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New McCain Ad Calls Obama "Disrespectful" -- Any GOPer Have A Problem With That?

Will any Republican -- anywhere -- condemn the sleaze that the McCain campaign is cranking out on a now-daily basis?

The McCain campaign issued a new ad today that runs through the ways that Obama has supposedly lashed out at Sarah Palin. It actually concludes with a woman saying, in a tone of a matron chiding an uppity black servant, "how disrespectful."

The McCain camp has also released an ad suggesting that Obama is a predator and Palin is her prey. And it launched a spot pairing shots of a leering Obama with talk about sex and children.

Any Republicans out there have a problem with this type of stuff?


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Republicans have become the Party of Victims

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Respect is something you earn, not demand. Everyone knows that.

Obviously, you didn't grow up in the South and/or you're under the age of 45.

First they went TO the South;

Then they did research, filtering for people who are simply uncomfortable about African-Americans (a.k.a. "racists");

Then they tested them, to see what traits about Them really burn their buns ("disrespect", esp. of "white women");

Then they gave it over to the Mad Men, to cook and simmer and serve.

Amazingly, Obama loses all the white women.

And here we are. In the Peanut Gallery. Offering up all our $.02 about what we, in our fandom, think the professional Obama campaign "should do".

[Groan]

Unless you're McCain.

Unless you're McCain.

Sorry for the multi-posts. The internet has got a serious case of the hiccups.

Have you seen the Matt Damon ad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxkrm9uEJk

I meant interview of course.

Matt was more swaying than anyone I have heard.

If you can find me one Independent, Moderate Republican or undecided voter who will be swayed by the opinion of Jason Bourne, I will give you a big old gold star.

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Yup: Playing the Victim Card.

These are two adults. A POW ADULT! And a Lady Adult!

They are neither above the law nor above criticism.

We need to remind everyone over and over. They're adults. They're responsible for their words and behavior. They're setting a terrible example for children! Not to speak of making us a laughingstock for the whole world!

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mcSham campaign in a nutshell:

1. They're lying.

2. They're crying ... wolf.

Everything they do fits into one of these two categories.

We need Lie Counters and Crying Wolf Counters.

Label and File. Label and File. That's our attack!

I say turn all this (faux) outrage into a punch-line say - You know the McCain campaign has a new Toy it's a little box with a crank on it and anytime anyone says anything they just turn the crank and the box says Outrageous! They love their new Toy so much that they just turn the crank to hear it squawk
Outrage! Outrage!

Now of course I've grown tired of the shiny new Toy Box - I don't even bother with it anymore - matters not though what I say or don't say they're just busy playing with their Toy.

Don't you think it's time for some Adult Supervision Now??

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Republicans have become the party of scumbags. Anyone who does not renounce somthing that is incontroverably wrong accepts responsibility for the wrong doing. It is being an accessory after the fact. It is aiding and abetting wrongdoers.

And our response to this is nuanced explanations about why these ads are sleazy.

When the hell are we going to attack, go on the offensive, and destroy them? Why do we have to be the pansy pacifist party that just sits there to lose another election to a bunch of clowns who could care less about this country.

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Hear! Hear! What ThatsHowISeeIt said!

And one footnote to the "disrespectful" angle the scumbags are using. In another era, not too long ago, they would have said he is not paying proper respect to white womanhood.

That's the bottom line on the message. More not so far below the surface racism and thus all the more reason for us to attack and destroy these vermin right now. Why we're still not doing it is a fucking mystery to me. The sooner we destroy them, the sooner we can quit worrying. There's simply no reason for all this hesitation and namby pamby niceness. Go after them and don't stop pounding their worthless asses until they've got no life left in them!

Yes, the Obama camapaign needs to hit hard and hit often (if today's response is the whole shebang, then that's a problem. If it's the start of a good, hard smash to McCain's face every single day then they will win.

But it can't just be about them. The whole premise of the Obama candidacy is that we ALL have a stake. We ALL must commit to winning and changing the situation.

The correct answer is that everyone who cares needs to get involved in a serious way -- as volunteers and advocates and donors.

Along those lines, last night I created and posted my first ever YouTube issue ad. Lord only knows if it will help, but at least it's something: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9rdUXA_qlI

And our response to this is nuanced explanations about why these ads are sleazy.

