The online activist group MoveOn.org wants Americans to be scared of a country run by another Republican president has produced a video that calls attention to what MoveOn sees as the outrageous positions of the current leading candidates, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.
Talking metaphorically about the U.S. military presence in Iraq, McCain says Americans don’t care whether it lasts up to 10,000 years. The clip cuts away mid-thought to highlight that statement. Romney is featured defending the military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, that houses terrorism suspects and says it should be doubled. And Huckabee calls for amending the Constitution to fit “God’s standards.”
The video closes with a warning that “We can’t let them win” and an appeal for donations to MoveOn.
Categories: Politics, Lobbying, Mitt Romney, John McCain, AdWatch, Mike Huckabee
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If you want the truth about John McCain, just ask Mike Huckabee.
That’s the message of an advertisement that McCain’s presidential team posted online today. It features Huckabee singing the praises of his top rival for the Republican nomination in tomorrow’s South Carolina primary. Here’s one Huckabee quote about McCain: “John McCain’s a hero in this country; he’s a hero to me.”
The ad is brilliant strategy, and the timing is perfect.
Here are two other recent online candidate ads, one by McCain and one by Rudy Giuliani, another of his GOP rivals:
Categories: South Carolina, Politics, Barack Obama, John McCain, AdWatch, Mike Huckabee
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The candidate advertisements are coming almost daily now that the nation is in the thick of the presidential primary season. This is the first roundup installment of the latest ads. I’ll be posting them as warranted under the headline above, without any commentary from me.
Plenty of other Web sites offer analysis of the ads. I’ll just post them so AirCongress readers can see what the candidates have to say in their own words.
Categories: Politics, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, AdWatch, Rudy Giuliani
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Pollsters, pundits and all manner of political observers were astounded yesterday when Hillary Clinton bested Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination in New Hampshire. Now they’re trying to make sense of it all.
The Republican battle was less dramatic but no less momentous in that it vaulted John McCain back into contention for the nomination after many analysts had written him off during the summer. He defeated Mitt Romney.
Here’s some of the video chatter available online (more to be inserted as I find it):
Associated Press
John Fund of The Wall Street Journal
The Politico
Steve Clemons and Mark Schmitt of the New America Foundation
Categories: New Hampshire, Politics, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain
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