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WATCH: Team Walker Unveils Powerful, Forward-Looking 2016 Ad
Townhall.com ^ | January 28, 2015 | Daniel Doherty

Posted on 01/29/2015 11:49:49 AM PST by Kaslin

Our American Revival -- a pro-Walker political action committee and fundraising group -- recently unveiled its debut ad. To my knowledge, it’s the first campaign spot of its kind to be released this election cycle. It’s several minutes long and touches on a few familiar themes: the failures of “Smart Power,” the prevailing malaise and incoherence of the Obama era, the intrusive nature of the federal government, and the importance of electing a governor in 2016:

Our American Revival

Ed Morrissey weighs in:

It’s a clever ad, on multiple levels. Its length means that it won’t air on television, at least not in paid slots, although portions of it will no doubt air on cable news over the next few days. Walker avoids snark and instead goes for a tone of sincere, Reaganesque revival — matching his “Our American Revival” campaign theme. It’s designed to boost optimism in the future rather than spend too much time looking to the past, although Walker’s team made sure to include a shot of Barack Obama bowing to the emperor of Japan when talking about “weakness abroad.”

That was certainly a striking image, purposefully placed and hard to forget.

Another point of emphasis in the spot, however, is the governor’s impressive track record of reform. The ad urges Americans to look for leaders outside of Washington, D.C in 2016 -- leaders not unlike their preferred candidate with strong resumes and accomplishments to boot. The ad also stresses how desperately the federal government needs to be reformed, and why a governor from a blue state could be the answer.

“Those groups in Washington, they tend to measure success by how many people are dependent on the government,” the ad quotes Walker saying after securing his re-re-election. “We measure success by how many people are no longer dependent on the government. We understand that true freedom and prosperity does not come from the mighty hand of the government -- it comes from empowering people to live their own lives.”

Those tired of federal solutions to every problem we face will find Walker’s message inspiring, hopeful, and refreshing. His rivals, it seems, have their work cut out for them.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaignsnelections; walker2016; walker2016ad
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1 posted on 01/29/2015 11:49:49 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“Walker’s team made sure to include a shot of Barack Obama bowing to the emperor of Japan when talking about “weakness abroad.””

Should have been bowing to the Saudi King.


2 posted on 01/29/2015 11:54:35 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: Kaslin

Time to start listing our priorities.

No one will hit ALL the Conservative checklist items (even Reagan could not). Unless we want President Warren we better come together on what we will and won’t accept.


3 posted on 01/29/2015 11:54:38 AM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

POTUS campaign video ad ping ...


4 posted on 01/29/2015 11:54:45 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Kaslin

bump


5 posted on 01/29/2015 11:56:17 AM PST by gibsosa
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To: Kaslin

Scott Walker is the Reagen of our time. May God protect Mr Walker and his family.


6 posted on 01/29/2015 12:00:54 PM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Kaslin

Good showing of our Gov.Walker’s political and social views. The clips of him were from his remarks the night he was declared winner of the recent vote which gave him his second term as governor.


7 posted on 01/29/2015 12:04:51 PM PST by RicocheT (us)
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To: Kaslin

Here’s my critique, not of content but presentation... I immediately get miffed when the background music interferes with the voice delivering the message. If the message is the point, then the voice delivering the message must be wholly audible; quiet the background music, lessen the bass and treble up a bit.


8 posted on 01/29/2015 12:07:34 PM PST by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: freedumb2003

Walker has alienates many with his soft on amnesty arguments.

He lost me when he abandoned Wisconsin voters and sided with BRT’s (Black Robed Thugs) when they overturned a state law banning queer marriages.


9 posted on 01/29/2015 12:08:12 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: freedumb2003
No one will hit ALL the Conservative checklist items (even Reagan could not).

Good point. And can I add, if you have a problem with a candidate's specific policies, argue against those - it is not necessary to make a candidate into the Anti-Christ just because you disagree on certain issues.

There are some of the expected candidates with whom I broadly agree on most issues; other with whom I have more disagreement, but could still support; and others who would make me write-in a candidate before I would vote for them. But I don't consider any of them evil; I just think some of them are wrong on important issues. And there are NO candidates with whom I am in agreement on ALL issues (not even my wife could meet that standard).

So feel free to talk about the issues that are important to you, and why a candidate's stand would make you more or less willing to vote for them. But don't try to put horns and a red suit on them, and even more importantly, don't attack another poster because they disagree with you about the candidate or the issue. Let's try to make FR a little more classy than DU - I see way too many personal attacks over policy disagreements than we should have on a conservative site.

10 posted on 01/29/2015 12:09:28 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Walker has alienates many

______________________________

Grrrr.

Take your pick.

Walker has alienated many... or

Walker alienates many....


11 posted on 01/29/2015 12:09:51 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: Kaslin

Except for the word “conservative” that is visible and heard in the ad, this seems like pretty much middle-of-the road “let’s not upset too many people” GOP advertising. But I defer to the professionals who can tell if Walker is getting his money’s worth; I think not.

(But, again, I’m one who thinks TV ads have done very little good for most candidates in the past two decades. Seems to be a token to stave off (buy off) bad coverage from local TV news departments.)


12 posted on 01/29/2015 12:10:01 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sounded like LOLCATZ

Walker can haz alienates many?


13 posted on 01/29/2015 12:10:46 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: CA Conservative

But don’t try to put horns and a red suit on them....

____________________________________________

Unless it’s Huckabee.

THEN it’s open season!

lolol


14 posted on 01/29/2015 12:11:10 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Walker many alienates...?


15 posted on 01/29/2015 12:13:24 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Lazamataz

Alienates we much.

/NotsoSharpton


16 posted on 01/29/2015 12:14:47 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: Kaslin

Nice ad!

Walker’s speaking is far too... I guess I want to say generic?


17 posted on 01/29/2015 12:17:25 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: ifinnegan

That’s probably in the works...


18 posted on 01/29/2015 12:20:29 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I can potentially give Walker room on the marriage issue. He needs to come out with a better national position, but Wisconin leans left, and I don’t doubt public opinion was a fit with his positions. This is an issue that has to be handled well to be able to win nationally...a good percent of winnable votes will tune out when they hear a simple ‘I believe in traditional marriage’. A case needs to be made bigger than that. What Walker did was probably reflective of Wisconsin at that moment.


19 posted on 01/29/2015 12:27:10 PM PST by ilgipper
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To: VanDeKoik

Still waters run deep. He is saving his ammo. Watch as he progressively ramps up his intensity. This guy means business and knows how to deliver.


20 posted on 01/29/2015 12:28:16 PM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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