The Official 2012 Campaign Ad Thread

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The problem with the Romney driving himself ad and the Romneys doing the laundry photo-op of a week or two ago is that they are so obviously staged for the purpose showing that Mitt is something he is not.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Wouldn't this photo have been more on point?


It just goes to show how badly out of touch politicians from Massachusetts are these days.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What the hell is Red White and Blue Fund and who is giving them money to run Rick Santorum ads?

Yes, who is really behind this charade being perpetrated on conservatives? Obviously divide and conquer is at play, and the ball was set in motion with the Red White and Blue Fund way back in the middle of December...

Back in the middle of December, Gingrich was having a surge and in the lead and the Romney campaign was desperately in need of someone to divide and conquer the anti-Romney forces.  It would be ironic indeed if Romney supporters provided Santorum with the cash infusion he needed to win Iowa.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

A lot of people went to college during the Vietnam war... Romney was also married and had children as well.  I don't know what you're implying or suggesting.  He should have left college, wife, kids, and enlisted?

Vietnam was definitely a case of a "rich man's war, poor man's fight".  Tell me, which is nobler: to do as Romney did, to argue in favor of something that would not personally affect him, or to do as Kerry did, and argue against something and yet do as his country asked of it, despite disagreeing with it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Or bar/t-mitzvahs.

At a bart-mitzvah, does the celebrant say, "Don't have a pig, man!"

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Except no one cares much about Romney's flip-flops. As Biden said, Obamacare is a BFD that people already hate.

The tide is turning, buddy:

Except the Court didn't uphold the entire law, so that bit of distortion effectively qualifies this as a push poll.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Romney needs to buy air time for an anti-Obamacare ad. Pronto.

Yes I have been a bit surprised at Romney's lack on TV ads. He only had ads in 4 states until about a week ago while Obama dropped 25 mil + in June alone. It helps that he has better cover from the Super-pacs but Romney needs to bring it himself.

Romney's pattern so far has largely been to let the SuperPACs do the attack ads while his campaign sticks to positive ads.  That way if an attack ad goes too far and backfires he can claim to have had nothing to do with it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The Obama campaign has launched way more negative attack ads than the Romney campaign.

The Romney campaign doesn't run negative attack ads, it outsources those to the SuperPACs.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The only way to have American companies voluntarily keep jobs in the USA is to reduce pay and working conditions to Chinese levels, because corporations are always going to find the schmucks who are willing to work for $2 an hour for 12 hours a day.

Not quite.  Chinese wages have been rising because of their own prosperity. China's lax enforcement of IP law, while better than it was, is still weak enough to give companies making innovative goods cause for concern.  The rise in oil prices from their abyssal lows a decade ago has considerably increased shipping costs, plus a shorter supply chain means you can keep inventory low.  The really cheap gods are increasing being made elsewhere than China. The production of goods requiring either at minimum a semi-skilled workforce or which are heavy or bulky is moving back to North America, some here in the USA, some to Mexico depending on the product.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Romney's new "Be Not Afraid - Obama declares war on religion" ad has a clip from his speech in Poland, citing Pope John Paul II. The end of the ad has Romney shaking hands with Walesa with the text "Endorsed by Lech Walesa." There's even a picture of Walesa shaking hands with the Pope (with a caption for those that don't know who he is) right before the part where Walesa shakes hands with Romney. So is it supposed to be "Pope and Walesa are buddies -> Walesa wants Romney -> Pope John Paul II would vote for Mitt" or something like that?

Also, is the Polish - American electorate the new swing group or something?

It is one of the groups Mitt is targeting with an astroturf "Polish Americans for Romney" group on his website.  That one makes more sense than his "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders for Romney" which is so obviously astroturf as to be insulting.  Oddest of all is "Lawyers for Romney".  Has he decided that Republicans won't be using the "trial lawyer" tarbrush on the Democrats this year?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

$4/gallon gasoline

Where the heck do you live?  California?  The national average never reached $4 this year and it's going down.  I could have bought some today at $3.36⁹/gallon.  If Romney brings up $4/gallon gasoline, all it will do is show how out of touch he is with swing state voters.  The highest the average is any of the swing states is $3.86⁶/gallon in Indiana. (That's if you consider Indiana a swing state; the highest of the standard swing states is lower which makes the $4 figure even less relevant.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

$4/gallon gasoline

Where the heck do you live?  California?  The national average never reached $4 this year and it's going down.  I could have bought some today at $3.36⁹/gallon.  If Romney brings up $4/gallon gasoline, all it will do is show how out of touch he is with swing state voters.  The highest the average is any of the swing states is $3.86⁶/gallon in Indiana. (That's if you consider Indiana a swing state; the highest of the standard swing states is lower which makes the $4 figure even less relevant.)

Use the qualifier "approaching" $4/gallon, which it probably is going to do soon given the situation with Iran. Or talk about $3.50/gallon. Either way, you get the gist.

Yup, that gas prices are lower now than they were when they reached their all-time high in 2008 when Bush was president.  I can see where unemployment or the deficits could have a beneficial effect for the Romney campaign, tho they haven't so far.  Bringing up the price of gas won't help Romney.  This is not 1980 and inflation is not an issue that can hurt Obama politically because what inflation there has been, has been negligible.