John McCain has a new ad out today, one that gives a more literal meaning to comparative advertising. “Compare” focuses on economics to paint Barack Obama as “risky”, mentioning but not hammering Obama on his redistributionist comments:
Anyone want to see second prize? Not me, either.
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Not a very good ad. Not strong enough. I agree with Ed, they need to start using the audio of Obama.
Also, Newt has a great tactic as he explained on O’Reilly’s show last night, start playing that audio in McCain /Palin rallies. Hammer this hard. McCain is being too damn nice.
I wish McCain had the courage of his seeming conviction.
Maybe his moronic campaign has decided to wait a day to let the effect of the 2001 tape get shouted around before releasing an ad. But I hope they have been scouring that tape for material because it seems endless. Indeed, in two places, I’ve seen reports that say Obama in the same interview compared the U.S. to Nazi Germany.
C’mon, f*uckin’ McCain, stand up and fight for us. Close only counts in horseshoes and Jarts. And a tie is like kissing your sister–and in this case, it will mean kissing Nancy Pelosi, who will invariably swing the election to Obama.
Maybe we need to get Palin in the studio to splice together an ad.
So ABC got snubbed by Obama’s 30-minute indoctrination ad, not paid to run it. Poetic, prophetic COWARDS’ title “PUSHING DAISIES” is the only network alternative juxtaposing The American Nazi, Obama.
Wright, Ayers, Acorn, Rezko, Redistributive socialism, etc., etc. All good ordnance, all fair game. Has Mac forgotten after all these years how and when to drop bombs from his attack plane?
I can’t believe he is so concerned about being “nice.” There hasn’t been a nice campaign for president since Washington won unanimously.
FWIW: regarding Obama’s effect on the federal judiciary, make sure that you read the article in the Hot Air headlines by Steven Calebrisi. It’s an article in today’s Wall Street Journal.
By the way, it turns out that the head of an Ohio agency gained access to Joe the Plumber’s personal records. Surprise, she’s an Obama supporter. I can’t wait to vote against Dem officeholders in the next Ohio elections. From the Hot Air headlines.
An interview with Weathermen insider/FBI informant Larry Grathwohl on whether to believe Obama when it comes to Bill Ayers.
Pajamas Media: Do you think there is there any way that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama could not have known that Bill Ayers was a domestic terrorist? Is there any reason that the American people should accept Barack Obama’s newest excuse about his relationship with Bill Ayers, where Obama claimed that he thought Ayers was “reformed”?
Larry Grathwohl: If we are to believe Mr. Obama, he just didn’t know Billy was as radical as he apparently is. Really? Just like he didn’t know the Rev. Wright was as radical as he is? Obama is a politician and he wants me to believe that he never discussed politics with the Rev Wright or Billy Ayers?
Mr. Grathwohl concluded the interview with a question of his own.
“Have you seen the [Bill] O’Reilly attempts to interview Billy? He called the police to ‘protect’ him! Doesn’t surprise me a bit: Billy needs others to stand up, not him. He’s too important! Do you think his new book [Race Course Against White Supremacy, co-author Bernardine Dohrn] has something to do with his position? I bet we hear a lot from Billy and Bernardine after the election. Especially if Obama wins.”
Saw a piece on CBS news this morning about the number of bogus names in the Obama list of donors, they mentioned that one name had contributed over $17,000. They also mentioned that McCain has made the entire database available online, while Obama still keeps secret the small donor database.
They didn’t metion the problems with flaws in Obama’s credit card security system. Though I suppose that just mentioning that people with obviously bogus names are donating would be enough to drive that point home.
This stuff is starting to gain traction. I just hope it’s not too late.
What the people need is to have socialism explained to them, since public education obviously failed to pull that off, then have Bambi’s socialist playbook exposed to them in the light of their newfound knowledge. In the space of one week.
Not that we won’t win otherwise, we’re going to win, I’d just like to see a landslide that we could rub Bambi’s face in.
Ask the average person if they understand “redistribution”. Unless McCain starts taking a lot of tanning pills between now and next Tuesday, it’s over.
Bushites sank Palin’s initiation to the Insiders’ Club that she initially announced as the outsider in the pack that she was coming to crash.
Bushites have McCain’s sabotage at heart, always have had it out for McCain, witnessed by the viciously personal lies about his family (adopted daughter) ROBOCALLS. There’s nothing “compassionately conservative” about that kind of campaigning, GWB directly responsible for authorizing that filth.
Bushites are queerly aligned with the Clintons, and it’s a twisted ball of poisoned wax being served to America by the Bushites and the Clintons.
Someone on Fox stated a major problem. Sarah is drawing record crowds, is making very intelligent points and statements but the MSM on clips to the public the statements about her wardrobe or stuff like that. They only show Obama in a good light eloquently making an issue point. I declare war on the MSM and so should the rest of America.
