I disagree. The ad was great...up until the time the dude lit a cig. I mean...what was the point of that? Granted we have become PC...but this isn't 1950's and that dude ins't the Marlboro man.
It really wasn't necessary to the content of the ad and in the end...was a distraction to the message. Whoever thought of it should be fired. Cain should have been politically SAVEY enough to know this is dumb...even if its a small interenet ad.
That said...he still gets my primary vote and I'm in Texas.
>>It really wasn’t necessary to the content of the ad and in the end...was a distraction to the message. <<
With all due respect, it was indeed necessary to the content of the ad. First, without the cigarette, none of us would have seen the ad at all. It wouldn’t have drawn the required interest to get it passed around by word of mouth.
Second, the cigarette was very much an “in your face” notice to the PC crowd, and also a not-so-subtle message to the conservatives who’ve been cowed by political correctness.
For example, I’m convinced that George Bush signed on to global warming in his second term because he finally figured it was just “the thing to do”, i.e., don’t fight the PC crowd.
And I’m just as convinced, and this ad is evidence of it, that if Herman Cain says global warming is a scam (and he did say that), then he’s not going to be buffaloed into changing his mind to accommodate the PC crowd a few years from now (in his second term, that is.)