Heilemann: Obama's 'Hope' in 2008 to be Replaced by 'Fear' of Republicans in 2012
Forget about 2008's "Hope and Change" mantra.
New York magazine's John Heilemann said on this weekend's "Chris Matthews Show" Barack Obama's message in 2012 will all be about "fear" of the Republican candidate, and the President will spend $500 million on negative attack ads against his opponent to instill it (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JOHN HEILEMANN, NEW YORK MAGAZINE: To me the core difference between 2008 and 2012 is going to be politics of hope which we saw in 2008 versus the politics of fear in 2012. They won't call it that, but so much of this campaign in terms of driving turnout among all of these groups to be about making the Republican alternative totally unacceptable. And they are going to have a billion dollars. You are going to see a negative, an onslaught of negative advertising we’ve never seen anything like. We’ve never seen anything…
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: You just split the story. If the story is hope for Obama, how does he build that by trashing his opponents?
HEILEMANN: No, now it's fear this time. 2012 it's fear of the alternative. And it's $500 million of negative ads [Laughs] run against Mitt Romney or Jon Huntsman or Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry?
MATTHEWS: Does the public want to see that, the President of the United States trashing his opponent?
HEILEMANN: The public may not want to see it, but they’re going to get it, and in the past even though they say they don't want to see it, it has worked in the past, just not on this scale.
GLORIA BORGER, CNN: It’s a very old Democratic campaign running against Republican extremists.
Interesting how the co-author of the book about the 2008 presidential campaign "Game Change" thinks it's funny the current White House resident is going to spend $500 million next year attacking his opponent.
Remember when liberal media members thought there was too much money in politics and reducing campaign contributions would be a good thing for the nation?
I guess money is only bad when it's going to the GOP.
As for "Republican extremism," heaven help us when low taxes, a balanced budget, and solving the looming crises of Medicare and Social Security are considered extreme.
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Please do it Barry, it will
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 12:36pm.
Please do it Barry, it will be all over for you and the democrats permanently.
What else can he (O) & they (Dems) run on?
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 12:42pm.
Their super successful policies?
Their fabulous budgets?
Passing the unpopular O-Care?
Brilliant Foreign Policy? 4 Wars?
Our super duper economy?
Bush = Bad?
Hope & Change?
Great jobs numbers?
IOW, Obama's got NOTHING. Only lies, lies, and more lies (during his little temper tantrum Friday evening, both Iguana Man & I were shouting in unison at the end of three sentences in a row "he lies!".
This Emperor has no clothes, and he knows it, too.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
O's Friday tantrum
Submitted by Model850 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:24pm.
On top of screaming "Liar!" I was amused by how raising the debt ceiling "through 2012" is now O's line in the sand. He is absolutely terrified of having to go through these negotiations again so close to the election, for lots of reasons, not the least of which is it will seriously curtail his ability to be out on the campaign stump.
I hope the Repubs are smart enough to limit any deal to just a few months; perhaps a maximum of eight so the issue comes again in March/April 2012. Keep O "at home" as much as possible next year, forcing him to again press for tax increases close to the election.
Of course he's got nothing!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:43pm.
Why ELSE would a sitting president need a $1billion re-election fund??
Obama ran in '08 on the promise of a "new kind of politics."
However, now he needs to slash and burn to get re-elected, so that's what he'll do.
This is just one more piece of evidence that, contrary to his constant protestations...it IS and ALWAYS HAS BEEN about HIM.
And he will still proclaim "I'm doing it for YOU!!" <insert maniacal laughter>
He can run on how he is holding senior citizens
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 12:52pm.
captive for the Social Security checks unless he gets more money to burn. Now, we need someone to put together an aid like the one that was put together of Ryan pushing an old lady in a wheel chair off a cliff.
For example, construct an ad showing Obama jetting around, living large, dining on the best and cut to an old person opening a can of cat food wondering what she will do if Obama doesn't send her check and Obama lighting a crack pipe using a Social Security check.
campaign
Submitted by stan25 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:01pm.
This proves that the DemocRATs are not going to run on Barry's record. They know that to do so would be political suicide. So they have to run negative ads calling their opponents a bunch of extremists. They are living in abject fear of losing their power and will do anything to keep it.
"it's fear of the alternative"
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:03pm.