Ask the average person if they understand “redistribution”. Unless McCain starts taking a lot of tanning pills between now and next Tuesday, it’s over.
labrat on October 28, 2008 at 8:17 AM
One doesn’t win by destroying the enemy, one wins by taking away the enemy’s will to fight.
If you let them take your will, you’ve let them win.
Run it over and over and over and over and over and over.
SouthernGent on October 28, 2008 at 8:11 AM
Absolutely, I’m glad you said that. It frustrated me that the media bleeped out the original message. Why the hell cover for these people? Let everyone hear what these people believe, as disturbing and despicable as it is. Raw and uncensored.
I can’t believe he is so concerned about being “nice.” There hasn’t been a nice campaign for president since Washington won unanimously.
horatio on October 28, 2008 at 8:06 AM
This is why my one litmus test in the primaries is “no sitting Senators.” They’re consensus-builders rather than leaders, especially when they’ve been there for a long time.
C’mon, Mac, don’t you realize those people weren’t your friends to begin with and that if you piss them off now, it won’t make a damn bit of difference?
I’m in Virginia but watch almost zero network TV (Fox News and some football games is it for me), so not sure if these 527 ads are even running.
I know I watched a Redskins games a couple of weeks ago and there must have been 10 Barry ads and zero for McCain (and Barry was lying about McCain “taxing health care benefits for the first time in history”).
Team McCain: the fix is in by the Dems and media. They’ve taken off their gloves LET’S TAKE OFF OURS.
We’re being hustled by a Chicago pro. And seems a majority of America is going along. Too stupid to ask serious questions. Too cowed to see what is happening before their eyes. Too guilt-laden to consider that just because he’s Black he doesn’t have faults, major faults. Too ill educated to understand having a President and Congress as Santa Claus has to be paid for…and it will cost us all…a huge amount. Too inculcated with the notion that “government” can solve all our problems. Too emasculated to stand up and account for themselves. Too willing to beieve that “hope and change” is a destination, not just a cheap political slogan.
Maybe we do get the kind of government we deserve.
They didn’t metion the problems with flaws in Obama’s credit card security system. Though I suppose that just mentioning that people with obviously bogus names are donating would be enough to drive that point home.
Sorry. Mentioning any of that would be a racist attack and a distraction from the real issues.
As much as I love Fred Thompson, it wasn’t “Bushites” who sank him. He sunk himself pretty effectively by running a p*ss-poor campaign and putting all his eggs into South Carolina. If he came out of the gate fighting (instead of the last debate before NH, which I still feel he won) he would’ve made a much better showing in the early states and could’ve ridden that momentum into SC and beyond.
Ya know I never understood why they would bleep God and not damn.
- The Cat
MirCat on October 28, 2008 at 8:35 AM
When a news organization feels the need to bleep anything out of a ’sermon’, you know there’s something wrong with that ‘pastor’ and that ‘church’ (and its ‘congregants’), as well as the ‘news’ organization doing the bleeping.
As an outsider, I would recommend he hit the Commander-in-Chief as well. OK forgive my Aussie sense of humour but he should have an ad that starts exactly the same as Hillary’s 3am call, but then you see a hand pick up a ringing phone and pan to a half rear shot close up with him answering: John McCain.
As much as I love Fred Thompson, it wasn’t “Bushites” who sank him. He sunk himself pretty effectively by running a p*ss-poor campaign and putting all his eggs into South Carolina. If he came out of the gate fighting (instead of the last debate before NH, which I still feel he won) he would’ve made a much better showing in the early states and could’ve ridden that momentum into SC and beyond.
No, Fred Thompson sank Fred Thompson.
crazy_legs on October 28, 2008 at 8:38 AM
Personally, I feel open primaries have as much to do with McCain being the (R) presidential nominee as anything; same goes for Barack being the (D) nominee. Why should Dems vote for R’s in primaries and vice-versa? I want voting reform, including requiring ID to vote and closed primaries.
Personally, I feel open primaries have as much to do with McCain being the (R) presidential nominee as anything;
Oh, absolutely. If we had closed primaries (and voter ID’s. Why in the holy h*ll is that RAAAAAAAAACIST?) we’d probably have Mitt or Fred right now. Dems crossing over in NH and elsewhere is what gave us McCain.
OTHO, I do believe that Operation Chaos and open primaries prolonged the Dem primary season. I honestly think Obama would’ve had his nomination wrapped up around the same time as McCain and the polls wouldn’t be a close as they are.
I live in Colorado, battleground state, and I’ve seen the “Joe the Plumber” ad from McCain a couple of times. Great ad! Every time I see an Obama ad, it’s usually followed by a McCain ad. Good ads, too, lots of them the positive ones about Maverick/Alaska reformer.
