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those who labeled him an immigrant and a tax cheat are wrong. we begin this evening with an important lesson in attack politics. a plan no matter how controversial or audatious is useless unless someone is willing to bank roll it. at the moment, no one is willing to pay the estimated $10 million price tag to implement this plan. the defeat of barack hussein obama but think again. i repudiate that effort. i think it is the wrong course for a pack or a campaign. i hope that our campaigns can respectively be about the future and about issues. you heard governor romney there. implementing this campaign. this is about the president s past, more specifically, his two decades of attending the chicago church with the controversial pastor, jeremiah wright. he want us to sing god bless america, no, no, not god bless america, god damn america. that s in the bible, for killing innocent people. now, in the pitch trying to sell this plan to a superpac, gop ad guru wrote, wh ....
For their records. i think there s a very conservative military community that does not like him and going to speak out about him. it s not john kerry. they re not saying he lied about his personal record, about his medals. and the rationale is a no-brain no-brainer. people say obama s handling of terrorism is a reason to put him back in office. republicans are seeing those numbers and know they need to go up with ads like this. the swift boat stuff came out much later in the race. the fact this stuff is coming out now is a sign of the nasiness to come. the swift boat ad changed the trat jectory of that race. there are some dangers for obama on this but not really. the swift boat ads, those were so personal. you can t take away from obama what happened under his watch. i think that people just normal everyday people walking around are grateful for that. there s no way a republican ad is going to change that. there s an argument every time you talk about killing osama bin laden, ....
Way that it was under with the swift bothing of john kerry, this gives the president, the administration, and his reelection effort one more time to talk about the president s deep and personal involvement in ensuring that this raid went off well. it gives the president, the administrati administration, and the reelection team another time to tout this major success. how they will try to turn this strength into a weakness is beyond me. let me ask you chris, let s connect some dots here. political donations of bob perry, he gave in 2004 $3 million to fund the swift boat ads against john kerry. he gave $3 million to mitt romney s super pac, restore our future, in 2012. ....
About money goes toward knob tidesing. the real fect of negative advertising is to energize support among your ideological base while turning everyone else off to the other candidate, the campaign and the entire process. negative advertising is about altering the composition of the voter pool on election day by turning moderate voters into nonvoighters. what do you make of that, ari? i don t know if that s completely true. if that were true, we wouldn t see as much negative advertising in primaries. it is definitely clear when you throw a lot of negative messaging at an individual, the swift boat ads against senator kerry being the classic example, you can alter the perception of them, not just among a narrowet pool of voting people but against the broader electorate. the point about the mown srnls significant because these super pabs stronger on the right so far can do a lot of that will heavy lifting and people may not know where the ads are coming from and associate them less with ....