“Voters still aren’t ready to hate this president” - so begins the now-infamous proposal drafted by former McCain campaign advisors for Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts on how to defeat President Obama.
Hate? It wasn’t the byproduct of a campaign that was being proposed. We’re all familiar with that kind of campaign. It’s the kind where candidates and their advisors gleefully watch hate arising in voters from something uttered by their mouth-driven machine guns while they say: “I didn’t do it.” No, no, this was an upfront, in-your-face attempt to actually create hate.
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