My husband is a registered Independent so we get lots and lots of mailings. Last night we had five anti-Obama flyers and not a single pro-Obama one. (We did get an enormous poster-sized mailing from Obama, which my children scribbled all over with glee — first they gave him a cigarette, then a tiny moustache, then evil eyebrows. Heh.)
You may not be seeing the McCain organization ads, because he’s not spending money in your area. He’s spending a lot of it here.
So you can quit with the “moronic campaign” comments, because you sound like a moron making them.
A lot of Women have already compared, and found Barack Obama SEXIST. Question for Barack Obama, how many women voters do you suppose you have ticked off?
This is a good one too. There is a backlash coming from women, on the treatment of Sarah Palin. This has been building since Hillary Clinton got 18,000,00. votes, and lost the primary. There has not been any valve to relieve the pressure. Barack Obama and his supporters are demeaning to women and Barack Obama has not DENOUNCED the t-shirt that T-Shirt didn’t go un-noticed he had his chance at the last debate, to be the Bigger candidate, when John McCain brought it up. What did Obama reply? I can’t remember. Barack Obama speaks but later you can’t remember what he said?
I live in Colorado, battleground state, and I’ve seen the “Joe the Plumber” ad from McCain a couple of times. Great ad! Every time I see an Obama ad, it’s usually followed by a McCain ad. Good ads, too, lots of them the positive ones about Maverick/Alaska reformer.
My husband is a registered Independent so we get lots and lots of mailings. Last night we had five anti-Obama flyers and not a single pro-Obama one. (We did get an enormous poster-sized mailing from Obama, which my children scribbled all over with glee — first they gave him a cigarette, then a tiny moustache, then evil eyebrows. Heh.)
You may not be seeing the McCain organization ads, because he’s not spending money in your area. He’s spending a lot of it here.
So you can quit with the “moronic campaign” comments, because you sound like a moron making them.
bonnie_ on October 28, 2008 at 9:48 AM
Bonnie, what’s your sense about McCain’s chances in CO? Poll yesterday on Fox has him down about 4 or 5 points….
He never met a tax he didn’t like
he got friends like Rev Wright
He’d rather give away the farm than fight
no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
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He thinks oil should be against the law
He runs down america
Hell He’s asheamed of his own Grandma
no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
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Good people that work all day he got plans to dock your pay…
My friend told me that Colo. Has some great ads for McCain. Here in Ca. You don’t see much of them. Course I don’t watch TV that much. That ad wasn’t all that great. McCain like Thompson, don’t show to much emotion. I loved Fred too. McCain needs to get more vocal.
I’ve seen all the McCain ads in PA. Last week Obama was blanketing the airwaves, but not quite as much this week. I’ve also seen the NRA ad, and Jeremiah Wright ad, and the neverfindout.org ad about Fannie and Freddie.
Obama’s ads are harsh and negative – tying McCain to Bush, some stuff about a thread factory in North Carolina closing and somehow it’s John McCain’s fault, and McCain’s healthcare plan killing puppies.
The only mail I have received is five flyers from Planned Parenthood, other than an absentee ballot mailer from the state GOP. I guess because I am a Republican woman in a suburban county, they assume I am pro-choice. Glad they are wasting their money on me.
The wealth distributor is a racistsocialist catch phrase because it makes exposes him seem like as a pimp or a drug dealerMarxist …America must move beyond such stereotypesdefend itself against Socialism at all costs.
With a week to go, one would hope that the McCain campaign has a new ad in the works that relies on Obama’s 2001 interview with WBEZ. That has devastating quotes in it about seeking redistributive change, how the Warren Court wasn’t radical enough, and more. This would have made a good baseline ad coming out of the conventions, but it’s a soft sell.
I somewhat disagree.
This is a very good ad going into the last week of the campaign. it outlines, without screeching or “scare quotes” exactly what is at stake here. If you remember your political history Ronald Reagan ran a similar ad in the last week of the 1980 campaign. The MSM at that time was trying to paint Reagan as “Ronny Rayguns” who would start a nuclear war, force everyone to convert to Christianity, take your kids lunch money to build “rayguns” with and other such nonsense. The MSM was in the tank for Carter in 2000-the only thing that was different from today is that they were in the shallow end of the tank, in 2008 they have done a swan dive straight into the abyss.
The stuff that is contained in the WBEZ tapes would not have gain any traction in the short time left unless the MSM gave it some-just remember that “Rev.” Wright had been a big issue in the blogosphere for months before ABC decided to give the issue an airing. As we have seen with Bill Ayres they will just spin it until they puke or they will attempt to destroy the people who are bringing it to light-just like they have tried to destroy Gov. Palin and Joe the Plumber. You must also add in the BS that spews forth from the modern day versions of “Der Sturmer” and the “Völkischer Beobachter” aka Kos/DU/PuffHo etc. and the moonbat trolls who spread it like a bacillus.
