DNC Chairman Tim Kaine Brilliant Ad Campaign 4 Midterms

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/28/888361/-DNC-Chairman-Tim-Kaine-Brilliant-Ad-Campaign-4-Midterms
by DFutureIsNow

Like Howard Deans 50 state strategy to take the WH was a brilliant move, this ad campaign is also brilliant move to keep both houses of congress in democratic hands.

It's not often that I offer praise to DNC officials, well that's just because most of the time they piss me off with their timid or weak ads that never seem to hit the mark.

Well if this new ad from the DNC is a preview to what we can expect from now till November I can ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE that democrats will keep their majorities in both the House and the Senate.


Here is the ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4IQ_kj9eDM&feature=player_embedded

As you can see the strategy is to hang the most extreme ideas of the Tea Party around all republican candidates, hey fair is fair, if you are a republican and do not wish to be associated with the Tea Party you can always come out and say so, if you don't then you might be a "non voting" member but you are still a member.

But the thing I love the most about the ad is that it's all factually true, it looks like no person in its right mind would advocate for the things in the ad but thats what the republican party, via the tea party has embraced.

Actually they forgot to add that the Tea Party wants to Repeal Civil Rights too, but I guess there's only so much you can add to make the ad short enough.

I do hope they go national with this type of ads and keep defining the GOP as the party of radical extremists who have no plan except to undo all the progress America has achieved in the last 18 months.

If the Tea Party taught democrats something is that A GOOD AUGUST is KEY to selling your message and defining your opponent, so this time around it looks like THE FIRST SALVO of the 2010 midterms has been fired by the DNC.

This ad will also FORCE republicans to come out with an agenda of their own, something they clearly don't want to do, but if they dont they will risk ads like this one defining them on a more deeper level.

The only thing I would say going forward with this strategy is to try to personalize it, as we all remember George Allens MACACA moment showed us that video clips of candidates themselves are a powerful weapon against them, you can disavow what someone else says but disavowing what you said it's almost impossible.

So to the DNC, try to fit as many clips of republicans speaking at Tea Party rallies as you can and put them in an ad online or go national with them.

Looks to me like FINALLY democrats are under no allusions, this is war and it's going to be a struggle all the way to the finish line, but at least it looks like we got all our gear and are taking no prisoners.

This ad makes me proud to support democrats, I was expecting less but I was pleasantly surprised, we now have a strategy that will CERTAINLY keep us in the majority.

I have no doubt of that in my mind, now its all about execution, in some places and ad like this will be a though sell, those red states might have an affinity for the Tea Party but this time it's all about keeping what is ours, some seats will be lost mostly in red states but if we can sell the message that the GOP wants to take us back and not forward, thats a strong signal America is ready for change, the good kind of change.

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[w4rma]

1. Dean built up the grassroots. Kaine is building up the coffers of certain consultants with ad buys

commissions. This is the BS we get when we let the DLC get to run things. They take our money and lose elections like they did in 1996.

[sandnsea]

3. Organizing For America is the grassroots now

You have to run ads and this is a good ad.

How can you not see that if you can't find anything at all good in the Democratic Party that there is something wrong with the way you're seeing?

[cascadiance]

5. Not a bad ad, but I think Americans are waiting for one to say what today's Dems will do themselves!

That is where the color of the DLC will either show or "be hidden" with today's DNC and who's controlling the party reins.

It seems to be avoided if this is the only ad being shown.

But to be fair, that is the same strategy that the Republicans will use against Dems (try to find everything wrong with Obama and the Dems and broadcast that instead of what they propose). Perhaps another thing we're learning from them.

