For continuing to lower the bar. One of the current mailers making the rounds.
Nice work.
Nice work.
Thank You john mccain
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Too bad he hired the Bush campaign team...I can not believe that most main stream Republicans really support this kind of thing.
I have family members and good friends who support the Republican ticket -- or at least they did -- and they are appalled at the turn this campaign took a few weeks ago.
Seriously, to be fiscally conservative, to believe that smaller government is better ; even to want to keep all kinds of guns and get rid of most taxes...and to be anti-abortion..all are acceptable points of view.
But the tactics being used by the McCain Palin campaign go far beyond these traditional issues.
I just don't understand why McCain could not have run a more moderate campaign -- I think if he had, he would have kept his honor, and had a good chance to win.
Now, he may win--but at what cost?
I have family members and good friends who support the Republican ticket -- or at least they did -- and they are appalled at the turn this campaign took a few weeks ago.
Seriously, to be fiscally conservative, to believe that smaller government is better ; even to want to keep all kinds of guns and get rid of most taxes...and to be anti-abortion..all are acceptable points of view.
But the tactics being used by the McCain Palin campaign go far beyond these traditional issues.
I just don't understand why McCain could not have run a more moderate campaign -- I think if he had, he would have kept his honor, and had a good chance to win.
Now, he may win--but at what cost?
That mailer actually resurrects criticisms made by Biden and Hillary during the primary. Why is it only now offensive and the sole fault of McCain?
That mailer actually resurrects criticisms made by Biden and Hillary during the primary. Why is it only now offensive and the sole fault of McCain?
Beuhler???? Beuhler?????
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That mailer actually resurrects criticisms made by Biden and Hillary during the primary. Why is it only now offensive and the sole fault of McCain?
Then I guess they proved it to not be an effective way to win a campaign.
That mailer actually resurrects criticisms made by Biden and Hillary during the primary. Why is it only now offensive and the sole fault of McCain?
It's the delivery that is offensive. Inciting fear is an ugly, weak tactic, the spin doctors have used it to death, and so many of us are so tired of it.
First, the photo of the plane on the front. It looks like its about to come crashing through the window, pandering to everyone's fears about 9-11. Yes, upon further examination, it's clear that it's inside an airport, but the visual implication is still strong.
Next, the use of the phrase "Barack Obama. Not who you think he is". Coming right after a blurb about Islamic terrorists. This is phase 2 to all the "Obama is a Muslim" smear tactic emails floating around the web. Now it's McCain himself implying that there's more to fear from this man, that no one will come right out and say it, but perhaps... just maybe... he just might be one of THEM. Again, pandering to the lowest common denominator.
Third, the color scheme and fonts. The yellow banners look like police tape. The cut-out letters spelling "terrorist" that are now synonymous with "anonymous evildoer". All fear tactics. All ugly. All pandering to the worst in humanity, instead of the best.
And, the use of the term "terrorists" as in "thinks terrorists just need a good talking to". It is the leaders of those nations that he said he would talk to, not the people strapping on the bombs. Whatever your opinion of those leaders, the fact of the matter is that they are leaders of nations that hold some power, even if at this time it is only the power to terrorize the world.
I have no problem with McCain disagreeing with Obama about the issue of whether it is right to talk with the leaders of Iran and Syria, or North Korea (no Muslims in that last one, how convenient that it was left off the list on the postcard). It's all in his delivery.
On a very basic level, this election has boiled down to two fundamentals; Fear, or Hope. I choose hope.
For a little bit of levity about scare tactics (thanks to RepComic for introducing me to Onion video):
http://video.yahoo.com/network/100345142?v=3674491&l=3808099
As a New Yorker who watched her friends die on 9/11, that top ad made me feel so saddened at the desperation of the McCain/Palin campaign to prey on the electorates emotions about our national security. I've never been a conspiracy theorist when it came to 9/11, but this type of fear factor terror image advertising makes me wonder how far the Republicans are willing to go to maintain power and their agendas, because why not then a mailer about what McCain proposes to do to secure our national security and borders, in lieu of their talk to the hand policy? No matter who you plan on voting for, this type of campaigning has to turn your stomach and if one can't see the repugnancy, well then I am more scared of our electorate.
Oh come on. Both sides appeal to fear to get votes. There is a TV spot airing here in SOWAL now that basically implies McCain will take away Medicare benefits for seniors. That isn't too hope-ish, if you ask me.
I took the 'not who you think he is' to imply a lack of gravitas, but I can see your point WCW.
At any rate, neither side is clean as the driven snow, never has been, never will be, so we can just relax and vote on election day. Believe me when I tell you your fellow citizens are bright enough to cut through political baloney.
I took the 'not who you think he is' to imply a lack of gravitas, but I can see your point WCW.
At any rate, neither side is clean as the driven snow, never has been, never will be, so we can just relax and vote on election day. Believe me when I tell you your fellow citizens are bright enough to cut through political baloney.
Neither side is pure, that is for sure (I am a poet), but when I look at them both overall, I see the right choosing fear and bullying as their platform, and the left choosing hope and change. I do not mean to give the impression that Obama's campaign has been run totally clean and pure, and he is our savior from a brutal world of fear and brutality. But his platform of hope and change, that I can totally get behind.
I wish I could believe you when you say that people are bright enough to cut through the baloney, but I just don't see it. My mother, who is bright, holds a Master's degree, yet always, no matter how many times I send her to snopes, always forwards those stupid FEAR-based chain emails on to me (not just political, every fear under the sun is exploited). She is of an age where she is more susceptible to that fear, and I, in turn, am afraid it's going to sway her, and folks like her, in this election.