Here is a mid-day palate-cleanser that I am posting to all of today’s threads. It’s very inspirational and I promise it will be worth 2 minutes of your life. Birth of the U.S.
So ABC got snubbed by Obama’s 30-minute indoctrination ad, not paid to run it. Poetic, prophetic COWARDS’ title “PUSHING DAISIES” is the only network alternative juxtaposing The American Nazi, Obama.
Palin should offer to do an interview with ABC, if it airs in that timeslot.
I bet she’d get better ratings than the ONE’s infomercial — because it would be an -interview- not an ad.
Wouldn’t that be a great shift in narrative? Obama buys out every network but one, and gets worse ratings?
Remember, the ads in this last week have absolutely nothing to do with you and me — they are about slowly nudging the undecided voters one way or the other. In this case, it looks like “undecideds” are leaning McCain, but afraid that he’s not the right answer to the economic problems. This ad addresses that in just the right way, IMHO.
It’s a good comparison ad, hitting the economic themes, which are important now.
McCain will need to pounce on the “redistribution of wealth” themes, and also Obama’s quote dissing the Founding Fathers–that was an unforced error from Obama!
On another blog, I found out that, as of September 30, the Obama campaign + DNC + Democrat party had $236 million on hand, and the McCain campaign + RNC + Republican party had…$277 million on hand. Despite the Obama juggernaut of small donations from “asdfasdf” and “qwerty”, Republicans have more money NOW!
Speaking of ads…Obama might be getting a curveball from the baseball world. Since Obama wants to air his 30-minute infomercial tomorrow, with the World Series at 3-1 Phillies, with only 3+ innings to play, and the score tied, will Major League Baseball want to put off the start of the resumed 5th game until AFTER the Obama infomercial? Or will they try to play the end of the 5th game early, BEFORE the Obamamercial, if there’s a risk that the game might go to extra innings?
Baseball and politics might have a strange mix here–a World Series between teams in swing-state PA and swing-state FL–how will that play in the ad wars?
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d like to see an ad right before the election that doesn’t even mention Obama.
Go over McCain’s lifelong service to the U.S.: photos of McCain at Annapolis, while in the Navy, and while in Congress.
Go over his ability to work with both sides of the aisle: photos of him with both Reagan and Clinton (I’m assuming some exist).
Include a quote of him urging for better regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Closing (by McCain talking to the camera): “America is in a rough spot now, but we’ve been through tough times before and come out the stronger for it. I hope that on November 4th, you’ll give me the opportunity to continue serving the United States of America. I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”
The One not only called the failure of the Warren Court to confiscate and redistribute wealth a Tragedy, but he also lamented the limitations on governmental power imposed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. He seeks not simply to attack our wealth, but our freedoms and the inspired document that has enabled and preserved those freedoms better than any other in history. The man is not simply foolish, not simply dangerous, he is a foolish and dangerous unAmerican.
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profitsbeard on October 28, 2008 at 7:36 AM
I think it’s a good summary ad. Seems like it would be effective. He’s not going to get anywhere with a November surprise.
Ronnie on October 28, 2008 at 7:36 AM
Good ad.
Needs to run on both ends of Obamamercial on Wednesday
OSUBuciz1 on October 28, 2008 at 7:36 AM
Too bad that McCain still has the POW mentality that he wont get aggressive to close the deal.
grapeknutz on October 28, 2008 at 7:47 AM
He can’t start getting aggressive now. He’ll look erratic.
Ronnie on October 28, 2008 at 7:54 AM
Not a very good ad. Not strong enough. I agree with Ed, they need to start using the audio of Obama.
Also, Newt has a great tactic as he explained on O’Reilly’s show last night, start playing that audio in McCain /Palin rallies. Hammer this hard. McCain is being too damn nice.
jencab on October 28, 2008 at 7:54 AM
I wish McCain had the courage of his seeming conviction.
Maybe his moronic campaign has decided to wait a day to let the effect of the 2001 tape get shouted around before releasing an ad. But I hope they have been scouring that tape for material because it seems endless. Indeed, in two places, I’ve seen reports that say Obama in the same interview compared the U.S. to Nazi Germany.
C’mon, f*uckin’ McCain, stand up and fight for us. Close only counts in horseshoes and Jarts. And a tie is like kissing your sister–and in this case, it will mean kissing Nancy Pelosi, who will invariably swing the election to Obama.
Maybe we need to get Palin in the studio to splice together an ad.
