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  • Neal Kahn

    I watched it twice and I have no idea what it was about.
    I wasn’t even sure whose ad it was until the end.

  • TxCon

    Dewcrist is a hack

  • texasref

    that the ad is too much DUN DUN DUN and not clear enough for the average voter until you’ve already lost their attention.

    I support and will vote for Ted Cruz. Every day my mailbox is stuffed with pro-Dewhurst fliers touting what an evil Chinese lawyer Cruz is and what a super ultra duper conservative Dewhurst is.

    I don’t want a senator who will be 73 years old during his freshman term. We need some new blood in Washington, tea party leadership like Ted Cruz.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    Dittos that desperate dispicable Dewhurst ads need to be comndemned. they are the most flagrantly dishonest pieces of garbage this election cycle, truly twisted beyond belief.

    I was coincidently flipping through the “Path to Power” caro biography of LBJ, and the part where LBJ was running against Coke Stevenson and spread a lie that Coke would vote to repeal Taft-Hartley, a lie to undermine business support for Stevenson. Not only was it a lie, but LBJ the new dealer was working with the unions and were 100% against it. What a coincidence – LBJ tactics are being used by dewhurst today!

    This Cruz is for amnesty lie is bizarre coming from the guy who did nothing on sanctuary cities, passed instate tuition for illegal aliens, and has spiked immigration bills at the behest of cheap labor biz interests backing Dewhurst. This is pot calling the kettle black.

    I agree that this Cruz response has the right content but is not a good ad. The message is correct but having to read it … why not have an announcer narrate part of this?
    Maybe this was quick and dirty version and they will get a better production-worthy response later.

    “I support and will vote for Ted Cruz. Every day my mailbox is stuffed with pro-Dewhurst fliers touting what an evil Chinese lawyer Cruz is and what a super ultra duper conservative Dewhurst is.”

    I support and will vote for Ted Cruz. I have gotten multiple calls from Huckabee, Perry touting Dew-christ. Well, Huckabee the pro-amnesty governor was a wimp on tax-and-spend and hated the Club for Growth that is now backing Cruz. Meanwhile REAL TEXAS CONSERVATIVES BACK CRUZ. His support is wide and extensive. I dont know any real Texas conservative NOT supporting Cruz.

    Only the uninformed, moderates, or lobbyist-types who need to suck up to him to get lege work done are in Dew-christ’s corner.

  • http://travismonitor.blogspot.com Freedoms Truth

    Here’s a new video on Dewhurst’s desperate, despicable last minute amnesty attack on Ted Cruz. Thought you might want to take a minute to watch and share with your blog readers so they know the truth.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5Op2B2UED8g

    Also, note these FYI:

    George P. Bush: This is the type of divisive raced politics used by President Obama and the Democrats.
    http://www.tedcruz.org/blog/2012/05/25/george-p-bush-statement-on-dewhurst-amnesty-attack/

    NRO: Dewhurst uses his lieutenant governorship to scare up support. (this is a WOW story)
    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/301055/will-fear-decide-texas-senate-race-katrina-trinko

    Breitbart: Tea Party Wave Could Carry Texas Senate Seat for Ted Cruz
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/25/Tea-Party-Wave-Could-Carry-Texas-Senate-Seat-for-Ted-Cruz

  • Ben Howe

    So forgive my frustration here. As the creator of the video, your comment is a very frustrating part of my job.

    What I’m about to say isn’t precisely aimed at you but more generally at the idea of your comment.

    We live in a world where crappy campaign ads are a way of life. We all complain about them. We all make fun of the scary narrator voice. But your comment provides every bit of confirmation that the old fogies need to say “yep, what we were doing works just fine” even though it very clearly doesn’t.

    In my view, not every ad should spoon feed you every bit of info with either overly complicated slides or a cheesy narrator giving you a full campaign background in 25 seconds.

    Not every ad should pretend you’ve never heard of the people involved or have no idea what’s at issue.

    If every ad contained all of those elements they’d all be the same and guess what? They pretty much are.

    The intent of this ad was to respond directly to the cheese ball spoonfed crap that Dewhurst put out calling Ted Cruz an amnesty supporter. The primary is VERY soon and so the intended audience was people familiar with their “spat” over amnesty.

    I guess next time I’ll follow your and texasref’s advice and throw cheesy charts and over explanatory slides with a scary-voice narrator spoon feeding the tiniest details to the viewer lest they have to think for more than 2 seconds about what they’re viewing.

    ROAR!! #RantOver

  • http://masonconservative.typepad.com fairfaxchris

    Am I wrong in that? Rick Perry, moreso than any of his gaffes, got flayed for his stances on illegal immigration . . . he did not want a fence nor was he against letting children of immigrants go to college in Texas.

    RedState was one of Perry’s mega-backers. Seems odd to attack Dewhurst for essentially having the same stance as Perry.

    Here’s been the problem in this race. Ted Cruz has been running like it’s 2010, trying to frame Dewhurst as some sort of Charlie Crist in a 10-gallon hat. It’s just not ture. Is Dewhurst a constitutional conservative? Hardly. But he’s also never going to leave the party and flirt with running as a Democrat. The Cruz campaign has constantly run on the worng narrative.

