Posted on 10/26/2011 11:01:51 AM PDT by servo1969
Idiots.
It’s a Web ad, not a TV ad. The cheaper and often less viewed Web ads work best when they are pushing someone’s button, which is why they often do and say things you would not tempt to do on a TV spot. And this ad is doing that in spades. This ad is doing exactly what it should do, get Cain talked about and keeping him in the news and at the top of the polls.
I believe Cain is a savvy enough businessman to know that one drag on a cig in his ad bought him millions in ad coverage from lefties throwing a PC hissy fit.
Which side of the argument is idiotic? I think Cain’s move was brilliant. He’s pushing the MSM’s buttons, and he’s just sitting back enjoying the popularity push.
Matter of fact, I would go so far as to say that this non-PC strategy will win Cain the WH if he keeps it up. This is Cain and Block saying, “Listen, we’re real people. We’re smokers. We’re workers. We enjoy our leisure time with a scotch and a cigar.” This is brilliant, IMHO.
I’m a cigar smoker. Never touched a cigarette in my life, but I still get a twinge of guilt when I light up out on the open porch at my local bar. It’s not illegal, but the glances and glares I get are unmistakeable. My fiancee, a cigarette smoker, just tells me, “Hey, they chose to sit outside.”
I’m tired of smokers being hassled. We’re part of just 25% of Americans who have this habit or leisure activity, yet the tax monies that are collected off of tobacco taxes are enormous. Always funny to me that PC liberals want to get smoking out of the public altogether, yet they rely on us to keep their coffers full.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
[ BLITZER: He survived stage 4 colon cancer. Anyone promoting smoking, not necessarily a good idea. ]
Hey Jackass Blitzer!!! Just because Michelle Obama eats too much then decides to try to ban fatty food doesn’t mean Herman Cain is going to infringe upon the people’s rights based off a past experiance with cancer.
It is like the liberals telling us that once you get in a car wreck you HAVE TO become an advocate for banning all automobiles.
Just because I am a fatty fat fatso doesn;t mean I need to impose my will or lack of willpower onto others and mandate that they no longer should be able to make the same mistakes as I made.....
This is why they will get smashed by the Cain Train.
I loved the ad. It was great!
You answered your own question.
Mr. Cain is a brilliant man and he has obviously surrounded himself with equally brilliant people.
The State Run Media? A populace or IDIOTS. You need to go no further to look at their educational backgrounds.
And the lefties did everything they could to hide the fact that 0bama’s a smoker.
[ Mr. Blitzer should know that the link between colon cancer and smoking is not particularly strong, unless one smokes in a highly unusual manner. ]
This is just begging/asking for a Larry Sinclair joke, LOL.
[ I believe Cain is a savvy enough businessman to know that one drag on a cig in his ad bought him millions in ad coverage from lefties throwing a PC hissy fit. ]
Not to mention all the support from the smoking people who have had enough.
Rush showed great courage by playing the “offending ad” on his show today ;-)
I’d love to know how many free airplays of that ad have happened vs. the number the Cain campaign paid for...
So everyeone’s now wondering what the next ad will hold...maybe a guy drinking a beer? Or a large person taking a bite out of a double-cheeseburger?
Or maybe nothing at all, which means they’ll get more free airplay just to prove there’s nothing subliminal.
Pretty smart I say.
That is neither Cain's campaign nor his Presidency will be hobbled, controlled, restricted, shackled, influenced or suppressed by Political Correctness.
If I remember right, cigarettes are a legal substance as compared to the substances that clinton and obama used. Where was their concerns about clinton and obama??
I believe Herman Cain is crazy (crazy like a fox, that is).
He knows it, too. Look at his grin at the end of the ad.
the President elected in 2008 is an avid smoker. There are many, many pictures in the archives.
“That is neither Cain’s campaign nor his Presidency will be hobbled, controlled, restricted, shackled, influenced or suppressed by Political Correctness. “
That’s exactly what hit me about that ad too, and point I made in another post. I was at first shocked and then emboldened and practically shouting at the tv- Right On!
Taking on the PC crowd and culture. See my tagline please.
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