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The ad Alexi Giannoulias (D-CAND, IL-SEN) doesn’t want you to see.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 19th, 2010 at 07:57 PM  | 

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At some time, the Giannoulias campaign may realize that if you can reference your family history to get elected State Treasurer, then your opponents can reference your family history to keep you from being elected Senator:

More accurately, the campaign might admit the futility of trying to squash the opposition’s ability to point out that said family relationship involves bad $20 million loans given to pimps and bookies. Which is what they’re trying to do here, and instead making the story relevant.

Yet again.

Moe Lane

PS: Mark Kirk for Senate. He’s already grasped King Canute’s point.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • DavidS1787

    to this day I haven’t heard his position.

  • DavidS1787

    n/t

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …with Alexi Giannoulias trying to cover up his bank’s cozy history with pimps and bookies?

  • DavidS1787

    Where does Kirk stand on the issues?
    You just cant talk about the other guy without stating where you stand on the issues that people care about.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    They look for any excuse not to back the nominee. Just like Linc Chafee did.

  • DavidS1787

    and by the way I don’t like RINO’s.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • rrreaganite

    to say that you won’t back Kirk. At worst Kirk will be with us the 50+1 % of the time. Lexi will be a shell for Obama and Durbin 100% of the time; there should be no argument over who conservtives should support.

  • http://www.dirkworld.com dirkbelig

    The photo of the unemployed guy with the box still has the iStockPhoto watermark on it; as if flopping it makes it go away. It costs almost nothing – perhaps $10 to $25 – to license a photo, but instead these guys are stealing someone’s work in order to illustrate an attack ad referring to corruption. Oh, the irony!

  • acat

    Hiss

  • jasonva

    Pure genius. Not too heavy-handed a reference; nearly subliminal, in fact. But it’s there. I love it…

  • Kayla

    But Illinois voters know that. But Kirk is going to have to give Dems a reason to vote for him.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Negative campaigns win.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Get your head in the game. There was a fair primary. Kirk won. Now either shut up and soldier, or get out of the way of the Republicans trying to win this race. There is no third option.

  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ reaganiterepublicanresistance

    It’s has been long rumored that Obama benefited from conspicious financial help when he bought his first home, a townhouse that was on the cusp of affordability for him. The Broadway Bank -who also had helped him with campaign financing- put together a sweetheart mortgage deal for Obama, all apparently in exchange for quid pro quo to be determined.

    Later, in 2006, family scion Alexi Giannoulias -a 29-year-old with no experience whatsoever -and who had never even voted before- decides to run for State Treasurer of Illinois… Barack Obama promptly endorsed him. Clearly, it was highly unlikely he could have won without Obama’s support.

    Giannoulias subsequently held a fundraiser for Obama in 2007, in which he raised upwards of $100,000 for the senator?s Presidential bid. Around Chicago, the two cultivated an image as “basketball buddies” and political fellow travellers- of course now Dear Leader treats him like a leper he never met, a familiar script-