Excuse me? How can you have a "fear of the alternative" when we have the RBFSOB, Bambi in office?
I mean, how bad would it have to be to find an alternative worse than this {insert your own expletive}. It can't get ANY WORSE, YO?
As far as, "an onslaught of negative advertising we’ve never seen anything like," Oh yes we have. Just not in this country. That sort of crap is more common to third world countries like Russia, China (both pre-communism, of course), Cuba, Chicago, etc. And the "advertising" is usually in the form of revolutionary speeches and dead bodies of your opposition.
Do you think Bambi will resort to that if he's losing?
Fear-mongering and the politics of envy
Submitted by ironchefofmunchies on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:10pm.
"Fear-mongering and the politics of envy."
Short and to the point. It should be on every bumper sticker and TV ad for Republican candidates for the next year.
It is what Obama will be doing throughout the 2012 election. Go ahead and call attention to it.
At least Heilemann was honest -- rare on Matthews' shows
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:14pm.
For weeks, the panel on Matthew's shows have been wringing their hands over Obama's re-election chances, and they've concurred that he can't run on his record and must play on his "Fight for the Future" theme, mildly conceding that the first term was less than he had hoped, but we'll do better.
But Heilemann called it correctly: Obama -- principally through allies and the MSM -- will run a very ugly negative campaign. And his campaign knows that if the heat is turned up on Obama, the Race Card will be played by somebody.
When that happens, Obama will unwittingly set the trap door for the first Presidential candidate debate, when the GOP nominee can ask him directly, "Mr. Obama, I've been labeled a racist by (insert the names), who support your candidacy. Do you think that I am a racist?"
Obama won't say "Yes." even if he really believes it.
If he says "No" outright, he disarms his campaign's big weapon.
If he says "No, but . . . " or hedges around an answer, his indecisiveness will be evident and his "post-racial uniter" image will be destroyed.
A simple question
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:13pm.
If Obama were doing a good job would he need to spend a billion dollars to get re-elected?? We'll see if a billion dollars can fool enough people this time. If he gets re-elected it just means that we really are a nation of morons.
A simple question
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:14pm.
If Obama were doing a good job would he need to spend a billion dollars to get re-elected?? We'll see if a billion dollars can fool enough people this time. If he gets re-elected it just means that we really are a nation of morons.
Prez's record
Submitted by Curly on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:18pm.
Alinskyite to the core - attack, demean, lie, blame - when you have no record you have to resort to attacks. The entire Dem party is morally, spiritually and ethically BANKRUPT! Worst administration in the history of this beautiful Republic!!!
The man without a past ...
Submitted by NL207 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:21pm.
has a record?
2½ years in The White House
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 2:14pm.
Yep! After 2½ years in The White House, Obama has an actual public record that will haunt him in 2012. A "historic" record:
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
He can't be blamed for the deficits and debts.
Submitted by NL207 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:03pm.
At least not alone. His entire, shameful party owns those records. They voted for those outrageous measures without any serious bipartisan support.
And two huge liabilities...
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:31pm.
...Michelle Antoinette's lavish vacations
...Dimwit Debbie's "We own the economy" line
3 Questions
Submitted by Hunter12 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:34pm.
When someone pull that curtain shut behind them in 2012, they are away from the eyes of their union bosses, they can't hear the shills on the nightly news, and all they have to do is look down at that ballot and ask themselves one question: "Am I better off today than I was four years ago?". Good luck to any Democrat.
Everyone asks themselves that and one more question as well: "Why are the Democrats moving us towards a Socialist society that we can preview by observing the happenings in Greece, Italy, Ireland, and Spain?". That sure as heck hasn't worked out for them.
Seniors can ask themselves how do you reconcile monies directed out of Medicare into Obamacare, where a 15 person panel will decide who and what gets treated, with the words of one of the panel members, in book form, that states the best way to solve the cost problem of treating the elderly is let them die?
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
The 'politics of hope' was as
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 2:49pm.
The 'politics of hope' was as much of a bogus statement as 'the religion of peace'.............anybody with any common sense knows that 'hope' is NOT a strategy, but the MSM and the dimwit voters sure bought into it - bigtime!!!
