Posted on 04/09/2015 12:45:31 PM PDT by GIdget2004
A lawyer for the Rand Paul campaign has sent a legal notice to TV stations that ran a hawkish attack ad based on Paul's views on Iran, calling the ad defamatory and asking stations to stop showing it.
The letter is an objection to a million-dollar ad buy by a group called the Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America, led by Republican operative Rick Reed. The ad, which launched in early primary states on the day of Paul's presidential campaign announcement, accuses Paul of supporting President Obama's policies on Iran and of opposing new sanctions.
"The Advertisement attempts to deceive voters regarding Senator Rand Paul's position on U.S.-Iran relations through at least three false statements," writes Paul campaign general counsel Matthew T. Sanderson in the letter dated April 7, which was obtained by BuzzFeed News on Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
First he needs to indicate what the discriminatory laws are. Since there are none, good luck with your race pandering, Rand.
That ad was from Jebbie and Tokyo Rove with love. I saw it and it is outrageous. Just another reason Jeb Bush is my line in the sand.
I don’t want a candidate with chronic inflammation of the uterus.
If he is elected, he flip flop again. He is hiding his true beliefs, IMO.
>>He has now brought a fresh wave of attention to those commercial spots.<<
True, but the story publishes the letter citing his positions, ensuring that his counterpoints appear in conjunction with the accusations....at zero cost to Paul’s campaign, I might add.
I’ve always believed that responding to an accusatory ad with a responding ad is ineffective because people don’t believe most ads are accurate anyway. But if you let an ad go unanswered, people assume its true, so you have to respond somehow.
He seems to have found a means of responding that puts both sides’ claims front and center without spending a dime...well, except for the legal work, I suppose.
One thing’s sure, whoever ran the original ad doesn’t intend to observe Reagan’s 11th commandment. This approach might even result in revealing who the intended beneficiary of the ad is, possibly to their detriment.
I looked it up on youtube. Most is your standard attack ad, in one ear and out the other, the part that really stops you in your own tracks is in his own words/voice.
That’s the name of the primary game.
But I never saw that Paul will get to the WH anyways.
He’s too Green.
You think that Reagan wouldn’t be tearing Paul apart for being so weak on our military forces and in foreign policy?
He would be.
Maybe four?
Did Rand get his lawyer from facebook chat?
“Mark Levin says it is part of the Rove/Bush group.”
Figures
Paul’s trying to be all things to all people is turning around to bite him in the rear.
The MSM naturally overlooks flipflopping from the Dems, but they are not that generous with Pubbies.
Paul thought he could make the media his friend (sort of like Daddy did), but they are already turning on him.
Getting it from both the MSM and the GOP elites could shorten his run.
I doubt anyone who signed the recent Cotton letter to Iran can be considered as 'supporting' Obama.
Paul did make some comments about Iran back in 2007 which are coming back to haunt him though.
And why is that a bad thing ?
To expose Rand Paul for the pandering fake that he is ?
To speak the truth about Rand Paul ?
Him saying that he wants to repeal these laws because they are supposedly unfair to blacks is just a trojan horse that opens up the Pandora’s Box of other things than just race.
For example all laws that supposedly laws that discriminate against gay’s rights.
RAND PAUL = TROJAN HORSE / DARK HORSE CANADATE.
No thank you...
Damn that's dumb
Rand Paul clearly can not handle critisizm well, thinned skinned, just wait until the debate happen when he is up against other candates who want to win as much as he does.
Temperament matters....
He looses his cool like Obama..
He can’t handle critisizm from the media asking him important questions like Iran, and now this ad....
He hid his true beliefs when he ran for Senate.
He ran as a Tea Party candidate in KY.
Yet, he has been anything but a Tea Party Senator.
He fooled KY conservatives.
Now he is trying to fool national conservatives.
Good riddance to him and his cult of fruit cakes.
Hiding his true beliefs like Obama.
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