a Western that feels like a porn conceived after a four-day meth binge, minus the sex scenes
Man, that really nails it....
That ad has the "acting", production values, scripting, camera work, and "musical score" that fairly screams out "Late 70's Early '80s Porno Movie"....
(Or so I'm told....)
One could easily reach the conclusion that was the effect they were going for....
On second thought though, that may be a bit unfair....
To the porno movies....
The guy who put that thing together makes Chuck Vincent look like Francis Ford Coppola...
Oh hey, Herman Cain. What's he been up to, anyway? Oh, just a little sexual harassment for which the National Restaurant Association paid two women some hush money, and then there was the illegal campaign cash, plus it turns out his campaign manager was charged with election law violations that got him banned from political work, thus advancing him to the position of Target stockboy!
Herman Cain, everyone! Your next President!
ETA:
By the way, all this free media exposure for the Pizza Man is remarkably coincidental! But the lack of fingerprints makes it look like someone was wearing mitts!
Those wacky Republicans, such scamps!
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I have it on good authority that one of the accusers is Anita Hill, Esq.
But honestly, folks, this is disgraceful, and the fact that some of you are buying into it is rather pathetic.
Two un-named accusers from decades ago might have filed a sexual harrassment complaint against him? Herman Cain has said in absolute terms that it did not happen and no complaint ever came to him. He has challenged the accusers to come forward.
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But of course, they won't, because, after all, they agreed to keep the details secret. Hogwash. It just doesn't add up.
Someone who once gave him some political advice was accused of violating the election laws. HOLD THE PRESSES!
Someone loaned his campaign money early on, and it "might have been" a violation of the campaign laws?
BE STILL, MY HEART!
We have a sitting President who admits that one of his main mentors ("just a guy who lives in my neighborhood") is a murderer. He sat in church for 20 years listening to a preacher whose main claim to fame was hatred of America and everything White, and claims not to believe any of it. And we are supposed to be alarmed about these non-stories on Herman Cain.
It is fortunate that most Americans have a little better judgment than the morons who believe this shit about Cain. The Left is horrified to death of a Black man who doesn't worship at the feet of the Diversity Gods.
Leftists? This has Turdblossom written all over it.
I'm not sure who turdblossomn is, I was talking about you. But it wouldn't suprise me if the Perry campaign is behind this if thats what you are reffering to.
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark Twain
Lord Jim wrote:Turdblossom doesn't have a dog in this hunt....
Yes he does. The long game here is in destabilizing the candidates that challenge the GOP establishment, and keeping them weak. Because no matter how much "the base" detests Mitt Romney, the party "leadership" (or what's left of it) knows that he is their only chance of mounting a credible electoral challenge to Obama, and they don't want the primaries to exhaust his resources (or cut into potential contributors for the general election). Anyone who seems in a position to threaten Romney's inevitability will get some intensive oppo research.
dgs49 wrote:The Left is horrified to death of a Black man who doesn't worship at the feet of the Diversity Gods.
Hahahahahahahahahaha. If we could pick the GOP candidate, Herman Cain would probably be our first choice (it'd be a close contest with One-L Me-Chele, although Rick Perry is having no trouble making a fool of himself these days, too).
liberty1 wrote:I'm not sure who turdblossomn is, I was talking about you.
Yes he does. The long game here is in destabilizing the candidates that challenge the GOP establishment, and keeping them weak.
Sue, even if one were to accept that as a strategic proposition, the timing of this would make no sense from that point of view....
Right now, Cain's popularity helps Romney. He's sucking the anti-Romney oxygen away from other candidates who could mount a more serious challenge.
The time to spring this, if you wanted to help Romney, would be a couple of weeks before Iowa; right now if Cain's campaign goes south, it gives too much time for another "anti-Romney" to emerge.
Several other candidates do benefit from the timing of this; but the one with the campaign personnel that has the experience to pull it off is Perry.
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I'm not sure 9 weeks before Iowa (as it is now) is necessarily "too early," especially if you're going to need to get some traction with a story so that it penetrates into the electoral consciousness. But even more important, you'd want to suppress fund-raising for rival campaigns now and cut them off at the knees. Although Rick Perry did manage to get elected in Texas, he is clearly not ready for prime time; nothing is going to help him be Not-Romney when he keeps shooting himself in both feet, then re-loading. The "problem" with Cain, from the GOP establishment perspective, is that he is getting significant backing from the elements who have been systematically buying up the party and kicking the Old Guard to the curb.
Ah American politics, generates enough heat to warm the all nation's homes. but very little light....
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Let me first stipulate that as far as winning the GOP nomination is concerned, they are irrelevant because at the end of the day, Herman Cain had about as much chance of winning the Republican nod before this brouhaha as Bernie Madoff....that having been said:
There is no question but that Cain mishandled this about as well as something like this can be mishandled...
In the future, when Democratic and Republican allied organizations run training seminars for potential candidates and potential campaign managers, they will use the video clips of Herman Cain's handling of this as a perfect example of what not to do....
When a story like this breaks, you DO NOT (especially in the space of one day):
First, issue a categorical denial, followed by a claim that you have no idea what it's about, but maybe the organization I was in charge of did things that related to me personally without my knowledge, followed by an, "oh yeah, now I remember", followed by a Clintonesque "an agreement isn't a settlement "...
And regardless of where the tip about this might have come from initially, the Cain campaign can't complain that they were sand bagged or blindsided....
One fact that is not in dispute, is that before they broke this story, Politico.com gave Cain and his campaign ten days to respond before they broke the story....
Ten days to come up with something better than Cain's performance yesterday....
Ten days to come up with a solid line...
Ten days during which Cain could have gotten completely ahead of the story, and come forward with a press conference that would have driven the narrative, and, (if the facts are as they are now being presented) made this a one day story....
The one reason this story, (the only reason) this story still has legs at this point is because of Herman Cain's (and his campaign's) complete mishandling of it....
The accusations themselves, (to the extent we know anything about them) seem vague, trivial and frivolous in terms of their content...
Unless...
They only represent the "tip of the iceberg" ...
And we're now going to be treated to a series of "bimbo eruptions" ala Bill Clinton....
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Lord Jim wrote:
I think maybe it's time for me to put on a black suit, white shirt and tie and start going door to door on my bicycle....
Ok, I'll bite, why?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
One of Perry's gaffes in New Hampshire was to mistake a satircal pieceon the Occupy Wall Street protestors as the real thing. He made himself look like an idiot quoting and critiquing a "protestor" who didn't exist.
Gob - he means he should become a Mormon missionary.
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
