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defrogYou don’t have to follow politics all that closely to understand that when it comes to campaigns, people will say just about anything to be elected, or to help their preferred candidate get elected.
“Our party promises to outlaw blowjobs and strippers.”
"My opponent is a raghead financed by foreigners who want her to take over the country."
"Public transportation is a UN plot to enslave America."
And so on.
So when Ben Quayle – son of Dan (yes, THAT one) – kicked off his latest campaign ad with the statement, “Barack Obama is the worst president EVER”, I didn’t take it that seriously.
Because it’s not like he actually spent any time researching that claim. And why would he? It’s easy to say and sounds good, and if anyone tries to pin you down on it, you can just cite Obamacare and teleprompters and birth certificates, because yr target audience is conservative voters, not historians. So it’s not like they’re going to fact-check you on that.
But I do find it interesting that he’s using anti-Obama sentiment as a hook to convince people to vote for him in a Congressional district race. “Hi, I’m Ben Quayle. Obama sucks, so vote for me. I approve this message.” How lazy can you get?
To be fair, there’s a little more to it than that – Quayle’s point (and he does have one) is that when Obama is done wrecking the country and turning it into a Constitution-free Sharia dictatorship where everyone has to be gay and speak foreign languages and give 100% of their earnings to the local mosque, you’ll need people like Ben Quayle who can fight to put America back the way it was (preferably back to 1800 when marriage was still traditional).
I'm paraphrasing. But you get the idea.
Still, as campaign ads go, it’s pretty weak. And unimaginative. At least Basil Marceaux.com’s ad had some original ideas, and Dale Peterson had firearms. Rick Barber has conversations with dead presidents. Carly Fiorina has demon sheep.
“Obama sucks! We need outsiders to fix Washington!” is pretty generic by comparison. No wonder even RedState.com isn’t that impressed with him.
Still, his dad was a nincompoop and made it all the way to Veep. So who knows?
On the other hand, if he wins the primary in two weeks, maybe all the other GOP candidates will decide the ticket to victory is to pretend yr running against Obama and not that other person. Which surely must be unprecedented.
PRODUCTION NOTE: As for this “We need outsiders to fix Washington” meme, I could do a whole separate post on that. Maybe one day, when I’m not that busy.
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“Our party promises to outlaw blowjobs and strippers.”
"My opponent is a raghead financed by foreigners who want her to take over the country."
"Public transportation is a UN plot to enslave America."
And so on.
So when Ben Quayle – son of Dan (yes, THAT one) – kicked off his latest campaign ad with the statement, “Barack Obama is the worst president EVER”, I didn’t take it that seriously.
Because it’s not like he actually spent any time researching that claim. And why would he? It’s easy to say and sounds good, and if anyone tries to pin you down on it, you can just cite Obamacare and teleprompters and birth certificates, because yr target audience is conservative voters, not historians. So it’s not like they’re going to fact-check you on that.
But I do find it interesting that he’s using anti-Obama sentiment as a hook to convince people to vote for him in a Congressional district race. “Hi, I’m Ben Quayle. Obama sucks, so vote for me. I approve this message.” How lazy can you get?
To be fair, there’s a little more to it than that – Quayle’s point (and he does have one) is that when Obama is done wrecking the country and turning it into a Constitution-free Sharia dictatorship where everyone has to be gay and speak foreign languages and give 100% of their earnings to the local mosque, you’ll need people like Ben Quayle who can fight to put America back the way it was (preferably back to 1800 when marriage was still traditional).
I'm paraphrasing. But you get the idea.
Still, as campaign ads go, it’s pretty weak. And unimaginative. At least Basil Marceaux.com’s ad had some original ideas, and Dale Peterson had firearms. Rick Barber has conversations with dead presidents. Carly Fiorina has demon sheep.
“Obama sucks! We need outsiders to fix Washington!” is pretty generic by comparison. No wonder even RedState.com isn’t that impressed with him.
Still, his dad was a nincompoop and made it all the way to Veep. So who knows?
On the other hand, if he wins the primary in two weeks, maybe all the other GOP candidates will decide the ticket to victory is to pretend yr running against Obama and not that other person. Which surely must be unprecedented.
PRODUCTION NOTE: As for this “We need outsiders to fix Washington” meme, I could do a whole separate post on that. Maybe one day, when I’m not that busy.
Running unopposed,
This is dF and I approve this message
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Demon cleaner...
on 2010-08-13 01:02 am (UTC)"The demon sheep is actually the collective souls of 15,000 former HP employees Fiorina laid off and outsourced. It wants to meet you on one of your yachts for a heart-to-heart discussion."