When the hell are we going to attack, go on the offensive, and destroy them? Why do we have to be the pansy pacifist party that just sits there to lose another election to a bunch of clowns who could care less about this country.

And our response to this is nuanced explanations about why these ads are sleazy.

When the hell are we going to attack, go on the offensive, and destroy them? Why do we have to be the pansy pacifist party that just sits there to lose another election to a bunch of clowns who could care less about this country.

If only Obama had accepted his town hall proposal, McCain wouldn't be doing this kind of stuff.

I blame Obama.

Hey, she shouldn't have been dressed liked that...

Yes, Obama is the reason that McCain is forced to lie about Obama over and over again and make him into a sexual predator. Yes, thats the ticket, Obama made him do it.

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snark, i believe. hyper is just mocking some of the more unhinged commenters here. (see below)

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Actually, he's snarking what McCain himself said last night.

No, McCain said that. He said if Obama had agreed to the small town meetings it "might" not have come to this. He is such an ass.

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I agree...

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...with Hyper.

No, you don't. You think that McCain's tactics are a-okay. You like Slimeball. Hyper doesn't.

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Hyper wrote: "If only Obama had accepted his town hall proposal, McCain wouldn't be doing this kind of stuff. I blame Obama."

I agree...

Irony is lost on you. What a surprise.

You still like Slimeball.

But then again, you're a republican. Please excuse my redundancy.

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No...I know what he was saying and I was joking with him by agreeing with the statement (which I actually agree with).

Uh huh. So, now we're supposed to believe that you're a master of nuance (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). I know you're a republican, but Rove you ain't.

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When did "being a dick" become the lipnus test for Democrats? I thought it was Roe v. Wade...

Since I'm not a Democrat, I wouldn't know what the litmus test is (nor the lipnus test either -- did you bother taking chemistry in reform school?). However, it's pretty clear from your performances that being an asshole is pretty much a sine qua non for republican membership. Wit and intelligence, not so much.

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...you guys really haven't been much fun since the polls started turning...I can only imagine what it will be like as it gets worse for you.

LastWorditis? Go for it.

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Based on what?

In your dreams maybe. Once a snake, always a snake.

Here in Texas, we have an effective way of dealing with snakes. Chop off the head, the body dies.

Keep the focus on McCain's flippity-floppity "strengths"

In the meantime, don't tread on me.

Do you agree with the way this campaign has been run?

I can understand if you don't like Obama and would prefer McCain to be president. Policy disagreements are normal.

This is something else, though. The McCain campaign is doing little more than finding ways to avoid real issues and blatantly lying. I've been disgusted by this campaign. I could have been able to stand losing a fair fight based on the issues as McCain used to say he wanted this to be about, but again, this is something else.

He based his whole argument on experience, and then picked someone with less than Obama.

He said that Obama was nothing more than a celebrity and then picked someone who has quickly become more of a celebrity than Obama.

Kindergarten sex-ed, pulling the victim card daily, keeping his VP from the press like it's some kind of punishment for their behavior, making fun of community organizers, blatant lies, the distractions, blatant pandering... I could go on and on. The unadulterated cynicism of the McCain campaign is in full force.

This campaign makes me want to vomit. I don't say that as a Democrat, but as a logical human being concerned with where these kinds of politics will lead us.

Do you sympathize at all? Maybe you think a few or most of my complaints aren't valid, but I think we can find some agreement here.

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Actually, I do think there's some fake indignation on the "sexism" charge...but no more than the fake "racism" charges by Obama. I wish they had waited for a better time than the "Lipstick on a pig" moment cuz I'm sure Biden will provide us with one. Now the sex ed to K-12, is a real bill that Obama voted for and said on GMA did say sex ed for kindergardeners is "the right thing to do...
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/07/sex-ed-for-kind.html
so I don't have a problem with that ad.

For fuck's sake, SFC. Stop taking shit out of context.

"But it’s the right thing to do," Obama continued, "to provide age-appropriate sex education, science-based sex education in schools."

Taking shit out of context is what "SFC" does. He's nothing but a fraud in every imaginable way. Ignore him.

I have been.

But I didn't want that to go uncorrected.

