Perfect! Just perfect! Feingold (WI-Sen) has a new campaign ad out and it's a doozie. Show's the Vikings (huge foes of Wisconsin) mooning their
opponent. Yes, the analogy is there, mooning is what the corporate special interest and Ron Johnson are engaging in.
"THEY'RE DANCING IN THE END ZONE."
TRANSCRIPT:
In pro football they call this excessive celebration..and they punish it
with fines of a 15 yard penalty.
That's exactly the kind of behavior that corporate special interest and Ron Johnson are engaging in.
They're dancing in the end zone because they think they are going to take down the U.S. Senator who's been named the #1 enemy of Washington lobbyists.
Fortunately the game is not over yet.
Feingold and Johnson will debate Friday night. It will be the first time that voters will actually see Johnson when he's not reading from a script. GO RUSS!!!
Feingold is part of what I call the "firewall" that will protect us from being taken over by tea party mentality. He is a "must win" as is Harry Reid. I can no longer be bothered by my state's dysfunctional candidates who are all shoe-ins. (Arizona, for those who don't know!)
This article sums up Feingold rather well.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/...
Wisconsin's Russ Feingold in Peril, But Still Practicing 'I Did It My Way' Politics
RACINE, Wis. – After 18 years in Washington, Russ Feingold remains the senator who has built his career and his voting record around (hat tip: Oscar Wilde) the importance of being earnest. High-minded, idiosyncratic and sometimes exasperating to his fellow Democrats, the 57-year-old Feingold was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and this year was the only Democrat to oppose Barack Obama's Wall Street reform act, arguing that it was not tough enough.
But Feingold is facing the toughest re-election campaign of his career (although his 1998 victory was a squeaker), not because of his different-drummer political pedigree but because (eek!) he is an incumbent Democrat. Trailing self-funded Republican plastics manufacturer Ron Johnson, a newcomer to politics, in every published poll since July, Feingold is under heavy fire for his votes for the health-care reform bill and the 2009 economic stimulus. As Republican State Chairman Reince Priebus puts it, gleefully mixing his metaphors, "Johnson's caught on like wildfire – he's the flavor of the day."
As he put it, in words that few contemporary politicians would utter, "To me, not to have certain values about what it takes to win an election makes it not worth it to win an election. So I'm going to stick to those values. And if I lose because of it, so be it. And if I win because of it, even better."
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my favorite comment:
As a football fan I can tell you
Packers fans have the pantsing image seared in their mind and will connect to the ad. Feingolds' numbers just shot up in Green Bay
by optimusprime on Tue Oct 05, 2010 at 11:28:13 AM MDT
UPDATE...FROM TPM http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/...
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the NFL has asked the campaign to take down ad, on the grounds that they did not license the usage of their footage.
When asked for comment, the Feingold campaign sent TPMDC this statement from senior adviser John Kraus: "We are making an edit to the ad to accommodate the NFL's concerns."