Thu
Oct 19 2006
06:41 pm
What's at stake
By: R. Neal

The Republican National Committee is set to run a new ad:

The Republican Party will begin airing a hard-hitting ad this weekend that warns of more cataclysmic terror attacks against the U.S. homeland.

The ad portrays Osama bin Laden and quotes his threats against America dating to February 1998. "These are the stakes," the ad concludes. "Vote November 7."

You can see the ad here.

I know I'm out of touch and everything, but does this stuff still work in 2006? Wouldn't it just remind voters that Osama is still at large, and that the Republican agenda has only made the threat worse? Why would they want to advertise that? Oh, that's right. Because if you vote for a Democrat terrorists are going to kill you. I forgot.

What's really at stake is two more years of despicable insults to America and our intelligence. The president who was supposed to unite America has divided us to the point where the GOP has no qualms at all about calling half of Americans traitors. Nice.

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Brian A.'s picture

Scare tactics will work

Submitted by Brian A. on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 8:07pm.

 . . . with the 35% dead enders.  And, as long as the news media uncritically hypes any scare rumor as breaking-we're-all-going-to-die "news," with a some other folks as well.  You don't need a huge proportion of the population to win the mid terms.

I'm reminded of John Dean's latest book, in which he notes research showing how many conservatives have a authoritarian personality.  No better way to get these folks to the polls than to remind them how they need big Republican government to protect them from the shadowy Islamofacist threat.

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

JaHu's picture

The Republican Party will

Submitted by JaHu on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 8:26pm.

The Republican Party will begin airing a hard-hitting ad this weekend that warns of more cataclysmic terror attacks against the U.S. homeland.

Shouldn't this scare tactic be considered an act of terrorism?

Sven's picture

At least it has better

Submitted by Sven on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 8:34pm.

At least it has better production values than that dumbass wolf video from CheneyBush 04. The dull rhythmic sound in the background was an especially nice touch.

Goldstein was delivering his usual venemous attack upon the doctrines of the Party - an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it...

And all the while, lest one should be in any doubt as to the reality which Goldstein's specious clap trap covered, behind his head on the telescreen there marched the endless columns of the Eurasian army - row after row of solid-looking men with expressionless Asiatic faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen and vanished, to be replaced by others exactly similar. The dull rhythmic tramp of the soldiers' boots formed the background to formed the background to Goldstein's bleating voice.

A child should have been able to see through it. Hmmm....

That is an incredible ad - and, all the scarier, it is true.
Bill Hobbs | Homepage | 10.19.06 - 4:16 pm | # 

 

 

The Eurasians perform their liberal hippie war dance on Al Jazeeeera. Eeek.

mpower1952's picture

Wouldn't it be wise to

Submitted by mpower1952 on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 8:39pm.

Wouldn't it be wise to counter with ads that show Bush saying-

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02 

"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere.

and on and on.

If we don't do it this time I may really have to move to Canada. Or France!

Sven's picture

They want dark and scary?

Submitted by Sven on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 8:57pm.
 
"These are the stakes. Now stick them in those bloodsucking GoOPers.
Vote Nov. 7"

Socialist With A Gold Card's picture

"These are the stakes"

Submitted by Socialist With ... on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 9:15pm.

This is a blatant rip-off of Johnson's infamous "Daisy" ad against Barry Goldwater in 1964, in which the daisy-picking little girl is obliterated by nukes. The scare tactic worked of course, but the sad, deranged, and intellectually bankrupt group of thugs calling themselves the GOP in 2006 have no original ideas. The best they can do is rip off LBJ, their old arch-nemesis.

Hell, even LBJ's voiceover in that commercial started with the exact phrase "These are the stakes."

How pitiful is that?

--Socialist With A Gold Card

"I'm a socialist with a gold card. I firmly believe we need a revolution; I'm just concerned that I won't be able to get good moisturizer afterwards." --Brett Butler

 

Sven's picture

The steaks

Submitted by Sven on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 9:33pm.

Preznit Buffy raises the stakes in La Plume, BFE, today:

There's a fundamental difference of opinion all across the nation about which party understands the stakes in this war on terror. After 9/11, I decided it was essential that if al Qaeda or an al Qaeda affiliate was making a phone call into the United States of America we needed to know why, in order to be able to do our job and protect you. Recently, this bill came up for a vote in the United States Congress. The United States Congressman from the 10th congressional district of Pennsylvania voted to support our professionals who are doing everything we can to protect you. But almost 90 percent of the House Democrats voted against it...

The stakes in this war couldn't be higher. The security of the United States is at stake, and we have no illusions; it's tough, the fighting is tough, because an enemy understands what a defeat in Iraq would mean for their ambitions. We are a nation at war, and we must do everything in our power to win that war...

The stakes in this war are high, and so are the stakes in this election. I want to tell you -- I want you to imagine what the House of Representatives would look like if the Democrats get their way this November. The Chairman of the House Ways and Means would be a Congressman who suggested cutting off funding for our troops in Iraq...

Some day, an American President will be sitting down, talking about the peace with duly-elected leaders in the Middle East, and generations of Americans will be better off. That's the stake in the elections. (Applause.) These are the stakes in this election...

Alright, alright already. Stop beating me over the head with your goddamn misstak.. er, stakes.

 

 

 

Eleanor A's picture

(You know the shitty thing?

Submitted by Eleanor A on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 9:46pm.

(You know the shitty thing? Sarah Michelle Gellar is a rock-ribbed Republican. Sigh.)

Sven's picture

Well, that explains why

Submitted by Sven on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 9:53pm.

Well, that explains why Buffy went loco when Willow turned lesbian in the Yoko Factor episode. Laughing

gttim's picture

(You know the shitty thing?

Submitted by gttim on Thu, 2006/10/19 - 10:55pm.

(You know the shitty thing? Sarah Michelle Gellar is a rock-ribbed Republican. Sigh.)

 She's hot, but she ain't no rocket scientist. Her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., is dumber and Republican. Chico would be rolling in his grave!

rikki's picture

no you did not

Submitted by rikki on Fri, 2006/10/20 - 2:21am.

El Preznitz sez: I decided it was essential that if al Qaeda or an al Qaeda affiliate was making a phone call into the United States of America we needed to know why, in order to be able to do our job and protect you.

No you didn't. You lacked the sense to monitor al Qaeda calls when it mattered; you've always had the power to monitor al Qaeda calls; you abused even that broad power, then demanded more when you got caught.

You are cheating like a third grader and still losing. 

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