Hat tip, Hot Air.This is easily the best ad for McCain that I’ve seen. Love of country trumps the “summer of love”….

Frankly, I don’t personally have a problem with the ad. As for how effective it’ll be in grabbing the swing vote—they’re on the right track. Via Hot Air, where Captain Ed calls the spot “provocative.” Oh, I think if the……

We “lost our way” during the sixties? Are you shitting me?

Nonfactor on July 8, 2008 at 8:31 PM

I’m pretty sure I did this morning…smelled like it also.

I snatched this fascinating McCain TV ad from HotAir. Watch it, and pay attention to the subtle shots at the 60s mentality: the twist on “love” and the quiet denunciation of self-centeredness. Also notice “he doesn’t tell us wha…

But then I prefer my steak to Moo and think that the DoD has 1/3 the appropriate budget. Ideally you’d be able to walk across the Pacific on the decks of USN CVNs.

Time to go for the jugular and stay there – Obama is going to kill us all and then use his Bolivarian Circles to ensure there’s never another election.

SHAMBLES???

SHAMBLES???

Our energy policy, yes. Our economy? No. Best in the world, hands down.

Shot of Barry changing his younger daughter’s diaper.

Voice Over:

“Barack Obama knows about CHANGE.”

Close-up of him dumping the gamey item in the trash.

“He’s a hands-on guy.”

Now, we need to get a conservative running for Senate against Obambi in Illinois. Let’s send this douchebag back to the Illinois general assembly, where he is at his intellectual and moral depth.

Say, as he is half white how come I don’t hear the negros calling him an Oreo?

Poking fun at the ‘hope’ mantra = also thumbs up. Now, to explain to the pleebs how the ‘change’ Obama’s talking about refers only to what will be left in your wallets…

I liked it. Except for the ‘economy in shambles’ bit. That was stupid… he should have used something like ’struggling economy’.

People who think the economy is ‘in shambles’ right now have no sense of history.

McCain’s five years as a POW probably changed him.

ArmyAunt on July 8, 2008 at 1:10 PM

Vote McCain: get morph for your money.

I doubt that McCain’s campaign intended it, but this is also a very, very subtle response to Obama’s “Kansas values” ad. Obama stayed with his Kansas-born grandparents in Hawaii for high school because his flower-child mother wanted to flit around the globe marrying unsuitable-for-fatherhood men.

That’s not necessarily criticism of Obama (you can’t pick your relatives), but of the narcissistic lefty values he espouses (an inconvenient, unwanted child is “punishment.”)

Wethal on July 8, 2008 at 2:09 PM

Good point. Whomever is producing the RNC and McCain campaign ads is/are doing one heck of a job.

Because he cheated on her with, and dumped her for a hot, very rich woman. Unless you think she liked her for her personality in which case I have some oceanfront property in Nevada I’d like to sell you.

Darth Executor on July 8, 2008 at 2:58 PM

You know he and his first wife are still on good terms so why does this bother YOU?

I find it incredible that people here went completely nuts over Clinton cheating on his wife but are willing to give McCain a free pass just because he’s “their guy”.

I must have missed it – when did John McCain run for office with his first wife by his side while openly screwing every woman in sight? When did he and his wife go on 60 Minutes and pretend to have a happy marriage? When did McCain go on national television deying that he had had sex with an employee half his age?

The other big difference between McCain and Clinton is that McCain and his first wife got a divorce. That’s an honest admission that you don’t want to be married anymore. His wife freely gave him the divorce too. Bill and Hillary will never get a divorce even though nobody in America thinks they have ever had a real marriage at all. That’s the kind of elemental lie that America should never tolerate.

John McCain has never lied about the fact that he met and fell for Cindy before he was divorced. He has also never campaigned as a “family values” kind of guy, which would make him a hypocrite. As far as anyone knows, he has been faithful to Cindy and she to him.

Ronald Reagan also had a failed first marriage and Nancy was probably pregnant when they were married. I guess by your standards no conservative should ever have supported Reagan and he never should have been president.

I’m sorry you have no principles. I wish I could be as machiavelian as you but I’m not. Have a nice day.
Darth Executor on July 8, 2008 at 4:06 PM

LOL, lie and lie some more. It’s apparently all you are capable of.