This ad treats the viewer like a 2 year old.

Dave Rywall on August 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM

It quick, on point and only 26 seconds. What do you expect, War & Peace?

Oh, you say you don’t think it’s that high… well add it up.

Federal about: 15%
State about: 8%
Social Security 7.5%
Your employer has to MATCH your social security (really you pay it) 7%

State Sales taxes: about 7%
This comes to a total of: 44.5%

We still haven’t included gas taxes, utility taxes, licensing taxes, airport taxes, alcohol and tobacco taxes, property taxes, personal property taxes, death taxes, on and on and on.

But of course the Democrats won’t be happy even after they get all of it.

Do you idiots know anything about advertising and marketing?
Has anyone of you ever rolled out a product or marketing campaign?

It’s a slow, orchestrated step by step process…..McCain will define himself come the fall.

This ad treats the viewer like a 2 year old.

Dave Rywall on August 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM

Did you need help with any of the big words?

was half expecting The Beatle’s “Taxman”.

Hening on August 15, 2008 at 10:59 AM

Same here. I’m disappointed.

This ad treats the viewer like a 2 year old.

Dave Rywall on August 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM

Now if you will just pick up your mat and put your blankie away after nap time, we’ll get the cookies and milk ready. Please leave the grown-ups alone. We are using big words.

You can argue with them around the edges all you want, but this campaign is The. Single. Best. political ad campaign I’ve ever seen.

Whoever thought up the idea of laying that chant into all of them just frickin’ gets it.

With Russia invading America-friendly democracies like Georgia, voters need to understand that Obama intends to severely cut defense spending and new weapons development, and plans to respond to future threats from aggressive and hostile regimes like Russia’s from a position of weakness, not strength.

To political junkies, maybe. To the mushy middle that is just barely paying attention so far, not so much. I would expect it to continue through at least the big Dem convention stadium rally.

Karl on August 15, 2008 at 11:05 AM

The strategy emerges.

(1) DEFLATE Stick a pin in the personality-cult balloon via humor
(2) DEFINE Show how celebrity-guy’s policies are bad for you, the voter
(3) DESIGNATE Step in with real solutions, proven leadership, service, judgment, experience
(4) DECIDE Vote McCain

We’re only at (2) now. So far so good.

Someone here will explain it to you, if you ask nicely.

This ad treats the viewer like a 2 year old.

Dave Rywall on August 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM

In your case, he aimed too high.

Now that he has lowered the tax rate from 28 to 20, and applied it only to those making over $250,000, how much money could such a tax raise?

Ditto the new SS taxes. Eliminating the SS cap has traction with the middle class. Increasing the SS taxes on them is pure class warfare pandering. The strength of SS has always been because most people believed that they were getting back their own money, it wasn’t welfare. This was never true, but Obama’s new, tax the rich so that we can save the system eliminates the last shred of cover for the program.

If this is handled in the “normal” way by the IRS, it will apply to single people making over $125K.

Damn those rich b*stards who make $125K! They’re living fat off the “middle class.”