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Here's a new Democratic TV ad against Joe Barton and the GOP:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LmwbRjezh4


Story:


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/democratic-party/democrats-on-joe-bartons-oil-s.html?wprss=thefix


This article says, first of all, that "It's a safe bet that the commercial does not have significant money behind it."

If this ad were in every Congressional district it might be one thing. But it won't be. They make the ad but they aren't making an ad BUY. This ad is just for show, to shut up the base who is demanding they get tougher.

Why is the national Democratic party such a kill-joy? Who in the party are they trying to impress by ALMOST putting this ad on TV? Is this so the namby-bamby DLCers can shut up the party critics who think these wimps should hit harder?


Secondly, I have a problem with the ad itself. People inside the Beltway may watch Sunday news shows and know already what this ad is talking about. But millions of Americans live empty lives, stopping off at the 7-11, getting sparse empty local news from some local TV station that concentrates on entertainment and weather before doing their laundry and rushing out to buy Pampers. Millions of trailer trash in this country haven't a CLUE who Joe Barton is and what exactly the $20 billion fund is all about and they don't know that Barton said the relief fund was a shakedown, his word. This ad is so obscure that only those who already know about what Barton said are going to understand it. What did Barton mean when he apologized? The ad doesn't explain.

Why can't a Democratic ad explain clearly, and why can't the party put money behind it instead of PRETENDING to do so?

The ad is so inarticulate that an uniformed viewer is going to think the ad is taking GOP comments out of context. Barton "must" have meant something else, these people will think. If you are already a Democrat, you get it. If you are a typical Republican voter living in a typical Republican bubble and getting your "news" from Rush Limbaugh, you are going to feel comfortable that what the ad is talking about couldn't possibly be accurate. The ad doesn't force you to face facts. The ad is too soft a sell and doesn't shove the facts in your face. It doesn't give enough of the Barton statement to make clear that his statement was that bad. The ad doesn't force, it doesn't deny conservative voters a respite from a guilty conscience. The voter can watch this and then go back to his gas guzzler and his beer and his football game and his pork rinds and forget the whole damn thing. It doesn't FORCE you to think. It doesn't MAKE you look at the truth whether you like it or not. It doesn't bash the viewer over the head with the truth the way GOP ads do. It is lame and wimpy. DCCC head Congressman Van Hollen is the same way. He speaks like a milquetoast and is much too soft spoken. There is no pounding of the podium the way the GOP does. We always have this idea that being shrill is a mistake. But outside our little bubble, being shrill WORKS and that is how the GOP has driven Obama crazy for months. But we don't have fire in our bellies and the voter can smell our wimpiness.

Democratic ads are never "in your face" while GOP ads ARE. That is how they swiftboat us and it is why we never swiftboat them. Watch. Some wimpy poster is going to post on this thread that it would be "wrong" to swiftboat the GOP and "we're above that."

Blah! Blah! Blah!

Democratic consultant Mandy Grunwald said it well during the Clinton campaign of 1992:

"This campaign scares the hell out of me because there is no one in this campaign who sits awake at night thinking how to F*CK the competition."

In other words, no cojones.

The Democratic party is a bunch of wimps and that is why we will lose seats in the Fall. Just look at that guy Green who is nothing but a GOP plant paid off to rig the election in his state and they obviously hacked the machines. But the Democratic party chose to do nothing about it.

What a bunch of wimps.