Posted on 09/12/2008 5:50:34 AM PDT by blogsforthompson.com
Here is a new John McCain ad focused on the attacks of the Obama Campaign on Gov. Sarah Palin -- "Disrespectful." . . . . (see video at link)
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I think’s way overdoing it with playing this card
Sounds sorta hokey/whinny to me.
I like it. If McCain has the conservative base covered, it’s all about the women and moderates now. My aunt would have a visceral reaction to that ad.
We are not the target audience. The target audience are mushy moderate woman voters.
I disagree. I think the GOP has been playing the nice guy and getting kicked in the stones for far too many elections. A better ad, perhaps, would have video bytes of the Dems charges and then a factual rebuttal of those charges. Still, I'm pleased that the GOP is fighting back this year. Personally, the only reason I think they are even trying this smear campaign is because they've done it in the past and the GOP rolled over and played dead. Not my kind of party to run from a fight.
I just wish they would lay off the narrative — the literal narrative in these ads. Why can’t they take a page from the PUMAs? They have the best ads slamming Obama to fun music. I liked the part in this ad where Obama is standing there with the crowd chanting his name, like at a Hitler rally. That part was really creepy and effective, and it happened. Then they should cut to the “respectable” media slams against Palin, one after another, the media screeching, then show the truth in a scrolling segment, and pictures of Palin with a background of hip music (a lesson from the PUMAs). But the condescending female narrator in the ad is hokey. I don’t sound like that, and neither do the women that are pissed off about the sexism. SHE sounds Washington elitist, old boy politics. Coming from a female, I’m telling you the female narrator is too much.
I've been very impressed with the quick turnaround for McCain ads this year. I just wonder how fast the ads will come out in 2012...
To stick to the original post... I agree with what others have said here. This is a play to moderates and wimmin.
They should have used the word “sexist.” That would help capture the swing-vote dem women.
I think it is setting things up, so if 0bama says anything sexist or disrespectful again about Palin, it is over.
Even yesterday when it was supposed to be a campaign free day, he said ‘Mayors have some of the toughest jobs in the country, because that’s where the rubber hits the road. We yak in the Senate. They actually have to fill potholes and trim trees and make sure the garbage is taken away.’
It is just so childish and petty.
“The target audience are mushy moderate woman voters.”
.....that, plus the “disrespectful” term may resonate with a few blacks too....they’re big on that disrespect stuff in urban areas....shoot each other over it, as a matter of fact.
It appears to do what is needed straterywise. Outrageous will keep the liberals off-message and deep in the head of OBIE. Actually, I imagine that the lipstick on the pig hurt Obama more than we think and McCain probably has polling. [and now he is piling on]. We will see.
When you have Obama’s lackeys like Matt Damon and that airhead that told Palin to “suck it”, you make ads like this to tie it all back to Obama being desperate.
It elegantly makes their attacks, his attacks.
Speaking of chanting. . .I noticed the cult of Obama chants “Obama, Obama, Obama. . . “ whenever they wish to engage in some hype to energize the crowd.
Contrast that with republican crowds chanting “USA, USA, USA. . . “.
Very telling difference.
I love this...personally it’s better than some of the others.
But who am I to judge?.......I was voting McCain/Palin from the start. ;-)))
See, that would be a great ad. Just show 0bama standing there like Hitler with the crowd chanting “0bama! 0bama! 0bama!” Then switch to McCain/Palin and the crowd chanting “USA! USA! USA!”
Scrap any narration.
Enough Said.
Yes, I can see where it has always been a Presidential requirement to be Computer savvy.
Just one more thing that qualifies Obama to be President among his vast resume’ of other qualifications. </S>
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