    Richard Mourdock defeated Dick Lugar by doing more than just making it about Lugar’s votes. He framed Lugar as someone who no longer lived in Indiana and had been in the Senate for too long. Lugar came off as just another entitled politician who no longer represented his state. Mourdock found a narrative that was deeper than “Oh, Dick Lugar is a RINO.” Dick Lugar has always been a RINO.

    Cruz, if he makes it to the runoff, needs to find something more than “Dewhurst is a RINO.” Maybe he makes it about Dewhurst trying to buy a Senate seat, I don’t know. But they have yet to find something that everyday Texans can say, “yeah, he shouldn’t be our senator.”

    I know I might sound like a nit-picker or a Dewhurst apologist . . . trust me, I REALLY WANT Ted Cruz in the US Senate. As many of you know, I have Paulish sympathies that many on here despise, but Cruz is much closer to that true constitutional limited government conservative that I want elected. Paul himself has endorsed Cruz, as has Paul the Younger. At this point, I’m hoping Cruz can get into the run-off.

    But the problems worry me. David Dewhurst is not Charlie Crist, not by a long shot. Running on that model just isn’t working.

  • westcoastpatriette

    no offense, neokong, but how anyone could watch this video twice and “have no idea what it was about,” is beyond my comprehension. Are you a die-hard Dewhurst supporter or just being cantankerous?

  • juliea

    it really is not very effective. It is a mess.

    I hope it was a freebie. Otherwise, the Cruz campaign should stop payment.

  • texasref

    The name Dewhurst does not appear until the third slide. If you could have placed a slide with Dewhurst’s name right from the get-go, it would be clear from the get-go to whom you are referring.

    At the very beginning, even before mentioning Dewhurst, a soft cameo of Ted Cruz saying, “I’m Ted Cruz and I approve this message” would add to the contrast and make it seem less like a retaliatory hit job and more of an informative wake-up call. You and I know it is an informative wake-up call, I’m just talking about what could have been done to make it seem less hit jobish. Granted, anyone who has been paying attention know who started the hit jobs, and I love accurate negative campaigning such as this video. Starting with Cruz and then the first negative item stamped clearly “Dewhurst” would say, yeah Im saying what I’m about to say and I’m not afraid to stand up to Dewhurst and say it.

    Thank you for spending your valuable time and energy for the cause and making an otherwise very effective campaign ad. Anything to keep Dewcrist below 50% is fine by me.

  • texasref

    Dewhurst’s name does not appear until 13 seconds into the ad, is what I wanted to edit my prior comment to say instead of saying “third slide.”

  • edintexas

    I voted for Ted, but it sure wasn’t because he’s so much younger than Dewhurst (or me for that matter – I’m Dewhurst’s age – but that is no reason for vote for him either).

    I’m sure you have better reasons to vote for Ted, and not for Dewhurst, – so how about leaving the age discrimination out of your posts.

  • edintexas

    You answer the phone during election campaigns? Every 4 years I am thankful that I have Caller ID.

  • edintexas

    If my fellow Texans aren’t getting the truth that Dewhurst is running a sleazy campaign full of lies about Ted Cruz, then that is the fault of the Cruz campaign and PACs supporting him. I have noted what I thought was a pretty effective Mark Levin radio ad responding to the Chinese civil suit ads. I think Cruz suffers from a lack of the million$ which Dewhurst has available for the campaign. Hopefully a run-off will almost eliminate that advantage. We’ll see on Wednesday.

    I haven’t really noted any RINO ads from Cruz. Perhaps that is because all the mailed campaign material goes to the rotating file before reading and I don’t watch commercial TV (beyond weather reports and storm watches). Even my WBAP listening time has been drastically cut with the departure of Mark Davis – can’t stand listening to the (to me) whining voice of his replacement.

    Anyway, I’m surprised at your take on how the Cruz campaign is working. It certainly isn’t what I’m hearing on radio ads – but then I depend on researching candidates – which I know the average voter does not.

    As an aside, I made a comment to a guy in advertising recently about how the people who produce commercials apparently think everyone is pretty stupid. He responded that no commercial is produced without being focus grouped to death. He said the ad agencies don’t think people are stupid, they KNOW it.

  • Ben Howe

    n/t

  • edintexas

    I missed that you were in Fairfax, VA and not Texas. Perhaps you aren’t getting the local coverage of the race?

    http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/18628857/senate-race-hypocrisy-and-race-baiting-down-the-stretch

    http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/05/cruz-says-dewhursts-ad-smacks.html

    I would note that the Dallas Morning News item does not have the denial of Cruz board membership which other sources have. Not surprising, we used to have a conservative paper (the DMN) and a liberal rag (Dallas Times Herald). The Times Herald went under and over a not very long time the DMN became the liberal rag.

  • bobguzzardi

    I was in Texas for a week and Dave Dewhurt’s ads were on incessantly. This ad is aimed at the informed voter who has seen the ads. The Dewhurst attacks are relentless.

    This ad makes the point, correctly in my opinion, that the Dewhurst attacks on Cruz are distortions and without substance.

    Dewhurst is a well-funded career insider. Ted Cruz is independent of party leadership.