Okay folks, I put on my full-body slimeguard armor and wandered over to Littlegreenfootballs. I wanted to see if the Goopers were in a lather about their new "killer spot"--the one that supposedly tested so powerfully that Rove held it back for the endgame.
Guess what? It's a wet firecracker over there, too. Some selected comments here, below the fold.
I think the perception of wolves has changed so much it will reduce the efficacy of this ad. I'm a Bush supporter and I frankly hated it.
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This is an effective ad, but I can see it back-firing on the RNC. At maximum, we are likely to hear (once again) of how we are resulting to scare tactics in order to win the election. I recognize the message as being of greatest importance: the means of conveying it, however, could be done in a more effective way.
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I'm not offended they used wolves, I just don't think it worked for me cos I don't think wolves are scary. Hell people always think my dogs are scary and I can't understand that either.
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Loved the ad! My wife and I were in awe of those beautiful animals.
Wait ... you mean it was a BUSH ad?
Didn't even pay attention to the message because of the animals.
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Oooookay . . . well the metaphor didn't work for me because wolves are not scary to me. Is that in simple enough language for you? I see a wolf and I am awed, or interested, or even happy, but not scared. Even a pack of wolves. In the ad, they just looked like wolves. Not scary. A pack of wild dogs would be scarier, or hyenas, or jackals, or coyotes . . . just something else.
Other than ranchers, who today is afraid of wolves?
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Are wolves admired up here in Minnesota? We named our NBA franchise after them! So, yeah, generally we like our hundreds and hundreds of wolves, thank you very much... ;)
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So, a couple of us didn't care for the ad.......soooooooo?
What's important is that it works on the undecided and Kerry voters on the edge. Hope it does.
I couldn't find a single comment that was more than tepid. I DID, however, find ample examples of ugliness burbling up:
Y'know, Karl Rove should've just hired a couple of cabbies and 7/11 clerks and dressed 'em up like Sheikhs and armed 'em with plastic scimitars and cartoonish cannonball-type bombs and put them in the woods instead of those wolves.
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Around these parts, a common bumper sticker reads "Kill a wolf, save an Elk". Perhaps we need a companion sticker on the left side of the bumper. "---- a Dem Candidate, save America"
Ahh, racism and violence. Don't have to scratch hard to find that over there in Gooperland.
I'm going to shower now. I hope B/C '04 spends every last penny running that ad.