Posted on 10/27/2004 1:30:25 AM PDT by kattracks
[snip]Bush's media man Mark McKinnon raises the level of concern about terror to realistic proportions in an advertisement that features wolves closing in on an unsuspecting and distracted America. As the wolves close in, McKinnon's narrator lists the cuts in intelligence funding, weapons systems and defense spending that Kerry has backed during his Senate career.
It's the best negative ad since media genius Tony Schwartz showed a mushroom cloud as a little girl picked petals off a daisy to derail Barry Goldwater's 1964 crusade.
The wolf ad has sparked an amazing surge in Bush's support to the point where every poll but one shows him well ahead of his Democratic rival. It perfectly captures the odd juxtaposition of seeming peace and tranquility at home and the looming danger from abroad.
9/11 began as a beautiful day, too. We woke up to crisp fall air in a sky without humidity or clouds. But the terror planes were taking off from our airports and flying over our city, circling our buildings, closing in with stealth and cunning. Just as the wolves in the Bush ad do.
Kerry & Co. denounce Bush for running a campaign of fear. But we could have used a bit more fear when Bill Clinton failed to prepare us for the threat of terror. If only he had been more afraid of terror, he might have given the go-ahead to the 1998 CIA plan to kidnap Osama bin Laden or not tipped off the Pakistanis — and through them bin Laden — to our cruise missile attack in 1998 or given the green light to fire missiles at Osama in 1999 when the CIA said we had the best chance ever to get him.
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You know it's devastatingly effective when the DUMS hate it!
Agreed...so I hope they run it like crazy....it is powerful
"Other than that, how did you like the play?"
OUCH. That got the point across.
aarrrrrrrrrooooooooOOOOOOOOOH!
It's lucky I'm not one of GWB's advisors. I saw the ad, and I disliked it, since I thought the use of wolves to symbolize evil threats would backfire. Many people today regard wolves as at worst just feral dogs (and pretty ones at that), and at best as fourlegged 'good bourgeois' in fur coats-the whole faithful mommy and daddy wolf who raise the cubs together with the help of the extended family, and so on. I would have suggested using a swamp instead of a forest, and showing one alligator after another slowly sliding off the banks into the water, the reptiles being shown from the POV of a person in the middle of the water....I'm glad the ad is turning out to be so effective.
Velociraptors would have been good, too. The look in their eyes scared the you-know-what out of me in the movie. But maybe a liitle too cartoonish to be taken seriously.
I'm guessing they only wanted to use animals native to North America...a pity, because setting the ad on the African veldt and using a pack of hyenas would have been gripping too. I don't think anyone likes hyenas. At least the wolf ad is working!
:) Seriously, sometimes living in a state that is solidly for one candidate is a bummer, because we miss all these commercials.
I agree. I haven't seen the ad, but my wife, who is a Bush supporter but generally apolitical, said "I saw that wolf ad, and I'm sorry, but I thought it was stupid. It did nothing for me."
I don't watch TV much, but I'm still hoping to catch it.
One thing I realized and this may explain why the republicans are not taking off the gloves:
There is an inverse relationship between attack ads and how well your candidate is doing. Think about it, internals for the DNC may be showing weakness before the election thus they have to increase the attack ads against GWB in order to sway the undecided back to them. The RNC like the internals and sit comfortably knowing that their candidate is polling better than expected.
If the internals start to go in Kerry's favor, Rove will pull out the big guns.
I have full confidence in Mr Rove. Let's all sit back and relax.
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