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Harry Reid's closing message: You'd have to be crazy to replace me with Sharron Angle
Wapo ^ | 10/22/10 | Greg Sargent

Posted on 10/22/2010 10:46:29 PM PDT by freespirited

Here's one of Harry Reid's closing ads, to be released later today, giving us a glimpse into one of his core closing messages at the end of an extremely negative and hard-fought campaign.

The ad contains some of the familiar epithets the campaign has steadily applied to Sharron Angle for months, labeling her reckless, radical, and extreme. But it also offers a pivot to something of a positive message: Reid has saved jobs, and replacing him with Angle would be, well, insane:

One interesting moment occurs when a Nevada businessman says: "She will be the knockout punch for the Nevada economy." In a sense, that's a tacit admission that the economy is currently one punch away from being "knocked out," and really reveals the make-lemonade-out-of-lemons approach the Reid campaign has been forced to adopt amid Nevada's dire economic situation.

At any rate, look for the Reid camp to integrate its now-familiar effort to paint Angle as extreme and dangerous in with a more positive message about Reid's success in "saving jobs," if not in creating them.

That this ad seems at least somewhat positive in comparison to the spots both sides have been churning out -- at least in the sense that it offers an affirmative message about Reid -- is a mark of just how hard-fought and nasty this campaign has been. And suggests the Reid camp thinks the finish line may finally be in sight.

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My two cents: Sargent is really spinning to call this a positive ad. It's negative and is a dumb way to end a campaign.

Hard to believe what a bad campaign Harry has run.

Here's the ad:

Harry's Closing Message

1 posted on 10/22/2010 10:46:34 PM PDT by freespirited
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To: freespirited
Inside look at Reid's office ...;^)
2 posted on 10/22/2010 10:52:53 PM PDT by BigFinn (Isa 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
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To: freespirited

What’s positive about a 100% scare Ad?


3 posted on 10/22/2010 10:53:25 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: J Edgar

What’s negative about being crazy?


4 posted on 10/22/2010 10:54:22 PM PDT by BenKenobi
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To: freespirited
"This war is lost."

Pathetic old bag of bones.

5 posted on 10/22/2010 10:56:40 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. -Kenneth Clark)
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To: BenKenobi

Well when you are young, it’s expected or assumed. When you get older, it has negative consequences. So I guess it depends. LOL


6 posted on 10/22/2010 10:59:09 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: freespirited
Reid's closing ad...

How about just 'Reid's closing'

REID-You'reFired-2sm

7 posted on 10/22/2010 11:00:01 PM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: freespirited

I’d rather be crazy than FD up like Dingy


8 posted on 10/22/2010 11:03:06 PM PDT by max americana (Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
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To: freespirited

You’d have to be crazy to keep this old Constitution-hating Marxist windbag.


9 posted on 10/22/2010 11:05:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Just vote them OUT!!)
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To: J Edgar

Crazy ain’t bad. You could be a lying, thieving malicious marxist like Harry Reid. Who likes clean men without a negro dialect.

Or you could be crazy.


10 posted on 10/22/2010 11:07:52 PM PDT by BenKenobi
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To: freespirited; humblegunner

All aboard!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VorC_GHQnSc


11 posted on 10/22/2010 11:09:31 PM PDT by Salamander (I can't sleep......the clowns will eat me.)
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To: BenKenobi
What’s negative about being crazy?

... and the boy gets a cigar

12 posted on 10/22/2010 11:17:23 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Jim Robinson
"You’d have to be crazy to keep this old Constitution-hating Marxist windbag."

No argument here.

13 posted on 10/22/2010 11:17:38 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: freespirited

And if anyone in Neveda believes these ads then, well, yes, they are insane.


14 posted on 10/22/2010 11:21:42 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Live Free or Die)
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To: Salamander

I could only stand it until 26 seconds.

Ozzie is fried, man, I tell ya, he’s really fried, man.

Ozzie is a harmless fool. Dingy Harry is a very dangerous old fool.


15 posted on 10/22/2010 11:23:20 PM PDT by unkus
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To: freespirited

If she wins, I’m going to Vegas to celebrate. If Fiorina wins, I’ll stay an extra day in Vegas to celebrate even more and I’ll look forward to the ride home.


16 posted on 10/22/2010 11:28:18 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (My Rights are God given, not Obama approved...)
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To: BenKenobi

“What’s negative about being crazy?”

How does he think he got elected .. SANE people?

They put him in ... they can take him out.

Time to remind these varmints they work for us.


17 posted on 10/22/2010 11:28:49 PM PDT by jessduntno (9/24/10, FBI raids home of appropriately named AAAN leader Hatem Abudayyeh, a friend of Obama.)
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To: unkus
"Dingy Harry is a very dangerous old fool."

He certainly is. And dangerous old fools who support dangerous young fools (Obama) does not bode well for The Republic. With any luck Harry will get the boot.

18 posted on 10/22/2010 11:30:42 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: dr_lew

Another oldie but goodie ... defining Democrats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k


19 posted on 10/22/2010 11:30:51 PM PDT by jessduntno (9/24/10, FBI raids home of appropriately named AAAN leader Hatem Abudayyeh, a friend of Obama.)
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To: dr_lew

hehehe

Glad to see all those old shows haven’t gone to waste. ;)


20 posted on 10/22/2010 11:34:43 PM PDT by BenKenobi
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