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Sarah Palin Ad
Sarah Palin supports aerial hunting of wolves and bears, over the wishes of 90% of pro-hunting Alaskans.
Sarah Palin opposes abortion even in rape and incest, even for her daughter, over the wishes of 90% of Americans.
When Sarah's husband joined a group to help Alaska leave the country, Sarah showed up to tell them, "Keep up the good work".
Is this the "change" John McCain chose for America?
Is "Maverick" just code for "Extremist"?
Vote Obama/Biden 2008 - Change You Can Believe In. Change You Want.
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Comments (18)
Here's how little control McCain has in "his" party - he inserts some pro-choice language in, the arch-conservatives take it out. The majority of the GOP is pro-choice, not even "only in the case of rape and incest". Hammer on it.
September 9, 2008 3:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Some additional info on GOP pro-choice efforts:
Pacific Views on GOP pro-choice
September 9, 2008 4:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
We need to see some ads like this -- pointing out that both McCain and Palin are extremists. Here are some ideas for short ads that point out that McCain and Palin are extremists who aren't fit to run the country. Here are some ads I'd run, if I were sitting on Obama's war chest:
1 -- Palin, and today's Republican party extremists, wants to make it illegal for your daughter to even get the morning after pill, even when raped. Is this "small government," or is this the government legislating one person's extreme religious views for everyone?
2 -- McCain, and today's Republican extremists, wants to bankrupt social security by diverting the money budgeted for social security benefits into privatized accounts, leaving people who've paid social security taxes for decades in the lurch.
3 -- McCain and today's extremist Republican party also want to destroy the one part of today's health insurance system that actually works -- group health insurance, by increasing taxes on companies that provide health insurance to their workers. This is irresponsible extremism.
4 -- Governor Palin can't seem to remember the truth -- she first said that no one in her administration had anything to do with "troopergate," and then had to announce that her chief of staff intervened. As did her husband, and now it appears that she herself sent emails. She continues to claim that she refused money for the bridge to nowhere, even though she first lobbied for it, then accepted the money and spent that money on other projects only when the bridge itself got too bad a public reputation. She claims to be a reformer in favor of small government, but she really stands for taxing everyone to give money to a few.
September 9, 2008 3:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
In rare cases, there may be good ecological reasons for Aerial Hunting. For example, when certain predator species reach dangerous levels, they can pose a threat to those more numerous - and more placid - animals further down the food chain. In other cases, diseases can infect the predator population, necessitating their active management. In either case, elimination of the predator is not a requirement. Rather, isolation & control IS. Modern tranquilizer guns can quite effectively do the trick.
Therefore, in performance of this vital public service, I believe it is important to license any & all Americans who wish to actively participate in the Quadrennial Aerial Hunt To Control The Rabid Alaskan Pitbull (Contempibus Barracudus) & the Arizonan Corpse-Maverick (Manis Inabox.)
The Unmarked Helicopters will be at the usual site.
Fear No Snowbilly.
September 9, 2008 4:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was thinking "Pitbull Lipsticus" and "Maverick Geriatricus". He put the Rickety in Maverick. And it's a short walk from putting lipstick on a pig to putting lipstick on a pit bull. Anyway, "Protect a Polar Bear, Recall the Governor".
September 9, 2008 6:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Only 4 Recs, thanks to a myriad of multiple posts shoving me off early. Why bother.
September 9, 2008 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's incredibly irritating. I sent a (quite good for me) comment to your post yesterday, with links to 3 key videos on the items you listed. Sent it twice. Never showed. Ever. Tried commenting on Billy's today, nothing has showed. Posting? The reason I haven't bothered posting at all is that you need to get about 8-10 Rec's in about 20 minutes, or have people looking for you daily. So I end up throwing my longest comments ever (and that's saying something) into other posts, choking them up. This bit about the system being overwhelmed? It makes no sense to me. why is it overwhelmed now, as compared to the heat of the Hillary vs Obama primaries? How does that work?
This comment will probably land Friday. Then again, it may show immediately. If it does, I'm pulling my tubes out.
Good effort by the way. Checked out your local squid vendor yet?
September 9, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Posted immediately. Ha!
Just pulled the tubes. Not that you can see it. It's ugly. Hand me that bucket willya?
September 9, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Juked upon by a baby octopus is all I can say. Bucket brigade.
September 9, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it's good. The only thing I would change is personal references to Palin's daughter and husband. We don't need to use her daughter or husband to make the case on her stand on rape/incest it the AIP. We have so many issues on her, we don't even need to get personal.
September 9, 2008 5:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Husband is fair game, as was Michelle's "first time proud". Hard to leave your spouse behind as your basic values choice. Up to you decide which of those values are relevant - I think a secessionist radical group is certainly important. And if we're going to look at who a candidate chooses to spend Sunday mornings with, looking at who they choose to spend 24x7 with seems wise. It's their choice, but it's our President.
September 10, 2008 4:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
How the candidate reacts to a spouse is important as well. I don't think the candidate automatically takes on the negativity of a spouse. Responding what the relationship is might be important though. In terms of showing up at an AIP meeting and saying, "Keep up the good work", I'm just reminded of "Heckuva job, Brownie". Not ready for prime time, dangerous in public circles.
September 10, 2008 4:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
On a related note, a Kos blogger had this astute observation:
Palin is a "play action pass", a pass play where the quarterback fakes a handoff to a running back while he's dropping back to pass.
The point: Palin doesn't have the football, McCain has the football. Get McCain, he's the nominee!
Anyway, here's the link:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/9/131541/9214/654/592275
So maybe we need to focus on McCain, repel Palin's attacks, swat them down, but then pivot back and say "but McCain is the nominee" and then go after him.
September 9, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would love to see this ad. It would be fantastic, the copy is great. Just ugly enough.
Desidero, do you know independent video people to send the text to? It could be made in a few hours with pretty much stock footage, or even stills. I may know a couple of people if you don't.
September 9, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've no clue, that's why I tossed it out here. Use it, abuse it. Could be done with individual pictures, having video could tighten it up.
September 10, 2008 4:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rec'd.
September 9, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good. But I'd rather just see 60 seconds of video clips from her loony speeches at her church, ending with the 'what does the VP do anyway?' line. Couldn't a 527 pull this together and play it nonstop, perhaps also with a concluding voice over reminding us that this lunatic could have her finger on the nuclear button?
September 10, 2008 12:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm reluctant to get into what people do at church where it doesn't affect public policy. I've had long chats with engineers and science students who were creationists, and they were able to leave their beliefs at the door. But Sarah Palin has stated her no-abortion-whatsoever stance as part of her official political persona. Even Todd Palin's Independence group wouldn't be as bad if the Mrs. didn't show up to say "Good job". Would she say, "Heckuva job, Tim McVeigh"? Similarly, Obama invoked Rev. Wright as his close mentor, not just a preacher at his church. Otherwise I would have assumed Wright was just a piece of Obama's religious support framework.
September 10, 2008 4:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
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