Women in GOP Ads: A Follow-up

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Sunday November 04, 2012 · 8:01 PM PST

2012/11/04 · 20:01

About 10 days ago, I published a diary where I questioned some of the GOP advertisements which included women presenting the campaign message. The first of these was by an unidentified 30 something brunette woman whom the GOP wanted to appear as being the typical suburban female with a family. I questioned whether this woman was just an actress reading a script or a real person and also questioned whether she and her family, if she has one, were really no better off than they were four years ago at the start of 2009. Now the folks at Karl Rove's SuperPac are running a rewritten different version of the original ad. In the newer version, this woman makes no direct mention of whether she and her family are better off or not. I would have to assume, given the lack of mention, that she and her family are indeed better off than they were four years ago. The economy was taking a nosedive like a rocket headed towards terra firma, if you do not remember. She should be thanking President Obama rather making an ad for his opposition. Also the ad makes it clearer that the words are not her own and that AmeicanCrossroads (Karl Rove) takes credit for the words. Still busy individuals may be confused about where the political message is actually coming from when ads are made to look like they come from just an average citizen rather an actor. Marketers have been known to try various forms of subtle manipulation including even subliminal messaging.

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Wednesday October 24, 2012 · 6:32 PM PDT

2012/10/24 · 18:32

One of my objections to some individuals in some GOP political ads is that they appear to be unidentified actors reading scripts. In a previous post, I expressed concern over the individuals who appeared to be actors rather than just ordinary folks in a Koch Brothers SuperPac funded political ads. The ad tried to make it appear that they were ordinary individuals but they only had negative comments about Obama and no other comments. Further, the individuals appeared to be scripted. A comparable August 31 PBS TV ‘NewsHour’ panel of undecided voters had positive and negative comments about both candidates.

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Thursday October 04, 2012 · 10:18 PM PDT

2012/10/04 · 22:18

Mitt Romney is like a box of chocolates because you do not know what you are going to get. For a while, I have been attempting to figure out who Mitt Romney is and what he stands for. It is a difficult task since he is ‘evasive’ when answering questions. Maybe evasive is not the correct word. Perhaps ‘dishonest’ or ‘deceitful’ or ‘opaque’ or ‘dodgy’ or ‘secretive’ or ‘sneaky’ or ‘tricky’ would be better. I realized that he was running against other Republicans and therefore needed to be the right of ‘Attilla the Hun’ during the primaries. Even so, if he changes his positions at this point one must wonder whether he would say anything just to win votes. Based on his past history of changing viewpoints, if medals were awarded for flip-flopping, then Mitt Romney would be the all-time gold medal winner. Anyway from my attempts to learn more about Romney there is my list below of highly speculative of possible but unlikely Romney campaign slogans or bumper stickers.

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Thursday October 04, 2012 · 8:17 PM PDT

2012/10/04 · 20:17

About Mitt’s Sons Repeated Lies

In the debate, Mitt Romney indicated that his sons repeated lies with the expectation that if they repeated them often enough then they would ultimately be believed. I wonder where that behavior came from. They must take after someone. Children most often learn behavior from their parents. Is Mitt saying that Mrs. Romney is a pathological liar? Is Mitt admitting that he is a pathological liar? Maybe he is indicating that both of them are liars? Which is it? Did Mitt commit some sort of Freudian slip? I think he did. Maybe the Romneys set a bad example for their own children? Maybe they are still setting a bad example for all the youngsters in the country. Perhaps someone in the media will ask Mitt about this.

The Romney "Retirement Heists(s)" and Bob Scheiffer and Soptic

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Friday September 07, 2012 · 4:51 PM PDT

2012/09/07 · 16:51

I was watching the expanded ‘Face the Nation’ on August 19 and Bob Schieffer was presenting an editorial about nasty campaign tactics during Presidential campaigns. While I do not disagree with him about the long history of vicious campaign tactics, I do disagree about one point specifically. Namely, when he indicated that the SuperPac ‘Priorities USA’ ad about the individual who lost health care benefits is in the same class as the other instances that he that he mentions. http://www.cbsnews.com/.... The facts as laid out in ‘Priorities USA’ advertisement were misleading and perhaps overly dramatic. Priorities USA probably chose the most willing of what was most likely a number of individuals who felt hurt by the actions of Bain Capital. The Obama campaign did not stand behind the ad. However, the ad does bring up the issue of whether a “retirement heist” took place with the purchase of the steel company ‘GS Industries’ by Bain Capital.

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