Davis Ad Barrage Pollutes Airwaves

Simon Campaign Press Release ^ | 8/15/02 | Mark Miner - Simon Press Secretary

[Bernard Marx]

I've been involved in a few campaigns too, and I agree that the last two weeks can be win/lose time. The Rats know that too, and they're masters at the last-minute scandal-smear. Remember Herschenson's strip show? Bush's 'secret' trip? Dubya's drunk driving incident? And dozens of others that left no time for the candidate to fully recover?

The attrition-type smear campaigns we're seeing these days are something different. Like the water torture the drip-drip-drips add up. And you'd be naive to think there won't be a Nasty Big Lie coming for Simon in the last 2 weeks of the campaign. Count on it.

[Russell Scott]

Simon only needs to throw one good knock-out punch a couple of weeks before the election. Every month Californians get double and triple increased electric bills, and remind themseleves who they aren't voting for in November. I just hope Simon can clean up the mess Davis leaves.

[Coop]

Dan, I applaud the work you're doing. But you're wasting your breath on a lot of these folks. If they've been told once they've been told 500 times why the campaign is not yet advertising. That does not even slow them down in their armchair quarterbacking/criticism.

I personally think a small momentum shift is all Simon needs right now. The Presidential visits next week will be good shots in the arm, showing donors and volunteers the President is still on board, and they'll be good for a couple of points in the polls. Plus the money they'll raise can be used after Labor Day for ads, further raising Simon's numbers and hopefully lowering Davis' anemic numbers even more.

Some of the folks around here just crack me up. When Simon was leading in 9 of 11 polls, they completely ignored the polls and just complained that Simon can't win. Now that ONE DEMOCRAT poll shows Davis up by 17 points, they embrace this poll and complain Simon can't win.

Keep the faith, friend!

[Coop]

I have only one question to those who are compaining about Simons' failure to retaliate: Have you made a generous contribution to his campaign?

We all know most haven't even considered it. That would involve doing something besides criticizing.

I have.

I applaud you!

[Coop]

Davis is doing nothing with his ads now but attempting to hold hard core democraps from going Green. Those ads will have very little effect on people that are undecided.

It's worth noting that even after all Davis' ads, the beleaguered incumbent still couldn't break 48% in a Dem poll. But all anyone around here wants to do is talk about Simon's problems. LOL

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ought to be a law against it. LOL

I'm dead serious, there should be.

It is IMHO no accident that the First Amendment protects the right to listen/read only as an implication of the right to speak/print.

The government, in the form of the FCC, defines frequency bands in which it grants you a "right to listen" but denies you the right to speak. That's fundamentally in conflict with First Amendment principle, and that fact must eventually be faced. If you blow away the smoke, broadcasting is a species of telecommunication, not an inherent characteristic of wireless. Analog communications puts you into the mindset of frequency channels. Wireless internet, OTOH, does not require dedicated frequency channels for every individual transmission.

The point is that FCC "regulated" broadcasting is obsolescent, in that digital wireless can transcend the supposed scarcity of bandwidth which is the raison d' etre of the unconstitutionally licensed communication known as broadcast. And that "regulated" belongs in quotes because, as the Nov 2000 fiasco dramatized, broadcast licensees are not even being prevented from intruding on the election-day vote.

Broadcast licensees should, from their priveledged position, have no input to politics at all--and since journalism is and always was politics, that means broadcast journalism is illegitimate. Throw in a ban on broadcast political ads, and you have campaign cost reform that's actually constitutional!

[BibChr]

My count:

TOTAL PARAGRAPHS: twelve
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT HOW BAD DAVIS IS: twelve
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT HOW GREAT SIMON IS: zero
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT BAD THINGS DAVIS HAS DONE OR BEEN: twelve
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT GREAT THINGS SIMON HAS DONE OR BEEN: zero
PARAGRAPHS PROVIDING REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR DAVIS: twelve
PARAGRAPHS PROVIDING REASONS TO VOTE FOR SIMON: zero

I've mentioned this before. Isn't it time to change this approach? It doesn't seem to be working.

Dan

[A CA Guy]

Someone convinced twelve OJ jurors in civil court that they should award money to people who claimed to be victums and due money.
No law was broken and even the civil judgement could be turned.
That aside, the hiding of Simon doesn't help him.

It's almost like he never intended to win the nomination. That he perhaps was only trying to scare the other guy but he instead got the nod!
I don't know the truth, but he is running backwards and not towards a victory.

If this is a winning process, it is new to the history of the world!

[DiamondDon1]

Nice post... a belated

[Capitalist Eric]

Davis and his campaign make patently false statements about his failed record, and use doublespeak, scare tactics and outright lies to cover his deplorable record on the environment, education and the economy.

Ah, yes... Such is the way of contemporary democrats.

Lies?

Deceptions?

NEVER!!!

And if you believe that, than you're either stupid, or a democrat...

Be well...