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DEVASTATING!!! Wendy Davis ad on Abbott (Original Post) bigdarryl Aug 2014 OP
Damn!!! KeepItReal Aug 2014 #1
No shit that's one of the best ads I've seen in a while bigdarryl Aug 2014 #2
Holy takedown, Bat Woman, that is the definition of devastating. Bonus points for being true. Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #3
OUCH! Great ad. It doesn't remind me too much of Willie Horton because there was no catbyte Aug 2014 #4
Nothing like a little truth! dmosh42 Aug 2014 #5
+1,000,000 Faryn Balyncd Aug 2014 #6
This is a hardcore negative attack ad. yallerdawg Aug 2014 #7
Both messages are correct. Avalux Aug 2014 #13
The ad is too wordy to be effective bluestateguy Aug 2014 #8
"Wendy Mondale?" TBF Aug 2014 #9
Huh? trumad Aug 2014 #18
Well Wendy better get working yeoman6987 Aug 2014 #28
Well it is Texas.. trumad Aug 2014 #30
It may be too much for short attention spans demwing Aug 2014 #23
I didn't know Democrats had it in them to fight like this. Dawson Leery Aug 2014 #10
Great commercial Gothmog Aug 2014 #11
Ditto! Abbott is a heartless, nasty f*€k, who will make Texas even worse, if you can believe that! Dustlawyer Aug 2014 #12
Greg is indeed a jerk Gothmog Aug 2014 #16
He supports and campaigns with pedophiles in my opinion. DhhD Aug 2014 #25
I got a call the other day asking me what I thought of Tom Cotton. rickyhall Aug 2014 #14
She will have to be negative to beat him in Texas mc51tc Aug 2014 #15
Taking her lessons from the late great Ann Richards. trumad Aug 2014 #17
Ouch! That's going to sting. blackspade Aug 2014 #19
Kick him hard, Wendy, he deserves it! mountain grammy Aug 2014 #20
K & R Wounded Bear Aug 2014 #21
Wow. More please!! SunSeeker Aug 2014 #22
This ad will stir controversy demwing Aug 2014 #24
Sometimes the truth hurts, if it hurts Abbott he should have made better judgements about others. Thinkingabout Aug 2014 #26
But it's Texas, and there are too many Republicans RandySF Aug 2014 #27
This is a great ad Gothmog Aug 2014 #29
One of the more subtle themes is that other Republicans voted hedgehog Aug 2014 #31
Post removed Post removed Aug 2014 #32
It's called Deep Pockets and it's done all the time. The distributor may be out of business, but libdem4life Aug 2014 #33

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
3. Holy takedown, Bat Woman, that is the definition of devastating. Bonus points for being true.
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:24 PM
Aug 2014

Kicked to the top of the 2104 election ad heap.

catbyte

(34,166 posts)
4. OUCH! Great ad. It doesn't remind me too much of Willie Horton because there was no
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:25 PM
Aug 2014

Lee Atwater-like race baiting going on, just the cold, hard fact that Abbott thinks that corporations have more rights than actual humans. After all, to baggers like Abbott, corporations are people too my friend...

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
7. This is a hardcore negative attack ad.
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 01:43 PM
Aug 2014

I would have expected this from a dark money PAC.

But this is a Wendy Davis ad.

So there are 2 messages here. One, Greg Abbott is a bad human being. And, 2, Wendy Davis is ready for nasty negative Texas hardball! 'Cause the gloves are off!

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
13. Both messages are correct.
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 03:49 PM
Aug 2014

Abbott is every bit as awful as she says he is, and she's definitely ready to fight to the finish line. If he thought "abortion barbie" was going to listen to the naysayers and not fight his bullshit, he's in for a surprise. 12 weeks until election day.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
28. Well Wendy better get working
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 12:46 PM
Aug 2014

She needs to win this but the Summer has been a bust. She should have been going all over trying to get rid of the Abbott lead. She is behind and needs to figure a way to win this. Do you think she is winning right now? Just interested in your answer.

