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A New Low In Political Ads
Politicians using their families in their profession has just reached a new low.
If yours truly was a resident of Pennsylvania and was undecided this would cause me to vote — against the candidate who made this ad. Did you ever hear of “letting kids be kids?”
11 Responses to “A New Low In Political Ads”
F**K! *I’M* a resident of PA…this is some B.S. Ion’t even wanna vote in this election, but now I guess I *HAVE* to. That P.O.S. Santorum…*SMH*
Santorum is doing everything he can to win, including this, including funding a third party candidate to siphon votes from his opponant, including claiming we found WMDs in Iraq, including claiming to speak for his opponant’s father.
The list is endless.
If he wins, everything he’s done will be validated. And repeated.
Call me an outsider but the commercial doesn’t seem that bad. its not like he’s having his kids call the opposing candidate an ‘***hole’.
Mind you, my very uniformed opinion is resting on the claim in the ad that his opponent criticized him for moving his family to washington and having them attend public schools over the internet. If true, then attacking his family choices seems to make it fair game to allow your family to speak back against those claims.
So I guess my question for everyone is: Is it true that Santorum’s opponent criticized moving his family to washington and attending a public school over the internet?
oops, typo thats uninformed opinion, not uniformed
It’s not new to have families talk about how great a given candidate is – do you remember Tipper Gore gushing about Al?
Seriously, nothing to see here…
You generally haven’t seen YOUNG KIDS used like that. Unless I’m correct, Tipper Gore was not Al Gore’s CHILD bride…
Mark Green is airing an ad involving his family as part of his campaign for Wisconsin governor. Of course, it doesn’t seem that outrageous and is actually poking fun at Jim Doyle’s campaign calling him too extreme for Wisconsin. His son says an extremely good rebounder (not a good shooter), his wife (I think) says extremely proud of his yard, his daughter says extremely embarrassing.
While I feel there are reasons to vote against Green (as there are reasons to vote against Doyle, this is one of those races where you are left picking the lesser of two evils) I wouldn’t vote against him because he used his family in the commercial.
Of course, this commercial seems a bit different…
His opponant has a problem with him taking out over $38,000 from the school disrict in PA so they can have internet classes for his kids in Washington. I saw both of them on meet the press I would not vote for either one.
What scared me even more was the the comments below the post. Every single one of them was flagged as “abusive” and they all deserved it. Nice display of civility and respect for others from all political perspectives.
I would have thought having the kids do an ad is perfectly acceptable, except when one of the children mentions “My dad’s opponent…”. This is an attack ad, although mild by today’s standards.
I havn’t ever seen family members used in an attack ad before. The problem with that is that the children are of course off-limits for rebuttal.
That reminds me…Who else have we heard of recently, perhaps in a far-off land, who conducts attacks on their opponenents, while at the same time hiding behind non-combatants for defense? Who could it be?
I go along with Kevin H here; though Santorum would not be my choice for a Senator (and wasn’t when I was living in Pennsylvania), and the use of the kids irks me a touch, I don’t perceive anything here that is really out of line. The thing that I wonder about is that we’re starting to escalate up from just having pictures of the darling wife and cute kids, to actively having them take part in the commercials. If the kids don’t mind, though, and they’re given the choice…well, he’s their dad, and it’s their choice….