Michelle Nunn Takes A Page From Blistering Anti-Romney Playbook

[DonViejo]

By DANIEL STRAUSS Published AUGUST 28, 2014, 11:15 AM EDT

Democrat Michelle Nunn's campaign for U.S. Senate is taking a page from the playbook Democrats used to hit Mitt Romney over his time as the head against Bain Capital.

A new television ad by the Nunn campaign targeting businessman David Perdue, the Republican nominee Nunn is facing in the Georgia Senate race, hits the former CEO for his time as the head of Pillowtex in North Carolina. The company went bankrupt soon after. The ad features people in neighboring Salisbury, N.C., many of them elderly, describing how the bankruptcy devastated many of the employees while Perdue "walked away with his $1.7 million."

"Just months after David Perdue abandoned Pillowtex, the company went bankrupt," the ad said.

"All we were was people to make money off our backs," one of the people in the video, Cynthia Hanes, who the ad said worked at Pillowtex for 31 years, said near the end.

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And compare it to the ad "Stage," below:

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[JNelson6563]

1. Excellent ad.

People need to know who devastates their lives.

Julie

[MANative]

2. Dan Malloy here in CT is doing a similar one against Repub Tom Foley

in the Governor's race. In the last poll I saw, they were neck-and-neck, but Foley has some trouble with the somewhat moderate Repubs that you find here in CT. My brother-in-law and his wife both generally vote R, but when I saw them this weekend, they expressed great distrust and dislike for him. Both said they would vote for Malloy.

[msongs]

3. anybody actually watch any of these ads? nt

[groundloop]

4. Yep, I've seen them on TV and their excellent

Perdue's ads just have a childish, mocking tone to them. Michelle Nunn's ads seem far more human.

Now I wish we'd start seeing something like this for our governor's race, I've yet to see a Jason Carter ad. There should be plenty of ammunition against Nathan Deal in regards to his ethics investigation in Washington (and last minute resignation from Congress), as well as his firing of the chief of Georgia's ethics commission.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Me, too.

I'm also seeing some excellent DCCC ads in the same vein against Rick Allen, the crook who's trying to unseat John Barrow. It's nice to see the Dems on the offensive around here for a change. I don't recall ever seeing ads like this so soon, frequent, and so hard-hitting, and boy, it's refreshing! It gives me hope...

[Historic NY]

6. If your one of those 7000+ jobless people you do...

and pretty soon it clicks, with others. Faces of the victims.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Great Ad ...

I hope it gets played every hour on the hour.

On a related note:

I was watching Morning Joe this morning. They were doing a segment on Baseball's shift to "Big Data" to make personnel decisions. The cited to the Houston Astros as an example. But when one of the crew mentioned that Houston sucks, the guy pushing the story said: "Houston did what Romney did with factories ... he went in and stripped the company down to the bolts and rebuilt it to be lean and profitable ..."

I damn near spilled my coffee ... the guy got the first part right; Romney did go in and stripped companies down to the bolts, but then he paid himself to sell off what was stripped and walked away with all the money, leaving behind a heavily debt leveraged carcass.

[Octafish]

7. The Truth Works.

Very effective, politically and criminally. That's why the pukes hate it so.

[Papagoose]

8. Purdue is Georgia's own Mitt Romney - just less likable

...and less likable than Mitt is pretty dang unlikable.

I like these ads and think they're going to be effective. The ads running in support of Purdue are definitely resonating with his base (all they do is link Nunn to Obama) but I don't think they serve to give undecided people a reason to change their minds and actually vote for him.

I'm not looking forward to October TV - I have a feeling commercial time is going to be All Purdue All the Time - with a few Nathan Deal ads sprinkled in for extra measure.

[Laelth]

10. k&r for Michelle Nunn. n/t

-Laelth

[Chasstev365]

11. In Illinois

Dem Gov. Pat Quinn is targeting billionaire venture capitalist Bruce Rauner (a Scott Walker/ Rick Synder clone) with the same type of ads and they are starting to have an effect on the race. Quinn is not particularly popular, but the polls are narrowing steadily.

DEMOCRATS NATIONWIDE TAKE NOTICE: GET RUTHLESS ON THESE HIPOCRTICAL TAX EVADERS AND GO FOR THE JUGULAR!