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
23. It may be too much for short attention spans
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 11:14 AM
Aug 2014

its a whole minute, who can be expected to listen to anything longer than 30 seconds?
















Really?

Dustlawyer

(10,493 posts)
12. Ditto! Abbott is a heartless, nasty f*€k, who will make Texas even worse, if you can believe that!
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 03:00 PM
Aug 2014

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
25. He supports and campaigns with pedophiles in my opinion.
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 11:40 AM
Aug 2014
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/greg-abbot-ted-nugent-texas-103657.html

Speaking at a campaign event, Nugent introduced Abbott as his “friend” and “blood brother,” as well as “the epitome of what our founding fathers wanted as a representative,” according to the San Antonio Express.

“We don’t have to question Greg Abbott’s courage — because he invited me here today,” he said.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/greg-abbot-ted-nugent-texas-103657.html#ixzz39uTPtoTd

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
14. I got a call the other day asking me what I thought of Tom Cotton.
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 03:56 PM
Aug 2014

I told the caller Cotton was a Teapublican and I thought nothing of him and hung up.

mc51tc

(219 posts)
15. She will have to be negative to beat him in Texas
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 04:10 PM
Aug 2014

Wendy, take off the gloves and expose this fraud for who he is!

This election in Texas will be very interesting to watch the next 90 days!

Wounded Bear

(58,436 posts)
21. K & R
Fri Aug 8, 2014, 06:00 PM
Aug 2014

The most effective attacks are those based on truth. I hope the Indies are watching and listening, because I know the hardcore RWers aren't. If we GOTDV and motivate some Indies, we can pull this off.

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
24. This ad will stir controversy
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 11:25 AM
Aug 2014

fucking cool! I honestly had given up on Davis. I saw this ad, and my opinion just flipped.

For everyone that sees it, two more will talk about it. Good or bad, who cares, as long as they talk. In the coming month, Davis can refer back to the ad with shorter clips, keeping it alive in our memory.

I hope the reason she's been holding back is because she's got a half dozen more, each just as effective, and has been allowing Abbott to spend himself out while she saves up for a big finish.

If you can't out spend them, out think them.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
26. Sometimes the truth hurts, if it hurts Abbott he should have made better judgements about others.
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 12:04 PM
Aug 2014

There is a lot of dirty rotten dogs in office in Texas, Abbott is just one. Dan Patrick is not a good person and though Rick Perry is not running in this election we have tolerated him since 2001, time for the lot of them to go.

RandySF

(57,593 posts)
27. But it's Texas, and there are too many Republicans
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 12:33 PM
Aug 2014

Republicans in Oklahoma elected a Dr. who sterilized a woman without her consent. And we've seen scumbag after scumbag elected no matter how bad they are because Republicans voters only care about the (R) next to their names. In a rational world, this ad would would work, but this is Texas.

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
31. One of the more subtle themes is that other Republicans voted
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 03:29 PM
Aug 2014

against Abbot in the court case - that he is out of step with the Republican Party.

Response to bigdarryl (Original post)

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
33. It's called Deep Pockets and it's done all the time. The distributor may be out of business, but
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 12:54 PM
Aug 2014

typically, especially with well-known company names/products, the distributors (and their employees) are considered agents for the company. That is why homeowners, businesses, municipalities have liability insurance. If you fall and slip in someone's house, suing the homeowner will hardly bring financial satisfaction. Thus, homeowner's liability insurance.

I can hardly believe that Kirby...who provides a massive sales force that has taken products into people's homes for decades...does not have liability insurance covering their distributors...for which they would have to pay. In real estate and insurance it's called Errors and Omissions insurance. The agent makes a mistake, the broker's E&O will have to pay.

Absolutely they are liable and the insurance company will settle. Quickly. It's a trusted household name/product and they are the ones who will lose in the public/consumer's mind if they don't do so. Plus, it makes Abbott look like the Ass he is.


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