Do you have great ad ideas for the Kerry campaign?

[Czolgosz]

I see so many threads suggesting great ad ideas for the Kerry campaign.

The campaign has its own issues to get out. It has its own ads. Put out your own great ideas on your own. Make a tee-shirt. Post on not-for-Democrats-only message boards. Email your family, friends, and list serves. Write your local newspaper. Print a flyer to tack up in the lunch room. Call into radio shows. Your great campaign ad ideas should not go to waste. This kind of grassroots effort will make a difference.

For every post on this board, post 10 times on nonpartisan message boards with undecided voters posting and lurking.

For example, like everyone else, I would like to see an ad where Kerry says:

The Republicans have suggested that my views of the war in Iraq have shifted over time so I’d like to tell you about my policies which haven’t changed since day one.
I believe the president, any president, should have the authority to deal with Iraq. I voted to give him that authority and I’d vote the same way today if the vote came up again.
I believe the president made a poor use of the authority we gave him. I would have used that authority differently. I would have let the inspectors finish their job first, I would have brought Canada and our other traditional NATO allies on board to share the troop and financial burden, and I would not have gone in without a plan to stabilize and withdraw from Iraq after the war.
I voted to fund the war with a roll back of the tax cuts only for people making $300,000 or more. No president has ever taken the country to war and also made drastic cuts in taxes for the wealthy at the same time. If we are asking our sons and daughters to put their lives on the line, we can ask the wealthy to forgo a part of their tax cuts on the income over $300,000. But I voted against the president’s plan to pay for the war on a credit card our children will have to pay off.
Iraq is a mess. I didn’t make the mess, but I’m reporting for clean up duty.

I have posted this type of message (but in third person of course) everywhere I can, I have emailed it to everyone I know, I have written my newspaper, I've called radio talk shows. Get your own message out!

[vi5]

1. See my other post.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x778828

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[Misunderestimator]

5. Oh sure... that would be just great.

Take an honest man, and ask him to be completely disingenuous in an ad (like our current pResident) and make a joke out of it... uh huh... that'll work. :eyes:

[Eric J in MN]

2. He should quote Bill Clinton, "welfare should be a second-chance

and not a way of life."

Most people who are reluctant to vote for Democrats think we want welfare to be a way of life.

[Czolgosz]

4. I'd love to see letters to the editor in my paper

which point out Kerry's votes in favor of welfare reform because I completely agree that 49 out of 50 voters do not know that about Kerry mederate voting record. Don't let Bush define Kerry as out of the mainstream, and don't sit back and make the Kerry campaign do this by itself. Get the word out yourself. Grassroots campaigns are found to be more than twice as persuasive as paid campaign ads.

[liberalpragmatist]

6. Stem Cell Ads, and other ISSUES Ads

Kerry needs to run an ad that quickly explains his health care plan, for instance. Nothing too detailed, but not just generalities - just say "John Kerry has a plan to lower health insurance costs and cover the ininsured. Part 1: Under the Kerry/Edwards plan, businesses get reimbursed for catastrophic insurance claims which will lower insurance premiums drop by 10-15% for the average family. Part 2: Allow any American or small business to buy into the same health plan that members of Congress currently have - affordable, comprehensive coverage, because if its good enough for Congress, it's good enough for the American people." Certainly, more sophisticated and better written than that, but you get the general idea.

Also, do that similarly on Iraq and for other issues such as the environment, energy independence (with the Saudi Royal Family line - a great point to sell, one that really hits it off with many. Do some more on manufacturing and outsourcing. Do one that would be "Here's what I would do to win the war on terror.."

But definitely do one on stem cells - if Kerry makes it well-known that he supports stem cells, he'll pick up lots of votes.

[GingerSnaps]

7. The debate that * is backing out of in MO

Show a podium with a spotlight on it and say that * didn't show up for the guard and he refuses to show up for the debate do you trust him to show up if we are attacked again. :kick: