben Smith at Politico:

A prominent Evangelical figure and Republican donor says he will end
his contributions to the organized Republican Party in reaction to the
leaked fundraising presentation that advised using "fear" to solicit
contributions and displayed an image of President Obama as the Joker
from Batman.

Mark DeMoss, who heads a major Christian public relations firm in
Atlanta and served as a liaison to the Evangelical community for Mitt
Romney in 2008, wrote Chairman Michael Steele yesterday that he was
"ashamed" of the presentation, calling depictions of Obama, Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, and Majority Leader Harry Reid "shameful, immature and
uncivil, at best."

Ben Smith has the full text of DeMoss' letter, copies of which were
enclosed to all Republican Party Committees as well as the
Congressional leadership. But here's the key graf:

While I realize your office made steps to distance you from this
presentation I’m afraid the presentation is representative of a culture
and mindset within the Republican National Committee; consequently, I
will no longer contribute to any fundraising entity of our Party—but
will contribute only to individual candidates I choose to support.

The media may be generally unwilling
to discuss Republican deficiencies as we approach the 2010 election,
but the culture underlying this presentation ought to become a subject
for discussion. This modern version of the GOP has shown itself to be
an insular and insolent Party that thinks its insulting and degrading
message will play well across the country. And the turning tide shows
they're not entirely right.