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Excerpts from Red State

By: Reince Priebus

February 7, 2012

“This morning’s Wall Street Journal reports on Obama’s ‘Runway to Win’ fashion fundraiser tonight, where the campaign will begin hawking campaign-themed apparel and accessories from high-end designers. The article also raises some serious issues about potential campaign finance law violations…

“Visitors to www.RunwaytoWin.com may find themselves asking yet another question: Is the Obama campaign promoting a president or a product?

“While the products’ prices are high by conventional standards, it all speaks to a certain cheapening of the commander-in-chief. It underscores yet again the Obama campaign’s desire to run on something—anything!—other than the president’s record.

“In 2008, Barack Obama had no record, so he ran on empty slogans. In 2012, he has a record, but because that record is so abysmal, the campaign has calculated that they must run a campaign that deliberately avoids mentioning it…

“In the Obama economy, few can realistically afford to be campaign-chic—even if these are supposed to be discounted prices. (See the RNC’s video, ‘The Obama 2012 Fashion Show’)

“This tone-deafness comes on the same day that Team Obama took hypocrisy to a new level—embracing the very Super PACs that the president once called a ‘threat to democracy.’ It’s just the latest broken promise from Barack Obama and, like the fashion fundraising, directly undermines the administration’s own rhetoric…

“Obama once declared that as a result of Super PACs, ‘every American might end up suffering’…

“Obama now prioritizes fundraising over fighting supposed ‘suffering.’ It doesn’t take a fashion designer to see that’s a bad look on him.”

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