Posted on 11/15/2007 7:25:12 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Okay, so I'm not perfect. But I get results.
That's the soft-selling pitch of Rudy Giuliani's first presidential TV ad, which will begin airing in New Hampshire Thursday, weeks after some of his Republican rivals hit Granite State airwaves.
The 60-second spot dwells on Giuliani's pre-9/11 success in driving down crime and welfare rolls as mayor. But in a veiled nod to 9/11 - as well as, perhaps, his messy personal life - Giuliani argues he has faced countless trials and still gotten results.
"I've been tested in a way in which the American people can look to me," Giuliani says to the camera. "They're not going to find perfection, but they're going to find somebody who has dealt with crisis almost on a regular basis and has had results."
Giuliani has so far refrained from spending money on TV, choosing instead to save money and hope the aura of 9/11 remains the dominant image in voters' minds. But with the New Hampshire primary less than two months away - and rivals Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on TV there for weeks already - Team Giuliani has decided to launch its own air war.
Advisers believe Giuliani can win in New Hampshire, even though recent polls show him trailing Romney by 12 points or more.
"We are confident that you will see Rudy's message resonate and the numbers will change," said one top adviser of the ad campaign, which at the moment is limited to about $300,000 in southern New Hampshire.
The ad casts pre-Giuliani New York as a dark, scary place with black-and-white images of a police officer handling a suspect, burned out tenement windows and X-rated shops. But that gives way to a Technicolor city where couples happily jog and move boxes into new homes.
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Rudy has way too much baggage to run against Hillary. He will be portrayed as a corrupt Mafia stooge and the Clintons will not have to worry about their shady past. They should be contributing to his campaign.
Why would mention the bad stuff?
'Death Wish 7' starring Rudy Guiliani. Matinee at 2 p.m.
If you're going to coyly allude to "not being perfect" in the first place: why not just come right out and be specific? Seems to me that all this fey hemming and hawing and hinting on his part only makes him look even more devious (assuming that's even remotely possible, I mean), rather than less. ;)
Rudy’s “mob ties” — you mean when he took them all down and they wanted to assassinate him? Jeez...
There is a positive to Rudy vs Hillary. It would show the world we have dived to the bottom and hit it and could not get any lower on whom we select for President.
The only direction is up.
Say all the bad things you want about Rudy (most deserved), but that sounds like an extremely accurate portrayal of his performance as mayor.
Nobody who remembers NYC in the 80's and early 90's can honestly disagree.
If our country was the foul, lawless mess that city was back then, we might need Rudy to be president. But it isn't.
Can you point me to some successful political ads that discussed all the screw ups and scandals of the candidate it was supporting?
JimRob has taken not-inconsiderable pains to make all of this information readily available, to any and all FReepers curious enough to look. My suggestion would be to start there... but: your call, certainly.
Rooyy is like a wad of discarded gum stuck to your shoe that you can’t scrape off.
Thats like saying Fred Thompson has “drug ties” because of his convicted drug dealer friend
None spring immediately to mind, no... but, then: that's precisely my point. ;) He's taking what is, by any yardstick, a highly UNconventional approach to begin with, in confessing (however obliquely) his incredibly flawed nature as a potential presidential aspirant.
The fact that it's only a halfway measure, quite frankly, strikes me as being the very worst of all possible worlds: "I have some genuinely unsavory skeletons in my past... but: they're not the sorts of things we really ought to be discussing candidly, out in the bright light of day." ;) If it turns out that I'm wrong on this one... well, then: I'm wrong. We'll certainly see soon enough, won't we...?
So, he thinks this will help him? Good luck Mr. Rino and apologies to those that favor Rudy. Noting personal here.
The ad was interesting in that Rudy did the entire voice-over. It sounded as if Rudy walked in to the studio and said “let me make my case.” It didn’t sound that polished, but it was nice to see a candidate not hide behind a slick announcer. Instead, Rudy explained why he thought he could be a good president.
You beat me to it (see #17).
Most of which was self-inflicted.
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