Posted on 06/25/2004 5:22:47 AM PDT by finnman69
"The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party" "The Coalition of the Wild Eyed."
It shows clips of the unhinged Al Gore (how dare they drag the good name of the US), Howard Dean(I want my country back), Dick Gephardt(This President is a miserable failure), Michael Moore from the Oscars, John Kerry (kick their ass), and shows some of the Nazi/Bush comparisons from Moveon.org.
It is not a pretyy picture.
Then it is contrasted with "This is not a time for pessimism and rage" "It is a time for optimism, steady leadersnip, and progress".
This ad is atrocious....
There is hardly any indication that this is a Bush ad until the end. Its giving raging lunatics 50 seconds of spewing then the Bush company gives a one liner.
They should separate each lunatic with a calming Bush setting including quotes or campaign statements.
Its confusing watching it the first time when its going on about Nazis in 1945 after Gore screams about Abu Ghraib.
Pull this one and redo it. Its too quick for an unknowing viewer to consume it after realizing its a Bush ad.
Finally, have the GOP woken up from their sleep? This is great and exceptional! I mean, how can any one in his right mind compare President Bush who is the savior of America to hitler who murdered MILLIONS of people?
I agree, the editing is just awful. To someone who doesn't know about the moveon.org ads, it looks like Democrats are being compared to Nazis. On my computer, you can't even read the text under the video of Hitler. Also, there's nothing to show that Bush is any better except for some soothing piano music.
Ping for later, when I need to "borrow" this photograph :)
I agree it needs work
Sounds like just the right ad.
How much clearer can you get. It's 1/3 of the ad.
I also didn't like it - it is too easy for people to remember the nazi scenes as being on a pubbie ad.
I would rather they did an interview on the street ad, with people saying
"I trust the President"
when asked if they are worried about terrorism.
Haven't seen the message, but I hope they run it before a random audience before they air it. I'm not sure that running all those diatribes will have the desired effect on a random audience.
Agreed it could be "tweak" a bit.
Adding the "Digital Brown Shirts" line from Gore yesterday would be good.
Dittos, this ad kicks a## and I'd like to see it played nation wide. TD
OH c'mon Finn you know every Bush ad Sucks, the campaign is being run all wrong, Bush is catering to the Rino's and forgettting his base, Rove is an idiot, I guess they want Kerry to win, blah blah blah etc etc etc
Agreed. And some Bush voiceover.
It may not be designed for a random audience. Depends on where they make the ad buys. Likely its for swing states in GOP leaning areas.
LOL, the naysayers rather have the campaign sit on its hands.
Smith,
I have to say I agree with your whole post.
I thought the ad worked beautifully. I'm watching these raving lunatics trashing my country, my President, our war, and by association, our brave fighting men. My blood was nearly boiling. Then all of a sudden, I'm calmed by the vision of a true leader. Shoot, I teared up at the end.
Put me down in the "great ad" column.
Still, they need to test it before they run it. What a conservative audience thinks is devastating to the Dems may or may not be devastating to the actual audience.
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