Why Can't We Make An Ad of our own?
I suggest putting talented Kossaks into a room until we come up with the kind of ad we think will be effective against the McCain media machine.
The weeks following the Republican convention, the Palin bounce, and the slippage in the polls both statewide and nationally, have caused a great deal of hand wringing on the site, and for good reason. We all know damn well that Obama can't slip by to a victory - republican election fraud and voter disenfranchisement won't allow for anything less than a 4-6 point win.
We all have a lot of ideas about hard hitting advertisement. We are not a 527 group, and I don't know if we would need to be to undertake this effort.
What I do know is that there are a ton of talented people on this board, and I am willing to bet those people can get together and create a bombastic ad entitled "Senator McCain vs. Candidate McCain".
John Kerry's speech had, in my opinion, the strongest possible attack line against the McCain campaign - comparing the man he was when he was a maverick to the liar and charlatan he has become.
You don't need to question the man's service record to attack his senate record in light of his pandering record.
What would this require? We would need to piece together the Ad, raise money to produce it, and then put it in the right markets for air play. We would need it to be devastating in order to put McCain/Palin back on the defensive.
Then we do the same thing to Sarah Palin. We nail her for forcing rape victims to pay for their rape kits. We nail her for inconsistencies on the Bridge to Nowhere. We flat out call her a liar and a cynical politican.
We don't mention change at all. We show all of these lies they tell, all of these inconsistencies, and then we play them claiming to be the change bringers as the final twist at the end of the ad.