Posted on 07/08/2008 1:02:09 PM PDT by flyfree
ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today released its newest television ad entitled "Love." The ad highlights John McCain's record of putting his country first and taking on the tough challenges confronting our country even when it was not popular or in his self-interest. The ad will air on national cable and in key states.
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Can someone explain to me how McCain can win this?
Personally, I see it slipping away.
Next ad: "Kumbaya"
I can't WAIT for this election to end!
I heard this ad earlier. McCain needs to leave Vietnam and the past behind. He needs to act current. I am not saying this as a diss to vets. My hubby is a vet. He agrees with me.
McCain has the dumbest campaign staff ever. This ad only reinforces his age. A poll was done, people identified him as old.
Maybe you are not the target demographic. I loved it. (really).
Ughhhh-it’s there for the taking and he’s just throwing it away.
My hubby is a Vietnam vet, can’t stand McCain (he hates most politicians) and says McCain needs to get over it and move on, and if all he has to run on is Nam he is in deep trouble.
Fuzzy, very fuzzy, very 20th century, the ad reminds us of an old geezer looking directly backward at the days of his youth.
Obama does well with the 18-26 year old crowd. They are the ones who go to rallies. Unfortunately for Obama, they tend not to vote. “
This is to me the only way that McCain happens to win. We show up, the Obama teenagers sleep in.
But....this is problematic. If WE all know that teenyboppers don’t vote, then they know it also. And they have all the money in the world. Hell, they can practically buy a car for everyone of their identified voters to go to the polls in. Money, if spent wisely, can make a HUGE difference in GOTV.
If the GOP had its traditional money advantage, which it does not, I would feel better about this possibility.
I think this is just plain creepy. At BEST.
John's going to love me? John is going to make sure millions of gov. beaurocrats love me? John's going to make sure Lindsay Graham and Mr. Keating love me? John's going to make sure that the IRS folks I send 10's of 1000's of dollars to every year love me?
I'd rather take my chances with one molester, and let these folks just try to do their jobs.
No kidding. John F’in Kerry made Vietnam the central theme of his campaign and look at how much good it did him. You would think that McCain would have learned something from that.
How about this one?
Obama’s Iraq Problem: Change That Works For Him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcIeoSHTyCI
This any better?
Obama’s Evolving View of Military Power
Nobody’s done more to try and figure out Obama’s position on Iraq than Michael Crowley, and yesterday he followed up with an attempt to trace Obama’s use of the word “stability” in his public statements on the subject.
The peg is Obama’s comment last week that his “guiding approach continues to be that we’ve got to make sure that our troops are safe and that Iraq is stable.” That “stability” was now a criterion for withdrawal set off a frenzy, though Obama subsequently assured the press he meant to indicate no change in his position. Likewise, Crowley was told by the campaign that Obama “has long talked about ‘stability’ as a component of his Iraq plan,” but the only evidence Crowley could find was this quote from last July:
“We have not lost a military battle in Iraq. So when people say if we leave, we will lose, they’re asking the wrong question,” [Obama] said. “We cannot achieve a stable Iraq with a military. We could be fighting there for the next decade.”
If Obama hasn’t changed his position on Iraq, this would seem, at the very least, to suggest a fundamental change in the way Obama views military power. A year ago he did not believe military force could bring stability to Iraq. Now the strategy he opposed has done just that and Obama’s statement reflects that success by acknowledging the link between the current stability and the presence of U.S. troops.
Of course, it wasn’t always so. Obama’s judgment of the surge has...evolved.
http://www.johnmccain.com/mccainreport/Read.aspx?guid=84706bec-2559-4d8e-9b91-1e5e05aeb408
Your hubby and mine would probably get along just fine. LOL
Vietnam is a long time ago, McCain is getting nowhere on it. Unfortunately he is the wrong candidate. He doesn’t have the charisma or the likeablity of a Reagan.
We needed a younger more conservative warrior in the fight to point out the silliness of Obama. McCain is just unable to excite the younger voters who are looking to the future.
What a mess.
Too bad the convention is scripted already.
McCain is my Messiah!!!!
