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That Psycho-style Imagery In The Anti-Cuccinelli Ad Was Surely A Tribute To Anthony Perkins, Not An Attack

Posted on | August 23, 2013 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Oh, those humorless Republicans. Up in arms, as usual:

In his letter to the [Virginia] Board of Elections, Mr. Webster also raised questions about the propriety of the McAuliffe Campaign not being required to endorse publicly the mud slinging “attack ads” against Mr. McAuliffe’s Republican opponent being aired by the Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA). The McAuliffe Campaign recently transferred $2.5M+ to the DPVA ostensibly to pay for the attack ads.

For example, the one accusing Ken of ‘Waging War on Abortion‘.
I. . .suppose one can consider abortion a topic one could go to war with, if the Kermit Gosnell carnage on the receiving end is any indication.

However, the [Virginia] Board of Elections tabled Mr. Webster’s complaint until such time as Board members can review the DPVA ads to determine if they advocate the defeat of the Republican candidate, Ken Cuccinelli.

Hopefully the viewers understood what I, for one, took as a Hitchcock allusion.

One cannot fail to appreciate the brass-knuckle politics at work. Ken has only been doing fantastic work in public service these years, and yet he keeps drawing attention to McAuliffe’s SEC investigation. Terry outsourcing the dirtiness lets

Democrat Terry McAuliffe, struggling to create a positive image for himself in Virginia’s governor race, is setting the stage to shift the dirty work of negative advertising this fall to others.
Mr. McAuliffe, a prolific former Clinton fundraiser who is far outpacing his Republican rival, has shifted millions of his campaign dollars to the Virginia Democratic Party, where it can be spent on attack ads against Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II and get-out-the-vote efforts.
The tactic allows him to keep his own advertising and message positive, polishing an image that still suffers with voters in a race in which both candidates with high negatives are vying to be the least unpopular.

Another ad focuses on Ken Cuccinelli’s efforts to protect the citizens of Virginia from being defrauded by Global Warming Hoaxer Michael Mann, whose hockey stick did for infamy what Wayne Gretsky’s did for the NHL. Makes sense, really: the Global Warming farce dovetails with Terry McAuliffe’s GreenTech farce.

Ken actually has a record of public service, and serious ideas about government. Terry. . .raises funds. I guess if you’re committed to living in a banana republic, in a bleak future with President Benghazi at the helm of a sinking ship of state, maybe having her lackey as governor serves a twisted kind of logic.

Ken Cuccinelli for Governor

McAuliffe is clearly more fit to govern Illinois, or maybe just go straight to the joint.

Category: Election, Virginia

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15 Responses to “That Psycho-style Imagery In The Anti-Cuccinelli Ad Was Surely A Tribute To Anthony Perkins, Not An Attack”

  1. MrEvilMatt
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 8:41 pm

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    August 23rd, 2013 @ 8:41 pm

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    August 23rd, 2013 @ 8:41 pm

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    August 23rd, 2013 @ 8:41 pm

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  6. thatMrGguy
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 9:17 pm

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  7. joethefatman1
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 10:43 pm

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  8. Professor_Why
    August 23rd, 2013 @ 11:45 pm

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  9. K-Bob
    August 24th, 2013 @ 12:08 am

    Reminds me: Conservatives need to step up to the plate in this fight. We keep saying we want a conservative to run (in various races), so when we get someone that’s in the high 90th percentile of conservativism, it seems we should all jump on that bandwagon.

    Especially in Virginia, which is very much an indicator of the outcome of the national race in 2016.

    Cuccinelli needs to raise more money, because the Dem machine is backing the trougher, big time.

    (And yes, I did send him some money. I know money is tight as hell now, but remember that five thousand contributors of $25 each is a LOT better than twenty-five contributors of $5000 each.)

  10. Joe Dokes
    August 24th, 2013 @ 5:59 am

    So o/t…what’s new with Bill S.?

  11. DetectiveJake
    August 24th, 2013 @ 9:49 am

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  12. LN_Smithee
    August 24th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm

    Methinks among other motivations, McAuliffe feels the need to distance himself from this ad because he doesn’t want to have to address the dishonesty of the language. In a quasi-clever use of intonation, the female narrator says:

    “Ken Cuccinelli is on a mission. He wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade in Virginia to make all abortions illegal.”

    This sentence, obviously written by political professionals, is designed to misinform Inattentive, unDerInfOrmed voTerS who don’t know that Roe cannot possibly be “overturned” or outlawed within a state. That’s what the whole case was about: Henry Wade was the Dallas prosecutor enforcing Texas law that outlawed abortion. The Burger Court ruled against him, guaranteeing a limited right to abortion in any state in the union.

    If only the Republicans would educate dumbed-down voters instead of giving up and dumbing-down their own language.

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  14. SwiperTheFox
    August 24th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm

    Not only are more Americans pro-life than pro-choice, but more women (and younger people) say that ending a beating heart is unacceptable than men– Republican politicians need to rub the Democrat’s noses in their extreme stance and how unpopular it is.

  15. SwiperTheFox
    August 24th, 2013 @ 2:49 pm

    The fundamental core of the race is basically this:

    McAuliffe– “Hey, voters, please look at this shiny o object and not the fact that I’m a big government insider known for crony capitalism and dealing with gigantic wads of money wasted for personal gain– I’m so into campaign finance that I bleed ‘Green’.”