BuckeyeSam on October 28, 2008 at 7:57 AM
So ABC got snubbed by Obama’s 30-minute indoctrination ad, not paid to run it. Poetic, prophetic COWARDS’ title “PUSHING DAISIES” is the only network alternative juxtaposing The American Nazi, Obama.
THE POINT: SHOW UP AND VOTE AGAINST OBAMA!!!!!
“DEWEY WINS!” NOT
maverick muse on October 28, 2008 at 8:04 AM
Wright, Ayers, Acorn, Rezko, Redistributive socialism, etc., etc. All good ordnance, all fair game. Has Mac forgotten after all these years how and when to drop bombs from his attack plane?
I can’t believe he is so concerned about being “nice.” There hasn’t been a nice campaign for president since Washington won unanimously.
horatio on October 28, 2008 at 8:06 AM
OT:
FWIW: regarding Obama’s effect on the federal judiciary, make sure that you read the article in the Hot Air headlines by Steven Calebrisi. It’s an article in today’s Wall Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122515067227674187.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
Thomas Sowell also has an NRO article today on Obama’s effect on the federal judiciary.
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZThjMGE1Mjg1MzI2YzY2YTJjNmFiZjU3YjY4M2JkMDk=
By the way, it turns out that the head of an Ohio agency gained access to Joe the Plumber’s personal records. Surprise, she’s an Obama supporter. I can’t wait to vote against Dem officeholders in the next Ohio elections. From the Hot Air headlines.
http://minx.cc/?post=276707
BuckeyeSam on October 28, 2008 at 8:07 AM
What do you REALLY know about Barack Obama?
I want that questioned asked a billion times in the next week.
Elizabetty on October 28, 2008 at 8:07 AM
Where is this guys ad?
An interview with Weathermen insider/FBI informant Larry Grathwohl on whether to believe Obama when it comes to Bill Ayers.
Pajamas Media: Do you think there is there any way that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama could not have known that Bill Ayers was a domestic terrorist? Is there any reason that the American people should accept Barack Obama’s newest excuse about his relationship with Bill Ayers, where Obama claimed that he thought Ayers was “reformed”?
Larry Grathwohl: If we are to believe Mr. Obama, he just didn’t know Billy was as radical as he apparently is. Really? Just like he didn’t know the Rev. Wright was as radical as he is? Obama is a politician and he wants me to believe that he never discussed politics with the Rev Wright or Billy Ayers?
Mr. Grathwohl concluded the interview with a question of his own.
“Have you seen the [Bill] O’Reilly attempts to interview Billy? He called the police to ‘protect’ him! Doesn’t surprise me a bit: Billy needs others to stand up, not him. He’s too important! Do you think his new book [Race Course Against White Supremacy, co-author Bernardine Dohrn] has something to do with his position? I bet we hear a lot from Billy and Bernardine after the election. Especially if Obama wins.”
OSUBuciz1 on October 28, 2008 at 8:08 AM
“Not God bless America! God damn America!”
Run it over and over and over and over and over and over.
SouthernGent on October 28, 2008 at 8:11 AM
Saw a piece on CBS news this morning about the number of bogus names in the Obama list of donors, they mentioned that one name had contributed over $17,000. They also mentioned that McCain has made the entire database available online, while Obama still keeps secret the small donor database.
They didn’t metion the problems with flaws in Obama’s credit card security system. Though I suppose that just mentioning that people with obviously bogus names are donating would be enough to drive that point home.
This stuff is starting to gain traction. I just hope it’s not too late.
MarkTheGreat on October 28, 2008 at 8:12 AM
My other news station this morning ran a section on the 2001 “redistribution” audio.
MarkTheGreat on October 28, 2008 at 8:13 AM
What the people need is to have socialism explained to them, since public education obviously failed to pull that off, then have Bambi’s socialist playbook exposed to them in the light of their newfound knowledge. In the space of one week.
Not that we won’t win otherwise, we’re going to win, I’d just like to see a landslide that we could rub Bambi’s face in.
pugwriter on October 28, 2008 at 8:15 AM
Ask the average person if they understand “redistribution”. Unless McCain starts taking a lot of tanning pills between now and next Tuesday, it’s over.
labrat on October 28, 2008 at 8:17 AM
What do you make of a guy who would send his buddies over to your house to threaten you if you ask him the wrong question?
This is not a nice man.
jeff_from_mpls on October 28, 2008 at 8:18 AM
Bushites sank Fred Thompson’s campaign efforts.
Bushites sank Palin’s initiation to the Insiders’ Club that she initially announced as the outsider in the pack that she was coming to crash.
