Check out www.clubforgrowth.org. The ad is the thing with the old couple on the front. After seeing it So, I’m obviously unimpressed. There wasn’t a single issue of content past the “he’ll raise taxes”. Note on the _average_ american family. Any bets where the bulk of that hike would go? Perhaps the same place that the bulk of bush’s hike cut? The rest of it is, well, name calling. “He’s scary, and different, and we identify him with cultural weirdness.” That’ll sell it to me. *snort*
no person of intelligence had anything to do with making that commercial. first, there exist good criticisms of dean, but none of those things are any of them. second, it’s just plain offensive! i can’t imagine there are actually people in this country who wouldn’t be offended by at least one of the things they rattled off in that list. i guess there must be though or it wouldn’t have been written. what a scary thought! there are actually people out there who don’t have any positive connection to:
1. latte drinking (way to offend the soccer moms and conservative business men, as well as a slough of other people)
2. sushi eating (better get in a jab at the asians for good measure)
3. volvo driving (and people who can afford to drive good cars, you wouldn’t want them on your side)
4. new york times reading (heaven forbid you be on the same side as–gasp!–new yorkers)
5. hollywood loving (who doesn’t like movies?)
thank madonna i live in the bay area where most people are exposed to enough diversity1 that most of these things are not scary, but a welcome everyday occurrence!
1 it is additionally scary that those things can be considered diversity by some people.
Sometimes I think America really is two nations that have pretended to be one for too long. If we have big patches of reliably liberal and reliably conservative states, let’s just pretend we lost the Civil War and be done with it. 😛
It’d kinda rock if the united states de-united. Although, a north/south california split would also do happy things in my world. I think that the ‘guns, germs & steel’ analysis of things rather demands that the majority of the area east of the mississippi remain united. No significant geographical boundaries, and what not. It’d be kinda interesting to see what happened.
Still, any abrupt change causes trouble. Especially big ones. And the scale of this one is more “fucking enormous” than “big”. =)
My brother has an “Impeach Bush” bumper sticker, and yet there are suburbs of Seattle where he dares not park because of it. He says Washington state politics always involve friction between agricultural and urban concerns, and they should just split it into a coastal Washington/Oregon state and an inland Washington/Oregon state.
Their “Move Right” page has what’s actually a pretty good summary of the positions of the nine Democrats. Oddly, the summaries and quotes they put up are meant to enrage people at their ludicrous and obviously irrational positions, but most of them seemed to make a lot of sense to me. Hell, even Lieberman looks pretty good the way they describe him.