Comments on: The Attack Ads John McCain Never Ran

By: thesteelgeneral

thesteelgeneral — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:16:04 +0000

Wait a sec, this guy's complaining because he couldn't be as RACIST as he wanted? Real cool Family Values. "Fred Davis III, the advertising mastermind " MU HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ! He LOST!! Can't be a mastermind if you THAT, not once, but THREE times, with Sunu and Godless Dole. "My favorite ad of the campaign was as simple as it could be," Davis said. "And it started out something like, 'Long before the world knew of John McCain or Barack Obama, one of them spent five years in a hellhole because he refused early release to honor his fellow prisoners, while the other one wouldn't walk out of a church after 20 years of the guy spewing hatred towards America.' "refused early release"??? My A...!!! McCain, like ALL American POW's had standing ORDERS to NOT accept early release, if it didn't include all the POW's he was locked up with. And Wright did NOT spew hatred for 20 years. That's just his feverish, non-mastermind view on things. Rev. Wright rightly addressed something the rest of the world hates about America: it's behavior towards weaker groups, be it Native Americans, Vietnamese or Chileans defending a democratically elected govt, in 1973. For that behavior, especially since it claims to be the good guy, while being the bad guy, America SHOULD be damned. By God. Summing up: his favorite ad would've been based on two lies: 1. McCain is a hero (while he was just following orders) 2. Wright said hateful things about America for 20 years, constantly and without letting up once. Wright's actions, serving as marine and having a granddaughter who is ALSO a MARINE, speak louder than Davis' lies.

By: FlownOver

FlownOver — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:15:34 +0000

The tragedy is that he doesn't regard simple ethics or decency as his biggest "handcuffs."

By: Andy from MA

Andy from MA — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:13:09 +0000

This guy Davis worked for Liddy Dole's campaign? Was he the mastermind of the "there is no God" commercial? What a piece of excrement. Thanks for providing such a scintillating profile of a worthless piece of humanity MS. Let's get this off to the Pulitzer committee ASAP.
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Lee Atwater would be proud of him.
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MS you have sunken to new low.

By: SBG

SBG — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:07:35 +0000

Did anyone on the McCain campaign ever think for one minute that proposing solutions to problems might be a way to win the election?

Apparently not.

By: maurice2u

maurice2u — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:01:52 +0000

Joe, I appreciate your work mostly, but I'm gonna have to decent this time. . You, Fred, and a bunch of other people need to get over it. They lost. Instead of rehashing it on the national stage, look around. The country is a $@#% sandwich right now and getting moldier by the moment. That's what Obama is getting passed to him by our current President who seems unwilling or unable to do much about it. . The past election basically represented the trend that was already present. The eventual result throughout history of any association that spent more time running "against something" than "for something". Republicans are always championing against something. That can have short term gains when managed well, but long term that philosophy always fails. . Let us move on to the matter at hand. If we don't redefine the "non-negotiable American way of life" and get our house in order, we won't have a house. It won't matter if you are Democrat, Republican, or Independent. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. We have been insane a long time, and part of breaking that cycle is to stop looking back at things that simply do not matter while ignoring the things that are paramount to our future.

By: jayackroyd

jayackroyd — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:20:46 +0000

So it's late. And MS isn't looking
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But consider the alternative category. Ads OBAMA didn't run.
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Doddering old dude findin' a babe in the corner, sayin' in unison "you betcha, there."

By: cfukara

cfukara — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:30:46 +0000

That was a campaign that Michael with re-live in his feverish mind for ages to come. It was to him much like the Woodstock experience was to some.

Or is he, unlike his good colleague Mike Murphy, just ashamed to drop the promotion dead - after the payments stopped coming?

By: gmalcolms

gmalcolms — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:21:48 +0000

sgwhiteinfla,
Obama won by 2%? More like 6.2%. And those battleground states that you mentioned were irrelevant, since he only needed OH or CO and VA (or even CO and NV, but it would've been messy). None of those states were so close. Moreover, he won NM, IA, MI, MN, PA, NH, WI, and ME each by at least 8% (and all except IA by double digits).

Did Davis do the "There is no God" ad for Dole?

I'm kinda curious how they were planning to work the drums into the ads. Too bad someone can't post that on Youtube.

By: exile500

exile500 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:42:59 +0000

I guess it goes to show that if a hack reporter spends an entire campaign kissing Republican booty, he'll develop a few good sources, and get a few good stories out of it.

I'm still waiting for Part III of the Romney For Auto Czar series.

By: James, Los Angeles

James, Los Angeles — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:18:25 +0000

Ummm...... I think everyone knew that Obama was black. So, I'm not so sure that any of those valiantly, restrainedly, honorably not-run ads that the McCain campaign didn't use, pointing out in various ways that Obama was black, would have helped much.
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What dennisdenuto114 @26.
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I think McCain is trying to worm his way back into the good graces of his "base" who probably are waiting for him to come back with open arms. All is forgiven!