New RNC ad: “Guilt by participation”
posted at 8:10 pm on October 12, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via Politico, another attempt to jump-start the meme. They’ll push it out wide tomorrow morning. The brief clip of Ayers is new to me, the rest is old hat, although the tagline at the end is interesting in how it suggests The One’s motives in gladhanding Ayers had less to do with radical sympathies than with sheer mercenary ambition. Maybe that’s Maverick’s sop to toning down the rhetoric.
Exit question: On a scale of 1 to 10, how enraged will conservatives be if it turns out after the election that Wurtzel was right, that the media knows more than it’s saying about Obama’s relationship with Ayers but decided to let him lie to the public about it in the interest of seeing him win? 15? 23?
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Yes… curious since at the “cut off”, the amount of money available to both (their funds plus DNC/RNC) campaigns was similar. The bulk of what we have seen from McCain have been Internet ads which are cheap. During the last week, my wife (independent) received 5 expensive Obama mailings in 7 days (south Florida). Obama has to be burning money at an incredible rate. I guess if he gets low, he just gets some more donations from
George SorosGood WillInternet supporters under $200.You would think that sooner or later the McCain money is going to start flowing heavily. I sure hope that is the case.
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CapedConservative on October 13, 2008 at 6:56 AM
At this point McCain should remind the people of The Dear One’s commitment to public financing before the conventions and then ask the people if they think the presidency can be bought with money coming from unidentifiable sources.
Annar on October 13, 2008 at 7:17 AM
I have now officially lost count of the total number of emails and letters I have sent to every blasted news service out there to complain about the absolute bias out there is the media’s support of B.O. These clowns are literally giving this country away to a socialist agenda and they are getting away with it. I’m wondering it if isn’t time to flood the FCC with complaints about this media bias nonsense. This has got to stop!
pilamaye on October 13, 2008 at 7:25 AM
Csdeven, your arrogance in impugning the motives and sincerity of people you have never met is really not worthy of a courteous response, but the stakes are too high here for that, so I’ll try again. The majority of undecideds in my experience, limited mostly to academics, are Democrats, who, rightly or wrongly, have certain stereotypes of conservatives and Republicans. And they are–once again, in my experience–genuinely torn between those stereotypes, party loyalty which may stretch back decades, and a personal distrust/dislike of Barack Obama. They are rational, thinking people, and people of good faith. Is it really so far-fetched to attempt to reach out to them, to not live up to every single negative stereotype, to give them positive reasons to vote for McCain, ask for their help in this election, and try to get them to form a long-term relationship with our party, rather then insult them and insult our own candidate when they are here–in spite of what you think–looking for reasons NOT to vote for Obama.
In another thread on this site, someone wrote this apostrophe to McCain: “My country is more important than your f—cking honor!!!” And people commended the common sense of the thought and the blunt eloquence of its expression. But isn’t there a corollary we can apply to ourselves–”My country is more important than your f–cking theories of ideological purity?” Or are we crazy spinsters who hold on to our purity while we feed our dozens of cats alone? Are we above asking for the help of people who differ from us in some ways, but who share a common goal? Or maybe it’s more important that, instead of trying to talk to them, we save our strenth for more important–and self-important–endeavors which many of us will surely engage in starting November 5, and that is putting our “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for McCain” bumper stickers on our cars while the country we claim to love decays under Obama’s mismanagement. But at least, like those spinsters, we remained “pure.”
Ace ran a brilliant thread where he attempted to reach out to the PUMAs, and to find out what they would want from McCain to get their vote, and the responses were constructive and sensible. That’s where I send my friends who ask me about McCain, not here. And I will continue to do so, because I would prefer McCain win than not.
And Mr. or Mrs. Entelechy, speaking in aphorisms as you did is rarely the sign of literacy of any kind, let alone “political” literacy.
mikeinamman on October 13, 2008 at 7:43 AM
So, Obama cries foul when his associations are questioned. Then, he merrily goes on to say McCain is the same as Bush because they belong to the same political party. As with all things, it is all different when it is The One.
Kafir on October 13, 2008 at 8:07 AM
we live in a democratic republic ,,the people we vote for represent us, if thier character dosent matter then we are saying our character dosent ,, ayers is a commie,, wright liberation theology wraps itself in the hammer and sickle.. he sorrounds himself with socialist preaches socialism,, and with the financial industry being takin over,, its a good opportunity for a socialists movement ,, barak has more in common with moscow then washington
rico101 on October 13, 2008 at 8:23 AM
The waning of free speech in Europe continues
We have reported on Europe’s sickening turn away from robust democracy, and especially freedom of speech, and towards leftist thugocracy. In no European country does the abandonment of Western values appear to be occurring more rapidly than Belgium.
The latest example comes from Ghent, as reported by the Gates of Vienna blog. On October 7, Filip Dewinter, a prominent Flemish politician, was scheduled to participate in a debate at the University of Ghent. The issue was to be cooperation between Flanders and the Netherlands. Dewinter is a member of a party that favors the separation of Flanders from Belgium. Separation would be accomplished non-violently, as occurred when Czechoslovakia separated into two Republics.
Prior to the debate, the Rector of the university announced that Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament who had also been invited, would not be allowed to participate. Wilders is a libertarian-conservative, a staunch defender of free speech, and a critic of Islam to the extent that it conflicts with freedom. Because of his criticism of Islam, he frequently receives death threats. The Rector said that Wilders would not be welcome because his safety could not be guaranteed.
Neither, it turned out, could Dewinter’s. Left-wing students (300 of them according to one estimate) calling themselves anti-fascists blocked his entrance. Dewinter refused to be intimidated and attempted to enter the building. A brawl ensued. The police eventually broke it up, but the debate was cancelled.
Afterwards Dewinter said:
We were struck and beaten because we wanted access to a university for an approved debate. The so-called anti-fascists used fascist methods to try to silence us. This can not be allowed in a democracy.
Increasingly, the question is: to what extent is a country like Belgium still a full democracy?
Any of this sound familiar? Liberals are Liberals are Liberals. Just ask Ann Coulter and dozens of others who were attacked while giving speeches.
Keemo on October 13, 2008 at 8:40 AM
I live in the wealthy section of town in Hollywood, Florida. This area is the epicenter of liberal/democratic politics with several key local politicians living there. During Kerry/Edwards the neighbourhood was wall-to-wall K/E lawn signs. Same for Gore Lieberman.
This morning I counted 13 McCain and 3 Obama signs. What do you make of that?
epluribusunum on October 13, 2008 at 8:49 AM
I like the ad, but the end is weak.
Why not ask why these radicals want him in power?
Matushka on October 13, 2008 at 8:58 AM
Good ad.
Better!
Bring in the Rev, Rashid Khalidi and the rest of the gang.
moxie_neanderthal on October 13, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Internet ads may be cheap, but how many people watch them? If TV watchers are seeing lots of Obama ads whether they want to or not, and people have to surf the Internet to see McCain ads, who will have more influence on the sheeple? The McCain camp needs to wake up and get on TV, quickly!!!
If Obama runs low on money (not likely) he can just get more in $20 increments from “Fdsa Fdsa” of Dhff, Florida, and other keystrokes of genius from keyboard monkeys.
Steve Z on October 13, 2008 at 9:45 AM
You should be sending them to PUMA sites if they’re undecided:
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/clinton-supporters-sharing-evidence-for-rico-case-against-obama-campaign/
Let’s roll!
ex-Democrat on October 13, 2008 at 9:58 AM
ex-Democrat, this is an excellent post! I’ve sent it to everyone in my email list.
jeffersonschild on October 13, 2008 at 11:54 AM
I read Ace’s PUMA thread, too, and thought it was great. Despite the penchant for colorful language, I find Ace’s posts to be very thoughtful, striking the right balance of fighting spirit and realism (with respect to how the campaign has been going). I sent the link to that thread to HotAir, but I guess they didn’t pick it up.
In addition to the PUMA sites, I would also highly recommend that people with fence-sitting independent or democrat friends send them to read neoneocon’s blog. She is a former liberal democrat whose friends are still primarily from the intelligentsia. Like Ann Althouse, she is someone they might relate to… but unlike Ann, who recently announced her likely intent to vote for O!, she is definitely in the McCain camp. (I lost some respect for Althouse when she rationalized away the violent behavior of O! supporters because of their youth, but held the McCain supporters who said questionable things to task because somehow they should know better.) See, for example, this post: Obama the soft socialist.
I think Ed’s posts tend to produce less vitriol (and attract less trolls) than Allah’s, but many of the HotAir threads would be really hard for independents to benefit from — far too much social cons name-calling people who disagree with them, imho, and negativity about McCain. Hot Air is still a great site, especially for the Headlines section, but I have no doubt that if any of my friends from academe landed in some of the Huckabee threads they would think the end of the world was coming and never consider voting for a Republican.
Michelle Malkin’s blog can be great because she is so sharp, but I agree with mikeinamman that it’s not the place to send fence-sitters. She’s too hard line. The bailout threads have been about as helpful as libertarian threads. Just not practical and not acknowledging in any way the efforts some of our representatives made to negotiate a better bailout.
Y-not on October 13, 2008 at 1:59 PM
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