Friday, October 20, 2006
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You're a Daisy If You Do
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
8:41 AM
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The RNC has a good ad out. A serious ad.
Watch at GOP.com.
It is very daisy-like. "These are the stakes."
Ace is skeptical of its usefullness, but sees the silver lining:
TusharD mentions what I was about to mention-- the idea that this could produce overreaction by the left, and get them to say what they really believe (i.e., the terrorist threat is almost entirely "fictitious"), and hence prod them into running advertisements against themselves.
The Kos Kidz came close to it, but I'm not sure any candidate is dumb enough to.
But, as much as I like the light, uplifting ads, I like this one better. There are deadly serious issues at stake, and the Republicans have the perfect right to highlight them for voters, despite what the Left will tell you about "fear-mongering." I like the "Bear in the Woods" lighter-touch better than the "Daisy" whammy, but that's just a matter of taste, I think. This ad's a good call.
But while we're on the subject, I'll take any excuse to run this ad:
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Given that I am a psychiatrist/ Doctor and foremost a true conservative I thought you would like to hear from me. And I really am a Doctor.
Do you beleive that we can have it both ways, that is placating and puffing up our chests in response to Bin Laden acting strong and at the same time spread a message "be afraid?" It literally is crazy. Whose buying it now? A psychiatric/scientific fact is that the more you focus on an issue the more time you spend having a problem to fix. Try this in your own life and you will know what i mean. this is the failure of big Govt also.
Our country under this so called Conservative majority is heading us if not already there toward FASCISM. Do you understand that! FASCISM is all about "be afraid, be afraid...me and my big government will protect you from the bougy man! It's like putting a trance on our more simple minded citizens. and yes Bush (w/ congress) has grown our government beyond what anyone who is concerened w/ big government would accept. Bush has called Al Queda a "flea" (yet says now the stakes our huge- over a flea?, and "I really don't spend much time on Bin Laden" and "I don't think you can win the WOTerror." It is becoming clear to those who are concerned about the National Security of this great country, that Republicans just want to keep it around as a political/campaing issue. The problem w/ this is that any poll on Terrorissm and Iraq (or the econmy/taxes for that matter now show democrats holding a clear lead! and it is becoming clear that it has been us Republicans who have had the chance for 5 years to deal w/ it and we by any account now have not dealt w/ it in terms of Bin Laden who we farmed the job out to North. Alliance at Tora Bora or let Iraq fall into increasing chaos by not having enoough boots on the ground!
Listen- when I voted for a true conservative in 1964 i remember that despicable Johnson commercial of the girl and the bomb and now my party is doing it is equally despicable or worse now that we have our young boys dying evryday!
Our party is in serious trouble come November and for good reasons. America has had enough of the Neo-conservatives simple. The sooner we admit this we can move onto building for 08 or 12. We can't spin our way out of it now. We just don't deserve it my friend, we just don't. |
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Good ad. It highlights the enemy. While the Dhimmicrats see Republicans as the enemy, Reps see Jihadis as the enemy. This ad and the reaction to it will show that. |
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Both are excellent vids but I have to admit I had forgotten the Reagan (Bear) video. Subtle but very effective (the Bear vid) especially given the time period it is from. The "Daisy" slaps you right in the face with the cold reality we face today of the islamofascists running wild in the world.
The "Cult of Death" serves no purpose other than to cause misery wherever it's cancerous self materializes. Enablers and supporters of the cult are no better than the beheaders themselves.
Keep up the excellent work, as there are far too many pea-brains out there that are nothing more than "useful idiots" to the zealots.
Also, I find it hilarious reading kos kid and the use of CNN and Newsweek polls to make his point. Why not toss in one from the NY/LA Times for added (cough!) credibility? Kos hero Ned Lamemont is getting his butt kicked, Repubs are fighting back and Kool Aid boy is peeing in his pants. Gotta love it.
One last comment; I notice the "cut and run", "it's all Bush's fault" defeatists are out and whining on your post. No attacks on continental USA since 911? Silly but dangerous these tools are.
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I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that it was poetry before the Clash made it a song. However, that's me going out on a big limb...
If we do leave, how long will it take before the same bleeding hearts that want us to leave Iraq will be calling for us to go back in to Iraq to “Stop the Humanitarian Crisis“.
