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New Herman Cain ad: The smoking man
Hot Air ^ | 10/24/11 | Allahpundit

Posted on 10/24/2011 6:44:35 PM PDT by Nachum

Lots of buzz about this among political junkies on Twitter tonight, mostly of the so-bad-it’s-good variety. Is the image of this guy taking a soothing drag on camera after 40 seconds of ad-tastic exertion really that strange and transgressive? Cain’s campaign is all about unapologetic populist authenticity, and there’s nothing more unapologetically, authentically populist than defiantly lighting one up when the mood strikes, politesse be damned. As the man says, “We’ve run a campaign like nobody’s ever seen.” If you’ve got a problem with casual smoking during presidential spots, well, that only proves what an uptight establishment RINO you really are.

In the next spot, Block should have a smoke in one hand and a can of Schlitz in the other. And as the camera pulls back, there’s Cain next to him, eating a slice of Godfather’s and giving a big thumbs-up.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; brilliant; cain; controversial; herman; hermancain; man; markblock; smoking
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To: nopardons
I'm actually not "working against"anyone, except Romney.

Disclaimer: Linking to an image with gender-questionable language does not necessarily imply tacit approval of alternate lifestyles and does not reflect the sexual identity of the poster.

181 posted on 10/24/2011 10:37:49 PM PDT by mr_griz
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To: nopardons

Bill Buckley would have known the word..........was HE a “faggot”?

He would have loved this commercial, he was a life long smoker then switched to cigars...


182 posted on 10/24/2011 10:39:47 PM PDT by Fred (no job no house no gas no food no problem Obama 2012)
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To: Chunga
Do you believe that using the word “codswallop” is evidence of a good vocabulary?

Actually, the dictionary say's that "codswallop" is british slang and originated in the 1960's.

Just a fun fact to lighten the mood <-:

183 posted on 10/24/2011 10:41:11 PM PDT by mr_griz
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To: mr_griz

Yes, I had seen that...it is a slang term, roughly “malarkey.”


184 posted on 10/24/2011 10:43:32 PM PDT by Chunga (What a load of codswallop!)
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To: mr_griz

It sounds like something Peter O’Toole, Ray Davies, Richard Harris or Pete Townsend might have accidentally said on a bender.


185 posted on 10/24/2011 10:45:51 PM PDT by Chunga (What a load of codswallop!)
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To: Chunga

Do you believe that using the word “codswallop” is evidence of a good vocabulary?

It is evidence that he is a Harry Potter fan, “Oh codswallop it’s nearly 1 am here at hogwarts”


186 posted on 10/24/2011 10:47:36 PM PDT by Fred (no job no house no gas no food no problem Obama 2012)
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To: mr_griz

LOL


187 posted on 10/24/2011 10:59:54 PM PDT by Chunga (What a load of codswallop!)
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To: nopardons

No, but tell us what you REALLY think about Herman Cain!! ;-)


188 posted on 10/24/2011 11:14:50 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Mister Cain: a) IOWA upgrades, GOOD! b) Extend an offer to John Bolton to be your chief FP adviser)
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To: nopardons

Years back I loved and read Buckleys books, with a dictionary on the table beside the chair. But I don’t think I’ll dig out the dictionary for you...:O)


189 posted on 10/24/2011 11:18:56 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: nopardons

Bwahahahaaa!!!


190 posted on 10/24/2011 11:23:38 PM PDT by Politicalmom (I am intrigued and open to the Bush administrationÂ’s amnesty proposal. -Rick Perry)
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To: Chunga; mr_griz

The more I read this thread, the funnier it got!

I’m truly LingOL over here plus.....I think somebody is going to have one heck of a headache in the morning! Bwahahahaha!


191 posted on 10/24/2011 11:25:23 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (Heartless4Cain.......)
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To: Fred
smoking-baby
192 posted on 10/24/2011 11:31:24 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Nachum
I want to run Cain's campaign:

,

WE JUMP FOR CAINE

193 posted on 10/24/2011 11:34:30 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Chunga
Good question.......wonder if you will get an answer

Why do you care? You're actively working against him.

194 posted on 10/24/2011 11:54:59 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Fred; goat granny; BenKenobi; onyx
William F. Buckley's Sharon Statement (1960) was the founding document of Young Americans for Freedom.

I went to New York for their convention to draft Goldwater.

Ronald Reagan, A Time For Choosing was preamble to the best administration for the nation in the 20th Century.

Now we face an existential threat.

I know Herman Cain gets it.

With Gumby Romney, he's already secretly conferred with Obama on Federal-fascist health care.

If not Cain, who. If not now, when.


195 posted on 10/24/2011 11:58:12 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Fred
Bill Buckley would have known the word..........was HE a “faggot”?

William F. Buckley threatening to paste Gore Vidal on Firing Line August 28, 1968:

Now listen, you queer: you stop calling me a cryptonazi or I'll sock you in the (expletive deleted) face and you'll stay plastered.

There is trouble coming. The Arab Spring is a contrivance to further the CFR aims of the 2004 Brzezinski-Gates Iran gambit.

Hillary pulls in Podesta. Israel will be in a peril to echo prophecy.

I don't think a tobacco cigarette is morally equivalent to our DEA enabling the Sinaloa Cartel's import of marijuana, methedrine, heroin, cocaine.

As the BATF under Obama and Holder's orders arms them with thousands of weapons.

Now comes the test of the national television and radio emergency broadcast system as talk is heard of suspension of elections.

A cigarette. Is Washington aflame from British arson.

Who shall protect us--EPA, FDA, OSHA?


196 posted on 10/25/2011 12:13:01 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: PhilDragoo

Cain is the only man running I’d vote for for president..If he’s not the candidate, I’ll vote down ballot for conservatives, but no more rino’s for me. I just hate that some states hold open republican primaries. Lets too many dems vote for the republican easiest to beat..


197 posted on 10/25/2011 12:19:54 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: nopardons
that speaker keeps shacking his head "NO

Yeah, I noticed that. But I've never really bought into the body language thing. People have different ways of expressing themselves. This man is shaking his head the way someone does when he can't totally articulate something awesome.

198 posted on 10/25/2011 12:29:10 AM PDT by giotto
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To: goat granny

You betcha...

Here is the official campaign song for Cain2012, it is the background music for the “in your face smoking ad”

“I am America”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMZ_hBgNXdY&feature=related


199 posted on 10/25/2011 12:31:04 AM PDT by Fred (no job no house no gas no food no problem Obama 2012)
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To: All

In all the responses I have read here on FR, not one of you addresses the real reason for the cig. They are daring the Dems to make a big deal of it so they can fling Bozo’s smoking back in their faces and point out what hypocrites they are. The dems constant Good for Bozo bad for Cain, or Good for liberal bad for conservative that is their MO and this ad is designed to get a response from dems so they can be taken to the wood shed about hypocrisy, IMO.


200 posted on 10/25/2011 1:51:06 AM PDT by calex59
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