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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Correct me if I am mistaken but didn't Biden say something along those lines? These people are a$$holes.
Trust me, Biden said something along the same lines. Reid was late to the party.
a knockout punch.....what was that yesterday about Las vegas having 15% unemployment, there is your punch in the gut courtesy of Obama and his puppet Reid.
He sure did but Reid did say it.
Sorry, that smacks of too much like work and there aren't to be had. It was just another Obama “smoke and mirrors” production.
He just guaranteed lost 15% of the vote right there.
I agree. This is a 100% negative ad. The fact that it has people praising Reid doesn’t make it a positive ad.
Harry,
They were crazy to vote for YOU in the first place!
From an RGJ.com article on Obama’s visit to help Reid:
“Reid acknowledged the unemployment figures at a news conference earlier Friday, where he heralded thousands of new jobs in roadway construction, the latest jobs event he has held in the final days of the election.
‘We found ourselves in a hole that I didn’t dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole,’ Reid said.”
Brings to mind that old saying: When you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is Stop Digging!
Seems to me there’s potential for a good ad in here somewhere, along the lines of: Angle: “That’s the problem Harry. You just keep digging but we just go deeper and deeper and deeper in debt. At least I know we need to stop digging.”
Ya know...it’s cruel to call yourself “Norseman” and ~not~ post pix.....:)
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