We'd get to watch the country tear itself apart on CNN. Just like Bosnia, Somalia, and Darfur.
Or we could just stay and finish the job we started, and save all those lives that would of been lost in the meantime.
The point is, stop playing to lose. I'm all for winning.
Start saying, “We can win in Iraq, we have a clear vision on how to do it, and this is how our plan is different than the other side", instead of "Quagmire, Doom, Gloom, Death to America. |
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EL, the whole point of a quagmire is that no matter what you do, things are bad. If we leave Iraq, it will be in chaos. The problem is, Iraq is *already* in chaos, and we're not helping. So we need to choose the bad option that is a) Different from what we're currently doing, and b) Will get fewer of our own soldiers killed and waste less of our tax money.
There's an old poem that applies here:
If I go, there will be trouble,
But if I stay, it will be double. |
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For the sake of argument, lets take the play by the Dems and lets assume it's possible to get all Americans out of Iraq by end of the year.
So we leave Iraq... and then what?
Do think that Iraq will be invaded magically by rainbows and unicorns that will solve all of it's problems overnight? So you think that suddenly the departure of the Americans will cause a sudden urge on the part of the Shia's and Sunni's to break out in hugs and kisses for each other?
Sure, right.... the terrorists will stop killing the innocent people of Iraq, and the Sunni's and Shia's will stop killing each other... and everyone will sit down around a huge campfire at the tomb of the unknown in Baghdad and sing kumbaya.
I don't think so, and if you do... please seek professional psychiatric help.
... and we're dumb... and we're the hypocrites? |
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Seriously, people who are so afraid of a bunch of ignorant barbarians that they throw this county into a losing quagmire and throw civil right out the window are idiots.
If Bush told you he had to repeal the Second Amendment to get guns away from terrorists, what would you do then?
Morons.
More coalition forces have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan than there were victims of 9/11. So we've now done more damage to our own people than the 9/11 terrorists did. We've cause at least a couple hundred thousand deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. We now have three different militias controlling at least three major cities in Iraq, there are more weapons and tens of thousands of trained, armed terrorists, not to mention a nice source of daily recruiting videos.
Oh, and the Taliban is back.
You people will simply keep doing the same thing until we lose, won't you? All just to help Georgie Bush and his band of hypocrites in government jobs.
God, you're dumb. |
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Left=
-"we killed the patriot act"
-no listenting to phone calls to AQ
-leak our methods of tracing terrorists $$ to newspapers.
-miranda rights for terrorists
Democrats will fight harder to protect this country???
three words Echo in my brain,,
"WITH WHAT SPITBALLS"
"we can do better" is not a plan! |
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As soon as Republicans say anything meaningful or effective, Kos and those on the Left immediately start cat-calling and whining in mock outrage.
"Is this what Republicans are all about?"
Yes, it is.
I find their empty rhetoric encouraging. It means our message strikes home. Just like when we criticize them and they immediately claim we attack their patriotism, ranting how "American" it is to say anti-American things.
It is almost always the Left that brings patriotism into the discussion. Why are they so sensitive on this? I think we all know.
When they cry "foul", it usually means "fair, but it hurts". And their protests of "patriotism" are only a cover.
We need to hit hard, and hit often. We need to be more... Republican. |
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TDau, I don't want to do another long post, so I'll just respond briefly to a couple of points:
5) Iraq violence isn't ramping up before our election. (Most people around the world don't even know what a U.S. mid-term election is.) It's just getting steadily worse because the Iraqis are killing each other more and more and nothing we do seems to make things better.
7) Here's where Falwell/Robertson blamed America, right after 9/11:
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/87/story_8770_1.html
JERRY FALWELL: I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way--all of them who have tried to secularize America--I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. |
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1) That's one of the ways I part with the current administration. We can't be a secure country without securing our borders and enforcing the laws.
2) "Americans are not the enemy."
There are elements and cells within this country that mean to do us harm. Does Adam Gadahn ring a bell? How about John Walker Lindh? We have to be able to ensure our safety from within as well as overseas.
3) These people were picked up on a battlefield. Not saying everyone is as guilty as the most guilty, but they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. A lot of the guys who've been let go are going right back to fight overseas again.
5) "The longer we stay, the worse Iraq gets, so obviously Bush's plan is the definition of national-security weakness."
