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A Nice Ad
James Joyner published a post about a new RNC ad. Watch the ad yourself at Outside the Beltway. James compares this ad to the one from Johnsen attacking Goldwater: they share some remarkable similarities.
6 Responses to “A Nice Ad”
Total desperation. And the message completely backfires. Why should the American people trust the party that failed to kill the people who made those quotes?
It’s election time so now Dubya is once again, concerned about Osama.
I give it about 3 weeks till he goes back to being “not concerned” about him.
Exactly…
The question everyone will ask is…where the hell does Iraq fit into that equation. The problem with the Republicans is, they think this all a fucking game. That ad is pretty disgraceful. Fear is all they have left I suppose.
They’ve lost competence talking point
They’ve lost fiscally prudent talking point
They’ve lost the moral highground talking point
They’ve lost the anti-Washington talking point
They’ve lost the anti-corruption talking point
They can’t talk about Iraq
They can’t talk about Immigration
They can’t talk about Health Care
They can’t talk about Osama Bin Laden in the specific term.
All they have is generalized FEAR to play on..
DIS-GRACE
Remarkably subtle, eh wot?
Thats it? Vote Republican or die?
Iraq is done, and the Republican pary is done. The add is badly done satire that is made ironic by the fact that the RNC believes this will help.
Rove has indeed lost control of the messege.
This ad capitalizes on the GOP’s only achievement in the last five years- the failure of the terrorists to attack again after 9/11. It is a dubious achievement at best. They seem to have refined fear-mongering to a fine art, too bad they can’t say the same for their ability to govern.
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