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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDem convention will portray Mittens as a 'heartless aristocrat' & include several republicans
Advisers to President Barack Obama are scripting a Democratic National Convention featuring several Republicans in a prime-time appeal to independents and planning a blistering portrayal of Mitt Romney as a heartless aristocrat who would devastate the American middle class, Democratic sources tell POLITICO.
Convention planners are considering featuring a centrist Republican leader on at least two of the three nights. Nightly remotes from swing states may include a CEO or major Republican. On Wednesday night, a notable GOP woman is among the possible participants. And on the final night, Democrats may include a Republican leader someone like former Sens. John Warner or Chuck Hagel or a GOP woman.
This segment would speak directly to independents, noting we are all Americans first, the documents say. Depending on the speakers background, the Presidents military accomplishments might be highlighted.
According to convention planning documents, the three-night convention in Charlotte, N.C., early next month will seek to [e]xpose Mitt Romney as someone who doesnt understand middle class challenges while also burnishing the Presidents image as someone whose life story is about fighting for middle class Americans and those working to get into the middle class.
Each night of the convention will include a star turn for what planners call real people for instance, an auto worker whose job was saved, a student who benefited from college loans and an entrepreneur fueled by federal research-and-development funds.
The most innovative and harshest element of the preliminary program is a nightly social contrast in which two people describe their personal experience with a hot-button issue one person lauding the presidents actions, the other taking Romney to task. Each paired-testimonial should have an unexpected participant, the documents say.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79542.html#ixzz239J5il6x
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Can't the Dems articulate the message without bringing them in? One, maybe, I can understand, but 3? Uck.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)to the right and appeal to independents. Not a bad idea.
dawg
(10,624 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)n/t
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)willing to even compromise and will just reject everything just because it's Obama.
PragmaticLiberal
(904 posts)All depends on how you look at it....