On what basis do you make this claim? Sure violence is going to ramp us right before the election because they are trying to influence your vote. You are playing right into their hands.
6) "Democrats say that we don't care what the terrorists think, we're going to stay gay-friendly, multi-cultural and tolerant because that's the American way."
Ummm...hmmm. So many things wrong with #6. You don't placate anyone by taking the fight to them. You placate them by giving them lawyers and revealing national secrets meant to combat them. You placate them by leaving the scene of the battle so they can declare victory. Let's just leave it at that.
7) Why don't you ask Ward Churchill who's to blame? I've not heard Falwell or Robertson say it's our fault. A liberal is lot more likely to say it's our support of Israel or our place in the Middle East which was the cause. D'Souza (whoever that is) is as wrong as anyone else who blames the US for that day.
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1) Open borders
Well, Bush, McCain et al are also open-borders types so the GOP isn't much better.
2) Repeal the patriot act
Only the provisions of the Patriot Act that can be used against Americans to invade their privacy. Americans are not the enemy; national-security strength is about taking on *foreign* enemies.
3) Repeal military commissions
No, just have fair trials so we don't keep innocent people in jail forever.
4) Kill the NSA wiretapping program
No, just make Bush follow the law. The law already allows wiretapping; you just have to get a warrant 72 hours after the wiretapping starts. If you think the President should have the power to break the law, you can't be serious about protecting America, since America is a nation of laws, not men.
5) Retreat from Iraq
There are only two options for Iraq: Bush's plan, which is to stay forever and ever, and some kind of phased withdrawal. (There's also partitioning but that would probably make things worse.) The longer we stay, the worse Iraq gets, so obviously Bush's plan is the definition of national-security weakness.
6) Placate the terrorists
No, it's the GOP that wants to placate the terrorists by proving to them that we're "strong" and "manly." Democrats say that we don't care what the terrorists think, we're going to stay gay-friendly, multi-cultural and tolerant because that's the American way. The GOP says that Bin Laden hates our multi-culti ways and therefore we should change them.
7) Blame ourselves for 9/11
The only people who have blamed America for 9/11 are people like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Dinesh D'Souza (in his new book he says that the American "cultural left" is to blame for 9/11). The only people who blame America for 9/11 are Republicans. |
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OMG! I just soaked my monitor from blowing cola all over it.
Dems serious on National Security...
1) Open borders
2) Repeal the patriot act
3) Repeal military commissions
4) Kill the NSA wiretapping program
5) Retreat from Iraq
6) Placate the terrorists
7) Blame ourselves for 9/11
Yep, now that sounds like national security to me... I'll start waving my "patriotic" white flag. |
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For several reasons:
- By focusing on Osama Bin Laden, it reinforces the Democratic talking point that Bin Laden is still alive
- By emphasizing the threat of terrorism, it reinforces the Democratic talking point that the GOP ignored the threat of terrorism to focus on Bin Laden's enemy and Iran's enemy, Saddam
- By re-hashing GOP talking points from 2002 (vote GOP or the terrorists will kill you!) it shows that the GOP has no new ideas
- Any viewer who is already cynical about the GOP's use of fear and cowardice to win elections will be turned off by this scary-scary ad
And finally:
- It doesn't say who to vote for, so if you believe (as I do, and many people do) that the GOP has increased the terrorist threat and the Democrats are the only serious national-security party, it will drive you to vote Democrat.
Keep running that ad, folks. |
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What a terrific ad! I loved it. As for the GOP these days, it seems they're trying to win over those in the middle, and losing their conservative base, so they aren't showing much difference than the leftists. I'm essentially Libertarian, but I'm so afraid of Democrats in office that I vote Republican. However, a recent study shows that many Libertarians who have traditionally done that may be voting Dem this time due to disappointment in the GOP. Either way, the Republicans need to stand up for border security and immigration reform, pronto! |
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from the GOP concerning getting Osama Bin Laden dead or alive. How do they think this won’t backfire on them since the majority of people (finally) realize that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and that it is distracting us from capturing Bin Laden and diffusing Al Qaeda? |
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that I've seen from the party of Dean, Pelosi, and Rangel. Only platitudes. Platitudes do not keep countries secure. It is past time the GOP stands up and defines the contrast in styles. I'm not happy with the Gop these days in a lot of ways, but the alternative does nothing for me. |
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