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...which in his opinion includes kindergarden...

It’s kind of makes me sad. When you first got here SF, I took you as a real conservative. A small government, keep your laws out of my house, responsible with the economy conservative. Like many of my closest friends. Over the months, you’ve become a shameless partisan. One, that in my opinion, wants to make child rape easier.

If you are not able to look at these republican tactics for what they are....

And if you are unable to look at the intentions of the bill, in the way they where intended, then you are beyond redemption, and your thoughts are beneath consideration.

I would feel much differently if you had taken a clear position based on your beliefs, not on ideological and team purity. Imagine, if you had said: you know what, I don't want the government regulating my children, and family decisions that way. I want my family to make its own choices about sex ED. And I also see the McCain Advert is a bit sleazy, but I ultimately agree with McCain’s world view more than Obama’s, I would have take your ideas very seriously.

Instead you have become a partisan shill, and rabble rousing troll. Your few months at TPM have turned you into a shameless partisan. No worries. Just another moron who's posts I will ignore.

But I thought it worth pointing out that you are not a real conservative. You are a scumbag.

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My beliefs are parents should decide what a 5 year old learns about sex, parents should have to consent before their minor child submits to elective medical procedures and I'm against child rape (in case you were wondering).

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"Your few months at TPM..." I've been posting here for several years actually.

Why does John McCain love pedophiles?

"Nobody's suggesting that kindergartners are going to be getting information about sex in the way that we think about it... If they ask a teacher 'where do babies come from,' that providing information that the fact is that it's not a stork is probably not an unhealthy thing. Although again, that's going to be determined on a case by case basis by local communities and local school boards.'"

The article also states that it includes opt-out provisions for parents and that it envisions discussion of "inappropriate touching."

It is age appropriate and can be determined on a local level. Age appropriate for kindergartners is not sex-ed in the way that we think of, so the ad is misleading at best and completely leaves out the primary purpose of extending to that age group is to help combat sexual predators.

The ad uses about the creepiest Obama picture they could find and keeps it on the screen for about the whole thing. They are trying to link creepy Obama with kindergartners and sexuality. It is a blatant and disturbing tactic that completely avoids any real issues and attempts to associate Obama with kindergartner sexuality.

It's despicable and just another distraction.

You have a problem with teaching kids to recognize sexual molestation when it is happening to them and report it to an adult? Surely you are not serious.

I remember when I was quite young (probably kindergarten, although I could not swear to it) my mother gingerly questioning us (me and my brother) whether anyone had ever touched us in a way that made us uncomfortable. We had no idea what she was talking about, of course, and she did not get any more explicit than that, but she recognized in our incomprehension that we had not been touched that way and simply told us that if ever some such thing were to happen, we should tell her. I think that this was exactly the right approach. My innocence was not compromised by the experience and it was a salutary approach to preventing molestation (although, thankfully for me, such a prevention was never necessary).

This is all that Sen Obama's bill called for. The same thing that my own dear mother did for her kids. I really cannot imagine that anyone, Republican or Democrat, could take issue with that in good faith, and I am rather distressed to think that a Republican could take such sane, wholesome thinking and twist it into something ugly to use against a Democrat. You are surely better than that, dear SFCWallace.

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"I remember when I was quite young (probably kindergarten, although I could not swear to it) my mother gingerly questioning us (me and my brother) whether anyone had ever touched us in a way that made us uncomfortable." Exactly, where it should've happened...when YOUR mother decided it was appropriate...not when Barak Obama decided it was appropriate...

By the time a parent decides the education is appropriate, it might be too late for the child. Moreover, a significant percentage of molested kids are sexually abused by someone in the home. But I guess you think that kind of "education" by a parent is preferable to Obama's approach.

You are one sick bastard--willing to align yourself with child molesters in order to score political points.

By the time a parent decides the education is "appropriate," it may be too late for the child. Moreover, a large number of sexually abused children suffer that abuse in their own home. But I guess you're OK with that kind of "parental education" if it helps McCain win the White House.

By the time a parent decides the education is "appropriate," it may be too late for the child. Moreover, a large number of sexually abused children suffer that abuse in their own home. But I guess you're OK with that kind of "parental education" if it helps McCain win the White House.

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