Most expensive TV campaign ad goes for emotions...GOP 527 Exploits 9/11

[Roland99]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=676&e=5&u=/usatoday/20041019/ts_usatoday/mostexpensivetvcampaignadgoesforemotions

The ad, created by the conservative Progress for America Voter Fund, will run until the election on cable stations and in nine key states at a cost of $14.2 million, said the group's president, Brian McCabe. (Related link: Ad analysis)

The ad was inspired by a photo of Bush hugging Ashley Faulkner, who is now 16, while campaigning in Lebanon, Ohio, on May 4. The photo, taken by the girl's father, Lynn Faulkner, was widely circulated on the Internet. As Bush shook hands in the crowd, the Faulkners' neighbor told him that Ashley had lost her mom on 9/11. Bush enfolded Ashley in his arms and offered her comfort.

"In the midst of all those people and all that noise, it was an intimate and personal moment," Lynn Faulkner, a marketing consultant and a Republican, said in an interview. His wife, Wendy Faulkner, an information-systems executive, was in the South Tower on Sept. 11.

The ad features the photo and Ashley and her father talking about Bush. "All he wants to do is make sure I'm safe," Ashley says in the ad. Lynn says in the ad that he saw in Bush "what I want to see in the heart and soul" of a president.

Will Bush decry this 527, too? I mean, it goes against he and the GOP said last year, that they'd not politicize 9/11.

Oh wait...that's what the whole RNC was based upon. Who am I kidding? What whores these people are.

[aquart]

1. Ashley isn't a bright girl, is she?

[trotsky]

2. I didn't know she was in the south tower.

That means * could have saved her. After hearing of the first plane hitting, he could have alerted the air defense systems (if he had read the 8/6/01 PDB, which told him bin Laden wanted to strike NYC) which may have had a chance of shooting down or diverting the other hijacked planes.

And they think * will keep them safe. Riiiiight.

[wurzel]

3. Bush job is not to keep Ashley "safe" by hugging her.

His job is to keep the entire country safe by using his office on our behalf instead of for the convenience and profit of a privileged few.

[Supersedeas]

4. marketing consultant and Republican in a Bush Ad - ring the sympathy bell

LOUDER....she said LOUDER

[IIgnoreNobody]

5. $12 million spent to convince Americans

that Bush would make a good counselor.

To bad every decision he's made as President has been wrong.


I think they are wasting their money. Attacking Kerry would have been more effective.