Bushites have McCain’s sabotage at heart, always have had it out for McCain, witnessed by the viciously personal lies about his family (adopted daughter) ROBOCALLS. There’s nothing “compassionately conservative” about that kind of campaigning, GWB directly responsible for authorizing that filth.
Bushites are queerly aligned with the Clintons, and it’s a twisted ball of poisoned wax being served to America by the Bushites and the Clintons.
maverick muse on October 28, 2008 at 8:18 AM
Someone on Fox stated a major problem. Sarah is drawing record crowds, is making very intelligent points and statements but the MSM on clips to the public the statements about her wardrobe or stuff like that. They only show Obama in a good light eloquently making an issue point. I declare war on the MSM and so should the rest of America.
wepeople on October 28, 2008 at 8:20 AM
One doesn’t win by destroying the enemy, one wins by taking away the enemy’s will to fight.
If you let them take your will, you’ve let them win.
pugwriter on October 28, 2008 at 8:21 AM
Absolutely, I’m glad you said that. It frustrated me that the media bleeped out the original message. Why the hell cover for these people? Let everyone hear what these people believe, as disturbing and despicable as it is. Raw and uncensored.
jeff_from_mpls on October 28, 2008 at 8:21 AM
This is why my one litmus test in the primaries is “no sitting Senators.” They’re consensus-builders rather than leaders, especially when they’ve been there for a long time.
C’mon, Mac, don’t you realize those people weren’t your friends to begin with and that if you piss them off now, it won’t make a damn bit of difference?
Kafir on October 28, 2008 at 8:29 AM
“Damn” is dialogued into every show on TV.
maverick muse on October 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Where are the 527s????
I’m in Virginia but watch almost zero network TV (Fox News and some football games is it for me), so not sure if these 527 ads are even running.
I know I watched a Redskins games a couple of weeks ago and there must have been 10 Barry ads and zero for McCain (and Barry was lying about McCain “taxing health care benefits for the first time in history”).
Team McCain: the fix is in by the Dems and media. They’ve taken off their gloves LET’S TAKE OFF OURS.
UNLEASH HELL!
Let’s roll!
ex-Democrat on October 28, 2008 at 8:32 AM
“Not God bless America! God damn America!”
God help America.
We’re being hustled by a Chicago pro. And seems a majority of America is going along. Too stupid to ask serious questions. Too cowed to see what is happening before their eyes. Too guilt-laden to consider that just because he’s Black he doesn’t have faults, major faults. Too ill educated to understand having a President and Congress as Santa Claus has to be paid for…and it will cost us all…a huge amount. Too inculcated with the notion that “government” can solve all our problems. Too emasculated to stand up and account for themselves. Too willing to beieve that “hope and change” is a destination, not just a cheap political slogan.
Maybe we do get the kind of government we deserve.
God help America.
coldwarrior on October 28, 2008 at 8:33 AM
Sorry. Mentioning any of that would be a racist attack and a distraction from the real issues.
crazy_legs on October 28, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Ya know I never understood why they would bleep God and not damn.
- The Cat
MirCat on October 28, 2008 at 8:35 AM
As much as I love Fred Thompson, it wasn’t “Bushites” who sank him. He sunk himself pretty effectively by running a p*ss-poor campaign and putting all his eggs into South Carolina. If he came out of the gate fighting (instead of the last debate before NH, which I still feel he won) he would’ve made a much better showing in the early states and could’ve ridden that momentum into SC and beyond.
No, Fred Thompson sank Fred Thompson.
crazy_legs on October 28, 2008 at 8:38 AM
http://www.goptrust.com
Donate.
BuckeyeSam on October 28, 2008 at 8:42 AM
The Democrats are comin after your paycheck.
They are coming after your healthcare.
They are coming after your 401K.
They are coming after your 1st amendment.
Thay are coming after your 2nd amendment.
They are coming after your family values.
THE LIBERALS ARE COMING, THE LIBERALS ARE COMING, THE LIBERALS ARE COMING!
Who will stop them? JOHN MCCAIN & SARAH PALIN.
stenwin77 on October 28, 2008 at 8:55 AM
When a news organization feels the need to bleep anything out of a ’sermon’, you know there’s something wrong with that ‘pastor’ and that ‘church’ (and its ‘congregants’), as well as the ‘news’ organization doing the bleeping.
RickZ on October 28, 2008 at 8:55 AM
As an outsider, I would recommend he hit the Commander-in-Chief as well. OK forgive my Aussie sense of humour but he should have an ad that starts exactly the same as Hillary’s 3am call, but then you see a hand pick up a ringing phone and pan to a half rear shot close up with him answering: John McCain.
saint on October 28, 2008 at 8:56 AM
Personally, I feel open primaries have as much to do with McCain being the (R) presidential nominee as anything; same goes for Barack being the (D) nominee. Why should Dems vote for R’s in primaries and vice-versa? I want voting reform, including requiring ID to vote and closed primaries.
