2010 Election -- Political Ads
 

Seems like we need a place to post the better, scarier, slicker, dumber and especially most entertaining ads we see as primaries and then November approach.

I'll start with this one from Alabama. It sets the standard high. Very high.

Dale Peterson for Alabama Agriculture Commissioner: We are Better than That!

That'd win almost any race in my state.

LOL. You know, if you look at the other videos at the right side, the first video you'll see is the same ad, but titled "Oklahoma needs a Dale Peterson!"

I like "Who on earth would support such a dummy? And why?"

I guarantee you -- I'll have a few videos one-upping this guy by the time everything's said and done.

I can't wait. :D

What I look forward to: Orly Taitz actually making a TV ad for her CA Secretary of State run.

Favorite of the recent past:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjGs...layer_embedded

Representative race that made me go WTF in 2008. I couldn't vote for either so I didn't get to vote against Callahan just for making the ad.

I've met her, she came to Idaho to confront Justice Stevens when he spoke on campus. I couldn't help it, I had to engage, and it was worth it.

I don't have tv, but we have some awesome signs that run down the road and become complete sentences with each successive home made sign. I should take pictures.

She is Cuh-Raze-Ee

If anyone had any questions about how Arlen Specter lost his election bid, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NebmB_aAmCE and the ten like it. I'm hardly a Sestak fan, but this commercial was very in your face!

This one cracks me up. It first aired during the Super Bowl. Rick Snyder, Republican candidate for Governor in Michigan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ro5i...ext=1&index=17

"He's one tough nerd"

Love this one! BTW, my fiance, another nerd from Michigan, would probably agree with Rick Snyder.

The Linda McMahon ads can be a bit funny, especially when you remember that they're coming from one of the leaders of the WWF (or WWE or whatever they're being called now).

Of course the hilarity fades when you get two mailings per week, every week.

I like to think of the Specter candidacy as karma - you change your party, make it out to be some sort of ideological awakening, completely change your voting record overnight, and then essentially admit you did it so you'd have a better chance at the seat. It's just funnier when you end up getting knocked out in the primary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEPlZ...layer_embedded

Well played Jerry Brown. Well played.

Chuck Grassley has a .... Twitter

Apparently this guy's opponent is a mad scientist selling body parts.

We've all seen the demon sheep, right? DEMON SHEEP!

Bradley Byrne actually supported teaching evolution :eek:

Well at least he's wearing clothes?

This one just pisses me off. But it's ok, our candidate hangs out in airplane hangers with terrorists. So he'll save us. Or something.

Mike Weinstein is trying to top Hillary 4 U and ME.

And the now infamous: I'm not a witch. Also in Autotune and SNL.

I felt like this thread wasn't getting love. And I hate to let MC down.

I haven't seen the ads, but there is so much drama surrounding Joe Miller. He's running for Senate in Alaska. Every other day something else crazy comes out, and I have yet to pick my personal favorite though it may be his hired security overstepping their bounds with a reporter, or him applying for and receiving a low income hunting and fishing license while having a job with a salary over $70,000.

My state has been horrible, Linda Mcmahon has at least one commercial during each break on local stations, sometimes two back to back. It's getting so old, I can't wait for next Wednesday.

I admit I forgot about this thread, even when Christine O'Donnell said she wasn't a witch.

But you have done well. Very well.

I just got a chill. :o

But have you seen this and this?!

Oh thanks, now I want to go stab someone before work.

Also, he thinks he's good looking?

I figured that part had to be an attempt at humor.

Couldn't tell with the glaring racism blinding me from behind him.

From the great state that brought you Basil Marceaux(.com):

We have a guy running for Congress named Scott DesJarlais who got angry at his wife and stuck a gun in his mouth for three hours to threaten and punish her. Good news, they got divorced and he remarried. Now his site indicates that Scott is Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-Marriage and proud of it!

Tennesseeing is Tennebelieving!

The demon sheep one was the freakiest political ad ever.

My favorite political ad so far is the Nevada one about illegal (Hispanic) immigrants joining gangs and terrorizing innocent white people. They aired it and discussed it on The View this morning. I will post it if I can find it.

It was the most awesomely ignorant thing in a minute.

Words fail me on this one.

I just choked.

Here's the ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIkNA...layer_embedded

Thank you! You are the most awesomest ever.

There was another one that had actual (DIRTY SCARY LARGE MALE) Hispanic people crossing the border to cops doing nothing and people holding checks. She had the audacity to say that "well they're not necessarily Hispanic, you know we have to worry about Canada too" or something idiotic along those lines. It's been pulled I think, but I'll look for it after work.
Illinois' got a judicial recall fight (and we didn't even legalize gay marriage) from some pro-business PACs. The ad's pretty disgusting IIRC. Another one I'll look for after work.

She actually said that? LOL.

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Then later: I can't find the ad I was thinking of, so maybe that one was someone else? But the one linked in thread gets the point anyway.
here's the illinois judge ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxnL8...eature=related

They claim he sided with child molestors and murderers. He's explained that these were all procedural cases. He's not a trial judge but an IL Supreme Court judge.

Inflammatory, you bet.

Not defending Angle in any way, but my husband has actually mistaken an Asian for a Hispanic before. They do have similar features in some cases.

And if your Mexican husband has done it then that just proves it all.

She's an idiot. Another example of why people should not think out loud. Formulate your thoughts and then make a statement.

So, this guy is still in the race. He won the Republican primary and is 20 pts ahead in the polls. Michigan will probably have "one tough nerd" as their next Governor.

I believe she was speaking to a college's Hispanic/Latin@ student association, though I could be wrong. So it was a particularly dumb statement.

But she's a freaking moron, so that's to be expected.

Yes, she was speaking to the Hispanic Student Union.

All members of (insert race and ethnicity) Student Unions do not have to be of that particular race and ethnicity. However, whether they are Hispanic or not wasn't the topic that she was supposed to be discussing. LOL. Basically saying "are all of you Hispanic? Some Asians and Hispanics look similar. I get called Asian sometimes" was the most random thing ever. It not only screams idiot but it also screams "white person desperately searching for a way to converse with and relate to racial and ethnic minorities."