The only thing missing is the robot.
Posted on 10/15/2009 1:09:11 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) launched two TV ads on Thursday, seeking to allay jittery voters more than a year before they cast their ballots. Reid faces low poll ratings, in part due, according to pundits, to the recession and his leadership in Democratic efforts to pass a controversial healthcare reform bill.
The 60-second spots released by Reid's campaign feature focus on jobs and the senator's life story.
In Hard Work, images of Reid as a boy and a young man are shown while an announcer says, "The son of a hard rock miner, Harry Reid hitchiked 40 miles to high school, worked his way through college as a janitor and law school as a cop. But as tough as it got, he never backed down."
"When the mob took over Vegas, Harry Reid took them on and didn't blink, even when they put a bomb in the family station wagon," the announcer adds, referring the attempt to murder the lawmaker in 1981 when he was chairman of the Nevada Gaming Commission. "It's the same determination he's using today as Senate leader to get Nevada's economy back on track."
"It's never easy, but we've got the people and the resources to come back stronger than ever," Reid says near the end of the ad.
Nevada Jobs, meanwhile, touts Reid's efforts to keep City Center, the nation's biggest construction project, from shutting down.
An $8.5 billion development that includes three hotels, a slew of casinos and a residential complex of two 37-story glass towers, City Center earlier this year faced bankruptcy due contractual disagreements between developers and the financial crisis.
The ad has MGM Mirage chief executive James Murren saying of Reid, "That man called every CEO of every bank that I know and said, Look, this is important to my state, get it done. Now we're going to open up City Center in December. We're going to employ over 12,000 people. They would not have jobs today if not for Senator Reid."
The spots come the same week as a Mason-Dixon/Las Vegas Review-Journal poll saying the senator would lose in a match-up with Nevada GOP chairman Sue Lowden, 39 to 49 percent, as well as UNLV basketball star Danny Tarkanian, 43 to 48 percent.
Only 38 percent of voters view Reid favorably, the survey added, while 50 percent see him negatively.
Lowden and Tarkanian each have better favorability ratios but also need to educate voters about who they are.
A full 40 percent of voters said they have a "neutral opinion" of Tarkanian while 19 percent said they don't recognize his name. Lowden has 29 percent viewing her neutrally, and 25 percent saying they have no opinion of her.
Reid also trailed both GOP contenders two months ago, but Tarkanian had showed stronger numbers than Lowden. The Mason-Dixon survey in August had the real estate businessman beating Reid by an 11-point margin. A match-up with Lowden, who at the time had yet to officially announce her candidacy, would be a narrow 45 to 40 percent win for Republicans.
A former lieutenant governor, Reid won his fourth term in 2004 with 61 percent of the vote, but observers attribute that victory to a weak Republican nominee. He became Senate Democratic leader in 2005, a year before the GOP lost the majority in Congress.
Nevada is a swing state that turned blue last year, voting for President Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), 55 to 42 percent. Its unemployment rate has risen to 13.2 percent, the second-highest in the nation.
“That man called every CEO of every bank”. I wonder what his Morman Brethern told him?
I live in Nevada, and Reid has been campaigning for at least 6 months now. His first TV ads prominently had the SEIU Union Label on them--don't think we're gonna see that anymore. About a month ago a radio ad hit the airwaves with the announcer calling 'Nevada' 'Nevawda' (the east coast pronunciation of our state)--a rookie move in these parts. The ad didn't last long--less than half a day.
I don't think Harry can do much to improve his image to win the election. He's gonna have to import more Californians if he's gonna have a chance.
With some effort by the conservatives in NV, Reid the Feckless can become Reid the Jobless in 2010.
It’s time to take back the country.
The only thing missing is the robot.
I hope he tells that story again about the 6 year old boy who said to him “Mr. Reid I want to be just like you when I grow up”
Nancy’s pushing him off the cliff and there’s nothing he can do about it.....ACORN has been de-balled....Get ready to lose a seat, RATs!
At the heart of Reid’s vulnerability is the disconnect between his role in Washington as the leader of Senate Democrats and his status as Nevada’s senior senator.
In Washington, Reid is tasked with carrying water for academia’s homo-normative lesbian feminists, gay-marriage sphincter expanders, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and their urban, minority Gimme-crat supporters, productivity-sapping labor unions, illegal-alien amnestizers, and many other Obama administration Democrats. ‘Twas not for nothing that AlGore campaign misManager Donna Brazile explained that the Four Pillars of the Democrat party are women, unions, gays-and-lesbians, and minorities. Good luck, Mr. Reid.
But now that he's decided to be part of the mob pillaging the country, all he deserves is a ticket home.
Good, he should waste his money. Chris Dodd ran a load of ads like 6 months ago and he still is no better than even in polls.
Reid strikes me as a wormy malcontent who takes pleasure in lying about any and everything.
"Hi, I am a sleeze bag who hates all you "little people" and America and her values. I will not represent you or your interests, I WILL represent MY interests and those who can help ME.
I am the democRat SLEEZE BAG, I support Obama Deathcare, rights for terrorists, closing Gitmo and bringing them to your community, killing seniors, promoting homosexuality, partial birth abortion and the destrucition of our military, the CIA and the FBI. VOTE FOR ME... or else!"
Oh, yeah, I had forgotten about little Tommy!
Once Y’all in Nevada get that crook out of the Senate, you should give him a nice room in a prison.
Coincidentally, I received the following story today in an email — don’t know how true it is:
It just all depends on how you look at some things...
Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Congressman Harry Reid’s great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.
The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory:
On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription: ‘Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer
six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.
So Judy recently e-mailed Congressman Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle.
Harry Reid:
Believe it or not, Harry Reid’s staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:
“Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory . His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed.”
NOW THAT’s how it’s done, Folks!
That’s real POLITICAL SPIN
In the movie “Casino”, Reid is played by Tommy Smothers. Google “Mr. Cleanface”.
Please let us return Harry to his roots and emulate his ancestor Remus Reid, convicted and hanged in 2011.
And after Reid “cleaned up” the mob in Vegas, the city elected mob attorney Oscar Goodman as mayor. So much for taking on the gangsters. I’m guessing that the Vegas folks would rather have an organized crime figure as their mayor than Reid or anyone like him.
Now Reid's in charge of the mob himself. We're all on the hook to payup for his "protection".
Pinging...
My wife and I are moving to Nevada from California because we are fed up with the taxes, the looney politicans, and crazy gun laws. We are going to do everything we can to get rid of Harry “Land Swindler” Reid, a man in an empty suit. He is a pathetic little man who needs to go back to Searchlight and run for coyote catcher.
Yeah, he can actually smell the little people when they do their tours of the Capitol.
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