RickZ on October 28, 2008 at 9:00 AM
Heh, or maybe if you cut out his daughter a couple of images like this.
It seems the Readiness Effect has already been in play if you hit the link at the end of my blog post
(Sorry about the link whoring)
saint on October 28, 2008 at 9:00 AM
Oh, absolutely. If we had closed primaries (and voter ID’s. Why in the holy h*ll is that RAAAAAAAAACIST?) we’d probably have Mitt or Fred right now. Dems crossing over in NH and elsewhere is what gave us McCain.
OTHO, I do believe that Operation Chaos and open primaries prolonged the Dem primary season. I honestly think Obama would’ve had his nomination wrapped up around the same time as McCain and the polls wouldn’t be a close as they are.
crazy_legs on October 28, 2008 at 9:34 AM
The wealth distributor is a racist catch phrase because it makes him seem like a pimp or a drug dealer…America must move beyond such stereotypes.
tomas on October 28, 2008 at 9:41 AM
The wealth distributor is a racist catch phrase because it makes him seem like a pimp or a drug dealer…America must move beyond such stereotypes.
tomas on October 28, 2008 at 9:41 AM
blow me. Obama is a pimp of tax dollars.
unseen on October 28, 2008 at 9:46 AM
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/obama_no_merci_beaucoup_campaign_song/
unseen on October 28, 2008 at 9:47 AM
I live in Colorado, battleground state, and I’ve seen the “Joe the Plumber” ad from McCain a couple of times. Great ad! Every time I see an Obama ad, it’s usually followed by a McCain ad. Good ads, too, lots of them the positive ones about Maverick/Alaska reformer.
My husband is a registered Independent so we get lots and lots of mailings. Last night we had five anti-Obama flyers and not a single pro-Obama one. (We did get an enormous poster-sized mailing from Obama, which my children scribbled all over with glee — first they gave him a cigarette, then a tiny moustache, then evil eyebrows. Heh.)
You may not be seeing the McCain organization ads, because he’s not spending money in your area. He’s spending a lot of it here.
So you can quit with the “moronic campaign” comments, because you sound like a moron making them.
bonnie_ on October 28, 2008 at 9:48 AM
bonnie_ on October 28, 2008 at 9:48 AM
good news. thanks…
unseen on October 28, 2008 at 9:50 AM
A lot of Women have already compared, and found Barack Obama SEXIST. Question for Barack Obama, how many women voters do you suppose you have ticked off?
This is a good one too. There is a backlash coming from women, on the treatment of Sarah Palin. This has been building since Hillary Clinton got 18,000,00. votes, and lost the primary. There has not been any valve to relieve the pressure. Barack Obama and his supporters are demeaning to women and Barack Obama has not DENOUNCED the t-shirt that T-Shirt didn’t go un-noticed he had his chance at the last debate, to be the Bigger candidate, when John McCain brought it up. What did Obama reply? I can’t remember. Barack Obama speaks but later you can’t remember what he said?
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/10/palin-deserves-our-respect.html
Dr Evil on October 28, 2008 at 9:51 AM
Bonnie, what’s your sense about McCain’s chances in CO? Poll yesterday on Fox has him down about 4 or 5 points….
Republican on October 28, 2008 at 9:52 AM
He never met a tax he didn’t like
he got friends like Rev Wright
He’d rather give away the farm than fight
no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
no merci beaucoup
He thinks oil should be against the law
He runs down america
Hell He’s asheamed of his own Grandma
no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
Obama no merci beaucoup
no merci beaucoup
Good people that work all day he got plans to dock your pay…
Greatest campaign song ever…
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/obama_no_merci_beaucoup_campaign_song/
unseen on October 28, 2008 at 9:54 AM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122515067227674187.html
the courts are toast. My children’s children will be dealing with all the harm that is about to be released on our country.
unseen on October 28, 2008 at 9:55 AM
My friend told me that Colo. Has some great ads for McCain. Here in Ca. You don’t see much of them. Course I don’t watch TV that much. That ad wasn’t all that great. McCain like Thompson, don’t show to much emotion. I loved Fred too. McCain needs to get more vocal.
sheebe on October 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM
I’ve seen all the McCain ads in PA. Last week Obama was blanketing the airwaves, but not quite as much this week. I’ve also seen the NRA ad, and Jeremiah Wright ad, and the neverfindout.org ad about Fannie and Freddie.
Obama’s ads are harsh and negative – tying McCain to Bush, some stuff about a thread factory in North Carolina closing and somehow it’s John McCain’s fault, and McCain’s healthcare plan killing puppies.
