It’s 3:00 AM. There’s a phone in the White House. And no one is home to answer:
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Fortunately, hope and change are coming. (Quantity to be determined first Tuesday in November.) As Donald Douglas adds at the American Power blog:
The new ad from the RNC:
Barack Obama’s presidency has been a disaster. He is either unwilling to or incapable of doing his job. The economy is in shambles, the government is failing, and Americans are losing hope. Barack Obama was not ready to be President. He’s not the solution. You are.
You have the opportunity to turn our economy, our government, and our country around by electing Republicans and restoring your voice in Washington. But to win this fall, we must start today. It’s up to you to save your country. Are you ready? Because November starts now.
As much as I like it, I’m not sending these folks any money. It’s going to take a lot more of Michael Steele sucking up to the base before that happens (or, memories of Dede Scozzafava are still quite strong):
And for our own fun with the 3:00 AM ad from back in March of 2008 — later “borrowed” by the McCain camp a few months later, click here.
Related: At the Legal Insurrection blog, William A. Jacobson looks at the future of the Supreme Court and writes, “If This Doesn’t Motivate You For November, Nothing Will.”
And speaking of Hillary, Ed Rendell, the Democratic governor who championed Hillary Clinton to his Pennsylvania constituents in 2008, believes that Obama could face a primary challenge over Afghanistan, as Allahpundit notes at Hot Air. If so, that should give President Obama plenty of sleepless nights, considering how challenges from Eugene McCarthy and Teddy Kennedy ultimately blew up LBJ and Jimmy Carter’s bids for second terms. (Note that decades before someone in the McCain camp mashed up Hillary’s 3:00 AM ad for YouTube, Ronald Reagan used Teddy Kennedy’s campaign video against Carter in his own TV ad — to infinitely greater effect in the long run, needless to say.)
Terrible, terrible ad. Do they think this will convince ANYBODY that already does not support Obama to switch to Republicans? I suspect it will only further entrench Obama supporters.
Chris Matthews was right (at least when he was in the tank for Hillary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj4VK9wVAi0
And Charlie Crist. And Arlen Specter. And Scott Brown. And Olympia Snowe. And Arnold Schwarzenegger. And Susan Collins. And Mike Castle. And Dick Lugar. And Mark Kirk. And John McCain. And Lincoln Chafee. And Colin Powell. And Kay Bailey Hutchison. And Robert Bennett. And Gordon Smith. And Bob Inglis. And……
For me it would take a bit more, I suggest a big wet leathery kiss for the Tea Party, then I might squeeze out a dime.
Give money to politicians? Are you out of your mind? There will just be more of them, asking for more. Don’t do it. Just don’t.
Vote for someone who doesn’t want your money. Or the job. Anyone else has disqualified themselves.
If only we had a President experienced at organizing something…
How pathetic. “The Democrats suck, so you need to vote Republican, and everything will be fine.” This is the game that has been going on all along. This ad proves that the Republicans have no idea what the tea party is all about. God help us!
“Doesn’t he suck?” has been the GOP’s approach to presidential campaigning for years. Just ask President Bob Dole how well that works out. They still don’t get it that you can’t beat something with nothing. “Anything but Barack” isn’t going to be on the ballot.
Change is coming to the GOP from the bottom up.
Yes, it is, David, and the GOP is fighting us tooth and nail. As someone involved at the ground level with tea partiers and the precinct committeeman project, let me just say the GOP is doing EVERYTHING they can to FOIL us and prevent the takeover. It’s going to get ugly.
I won’t give a DIME to the RNC. I will give $$ to individual candidates favored by the Tea Party movement. Period. I wish everyone else would do the same.
How hard is it to replace some of the attacks on Obama in this commercial with Republican plans for controlling/cutting spending, for repealing Obamacare, to get people back to work, or for a whole myriad of things that need to be done to get the economy on the right path? No wonder the Republicans lose these political battles, they can’t find their back sides with either hand. Forty-five precious seconds practically wasted. This is not rocket science politics we’re talking about.
“Vote for someone who doesn’t want your money. Or the job. Anyone else has disqualified themselves.”
That’s it. Politics is dirty business.
The only person qualified for a political position is one who doesn’t seek it.
Phone sound effect should have been a Blackberry Ringtone. With an answering machine message playing the speech he made about the buck stopping with him. If you really wanted to have fun…
OMG I wish I knew how to mashup Youtube vids!
I’d like it better if the phone sound effect was a Blackberry Ringtone. Then an answering machine message playing the speech he made about the oil spill buck stopping with him.
OMG I wish I knew how to mashup Youtube vids!
YouTube vids are FLV. Download Avidemux2 and convert FLV to AVI, or use Ffmpeg to do it then use Avidemux2 to mash it up and have fun.
Not entirely sure about the Obama / BP disconnect.
Oministration gives high marks to [BP] drilling rig.
GB releases Lockerbie bomber.
Oministration condemns GB.
Oministration starts to take ownership of BP’s $s.
Oministration pushed to release bomber (revealed)).
BP to get drilling rights in Libya (bomber’s home).
BP plugs the damn hole.
American now BP CEO.
BP’s earnings tanked (perhaps beckoning for a bailout).
Chapter 2…
OK, I don’t really think there’s a conspiracy, but it all looks funny if you look at the timeline.
Any ad that shows up on YouTube that’s not in the 30- or 60-second format is simply another ‘political junkie’ ad, designed to get some play on the cable networks (and, if it’s a Democratic ad tweaking Republicans, on their broadcast counterparts), but one that at least 95 percent of the public will never see. As a way to remind the White House there could be a future traitor in their midst — or at least a few blocks west on ‘E’ Street — it’s not bad, but it certainly says nothing about what the Republicans would do this fall, or why anyone should for for the GOP if they don’t like the way things are going.
If someone did this while on break at the RNC, then fine, but given how cash-strapped they are, spending a bunch of money on a one-day ad that’s meant to basically piss off David Axlerod and Rahm Emanuel is not a focused use of limited resources by a party that tells people Democrats wastefully spend money they don’t have.
I’m a registered Republican but refuse to donate money to the RNC. I’ve already sent small sums to 6 conservative candidates in six states and will only support conservative Republicans in the future.
Like you,I also refuse to send the Republicans money. When they start talking about principle…my eyes just glaze over. To me it’s a lot like arguing about professional wrestling. The stupid thing I think is that they treat us all like an ATM but then don’t want to govern. I’d like to see them put up a page on their Repub web sites with a place where we could donate against specific ideas. Thirty days before the election the money could be divided amongst those that sign the “McCain Clause” which stated if they EVER fail to support or repeatedly introduce that policy idea they are PERSONALLY liable to repay the money. Much more transparent than the current graft. Much more control of our elected officials. Removes the whale donors as the only whisperer if there are ideas that set the grassroots on fire.
Conservatives have never gotten over their alliance they made with the progressives around 1900.
I refer to them as Progressive Conservatives.
And I’m not interested in them either. Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee are in the Progressive Conservative camp.