The Politico is getting sloppy, writing this tripe about how “GOP supporter Mark DeMoss is pulling his Support”.
“A prominent Evangelical figure and Republican donor says he will end his contributions to the organized Republican Party in reaction to the leaked fundraising presentation that advised using “fear” to solicit contributions and displayed an image of President Obama as the Joker from Batman.
Mark DeMoss, who heads a major Christian public relations firm in Atlanta and served as a liaison to the Evangelical community for Mitt Romney in 2008, wrote Chairman Michael Steele yesterday that he was “ashamed” of the presentation, calling depictions of Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Majority Leader Harry Reid “shameful, immature and uncivil, at best.”
“I’m afraid the presentation is representative of a culture and mindset within the Republican National Committee,” DeMoss, a past member of the RNC’s “Eagle” program for top donors who gave the party $15,000 in 2008, wrote in the letter to Steele, which he shared with POLITICO. “Consequently, I will no longer contribute to any fundraising entity of our Party—but will contribute only to individual candidates I choose to support.”
The letter was copied to House and Senate Republican leaders, whose campaign committees DeMoss said he’d also stop supporting.
DeMoss, whose causes include a project devoted to civility and who is the scion of a major Evangelical family, concluded:
“Mr. Chairman, I love giving money to candidates at every level who I believe in and want to see elected. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to consider making a contribution to the Party itself. The sort of behavior displayed in Boca Grande only contributes to the widespread cynicism of politics in general and our Party in particular. It is, in my opinion, indefensible and destructive.”
Of Mr. ‘Civility” Time Magazine wrote:
“Like a majority of DeMoss undertakings, the Power for Living campaign turns out to be a simple call to Christ. But a significant minority of the foundation’s projects are harder edged, targeting abortion and gay rights and promoting a vision of a Christian America some find overzealous. The DeMoss family, led by matriarch Nancy, 61, is politically and theologically conservative. Its charity was “an early and significant supporter of the religious right,” says William Martin, author of With God on Our Side, a history of the movement. As the DeMoss Foundation demonstrates its willingness to pour tens of millions into reaching a mass audience, it inevitably courts the question, What are its larger social goals?”
Kind of sound like “In Your Face Social Change” than “keeping it civil”. But there is more. DeMoss, an professed evangelical Christian threw his support behind Mitt Romney a Mormon. Hardly a profession of faith. DeMoss would say of this:
“I have often been asked whether evangelical voters could find their vision for president in a man of another faith, and specifically a Mormon. Then it struck me: This is the wrong question. To evaluate a candidate solely on religion is unfair to both the candidate and the religion. The better question is: Could I vote for this Mormon? That Catholic? This Baptist?”
Hmmm. If you don’t know what DeMoss is so self-righteously upset about, here it is.

If this light fare upsets DeMoss, then he can keep his money – we don’t need him. The presentation is factual in every way based on what we have seen from Obama and Pelosi and Reid, all of whom have played a greater roles in demonizing the GOP and conservatives in general.
I hardly remember DeMoss being upset by racist depictions of Condi Rice, or Colin Powell, the constant references of George Bush as a monkey.
Again, exactly the kind we don’t need. Keep your money.
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