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Republican Rebranding?


GOPreda repost

GOP’s Outreach to Women, Minorities Found Wanting

As MSNBC’s Steve Benen noted, the GOP’s outreach to minorities has hit a rough patch — again. Check out this parade of outrageous stories — all from just today:

    1.

Republican Congressman comes out as a birther:

    Another congressman takes a stand against

President Obama

    and his “phony” birth certificate.
    2.

GOP Senate candidate tweets racist attack on African-American opponent Cory Booker:

    The tweet, which has since been deleted, read “#breaking just leaked – Cory Booker’s foreign policy debate prep notes,” and included an image of the

city of Newark

    divided up according to various ethnicities.
    3.

POLITICO publishes op-ed from conservative citing junk science questioning the intelligence of Hispanics:

    Why is a major publication publishing a piece suggesting white people are smarter than Hispanics?
    4.

GOP Congressman and Senate candidate Tom Cotton in 1997: A woman’s ‘deepest hope in life’ is ‘being a good wife and mother’:

    A woman’s “greatest fear in life” is losing a man’s support, Cotton wrote.
    5.

Scott Walker appointee fired after he called undocumented immigrants ‘Satan’:

    The third-highest ranking member of Wisconsin’s Department of Transportation sees “Satan” when he looks at undocumented people.
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Truth to Power – just the facts from Stephanie


President Obama had some pretty powerful words on what this campaign is going to be about — and I wanted to make sure folks on the Truth Team heard them.
At a press conference Monday, the President was asked why the campaign is taking a look at Mitt Romney‘s record as a corporate buyout specialist,  a record Romney’s been claiming as his chief qualification for the presidency.
The President said that while there’s nothing wrong with private equity, Romney’s priority wasn’t to create jobs — it was to maximize profits for partners and investors. A president has to focus on more than just that.
Watch the rest of his response on why Romney’s record should be looked at, then share it far and wide:

Video: President Obama on Romney's record
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President Obama said of Romney, “his main calling card for why he thinks he should be President is his business expertise … And when you’re President, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot.”
Folks, that’s what we’re going to be fighting for this year — and it’s up to us to lay out the stark differences between Romney’s views and our President’s. Get our President’s back — pass it on:

http://my.barackobama.com/Truth-Team-May22


Thanks,
Stephanie
P.S. — Here’s the video the President refers to in his response. Definitely worth a watch.