Posted on 08/24/2007 8:17:26 AM PDT by hardback
WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani has worked hard to be Mr. Nice Guy in his campaign, but that could change with his hiring of a GOP firm that has drawn fire for controversial TV ads.
Giuliani yesterday named Scott Howell & Company to head his media team, and the Dallas-based company has gained a reputation as one of its party's toughest - and most successful - ad-makers.
Howell drew fire last year for producing a Republican spot criticizing Democratic Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford's trip to a Playboy party that ended with an actress looking into the camera and saying, "Harold, call me."
The actress is white, and Ford is black, touching off criticism from the NAACP and others of racial insensitivity. Ford lost the Senate race.
Howell also was involved in a successful 2002 Senate campaign that ran an ad with then- Sen. Max Cleland's face with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, which Democrats said unfairly criticized triple-amputee Vietnam veteran Cleland.
Howell's firm declined to comment on the Giuliani announcement but Howell has said Democrats complain about his tactics because his candidates win.
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If it comes dwon between the ‘Real’ Rudy and Hillary, guess for whom I will vote?
Oh gee, a dirty politics campaign!! Who’d a thunk it./
Howell produced some pretty effective ads.
Good, no wait Great. I love it when the Repbulicans finally work up the stones to get tough. Can’t wait to see this outfit get demonized like Lee Atwater and Carl Rove. Funny the media has no problem with guys like Begala and Carville but always tear into Republican “consultants”. I just hope this outfit takes off the gloves and takes them off quickly.
"Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine." -Rudy Giuliani, 1996.
No REAL American would vote for Hillary and Bill’s Health Care.
I guess were not going to have to wait until February 2008 for this thing to get competitive on the airwaves.
It’s always good news when a repulsive clown who lives in a glass house starts to throw stones.
I couldn’t agree with you more. There really is a double standard when it comes to hard-ball politics. Democrats are allowed to play but Republicans must use plastic bats.
Nobody will accuse Rudy of being a shrinking Violet. He can battle with the best of them.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Since Republicans have thus far been unable to beat the Clintons, this will be a nice change of pace.
Ha ha...that’s so funny...I think he’s someone who can simply laugh at himself.
Not entirely accurate. Some criticized the ad, but others found it hilarious.
hate to say it-but he’s got better legs than Hillary.
What is that dog doing? LOL.
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It's been a struggle, I'm sure.
As demonstrated by the recent attempted `snatch and run’/amnesty cluster-****, the Rockefeller country-club, Wall Street Journal/Weekly Standard left wing of the GOP has nothing but contempt for its base.
Of course, the corollary is true as well: we have nothing but contempt for candidates who supported gun control, killing babies, the North American Union (pending) and amnesty for illegal aliens.
They held (hold) these views, at least until they decided to run for higher office and no longer felt it politically expedient to express them.
So run that by your focus groups, Muttrooty.
Conclusion? Don’t accept cheap conservative imitations: support the real deal, Fred Thompson and/or Duncan Hunter.
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