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WaPo: 'Every Democrat Should Be Scared' of this Obamacare Ad
National Review Online ^ | DECEMBER 18, 2013 | John Fund

Posted on 12/18/2013 11:06:42 AM PST by neverdem

The conservative group Ending Spending may have premiered the ad that nationalizes the 2014 midterm elections around Obamacare.

The 30-second killer ad was produced by Republican media consultant Larry McCarthy and goes after Jeanne Shaheen, the first-term Democratic Senator from New Hampshire who is likely to face former GOP Senator Scott Brown next year.

The ad begins with footage of Shaheen on the Senate floor echoing President Obama by saying, “if you like your insurance you can keep it.” An overlay graphic points out that Obama was given the “Lie of the Year” award from a fact-checking group for that whopper.

The ad then shifts to a local focus: It notes 20,000 people in New Hampshire have lost their insurance to date and that Obamacare exchanges offer only a single provider on the state’s individual market.

The ad ends with a zinger sign-off: “Next November, if you like your senator, you can keep her. If not, you know what to do.”

“It’s a very powerful ad indeed,” Grace Marie Turner, the head of the Galen Institute, a health-care advocacy group, told me.

Chris Cillizza, the Washington Post’s top political blogger, says “Obamacare’s growing unpopularity makes the ad’s message dangerous for any Democrat.” The latest ABC News poll shows 70 percent of independents oppose Obama on health care. Nearly half of all voters think Obamacare is making the health-care system worse versus only 19 percent who think it will improve matters. Cillizza’s conclusion: “You have a very scary situation for Shaheen — and any other Democrat, which is almost all of them, on the record supporting the ACA. Get used to this ad. You are going to see it thousands of times — in various forms — before 2014 is over.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: aca; endingspending; jeanneshaheen; larrymccarthy; newhampshire; obamacare; ppaca; scottbrown; shaheen; washingtoncompost
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To: ClearCase_guy

“I’m confident that the GOP-e will find a way to lose this golden opportunity.”

This election has them scared to death. If it’s a wave election and a bunch of conservatives are swept into office on the wave, the old line GOP will have to change. That’s why Rove et al are waging war on the Tea Party instead of Democrats this year. They regard it as an existential battle; so it will be a bloodfest.


21 posted on 12/18/2013 11:48:58 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: ClearCase_guy

They will declare the ad is mean spirited,doesn’t reflect true Republican values and will apologize for it at the first democratic outburst.


22 posted on 12/18/2013 11:50:49 AM PST by bonehead4freedom
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To: neverdem; All
Jeanne Shaheen, the first-term Democratic Senator from New Hampshire who is likely to face former GOP Senator Scott Brown next year.

I've seen references to this before. Someone please inform me here. Has Scott Brown moved from Massachusetts to New Hampshire?
23 posted on 12/18/2013 11:51:01 AM PST by Din Maker
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To: ClearCase_guy

I already saw Rove on Fox this month saying people “don’t want to hear” Republicans bashing Obamacare, they want to hear about whatever plan Republicans will replace it with. Yeah, I’m sure the public has a great appetite to hear more promises from politicians about how they can improve health care.


24 posted on 12/18/2013 11:53:33 AM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: tiger-one
Scott Brown is a carpetbagger RINO from MA. He could not beat Warren who lives the dream from the hippie years.

It's Massachusetts. Nobody could win an election against a bonafide wacko bird communist there.

25 posted on 12/18/2013 11:58:03 AM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: GEC
*I didn't really understand Schadenfreude until Obamacare*

Understanding is the key to repealing.

26 posted on 12/18/2013 11:59:42 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: neverdem

Need one for every Donk up for re-election.


27 posted on 12/18/2013 12:05:22 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: tiger-one

Scott Brown is a carpetbagger RINO from MA. He could not beat Warren who lives the dream from the hippie years.
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So, who will run against Shaheen then?


28 posted on 12/18/2013 12:16:23 PM PST by Din Maker
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To: JediJones
Rove on Fox this month saying people “don’t want to hear” Republicans bashing Obamacare, they want to hear about whatever plan Republicans will replace it with.

BULLS***! How about just letting us go back to the coverage we had before this Socialist catastrophe?
29 posted on 12/18/2013 12:18:19 PM PST by Din Maker
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To: ClearCase_guy
I’m confident that the GOP-e will find a way to lose this golden opportunity.

Boehner and Nancy Graham will demand an end to divisive political ads.

30 posted on 12/18/2013 12:20:32 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: neverdem

bump


31 posted on 12/18/2013 12:23:14 PM PST by USNA74
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To: neverdem

‘....who is likely to face former GOP Senator Scott Brown next year.’

Thats sort of a leap isnt it? Scott is by NO means a shoe in. In fact theres not a lot of love for him in NH despite what his mirror is telling him.


32 posted on 12/18/2013 12:24:49 PM PST by 556x45
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To: xzins

No worries, like Rush said about this ad today, they’ll not just soften the edges, they’ll decide it wasn’t “reaching across the aisle”, and will never run it........


33 posted on 12/18/2013 12:29:58 PM PST by Lakeshark (Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
On the plus side - this may keep the cancerous northern libs from voting for socialism in 2 states.

Yes Sue - sell the home in SC and stay up north to wallow in your liberal utopia! Let a free-born SC family purchase the house.

34 posted on 12/18/2013 12:35:21 PM PST by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
True story dating back to 1974, when I first went off to college. I knew I was conservative, but wasn't sure if I was a Democrat or Republican because the lines were still somewhat blurred. I went to Young Democrats and found all the females to be either perpetually angry or ugly. Then I went to College Republicans and found them to be sweet, attractive and mostly feminine. So guess which club I joined?

The National CR showed us some killer ads that year. Actors were playing the part of prominent liberals reciting the lines we knew they all believed, if didn't actually say. They even had one with a Ted Kennedy lookalike driving a car over a bridge.

These were outrageously funny ads, with a very serious message. They might even had been seriously effective.

But we never found out. The national GOP decided it would have been too divisive to air them. So they settled for a mid-term shellacking instead.

Then millions of Indochinese died as a result.

35 posted on 12/18/2013 12:41:04 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: neverdem

Not so fast guys and gals.

Massachusetts has sent us Scott Brown to take her place. A RINO. Once more media including Howie Carr on Boston radio has endorsed him. I will not vote again if they let the media choose the candidate for me .


36 posted on 12/18/2013 12:50:54 PM PST by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Go to Zazzle.com and make your own!
I’m not a shill for them, but I’ll promote a good product.

Customized some the other day with a Freeper’s line “U.S.Constitution/ a Preexisting Condition”
with sale pricing at the time, paid about 2.35 each.


37 posted on 12/18/2013 1:43:23 PM PST by gnickgnack2 (QUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
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To: neverdem

That is a killer ad ... OMG ...


38 posted on 12/18/2013 3:10:49 PM PST by 11th_VA (I want a president who won't enforce tax laws ...)
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To: tiger-one
“Scott Brown is a carpetbagger RINO from MA. He could not beat Warren who lives the dream from the hippie years.”

I agree. I'm for New Hampshire born and bred, Jeanne Shaheen! Carpetbaggers go home!!

39 posted on 12/18/2013 3:56:40 PM PST by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: topher

Needs slight fixing: “If you like your politician destroying your health care and health care insurance-——”


40 posted on 12/18/2013 3:57:01 PM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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