Ralph Reed's Group Compares Obama Policies to Nazi Germany

Source: Mother Jones

A mailer blasted out by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a nonprofit group spending millions of dollars to mobilize evangelical voters this November to help Mitt Romney's campaign, compares President Barack Obama's policies to the threat posed by Nazi Germany and Japan during World War II. It also says that Obama has "Communist beliefs." A copy of this so-called "Voter Registration Confirmation Survey" was obtained by Mother Jones after it was sent to the home of a registered Republican voter.

The Faith and Freedom Coalition is the brainchild of Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition who was once hailed as "the right hand of God" and who is now tasked with getting out the evangelical vote for Romney. In the mid-2000s, Reed was ensnared in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Reed was a longtime friend of Abramoff's, and he took payments from Abramoff to lobby against certain Indian casinos. Reed once ran a religious-themed anti-gambling campaign at the behest of an Abramoff-connected American Indian tribe to try to prevent another tribe from opening a competitor casino. His current efforts for Romney are something of a political rehabilitation for Reed.

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As the New York Times recently reported, the Faith and Freedom Coalition intends to spend between $10 million and $12 million this election cycle. FFC aims to mobilize 17 million right-leaning, religious voters it has compiled in a database using sophisticated microtargeting methods, Reed said, using phone calls and mailers. Reed's master plan calls for more than 5,000 volunteers to make contact with millions of voters in person, with 25 million voter guides being distributed at 117,000 churches around the country before Election Day.

And this is mailer is a piece of this ambitious endeavor. Accompanied by a donation solicitation, the Faith and Freedom Coalition direct-mail piece asks a series of leading, anti-Obama questions. Obamacare, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, and Cuba's Fidel Castro all figure prominently in the missive. The most contentious question may be one comparing Obama's policies to the threat of Nazi Germany and Japan during the second World War:

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Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/ralph-reed-obama-mailer-nazi-communist

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This is the mailer question referred to above (shown only as an image in the article, so I've typed this up):

QUESTION #10: How much danger do you think liberty is in right now as a result of President Obama's policies, actions and agenda for America's future? (Mark as many answers as you think appropriate.)

More serious than the threats we faced in WWII from Nazi Germany and the Japanese because the attack on liberty today is from our own government.

More serious than the threat we faced from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

More serious than the American Civil War

All of the above.

Serious, but not as serious as the threats to liberty listed above.

President Obama is not an enemy of liberty.

Undecided.

Other.

The issue of President Obama's "Communist beliefs" comes up in this question:

ISSUE SUMMARY: The anti-American Communist dictator of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, calls Barack Obama "Comrade Obama" and remarked that he believes President Obama is to the Left of himself and Fidel Castro.

QUESTION #2: Do you think Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro see President Obama as an ally of theirs? Or do you think Chavez was just joking about President Obama's Communist beliefs?

Besides containing these ludicrous, dishonest "issue summaries" and questions, the guide asks people if they're registered to vote, asks them to pledge to vote, and asks them to commit to "freedom-saving volunteer activities" such as distributing the guide, working phone banks, and going to town halls to voice opposition to the President's policies.

The Mother Jones article has an image of the complete mailer, as well as the smaller images of those questions.