I’m as critical of McCain as anyone but I like this ad a great deal. The idea is to make McCain a likeable figure to the voting public. He has a problem with that due to his alienation of us conservatives. This ad; however, makes us remember the differences between him and Osama and that Osama’s message is as empty as his suit.
That sure looks like an effective ad to me. The problem is it does not mention McCain. I am not sure that is a winning strategy, to let someone else run the effective ads and the ads with your name on them are warm and fuzzy. Warm and fuzzy ads may have their place in a campaign, maybe later. But now McCain must define himself by what he intends to as President. I think he needs to confirm the position that he has taken lately on energy by putting that in an ad. Americans are interested in what each candidate will do on energy.
They needed a poll for that? ;-)
I thought the ad was pretty good too.
If they recast it as an ad for viagra, they've got a winner.
Frank Luntz did an analysis on FoxNews and found a certain Obama ad was rating higher than a comparable McCain ad.
The reason: Obama did the voice in his. A professional voice did the McCain ad.
People wanted ‘to hear the candidate’, not a voice-over.
I noticed this ad also has a professional voice.
Those little things add up.
Yep, supposedly when the name McCain came up, the first word said was OLD. LOL
It seems the Rockyfellar pubbies are out of touch. As if we didn’t know that already.
They think if the GOP kneels at the altar of Gorebal warming, and kisses illegal behind, they are a shoo in.
Gawd.
I don’t think McCain ‘can’ learn. He is always right.
All this is to highlight the inexperience and lack of credibility of Obama. It does this.
What I am seeing here are posters repeating almost verbatim the words from the FOX Panel on the B Hume show and my opinion of the panel is they have a total inside the beltway mentality and mindset. All we hear is what a great campaign Hussein is running and how bad is McCain's. So why is Hussein basically within the MOE in the only polls that have a reputation for reliability? And WHY is Hussein's campaign so wonderful anyway? Because he slips and slides his way to the center having to constantly “explain” what he really meant? Just because the press is drooling all over this clown doesn't mean the people in “fly over country are buying it.
Hwell I live in NJ, a liberal State if there ever was one and believe me when I tell you I have come across plenty of self proclaimed Dems who are NOT voting for Hussein.
This is deceptive since 1 in 5 had this to say about him as their first response. That means 80% DID NOT have that to say. But if you are a McCain hater then leaving these little bits of info out is OK.
Look, Vietnam was almost 40 years ago. Time to drop it. All it does is point out how old McCain is. The younger voters are interested in the future.
Why is it you folks do not get that?
Stop the McCain hater stuff too. It is a ruse to stop many of for pointing out the failure of a ridiculous candidate.
Geesh you people are bone headed and blind.
Neither young or ignorant.
Dole was never considered a "maverick". McCain makes Dole look like, well, a Republican.
They purposely posted the worst photo they could find of Laura eh?
Exactly...is this just setting the stage for the hands-off Michelle campaign?
Yep, they are, as usual, running cover for the dems. Typical to their tactics, they provide smoke cover so their candidates can get away with other things in the background.
The DNC has plans to bus young voters from their college campuses to the polls in swing states. They know that the Pubbies’ GOTV killed ‘em in the past few elections. IMO, that’s why Obama reneged on his promise to take federal funds. He knows he’s going to need a LOT of money to get the youth vote to the polls.
A lot of voters don’t even remember Vietnam, and many who do are sick of reliving it every four years. I know I am. Constantly bringing up the past when it has nothing to do with our problems NOW is a bad move. Too much like Grampa reliving the glory days while everybody else sits around yawning.
I give up.
Who or what is McCain targetting?
The ad highlights John McCain’s record of putting his country first and taking on the tough challenges confronting our country even when it was not popular or in his self-interest. The ad will air on national cable and in key states.
My guess is he is targeting the 50+ crowd with this ad. Which are pretty strong voters.
Mr. Hopenchange.. who gives no hope and offers silly change.
This add hits Obama's campaign square between the eyes. See Ed Morressey's comments at Hot Air. This ad is a knockout blow. It targets folks who don't understand that they are being made into chumps.
Right. And he has 3 or 4 times the money that the GOP has. If money buys GOTV, then....this Obama tsunami will be extremely difficult to stop.
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