I want to hear a commitment to:

- a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood to get rid of decisions like Citizen's United.
- a commitment to real "fair elections" legislation to put in place national public campaign financing.
- a commitment to put in place instant runoff voting, to keep both major parties honest, and not allow special interests to "buy the field".
- a commitment to roll back the REAGAN tax cuts.
- a commitment to restore rule of law and get rid of things like dropping habeus corpus, unconstitutional provisions of the Patriot Act, and put in place REAL laws to replace the State Secrets privilege for civil lawsuits so that the government becomes accountable and cannot throw any case that touches its core that it doesn't want to deal with.
- a REAL commitment to putting together a global treaty that goes beyond the lame Copenhagen crap to deal with climate change and better regulation over energy industries to prevent BP and Massey style disasters.
- a commitment to restore paper ballot voting and GET RID OF electronic voting machines!
- a commitment to put in place a national "no confidence" referendum that would provide an upset populace some way to voice that the government isn't doing its job and put some sort of penalty on it through such a proposition process.
- a commitment to renegotiate NAFTA, CAFTA and other "free trade" treaties or throw them out if they don't put in place additional language to protect and set up global standards for labor and environmental effects of global trade and restores power by member governments of sovereignty of their laws instead of what corporations want to adhere to.
- a ocmmitment to rewrite agriculture subsidy laws to take away such except for the family farmers they were originally intended for, instead of big ag business which use that tax payer subsidy to subsidize dumping of ag products that puts people in South America, etc. out of work doing farm work there, and starts the cycle of outsourcing work to cheap exploitable labor that ultimately moves up here as a supply of illegal immigrants when multinational corps move outourcing operations from country to country in their race to the bottom.
- a restoration of the tariff system we used to have to help bring back manufacturing to the U.S.
- a commitment to help make college education affordable to American students so that they can compete with countries like India, which subsidizes their students to have education through a bsachelors degree in college.
- put back in place the rules of Glass-Stiegel and other financial rules to STOP the casino style gambling speculation that our economy has moved most of its gross national product to support now.
- Put in place laws that doesn't allow corporate affiliation to shield executives from PERSONAL responsibility and liability for the actions they've taken that have lead to economic devastation and people getting in effect murder by the "corporate persons" they hide under now. Massey's Don Blakenship and some at BP need to be PUT IN PRISON! A definite area here would be to prosecute and imprison those that hire illegal immigrants too.

I could go on, but that's a good start of legislation that I would like to see a party commit to and deliver on in the coming years instead of the CRAP we've been "subtley promised as 'change'" recently and not gotten anything back in return.

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13. DLCers want legislation to look like it might do something, but not move any power away from the big

corps and billionaires.

[cascadiance]

14. Yep! Which is why they avoid these sort of ads I want...

At some point I hope enough pressure can be put on Obama to take the risk to make even some of these commitments that will challenge the corporatist agenda, etc. If he can deliver on those promises, or at least show a sincere effort in doing so that shows "risk taking", then I'd be a lot more inclined to jump on his band wagon.

He's the one person that has the power to do this on his own to counter the DLC. Just about any other member of congress has a lot harder time doing this, and at least making a difference. Certainly there have been many who have tried (Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, Alan Grayson, Dennis Kucinich, etc.), but we need someone that can actually help lead such an effort and not just be isolated voices that become targets of the DLC/corporate lobby machine later.

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4. this isn't the dlc. eom

[w4rma]

12. Kaine is a member of the DLC, is he not? Therefore the DNC is controlled by the DLC.

It's amazing how once Obama got elected, he filled *every single leadership position* with a DLCer.

[Individualist]

15. Exactly.

[sandnsea]

2. That's a good ad

I hope there is more to come.

[red red red]

6. I like this ad k&r

[Winterblues]

7. If this ad would play anywhere but u-tube it would be good

We need TV and Radio saturation for the next three months..

[tabbycat31]

16. at the very least make the Youtube go viral

Viral videos are often played on TV.

Edit-- TV not TC

[rucky]

8. Too much reading.

It was decent, but I'm not sure how it would play in Peoria.

We need a singular, compelling message - not a laundry list.

[Scurrilous]

9. Nice.

:thumbsup:

[derby378]

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[ChoppinBroccoli]

10. The Problem With That Ad............

.........is that it's intended to scare people, but I don't think it will. I think the hardcore liberals will all sit there and say, "Look at all those terrible things they want to do!" while hardcore conservatives will sit there and go, "YEAH! We need to do ALL of those things! Those are GREAT ideas!!!"

What you WANT is an ad that makes conservatives backpedal and start getting defensive. This one doesn't do that, in my opinion.

[derby378]

11. Meh

There's no real attempt to reach the average Joe here. Oooooh, dramatic music. Aside from that, pretty flat.