I'm Just Not Getting This Herman Cain Thing...

[dales]

I heard on talk radio that Cain might run as Romney's running mate.



ETA: I'll leave it to Lord Jim, he's "in the know" about such things.

[Liberty1]

Chris Cristy's got that in the bag.

[Lord Jim]

Sorry, but you're both wrong; it's Marco Rubio.

[Gob]

Sarah Palin got it, it was on the radio earlier.

[Crackpot]

I've heard Pawlenty is campaining for Romneys VP by his early exit and endorsement

[Liberty1]

Sorry, but you're both wrong; it's Marco Rubio.

I'd love Rubio to be the VP for any of them. But I think if it's Romney, it'll be Cristy.

[Liberty1]

Interesting chart for the current top 3.

[Scooter]

To the 60% for whom "Mormon" comes to top of mind when they think of Mitt Romney, it sure as hell isn't "neutral". And I notice that "Olympics" doesn't even rank. Guess there's no point in trying to flog that deceased equine any further.

[Crackpot]

technically 999 is 3 words

[dales]

Invert 999 for the REAL meaning.

[Lord Jim]

Invert 999 for the REAL meaning.

Stealing material from Michelle Bachmann now Dale?



I think Perry comes out the worst in that chart....

It can't be good news for a Presidential candidate when the number 2 and and number 3 most popular choices for the one word to describe you are "no" and "idiot".....

[Rick]

I'm not a premillennialist, 666 is irrelevant.

I'm voting for the Yellow Dog this year...

[Long Run]

And if you use your worst German accent, 9-9-9, is just a bad marketing slogan. All 10s might have been a better idea (with larger exemption levels at the lower end).

[rubato]

And here are the effects of the 9-9-9 plan in one handy graph:

http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/9-9-9-in- ... rnstein%29




How completely devoid of mental ability can a political party be which has this as the front-runner? AFTER he revealed his plan?

The Democrats deserve a better party of opposition.


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rubato

[Gob]

Smokin!

[Sue U]

I can only imagine what he's smoking.

[Lord Jim]

This has been all over the news media the past couple of days, and of course the late night comedy shows...

I can't decide if coming up with this ad was incredibly stupid....

Or dumb like a fox...

By any objective standard, it is a stunningly awful ad on so many levels...

Quite possibly the absolutely worst political ad for a supposedly "major" Presidential candidate I have ever seen..(and that's saying something; I've seen some real stinkers....)

This type of ad is what is known in the campaign business as a "validation ad". You feature someone in the spot who's objective is to "validate" the candidate for the voters you are targeting.

Normally you pick a person or persons who are either highly regarded by the target group, or who the target group would identify with...

So typically, this kind of ad features either a well known celebrity or some Joe and Jane Average Voters....

To use your own campaign manager in an ad like this is bizarre... (especially one that looks like either a small time hood or a 70's era porn producer)

Then of course, there's that completely gratuitous bit with the cigarette... laying aside the fact that will obviously give the smoke-nazis conniption fits, is a picture of your campaign manager blowing smoke at the voters (literally) really the kind of symbolism a campaign wants to cultivate?

And last but not least, there's the footage of Cain himself at the end, slowly, (very slowly) breaking into a smile that can best be described as "creepy"....

It's as though Cain hired the writers from Saturday Night Live to make his campaign spots...

All of that having been said, however....

The ad has garnered a huge amount of free air play and attention for Cain; it's also brought hundreds of thousands of additional hits to his website, (where of course once there; it's easy to make a campaign contribution)

One thing I'll say for Cain is, since the very beginning of the campaign, he has been a master at milking free media...

Maybe this is another example of that...

And maybe he'll get another round in a day or two, appearing on multiple interview shows where he'll say, Oh come on, that was just intended as a joke; lighten up"

[rubato]

Smoking might only be a problem in the more educated and liberal states which Cain has no hope in anyway. Smoking might be a symbol of defiant individualism to the type of uninformed libertarians which make up the 'tea party'.

The states with the highest smoking rates are all Republican. The states with the lowest rates are all democratic (Utah is the lone exception).

I makes him look like a fool in Calif.

yrs,
rubato

[Sue U]

2012
Herman Cain Was Always Making Batshit Ads, We Just Hadn’t Noticed

When you stop to consider the sheer amount of ink spilled over one oddly placed cigarette drag, one shudders to think what the Herman Cain parsers would make of this: In "He Carried Yellow Flowers" — a Western that feels like a porn conceived after a four-day meth binge, minus the sex scenes — movie star "Nick Searcy" (he's big in Guam) punches an African-American liberal in the face, then steps off the set to address us on why we should vote for Cain. Then the creepy smiling Cain pops in, just to remind us of who the crackpot is who endorsed this message. It's not just that it's so crazy — it's that the craziness is so pathetically executed. (But it's mainly that it's so crazy.) [thehermancain/YouTube via BoingBoing]

http://gawker.com/5853738/herman-cain-w ... t-noticed#

[Liberty1]

Smoking might only be a problem in the more educated and liberal states which Cain has no hope in anyway. Smoking might be a symbol of defiant individualism to the type of uninformed libertarians which make up the 'tea party'.

The states with the highest smoking rates are all Republican. The states with the lowest rates are all democratic (Utah is the lone exception).

I makes him look like a fool in Calif.

I think it's a bait. Everyone's getting all apaplectic about a guy taking a puff in a commercial, yet everone is just fine with the OWS crowds all tokin-up in public.

A lot of people are loving it, stickin it in the nanny statists faces.

I think it's hillareous.



Sue, Gawker? Please, I thought yuou were above that.