Posted on 09/17/2014 12:40:21 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
When Joni Ernst burst into public consciousness here this past spring, she was talking about castrating hogs as a child on an Iowa farm. Another ad showed her wearing a leather jacket and stepping off a Harley-Davidson to point a pistol at the camera.
Well, meet the new Joni Ernst. Iowa’s Republican Senate nominee went on the air this week with an ad in which she sits at a kitchen table, speaks directly to the camera, and says she cares about protecting Social Security, good schools, good-paying jobs and affordable health care.
Ernst’s effort to project a more moderate image reflects what Democrats say is a shift in the dynamic in one of the closest and most contentious midterm campaigns in the country. In Iowa — which Republicans have looked to as a potential insurance policy for taking control of the Senate — the debate increasingly has centered on issues that could give Democrats the edge.
The question is whether Iowa is part of a broader political shift in other competitive states that would allow Democrats to maintain their Senate majority, even if by the slimmest of margins.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Translation: The Romney & Rove people have taken over and the Tea Party/Palin people have been show the door.
What part of McConnell’s vow to ‘Crush them wherever we find them” and “Not have a single candidate anywhere on the ballot” did Conservatives fail to understand the Oligarchy meant?
And we are lectured even now to “vote more Republicans” - as long as they have an “R’ it doesn’t matter we are told. Win the Senate now, deal with the Oligarchy later they say in rote to the practice of insanity.
What issues give dems the edge? Taxes are not high enough, health care is not destroyed, to anyone with two brain cells clicking together, there are no issues like that.
I have spent my entire life in sales & marketing. I now work on advertising every single day...creating “impressions.” That is a terrible ad, as are most when a candidate (who is not a natural actor), speaks directly into the camera on a “sincere” note.
Bring back the motorcycle riding “Soldier.” When she won the Primary, that was the impression that people had of her...and she was LEADING in the first polls. They need to have that persona directly take on the lying attack ads that all manner of Liberal groups have been running against her. Something like “I’ve been to places where I had a REAL target on my back...these scumbags are nothing.”
On a separate note, David Young’s ads are even worse; shockingly bad.
The guy running the campaign now is a Romney shop, pro-Gay Marriage, anti-SoCon by the name of David Kochel. That’s what happened.
No matter which party or candidate they’re working for, the overwhelming majority of inside-the-beltway political consultants are liberal.
Guess who they’ll vote for on Election Day?
Her ad people need to be fired.
Part of that is because Young finished FIFTH in his primary. Nobody wanted him to be the nominee so he is having serious problems raining money. Ernst's ad campaign is getting progressively worse as time goes on. Their campaign managers/ad folks need to be fired, pronto.
"How can my opponent call herself a force for change in Washington when the first thing she'll do as a Senator is vote to re-elect Harry Reid as the Senate majority leader?"
[...]Even though Republicans may take back the Senate by running against President Barack Obama's executive amnesty, John Feehery argued that Republicans must not oppose Obama and ram through amnesty if they control Congress.
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As Breitbart News has noted, "Feehery has supported Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey and favored Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio," and he "works at a lobbying firm founded by a Bill Clinton adviser who persuaded Clinton to infamously pardon Marc Rich."
Feehery wrote that "Republicans will gain more for their brand by proving they can govern than they will in continuing to oppose the president," and that is why they should no longer view Obama as the enemy. Feehery's theory is that Republicans will take back the White House in 2016 only if they "prove they can run the country in 2014 — and they can only do that with the cooperation of President Obama."
If Ernst is creating ads like this. She’s in trouble.
Never go on defense. Especially when Dems should be playing D.
The best ad I ever saw defending this stuff was Scott Brown back in 2010.
The ad started off with a video of a Dem attack, rambling on about how Brown hates people etc. Brown pushes aside the video, moving it off screen. He then takes up whole screen w white background and basically calls the Democrats a bunch of liars who are unable to run on their record of failed policies.
Ping for your interest.
However, all is not negative; creepy Braley has his own problems:
Ernst is a RINO.
She won the Republican Primary by talking like a conservative.
Now she is running like a moderate.
If elected, she will vote like Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Ayotte.
"How can my opponent call herself a force for change in Washington when the first thing she'll do as a Senator is vote to re-elect Harry Reid as the Senate majority leader?"
How can McConnell position himself as such when McConnell himself said the first thing he will do is EMPOWER Harry Reid and the Democrats with reverting the filibuster rule to hand them what was taken away from the Republicans?
What's the difference between voting FOR Reid, and empowering Reid via stealth and subterfuge while playing 'opposition leader' for the cameras?
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