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New McCain/RNC Ad In Montana: "Don't Be Bitter. Vote McCain"
The Huffington Post gets a hold of a new radio spot that the McCain campaign and Republican National Committee are airing in, of all places, Montana:
"Hello, I'm Hank Williams, Jr. When Barack Obama said folks like you and me were bitter, and clinging to religion, I knew he just doesn't understand small town America. We love our God, and we love our guns, 'specially handed down from our grandfathers. And we resent it when liberals like Obama question our way of life. Don't be bitter. Vote McCain."
The ad then rather abruptly veers into an attack on Congressional liberals over taxes.
Meanwhile, a second RNC spot -- at same link above -- hits Obama on taxes with a line painting Obama as a risky unknown: "Just as you suspected, Barack Obama's wrong for you."
Whatever. The Repubs have been forced to run ads in Montana. That's all that matters here.
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C'mon, Montana, make them waste more money!
October 28, 2008 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
God, guns and gays - like who cares when the economy is shattered?
October 28, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's the thing. Back in February, when Obama made the original remark, people probably weren't bitter. Unhappy, worried about the future, uncertain, yes. Bitter? No.
Now? I think people ARE bitter. They're bitter about the bailout. They're bitter about their retirement incomes shrinking. They're bitter about losing their home, or bitter that spendthrifts might get a bailout. They're probably not thrilled with $150,000 being spent on clothes and makeup.
In any event, maybe the Obama campaign should play the Junior Johnson ad in Montana. Don't know if Montana is big on Nascar, though.
October 28, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you are absolutely right. I know I'm bitter and most of the people I talk to are bitter as hell about what the Repugs have done.
They crashed the economy - again. If people aren't bitter about it, they're nuts.
October 28, 2008 1:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nope. Montana's rural folks are more about horses than cars, and grandpappy's guns are for hunting, not for playing -- and Brian Schweitzer's showing them that Democrats have moved beyond gun control.
Montana conservatives aren't like eastern/southern conservatives, and the state DOES have a Democratic past. I'm really curious to see what the margins'll be in Montana on Nov 4.
October 28, 2008 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Johnny Mac is the one who will be feeling bitter come Nov. 5...
October 28, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shocked this isn't running in Western PA!
October 28, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Barack is going to win Montana. I stand by my 41 state prediction.
October 28, 2008 1:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey! You said something yesterday I wanted to talk to you about and then you left.
You said you went all over Texas with your dad watching fast pitch games. My husband played fast pitch in the Dallas city majors league and played all over Texas - you might have seen him play.
When you were going around watching those games?
October 28, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Summers of 1966, 67, 68, 69. I was in elementary school. Daddy played for the Wichita Falls Merchants. We ran into teams from Dallas quite a bit.
October 28, 2008 1:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a little early for Mr. Tena - he was playing in the late 70s.
O well - sorry about that - cause he was really really good.
October 28, 2008 1:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
My dad is 75 years old now. I'm guessing Mr. X is much much younger!
October 28, 2008 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just a bit.
LOL!
October 28, 2008 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I take it Hank Williams, Jr. doesn't possess even the slightest sense of irony then. The ad reeks of bitterness.
October 28, 2008 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Repugs don't do irony. Morans....
October 28, 2008 1:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hello, I'm Hank Williams, Jr. My daddy used to sing a song called "Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used to Do". Well, that's pretty much how ol' John McCain is feelin' these days. So why not put the old boy's disturbing smile back on his nasty little face? Don't leave him bitter. Vote McCain.
October 28, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not voting until I hear who Hank Williams III is for! (Actually, I voted last week, but you know...)
October 28, 2008 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
C'mon, Montana, make them waste more money!
October 28, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
ha ha.. this one should be:
be bitter, be very bitter... vote Obama....:)
(McCain airing ads in Montana a week before the election.. I'm SLOWLY beginning to think pigs will fly on Tue. evening....:) :)
I know I know, it ain't over till it's over... BUT BUT BUT: it looks like the fat lady is slowly entering the building....:)
October 28, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Quick! Go outside and turn around three times and spit (or curse)! It's the only way to not to invoke the thing from high atop the thing.
