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Don't bring a knife to a gun fight
Time for a Keating Five ad—a Keating Five ad run in rotation along with a better and tougher 'seven houses' ad, a '$5-million-defines-you-as-rich ad, and a compilation of clips of McCain stumbling and bumbling through answers to questions. Time to take the mega-millions in campaign funds and saturate the airwaves.
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While I agree, sort of, unless you are a political junkie like those of us on the blogs you might have to first educate the voters on the Keating Five and what it was about.
August 22, 2008 8:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
like this?
Commercial #1 – “Keating Five”
Visuals are stills of newspaper headlines, shots of Keating Five senators with McCain prominent, supers here and there to underline key points including the payoff line at the end.
(voiceover)
In 1989, John McCain was one of five senators involved in a major scandal in the midst of the savings and loan crisis. The senators were known as the Keating Five.
John McCain took money from a savings and loan executive named Charles Keating in exchange for heading off an investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board was investigating Lincoln Savings, a failed S&L whose chairman was Charles Keating.
The Senate Ethics Committee censured McCain and the other four senators for their part in the scandal. Keating went to jail. The Savings & Loan bailout cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars and tipped the U.S economy into major recession.
John McCain’s role in the Keating Five scandal may have faded from memory over time, but one question won’t go away:
If we couldn’t trust him to do the right thing then, how can we trust him now?
August 22, 2008 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds good to me...short, simple, to the point.
probably won't change any minds, but maybe the overwhelming amount of things he has going against him will have an effect eventually. Oh, but he's a POW. Maybe not.
August 22, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
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