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I think that they should have found someone who could credibly impersonate the terrorists and have them read the words. And I think that quotes by these guys calling Iraq the central front in the war on terror should have been used, too. I think that they cut harder against the Democrats' argument that we need to work on getting out of Iraq instead of working on defeating the terrorists IN Iraq.

Those are a lot of words to read in a short spot.

Nice idea for an ad, but if the viewer isn't looking directly at the TV, they have no idea what is going on and the words are so small that they will be hard to make out for someone without perfect vision. There has to be a voice-over put on this.

Remember the 04 911 ads? This is the nail in the coffin

How long before we see DNC ads saying Bush has had 5-6 years to take these guys out and has wasted the opportunity?

It's kind of like the risk in taking credit for no attacks here since 9/11. If there's one next week, does that mean it's our fault?

Of course what will be funny to watch is the shrill Dems who decry politicizing the GWOT, which they would NEVER do themselves.

That's just for the GOP web site I think?

Cause that text and aspect ratio makes me think it's either an HDTV only ad or it'll be damn hard to read on a standard television.

Plus it doesn't really push any kind of vote republican message except for the little 'www.gop.com' bit.

And in that case unless you where on the RNC site for some folks that would tell them to go vote democrat:

In the New York Times/CBS News Poll taken from Oct. 5 to Oct. 8, two-thirds of respondents said they disapproved of Mr. Bush’s handling of the war and 66 percent said the war was going somewhat or very badly.

In the poll, 45 percent said Democrats were more likely to make the right decision on Iraq, compared with 34 percent of Republicans.

I'm afraid a vote GOP or the war will go badly won't sell at this point to alot of people.

I'd really hope they're not running that on TV because I'm afraid it doesn't send a strong enough message connecting the GOP to being tough on terror. If it's supposed to it needs work.

If you have accepted the basic premises behind the ad,
1. Afghanistan and Iraq are legitimate targets in the gwot
2. By attacking them there we are tieing them up and helping us over here
3. That the republicans are doing a much better job in this than the democrats would.
4. An implication that abandoning the current course will be disastrous.

It will motivate you to vote. If you don't accept the premises in whole or in part the ad may be over the top.

It won't affect the hard left either way. Frankly the Kos Kids The DU and the rest arten't processesing information very well. The middle however hasn't achieved buy in and this may not help. The points are presented as sledgehammers.

My own feeling is that comparing talking points from the Al Quaeda and Iran to democrat talking points would do more to sway the middle. Another tactic would be to simply take what Dick Nazi Hunter Durbin and the rest of the democratic party has had to say about our troops rights for the terrorists and how to deal with them and present it. Having charlie rangle non answer O'reilly about what he would do to get info from terrorists is priceless. You could go through the all the democratic plans to deal with the war and cap it with a failure to plan is a plan to fail.

Quoth the AP.

I don't think this will build confidence in this President to remind people that OBL is still out there and GWB just doesn't seem interested in capturing him. I mean, come on. Either you are competent and you get him, or you are a loser and can't get him AFTER FIVE YEARS! Which is it? This add will just make those who are in the middle realize that they haven't caught him. Who made this add? The Democrats??

I thought it was a good ad. Some of the suggestions made here would be BETTER, but only the alternate-reality-based community could take it as an incentive to vote Democrat, IMO.

The real stakes are whether we have a level-headed high school wrestling coach at the helm in the unfortunate case that Bush and Cheney go down, or a bugged-eyed heavily painted botoxed witch from San Francisco. Now that's enough to scare anyone to death--and to vote--we hope! It makes me want to run out now and grab a concealed weapon permit as fast as I can. If I were in charge of the RNC, I'd be grabbing as many stills looking up Nancy's cavernous carved nostrils as I could find, and as many riculous clips of her flip-flopping all over the place as she normally does when outsmarted yet again by the "dolt" in the White House. Every shot would have her in a different hairdo. Get her in a video having to constantly push the hair out of her eyes. Mr. Bush does that all the time. I'd put a Black Sabbath song in the background and the sound of screeching fingernails on a blackboard. It's just that scary.

... is going to be pretty bad from this one. All it does is emphasize that Osama bin Laden is still at-large, playing right into Democrat hands.

Karl Rove needs to be benched.

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Orange County Republican leaders on Thursday called for the withdrawal of a GOP congressional candidate they believe sent a letter threatening Hispanic immigrant voters with arrest.

Tan D. Nguyen denied knowing anything about the letter in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press but said he fired a campaign staffer who may have been responsible for it.

County Republican Chairman Scott Baugh, however, said that after speaking with state investigators and the company that distributed the mailer, he believes Nguyen had direct knowledge of the “obnoxious and reprehensible” letter. He told the AP that the party’s executive committee voted unanimously to Nguyen to drop out of the race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez.

Rocky Mountain News - October 19, 2006
A criminal investigation that now involves the FBI sent shock waves through the race for Colorado governor Wednesday.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation announced that it had determined that someone accessed information in an FBI database on Carlos Estrada Medina, who has been the star of a TV attack ad against Democrat Bill Ritter.

That ad was sponsored by Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez, and he and his campaign staff will now be interviewed by FBI agents.

Why is the GOP reminding people that Osama is still at large. Is this their best shot? Kind of sad.