Truly an epically excessive political attack ad – merely for the R primary in Kali!
I have to confess I like it. Now that Tom Campbell’s entry into the primary seems to have sucked all of the oxygen out of Chuck Devore’s effort, possibly suggesting that his support in polls was a not-sold-on-Fiorina vote, I’m thinking Carly may be turning into the clear choice.
If I said that over at HotAir, I might get several Devoriaks banned from the site for obscenity and death threats, as the far right hostility to CF has been strong.
h/t: There Are No Words. . . – Daniel Foster – The Corner on National Review Online.
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Holy Sheets!!!!!
This is an ad for a primary???
I thought it was something to get people to join Central American death squads.
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:31 pm
No, Frog, that comes next week, demonic terminator sheep, I think I saw that in the Book of Revelations, or Ghostbusters, I don’t exactly
recall
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:58 pm
A Palin on a pale sheep?
and they had little red eyes….. just like the master!!
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs13/f/2007/015/e/a/Red_Eyes_Tree_Frogs_by_Little_Vampire.png
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
I’m sorry, but as entertaining as this ad is, ‘It jumped the Megalodon”
(giant prehistoric shark for those with the home edition of the game)
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:45 pm
What’s not to like. If you’re going to jump a shark you should jump the biggest shark you can clear.
The ad presents legitimate substance (assuming it’s reasonably truthful) and then uses clever ways to pound home its message that the target is a stupid member of the political sheep herd who got above his station and suffered a fall; and at the same time he’s a hog when he’s not a wolf with ominous red eyes.
It keeps your interest by being reasonably entertaining. Not as good as that Family Guy thing with the dead frog; but hey, it’s a political ad.
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:00 pm
@ narciso:
Indeed, but I think I see the strategery.
She was beating Devore in relatively close race according to the polls, and she probably thought she could outdistance him fairly easily. Then Campbell entered the race, and the initial polls put him in the lead, with Devore evaporating. I think she thinks she can win a three-way race if she divides the anti-Fiorina votes between Devore and Campbell. So I think she thinks she wins as long as she brings Campbell down without hurting herself too much. She also needs to raise her own name recognition.
I’s truly a bizarre ad – I guess there’s a risk that people will see CF as just too out of bounds – but it’s 2010… It’s like she hired Greg Gutfeld to do an ad. I think the ad might get excerpted on free media, and discussed a lot, and the message will be Carly’s funny, Campbell’s a FCINO, and DeVore who? Alternatively, it will just be forgotten by the time anyone votes.
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:06 pm
@ CK MacLeod:
you think that that was possibly out of bounds?
How about the one with her standing over him, two hands full…..
http://bigspace.celerity.co.uk/moviedeaths/grabs/braveheart-wallace-1.jpg
saying something like “the only way to tell when a Campbell isn’t lying is to read his entrails!”
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:25 pm
@CKMcleod
Well it’s inventive I’ll give you that, but this is going to bring up her record at HP, and lets say it’s not an unalloyed good. The least said
about her economic advice to the McCain campaign the better
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Don’t see how it brings up her record at HP, but on HP my own research suggests that she’s got good answers – and that the principal moves for which she was heavily and intemperately criticized by such as Michael Dell, esp. the Compaq acquisition, are now seen as a major part of HP’s success since her departure (her successor is also given a lot of credit). The other thing that earned her a lot of criticism and still is behind a lot of the anger toward her was outsourcing, and that may be tricky. She’s got good answers on that, too, though I suspect she’d rather minimize it as an issue than do what I would prefer – which is say damned right a businessperson has got to cut costs, including by firing people, and we’re going to need to do a lot of that in the federal government or watch the whole country go bankrupt.
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:51 pm
@ fuster:
Maybe later.
February 3rd, 2010 at 9:52 pm
I think this a good take on it:
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/8757#comment-34029
February 4th, 2010 at 8:21 am
good take maybe, working link no.
February 4th, 2010 at 8:44 am
@ fuster:
Man, you is one lazy frog. All you had to do was put back the h that was dropped off.
That said, I’m not so sure about the commenter’s take. Fer one thing, Whitman’s running for gov, not sen. On the other hand, my mind was also running Avatarian. I was thinking Fiorina might want to try 3-D for her next attack ad.
February 4th, 2010 at 9:22 am
This is Devore’s response, after you Carly:
http://demonsheep.org/demonsheep/
February 4th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Hilarious. I don’t figure DeVore to survive the primary, and suppose I will have to vote for Fiorina or Campbell in Nov. Not enthused on either count.
Fiorina starts not just with the general impression about her tenure at HP to overcome, but the broadscale antipathy of Silicon Valley voters, which won’t help. Ahnold cleaned up among Silicon Valley techies in the recall election. Factors like that matter for producing major turn-arounds of entrenched political patterns.
But we must acknowledge that neither Campbell nor DeVore would win Silicon Valley either. That said, I think at this point that Campbell might appeal more to the folks in San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties, the red surrounding the LA monolith. Fiorina’s going to make missteps that matter from inexperience, if nothing else.
Carly’s ad here inevitably suggests the following riff: “Bad policy comes from glowing-eyed sheep. Glowing-eyed sheep come from California. Real. California. Policy.”
February 4th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Kind of Obamian for DeVore to come out against “Hollywood glitz and meaningless slogans.” Hollywood glitz provides a lot of jobs and tax revenues, Chuck, and don’t you forget it! And I believe we’re at least in second place nationally among centers of meaningless slogans – and number one in pure meaninglessness!
February 4th, 2010 at 9:45 am
J.E. Dyer wrote:
Do you have #s on that one?
February 4th, 2010 at 10:11 am
@ CK MacLeod:
You know, it’s more anecdotal than anything, but my sister and brother-in-law both work in IT in Silicon Valley, and they’d attest that the antipathy to Fiorina is pretty uniform in that demographic. Of course, other kinds of people do live in that area, and techies as a group tend to be prickly and occasionally unpredictable. But for an awful lot of them, the words “foreclosure,” “outsourcing,” and “Fiorina” all go together like horse, carriage, and equine doo-doo.
As you say, however, 2010 could be a New Ball Game year like ’94 or ’80, in which many of the old assumptions breathe their last.
February 4th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
I HAVE TOLD THE FÜHRER TO RUN THIS AD FIVE TIMES A DAY FOR THE PRIMARY BUT THAT FOOL HESS IS ALWAYS IN HIS BEDROOM AND NOBODY LISTENS TO ME BUT EVA BRAUN AND THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE! I HAVE TOLD EVA BRAUN YOU MUST INTERCEDE FOR ME WITH THE FÜHRER BUT SHE SAYS HE NEVER CALLS HER SO WHAT CAN SHE DO? HESS HAS EVEN STOLEN HER LIPSTICK SO SHE MUST BORROW GRETL’S! NOW I MUST WATCH THE O’REILLY FACTOR!
February 4th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
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