The only mail I have received is five flyers from Planned Parenthood, other than an absentee ballot mailer from the state GOP. I guess because I am a Republican woman in a suburban county, they assume I am pro-choice. Glad they are wasting their money on me.
rockmom on October 28, 2008 at 10:30 AM
You’re a tool. And an ignorant tool at that.
RickZ on October 28, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Fixed it for ‘ya.
Mr_Magoo on October 28, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Well, it was a joke so you guys have proven yourselves to be tools.
tomas on October 28, 2008 at 11:06 AM
I somewhat disagree.
This is a very good ad going into the last week of the campaign. it outlines, without screeching or “scare quotes” exactly what is at stake here. If you remember your political history Ronald Reagan ran a similar ad in the last week of the 1980 campaign. The MSM at that time was trying to paint Reagan as “Ronny Rayguns” who would start a nuclear war, force everyone to convert to Christianity, take your kids lunch money to build “rayguns” with and other such nonsense. The MSM was in the tank for Carter in 2000-the only thing that was different from today is that they were in the shallow end of the tank, in 2008 they have done a swan dive straight into the abyss.
The stuff that is contained in the WBEZ tapes would not have gain any traction in the short time left unless the MSM gave it some-just remember that “Rev.” Wright had been a big issue in the blogosphere for months before ABC decided to give the issue an airing. As we have seen with Bill Ayres they will just spin it until they puke or they will attempt to destroy the people who are bringing it to light-just like they have tried to destroy Gov. Palin and Joe the Plumber. You must also add in the BS that spews forth from the modern day versions of “Der Sturmer” and the “Völkischer Beobachter” aka Kos/DU/PuffHo etc. and the moonbat trolls who spread it like a bacillus.
Nahanni on October 28, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Here is a mid-day palate-cleanser that I am posting to all of today’s threads. It’s very inspirational and I promise it will be worth 2 minutes of your life. Birth of the U.S.
ManlyRash on October 28, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Palin should offer to do an interview with ABC, if it airs in that timeslot.
I bet she’d get better ratings than the ONE’s infomercial — because it would be an -interview- not an ad.
Wouldn’t that be a great shift in narrative? Obama buys out every network but one, and gets worse ratings?
ClintACK on October 28, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Oh, about the ad.
Good ad.
Remember, the ads in this last week have absolutely nothing to do with you and me — they are about slowly nudging the undecided voters one way or the other. In this case, it looks like “undecideds” are leaning McCain, but afraid that he’s not the right answer to the economic problems. This ad addresses that in just the right way, IMHO.
Nice.
I can’t wait for next week!
ClintACK on October 28, 2008 at 12:57 PM
It’s a good comparison ad, hitting the economic themes, which are important now.
McCain will need to pounce on the “redistribution of wealth” themes, and also Obama’s quote dissing the Founding Fathers–that was an unforced error from Obama!
On another blog, I found out that, as of September 30, the Obama campaign + DNC + Democrat party had $236 million on hand, and the McCain campaign + RNC + Republican party had…$277 million on hand. Despite the Obama juggernaut of small donations from “asdfasdf” and “qwerty”, Republicans have more money NOW!
Time to spend it…wisely!
Steve Z on October 28, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Speaking of ads…Obama might be getting a curveball from the baseball world. Since Obama wants to air his 30-minute infomercial tomorrow, with the World Series at 3-1 Phillies, with only 3+ innings to play, and the score tied, will Major League Baseball want to put off the start of the resumed 5th game until AFTER the Obama infomercial? Or will they try to play the end of the 5th game early, BEFORE the Obamamercial, if there’s a risk that the game might go to extra innings?
Baseball and politics might have a strange mix here–a World Series between teams in swing-state PA and swing-state FL–how will that play in the ad wars?
Steve Z on October 28, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d like to see an ad right before the election that doesn’t even mention Obama.
Go over McCain’s lifelong service to the U.S.: photos of McCain at Annapolis, while in the Navy, and while in Congress.
Go over his ability to work with both sides of the aisle: photos of him with both Reagan and Clinton (I’m assuming some exist).
Include a quote of him urging for better regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Closing (by McCain talking to the camera): “America is in a rough spot now, but we’ve been through tough times before and come out the stronger for it. I hope that on November 4th, you’ll give me the opportunity to continue serving the United States of America. I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”
malclave on October 28, 2008 at 2:32 PM
The One not only called the failure of the Warren Court to confiscate and redistribute wealth a Tragedy, but he also lamented the limitations on governmental power imposed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. He seeks not simply to attack our wealth, but our freedoms and the inspired document that has enabled and preserved those freedoms better than any other in history. The man is not simply foolish, not simply dangerous, he is a foolish and dangerous unAmerican.
Maquis on October 28, 2008 at 3:21 PM
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