The Official 2012 Campaign Ad Thread

[Bull Moose Base]

Intriguingly, the Romney campaign got cold feet about their new ad suggesting Rick Perry was stupid and yanked it just a few hours after going up with it.  Before this happened, TPM had published an astute email from a reader that Romney was playing by fire with a "I'm smarter than you" line of attack, an attitude Republican voters bristle at.

Here's more good analysis from Steve Benen that makes the case Romney's ad tips their hand that they still consider Perry as a credible threat.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/index.php

[Bull Moose Base]

The Cain folks are out with another ad (let the others chop each others heads off, Cain's THE MAN !):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpGAng0EDhE

Now that's a good ad. Obviously low budget, but emotionally effective.

Did the campaign make that ad or some Cain fans unaffiliated?

[Bull Moose Base]

No, this is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eWMmPu0OKiU

"The world is literally collapsing"

Really now?

That's the funniest one but also...

The economy's worse?
The stock market's a wreck?
Greece?
Our government's flabby?
Two term governor?

[Bull Moose Base]

Romney gets the Romney treatment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJorv8HBU4&feature=player_embedded

[Bull Moose Base]

This will have no effect on Independents or Democrats. But I will say this--it is an exceptional way to excite the GOP base. Lots of us don't like Obama because of his policies. But the reason why a lot of us hate Obama is because of absolutely everything in that ad.

Which enraged you more: when he killed a fly or when he sang for five seconds?

[Bull Moose Base]

Definitely the singing. But it all contributes to that celeb image.

I don't know what it is about Obama that invites such criticism for things all other presidents do.  How is the president supposed to not be a celebrity? Romney has been singing non-stop on the campaign trail by the way.

[Bull Moose Base]

With the way Obama is raining attacks on Romney, it's hard to remember the Obama of 2008 who heroically refused to say anything negative about John McCain.  Who can forget that scene in Game Change when Axelrod screened a cut of an ad attacking McCain's scandals early in his congressional career and Obama popped out the DVD, snapped it and said "hope" as he dropped one half in a trash can and "change" as he dropped the other half, then coolly walked out of the room.  Unless I'm imagining that and the media is retarded.

[Bull Moose Base]

Did Obama promise to veto any law that didn't pass unanimously or something?

[Bull Moose Base]

"Hope" and "Change" are vague, useless slogans.  As is "Believe in America".  What are we, 5 years old?  There's no meaning to be found in any of it.  Obama never promised to not run attack ads against his opponent (he did so frequently in 2008), he never promised not to pass things the Republicans opposed. The Republicans have taken to pointing to their constant attempts at obstruction (often of things they themselves used to support) as evidence Obama broke his promise to be a uniter.  What promise?

[Bull Moose Base]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sNHeTwoy5vI

Honestly, when I first heard that Obama clip, I thought it was one of those things where they take words from different speeches to make him sound bad; low and behold, he actually said it. This is a pretty solid ad - need to shorten it to 1 minute.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/07/who-built-that-romney-and-obama-agree-129462.html

You were right the first time.  Romney Campaign pulled pieces out of context and edited it together to make it seem like Obama was saying something other than what he was saying.  Bush allies lied their asses off in his election but Bush himself was never as dishonest in his campaign as Romney is.