Comments on: Video: The cheesiest re-election ad ever

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » New DNC ad: “Exxon John”

Hot Air » Blog Archive » New DNC ad: “Exxon John” — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:25:53 +0000

[...] a rare show of creativity by a Democratic ad team, it alludes in its choice of music to another goofy political ad that only news junkies like you and me will know, and of course it’s brazenly dishonest in [...]

By: Darvin Dowdy

Darvin Dowdy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:41:42 +0000

Haven’t read that liberal rag TX Monthly in years. And, guaranteed, I’ll hold my nose and pull the lever for McCain/staight gop. But I’m one of the few.
Again, mark my words. Lots of anger amongst the “former Repub’s” down here. Texas is trending Blue as a result. Not something I’m happy about. Hope I’m wrong. DD

By: Reaps

Reaps — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:07:36 +0000

Texas does things quick? Outwork our foe so he can ‘get six moe’?

Entertaining though.

By: TexasJew

TexasJew — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:43:46 +0000

This is not Obama country.
Sorry.
Stop reading “Texas Monthly”, they’re just crappy whining Texas Democrats..

By: Darvin Dowdy

Darvin Dowdy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:02:30 +0000

Cornyn will have a tough time beating Noriega. Noriega served in Afghanistan and he'll expend that capital to the max like John Kerry did w/ his Vietnam experience. As a result Noriega will pull a lot of the more conservative Hispanic vote away from Cornyn. Cornyn's big problem is the fact that he is viewed here in TX, in essence, as a fence-sitter especially on the immigration issue. Way too close and chummy w/the Bush admin and Johnny Sutton. And many here feel he has not done near enough to get Ramos and Compean released. Its a real hot-button issue here in TX. Many a conservative voter will protest vote for a 3rd party (like they did on 11/7/06) or they'll simply Stay at Home. I'm not happy about this but I think there is a strong case to be made (as is made here) that Texas Goes Blue in '08.

By: TexasJew

TexasJew — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:50:29 +0000

It’s still not as catchy as the all-time music-so-bad-that you can’t-get-it-out-of-your-head political ad”
(only remembered by Texans of a “certain age”)

“Eugene Locke should be governor of Texas
The governor of Texas should be Eugene Locke.”

At UT, the anti-war jerks used to sing (to the same melody)
“Ho Chi Minh should be governor of Texas
The governor of Texas should be Ho Chi Minh”

By: EJDolbow

EJDolbow — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:18:21 +0000

We must consider the audience. This was produced for the Texas Republican Convention? If so, it is perfect.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:12:22 +0000

“You must get six mo?” I don’t think it’s a joke, exactly, but tongue-in-cheek humor works. That is some jacket, tho.

By: onlineanalyst

onlineanalyst — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:11:47 +0000

It’s a good un. In fact, I think that it would play well outside the Lone Star State.

Americans love manly men, not manly women nor “messiahs” for their political leaders.

By: wepeople

wepeople — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:50:16 +0000

AP is still sore about not getting that Iphone from the boss! Lighten up!

By: MrLynn

MrLynn — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:14:46 +0000

I LIKED the ad! Everything about it. I liked the “cheesiness” as you so eloquently put it. But then I love America and her rich traditions including not a small amount of “cheesiness.” Charles Martel on June 21, 2008 at 4:49 PM

Me too! Enjoyed the ad and its touch of self-parody, Texas-style. Then, I do a country radio show (Hillbilly at Harvard).

By: apoole

apoole — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:53:37 +0000

I love it.

By: RushBaby

RushBaby — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:24:27 +0000

BTW, I’m a Texan and I’ve never heard him referred to as “Big John”. ‘Round these parts, we call him Senator Cornyn.

By: RushBaby

RushBaby — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:22:27 +0000

Six Mo’ for Big John. He really is a terrific Senator.

By: adamsweb

adamsweb — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:20:18 +0000

This was awesome and as an Idahoan, I’m awed by Texas’ awesomeness and if we had 99 More Senators like John Cornyn, our country wouldn’t have near as many problems.

By: Ludwig

Ludwig — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:39:08 +0000

I thought it was real, until the line about the “brew”

By: hunter

hunter — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:33:20 +0000

Explain to me why Conservatives insist on eating their own?

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:14:05 +0000

Texas is definitely changing into a bit more of a Federal handout-loving kind of place.

Actually, lat I haerd, Texas got the lowest per capita fed handouts of any state.

Full disclosure: I’m Texan.

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:12:20 +0000

I love chedder, but that could have used a little less cheese. That said, I like John Cornyn a lot. I didn’t hear about Juan McAmnesty screaming at JC–just one more reason to hate that ***************.

By: juliesa

juliesa — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:40:28 +0000

The headline is misleading, although the article is correct–it’s not an ad. It was for the convention.

By: juliesa

juliesa — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:37:28 +0000

I think the vid is funny. That was my favorite song when I was a kid.

I thank God about once a week that I live in a state where we elect people like Senators Cornyn and Hutchison, especially whenever I see the likes of Senators Boxer, Schumer, Obama, Clinton, etc in hearings on tv.

By: CapitalistPig

CapitalistPig — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:56:17 +0000

OMG im so glad Im from Texas. I agree with an earlier post…Nancy boys from Nancy states prolly don’t like this ad…God bless the Republic of Texas!

By: TexasJew

TexasJew — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:45:21 +0000

I guess I’m just a “Texan” then, who also happens to not like crap. And I sort of expect Big Bad Republicans to display an ounce of balls and not vote for farm welfare bills.

scotta on June 21, 2008 at 9:46 PM

Times are a-changin’ as they say. Remember, the Odessa people were going crazy bout getting that scam billion-dollar NuGen CO2 sequestration project that went away.

Texas is definitely changing into a bit more of a Federal handout-loving kind of place.

The folks around Abilene and Sweetwater (and even McCamey! – just south of the “real Texans” of Midland/Odessa) are jumping onto the wind turbine Federal gravy train these days. Billions are flowing into those huge wind farms and all that subsidized overpriced electricity. Yet Texas has huge reserves of lignite and lignite-fired power plants and inexpensive energy.

You get on some of the highways around Abilene or Ballinger and it’s just one giant truckload with turbine bases, one after another.

By: JeffinSac

JeffinSac — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:19:35 +0000

With an ad like that, I feel strangely compelled to move to Texas and vote for Big John.

I feel the same way and when is he going to run for President. :-)

By: BowHuntingTexas

BowHuntingTexas — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:50:49 +0000

I just can’t wait until Texas becomes the Republic of Texas again.