This guy is actually WORSE than we probably thought he would be - and it could get even uglier - for US - as this petulant punk-ass phony gets exposed more and more for the dangerous commie racist anti-American puppet that he is!!! I think the biggest problem right now - because, left alone, people are starting to see what is happening - is the MSM - because they are STILL doing all they can to cover THEIR asses, as well as Boy Barrys - since they were complicit in installing him as dictator-in-chief.
And, jeeeeeeeeeeeeez!!!! That photo of Barrilini, and others like it - with his damn personal flag behind it???? EM-FRIGGIN'-BARRASSING!!!! But I'm sure that Boy Barry LOVES it!!! He's probably got photos like that hanging in his bedroom, bathroom, and den..............
Hah!
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 2:04pm.
Just got an e-mail from the White House. It said 'I did a crappy job, but the Republicans are crappier! Vote for me!'.
I used to get all those
Submitted by jkwtrading on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:24pm.
I used to get all those emails too, just to see what they would say but after awhile, the emails were so droll, and the same I put them in the spam.
Has Obama picked up the pace any from let's say 2009 to 2010 emails..have not read any this year. I used to send some very nasty counter emails but no one ever responded...kind of like speaking with tech support is about the level they work from.
So you guys ARE serious about
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:31pm.
So you guys ARE serious about these emails??? I thought it was a joke. I've never got one from the White House.............I feel left out!!! I could have a lot of fun replying to them!!!
yes killa
Submitted by botg on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:35pm.
they are grassroots organizing right from the whitehouse!
after all grassroots is always top-down isn't it?
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
Maybe it's astroturf??? And
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:41pm.
Maybe it's astroturf??? And I'm sure that these guys smoke a lot of grass too!!! I wonder how I can get on the list - I have a lot of fun getting libs all worked up.........it's easy to do around here, because there's so many of them. Usually they 'don't want to discuss' it with me, because they've got nothing to back it up.
Of course, I do it with humor and good cheer, unless they want to get nasty......and then..........KABOOM!!! That's when they back out of the conversation.
the turf farm
Submitted by botg on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:49pm.
is located at Organizing for America, they'll be happy to mail you, just wont ever answer any questions...... they're too busy telling the people what they need to listn to the people after all.
As for me i'm always all 'sweetness and light' like my friend J
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts
I get two or three different
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 5:27pm.
I get two or three different ones each having the official Obama logo on them. I sometimes skim them and sometimes trash them. The funniest ones were the ones saying if I sent in 5 bucks I would get a date with the President. Reminded me of the Publisher's Clearing House sweeps.
eye for an eye (don't bring a knife to a gun fight)
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 2:23pm.
The first campaign I was ever involved in was as a high schooler for Barry Goldwater. The coordinated media attack against him and Republican infighting made his election impossible. The main thrust of attack against Goldwater was that he was a wild eyed lunatic, unstable, a war monger. LBJ ran as a peace candidate. LBJ won in a landslide and then went on to give us the Viet Nam War.
All of these themes against the current Republicans are in play and the media will be just as coordinated against the Republican candidate attacking them on a personal level. Whoever it is will receive the Palin treatment.
The only recourse is to fight back just as hard. If we have another candidate who takes the 'high road' and refers to obama as 'My friend' after being attacked will lose. (just as the last high road candidate did)
obama is no longer perceived by the public as a Lightworker sprinkling fairy dust to the fainting crowds. He's walking in the muck with everyone else now and to treat him as anything special is to help resurrect the myth that was spun in 2008 to get an unqualified person into the Whitehouse.
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Hope campaign, my rosy red...
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 7:20pm.
They spent a whole lot of fear-mongering cash painting McCain as "4 more years of Bush". Yes, they had the MSM-buttressed "blank slate" of Hopey McChangey, but to characterize the 2008 Dem campaign as all positive is a huge stretch.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
He Can Hope All He Wants, But No He Can't!
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:28pm.
The basketball player in chief (notice how this "hip" hobby seems to have disappeared?) can keep hoping all he wants, but this is the absolute worst golf swing I have ever witnessed. Look close, and you will see that he whiffed and his Dorkberry flies off his belt and actually goes farther than the ball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9m3GyDh6M8
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
Basketball ended
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:30pm.
when the other players took advantage of the game and started hitting him.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40384019/ns/politics-white_house/
He switched to a sport where no one could beat up on him.