Posted on 01/02/2010 8:30:21 AM PST by Gothmog
In the special election for US Senate, the Kennedy shadow is so long that it extends all the way into the Republican Party.
Or so it would seem from the first television ad of the race, in which Scott Brown, the GOP candidate, employs an unlikely visage to make his case to voters: President John F. Kennedy,...
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The new 30-second spot begins with grainy footage of Kennedy delivering a 1962 speech on using tax breaks to spur the economy. Halfway through, the image morphs into Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, finishing Kennedy’s sentence.
“President Kennedy actually was the first person who called for across-the-board tax cuts,’’ Brown said yesterday during a press conference at the Massachusetts GOP headquarters in Boston. “The theme is there’s two different people from two different parties, two different eras, who have the same message, which is across-the-board tax cuts.’’
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Also, at the Globe web site a link to the ad is provided
I made out a check to Brown a few minutes ago and I’ll get it in the mail in a few minutes...
Brown is very savvy when it comes to marketing and media.
FWIW, I was at a New Years Day party with family down in Mass - all Dems. And every single one of them is voting for Scott Brown.
How long till the Kennedy family spokesman demands the JFK clip ad be taken down? They will play the sympathy card, especially if the ad has any traction.
I’ve been looking for post-primary poll numbers on the race between Brown and Coakley, but have not seen any. Have you (or anyone else) seen any, or did the pollsters take the entire holiday off.
It’s a brilliant ploy, and will serve to show just how far LEFT the Kennedy family moved after JFK died. I know some folks in MA will howl, because the Kennedys are icons here, but JFK DID espouse much more conservative economic ideas than his little brother and his nephews and nieces have adopted.
“It’s a brilliant ploy, and will serve to show just how far LEFT the Kennedy family moved after JFK died”
yep...if JFK were to come back today he would be blasted by the Left for being far right.
I saw a bumper sticker yesterday on a highway in Mass (Rte 1)...
It said: Save America - Vote Scott Brown
He really is a national candidate at this point. His election could stop it all.
Brown is our best chance of quickly breaking the Dems super-majority. It is probably why the Dems have been pushing the Independent candidate Kennedy (not related) to try to split our side. Don’t be fooled, Kennedy is a Code-Pinko lib who has been pandering to the tea-party side but is no Conservative.
I’ve read opinions that the Boston papers and other news media aren’t commissioning polls of the Brown/Coakley race, or at least they aren’t publicizing them because of the results. Makes sense to me. The media is driven by polls - how many political races have you seen where a poll isn’t published almost daily.
On independent poll posted yesterday (I believe) had the race within two points with a five point margin of error. That shows momentum for Brown as a month ago it was a 13 point race.
Great opportunity for an ad about ‘Who is Joe Kennedy?’ Probably with a running crawl that says ‘no relation’.
Or: ‘Do you know what a ringer is?’
I’m thinking/hoping that enough dems will be stupid enough to vote for “Kennedy” to offset votes by conservatives/republicans for the libertarian candidate.
I’m torn between wanting to see polls and a nagging suspicion that the Republicans are trying to win this “under the radar.” Right now the conservatives are the ones with all the motivation. If the left figures out that they could actually lose this, they’ll pull out all the stops as far as cheating to make sure they win.
I hope you are right, but they dems have really been pushing Kennedy on the right. They have blogs, been all over message boards, heck, they even had some noobs here try to push Kennedy (major smack down on the noob about a week ago).
That’s the new strategy of the left - especially in this climate where they know they are going to get trounced.
They find/fund a 3rd party faux conservative/libertarin-leaning independent and then have the liberal media pump him up as some tea party hero - in hopes that he can syphen off enough votes so the Dem sneaks in with 40% or so of the vote.
They tried this in NJ too.
The fact you haven’t seen any is very good news.
He could win Ted Kennedy's senate seat.
If its the "poll" I know if, its Real Clear Politics pseudo-poll. In lieu of calling/polling, they studied demographics and results of past elections, integrated with the recent results of VA/NJ.
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