The Wolves are after her
By E M Barner | Thursday, September 11th, 2008 | PoliticsBut, hey, she’s Sarah Barracuda, right. She shoots moose and hangs them in her daddy’s living room (well, we really don’t know who shot the critters in this video — but they sure are hard to miss).
The real genius of this McCain ad is that it predicts the attacks on Sarah will get worse as Obama’s poll numbers drop. So, when the next attack comes, we will have implanted on our subconscious the idea that these attacks are just a sign of fearful desperation by a tanking campaign.
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E M Barner, the blogger formerly known as DCH / De Civitate Hominis (“concerning the city of man”), writes from a Northern Virginia perspective. Barner has been active in Republican politics and policy since 1994 – as a grassroots volunteer, party leader, and professional.
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5 Responses to "The Wolves are after her"
Smart phrasing. Even though the DNC has flat out denied any truth to Fund’s WSJ article, McCain can say the ad is still true. It doesn’t say Obama sent them, it says the WSJ reported that Obama sent them – and that is true even if the original article is a falsehood.
Well, except the “Obama” part. Fund’s article says Democrats, not Obama, sent the investigators (note they left the subject out of the written quote, only had the announcer say Obama – so that’s slander as opposed to libel then, right?).
Guess I’m wrong then. It wasn’t smart phrasing, just a lying ad from McCain. I’m shocked i say, shocked!
If Obama’s camp didn’t arrange for people to go to Alaska to look into Sarah Palin’s background, then Obama’s folks are guilty of plotical malpractice.
Every campaign investigates the opponent. Take it from me.
For Obama to deny this is laughable. Of course the Democrats are in there looking around. Good God. They should do it.
For McCain to exploit it is predictable, but the obvious (politically) thing to do. Hence the “wolves” ad. Brilliant.
I mean, does anyone seriously believe the Dems aren’t poking around in Alaska, just as the Rs assuredly did in Chicago?
Good Lord. This is how things are done.
Actually i agree, about the intent part- i’d be disappointed if there wasn’t someone there other than muckraking news media looking for interesting tidbits. The DNC response actually surprised me in its full denial, thats one of the reasons i commented on it in the first place.
Of course, its possible they are entirely relying on local party loyalists to do the work – that way they can refute the story and still have early dibs on any dirt.
Or they just figure the folks from the National Enquirer will do a better job at finding anything than they could hope to.
Is the McCain campaign saying that Sarah is going to start shooting lawyers out of her seaplane? I’d vote for anyone who would start that up
So who’s up to remixing this ad together with cuts from the beginning of The Thing? Cut from the wolves to the guy shooting at the wolf from a helicopter flying over the snow.
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