(Courtesy Adam Sorkin and the West Wing)
PS Great avitar!
October 28, 2008 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bitter, huh? What am I bitter about? How about stagnant wages, rising income disparity, the rich getting richer while I get poorer and poorer. I'm bitter that I graduated 5 years ago and still haven't found a decent job. I'm bitter that I have to buy generics because I can't afford anything else. I'm bitter that my father can't sell sell his cattle. I'm bitter 4 friends have been laid off in the last year and I've been laid off twice in the last four years.
I've got a lot to be bitter about and I'm voting for Obama!!
October 28, 2008 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
You go, Joe the bitter!
October 28, 2008 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jeez, and I just got off the phone with somebody who has lost his job for the second time this year and had to drop out of school because of it.
(I work at a major university).
The fundamentals are strong!
October 28, 2008 1:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
The fundamentals suck. I work at a university as well, and our department secretary just took out a second job because she wouldn't be able to afford to send her son to the very reasonably priced state university in the region without that second income. The fundamentals suck.
October 28, 2008 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, you're just bitter because you refused to take that job picking lettuce for $50/hour. At least that's what McCain told me you did.
October 28, 2008 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd take that job in a second.
October 28, 2008 2:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think McCain's economic recovery plan requires that you find a wealthy beer heiress to get hitched to. Any prospects?
October 28, 2008 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is off topic but I wonder if this video could make it onto prime time news. I think it would be funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvtq4UYNIE
October 28, 2008 1:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just love that little bint bitching on her father's behalf that he has to pay higher taxes cause he is a doctor and went to school for 13 years.
That shit really gets me - especially doctors. They make a shitload of money because we have a health care system for profit and there's something deeply immoral about that to start with.
October 28, 2008 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to stick up for doctor's daughters (my wife being one), they're not all a mixture of privilege and cluelesness. And amazingly, I think McCain did alright with the answer, essentially Daddy pays more taxes because he makes more money and we feel that those who benefit more should pay more.
BTW - anyone else notice that Princess was complaining at a state university? I'm assuming that she goes there and gets a subsidized education. Boy, talk about socialism!
October 28, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol...check out this Obama video guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xnk9aqih8o
GOTV, vote early, drag your neighbors to the polls, anything everything...yes we can!
October 28, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's great, but it's misplaced here - you're preaching to the choir. I've done everything I can do - I've sent more money than I can afford. I've made sure everyone I talk to is voting.
If I was in Dallas, I'd take people to vote - Taos is small and I'm not necessary for that here - it's covered and recovered.
We'll all committed.
October 28, 2008 2:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Look at this point it becomes nagging and it's counter-productive.
Obama needs to be careful here - there's a fine line between motivating people and nagging them.
October 28, 2008 2:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION VOTING!
October 28, 2008 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Repugs are welcome to Hank Jr. We get Dr. Ralph Stanley, a much better musician even now than Hank Jr. has ever been.
October 28, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
A lot of us in Montana are tired of Hank and his attitude, that guy down in the bitterroot should have kept swinging when he had junior on the floor.
October 28, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here Here!
As a Montanan, most people I know, even if they are CW fans, think HWj is an overbearing interloping ass with more money than sense. His boorish behavior hasn't endeared him to anyone I know in the Bitteroot Valley.
Not the most effective spokesman. Hmm. Maybe he is. For the Obama campaign.
Montana may yield a surprise on election day. I wrote a reply awhile back about visiting friends in north central Montana wheat country. The Obama office in Harlem, a small town of 900, is active, effective, and has had good support from the national campaign. I am amazed by the depth and breadth of the Obama ground game here.
These hardworking, gun owning, tolerantly religious folks aren't bitter. They're pissed. And most of the Montana women I know were insulted by the Palin pick, and think she's a poser.
October 28, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink