{"id":197286,"date":"2008-02-16T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/16\/how-a-primary-attack-ad-should-be-done\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T22:00:00","slug":"how-a-primary-attack-ad-should-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/16\/how-a-primary-attack-ad-should-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Primary Attack Ad Should Be Done."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the one of the Democratic campaign wants to do a real attack ad, against a primary opponent, in a perfect world, it should fulfill the following requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It should be the truth.<\/li>\n<li>It should address a real concern of Democratic voters.<\/li>\n<li>It should <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> be something that the Republicans can use against the target if they win the general.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I was just kind of writing stream of consciousness, and came up with a  Hillary Clinton attack ads against Barack Obama<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to see what my readers think, and what ideas  my readers have, so I am post dating this to Saturday Afternoon, to get comments.<\/p>\n<p>On to the Ad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Cue sinister music, go with spot of gray on the screen, which will slowly pull back as the ad progresses and reveal itself to be a scary black and white picture of John McCain<\/span>)<br \/>In 2002, John McCain said that the ads accusing Max Cleland, who lost one arm and both legs serving in the military, were &#8220;Worse than disgraceful&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Now John McCain has hired Bo Harmon, the man behind that ad campaign as his national political director.<\/p>\n<p>We know that the Republicans will be throwing every lie and slander they can find against the Democratic Nominee, and we know that Barack Obama has never been in a seriously contested election against a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 16 years, the Republican swift boaters came after Hillary Clinton with accusations of everything except eating puppies, and she&#8217;s still standing.<\/p>\n<p>The stakes are too high this November to take an audacious chance with your primary vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of trying to put this up on Youtube, after I improve the copy a bit.<\/p>\n<p>You will notice that this is a devastating ad, but it gives the Republicans <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">nothing<\/span> to use in the general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the one of the Democratic campaign wants to do a real attack ad, against a primary opponent, in a perfect world, it should fulfill the following requirements: It should be the truth. It should address a real concern of Democratic voters. It should not be something that the Republicans can use against the target &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}