Posted on 11/02/2015 4:48:32 AM PST by GIdget2004
1st primary is Monday, February 1, let people get past the holidays before hitting them with ads. How many will be paying attention between Thanksgiving and New Years? Save the money, then hit them when they will be paying attention. Cruz right now is working the media for free exposure in his own way, following the Trump model.
Well said.
Why spend money if there is no need to. Bush has 103 million and is running a distant 5th-6th place. His ads are really placeholders for Trump and Cruz.
Or like that scene from Braveheart, where the English are charging and he keeps saying “hold .. hold ... hold ..” until the last possible second, then wham! It’s all about getting to the win.
Peace,
SR
I also heard one of the PACs ads this morning right before Beck’s show started. It was a pro 2nd Am spot that (in my opinion) wasn’t all that good although it tied Ted to fighting for gun rights up to SCOTUS. You can buy a lot more ads on radio and unlike TV can’t fast forward through them with your DVR.
We've seen similar whining about the fact that Trump isn't spending money the way they want.
“1st primary is Monday, February 1, let people get past the holidays before hitting them with ads.”
You are 100% correct. November and December are all about family and holidays. The voters engaged in the process today are the diehard politicos who already have favorites. They won’t change their minds based on ads. The rest of the population is tuned out or barely paying attention on the sidelines.
The candidate field will narrow by January. With a narrower field, advertising messages can be more precisely targeted. In addition, news events over the next 2 months may open up opportunities for new messaging. Perhaps there will be more unfavorable emails regarding Hillary. Perhaps the Iranians will do something to make the Iran deal fall apart. Perhaps the European immigrant situation will cause the American people to start waking up with respect to our borders. Perhaps Obama will overtly take on the 2nd Amendment through presidential decree. Better to spend expensive television money positioning yourself within the context of current events at the point in time undecided voters are making up their minds.
“How does it feel to know that you have joined the far left? Bernie Sanders and Barrack Obama are nodding in agreement with you. SuperPACs are what caused Justice Alito to speak out against Obama at his state of the union address.”
I have no problem with Citizens United nor with the idea of anonymous free speech. I am in favor of both.
I am also in favor of a free press, despite the fact (as Rubio put it) it is and has long been a super-pac for the left in general and the Democrat party in particular.
My resentment and disgust about the phoniness of the media and its leftist propaganda goes back to Walter Cronkite, a far left, pro-communist spokesman. Not for a second have I considered making a free press illegal.
Trump has simply asked for two things: reveal your donors or disavow your superpacs. No one needs to do it, but then they are vulnerable to the perfectly reasonable criticism - - consistent with human nature - - that the plutocrats who finance you will impose their will on you.
This is especially true if there is a commonality among the plutocrats, for instance prioritizing open borders.
If I am running for office and accept 5 million from a guy, I take the risk of people wondering if the 5 mil affects my judgment. You or anyone else can argue that the 5 mil is necessary to support a non-wealthy person.
And I am free to support a guy where the question does not arise.
He’s got a GREAT ground game, though. Ted stopped in GA a few times recently. And his dad was just here last week. Heidi will be herein Nov. as well.
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