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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic.
An aide to Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, said the proposal to draw the Rev. Jeremiah Wright into the presidential campaign and the issue of race, by extension went too far.
The New York Times reported Thursday that Ricketts' Ending Spending Action Fund, a conservative super PAC, was considering a proposal for a $10 million TV ad campaign highlighting Wright's sermons.
The blueprint, titled "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: the Ricketts Plan to End His Spending For Good," was devised by a group of Republican strategists, one of whom confirmed its contents for The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss private working sessions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/mitt-romney-jeremiah-wright-attack-super-pac_n_1524274.html
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)than to engage in negativity, bullying and bellicose behavior.
mainer
(12,022 posts)I read somewhere that Ricketts' daughter is a big donor to Obama.
monmouth
(21,078 posts)"higher up" must have put the kabosh on that one...LOL.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)it's got us and the media discussing it. Certainly in negative terms, however sometimes you just float a trial balloon and see where it heads off to....
monmouth
(21,078 posts)emulatorloo
(44,121 posts)If I didn't know better, I might think these were Liberal Dems posing as Republican strategists.
aquart
(69,014 posts)GOP reveals plans to spend only for evil.
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)She was tripping all over her tongue trying to say that this was something "cooked up by a couple of guys in a back room" and not the Republican party (on Now with Alex Wagner, MSNBC). Right now, Tamron Hall is saying the billionaire douchebag who planned this says he's not going to do it after all.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)which he deserves so much more than PBO!