“The One”
Excellent McCain ad - hammers Obama using Obama. Amazing how many times Obama has said what a wonderful person he is…
45 comments August 2nd, 2008
Posts with the tag 'campaign ads'
John McCain’s New Ad
You can see it here: “Words“.
Absolutely devastating against the audacity of hype known as Barack Obama.
63 comments June 25th, 2008
Two Brilliant Ads From Mike Huckabee
This one gives a person pause - and starts thinking about ways the whole political world can be turned upside down. This ad merely says “Merry Christmas”, but its going to cause a fuss precisely because of that - with Huckabee saying, “what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ”. This, for Christians, is no problem - but in 2007 America, a Presidential candidate isn’t supposed to say that, at least not without also praising some non-Christian celebration at the same time. The controversy will arise, and it will do nothing but help Huckabee out - given that he is running an insurgent campaign dependent upon volunteers and enthusiasm to carry him through the early caucuses and primaries - and this will make Evangelical Christians, especially, just that much more enthused for Huckabee. As Peter Robinson over at NRO’s The Corner notes, these ads likely reflect bedrock Huckabee - he doesn’t have the money for an army of consultants and spinmeisters to craft a message, so he pretty much has to do it on his own.
Governor Huckabee has completely blown it, in my book, on matters of foreign and military policy - point blank, he just hasn’t thought the matter through far enough. That, at least, is the only way I can explaine a worldview which is naive, at best. Be that as it may, he’s still miles ahead of any likely Democratic contender and should Huckabee gain the GOP nomination, he’ll get my support - and, actually, these two ads actually help me along because they show a man with a very savvy sense of politics (politics is the art of the possible - and the better a President is at politics, the more he can possibly get done).
I do wish that Governor Huckabee would rethink his foreign policy views and rework his proposals on the matter - failing that, I hope that if he gains the nomination, he picks someone with exemplary foreign/defense policy qualifications to be his VP as well as his prospective SecState and SecDef.
18 comments December 18th, 2007
