"Bizarre GOP Ad Paints Women As Obama's Girlfriends"

[applegrove]

Bizarre GOP Ad Paints Women As Obama's Girlfriends

Samantha Lachman at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/obama-women_n_5862004.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

"SNIP........................


"In 2008 I fell in love," the ad's narrator begins. "His online profile made him seem so perfect. Smart, handsome, charming, articulate, all the right values. I trusted him."

The ad uses a similar trope to other GOP spots in having supposedly former Obama voters say they have become disenchanted with the president.

"By 2012 our relationship was in trouble, but I stuck with him because he promised he'd be better," the narrator continues, citing the economy and National Security Agency surveillance as two areas in which the president had upset her.

"He thinks the only thing I care about is free birth control, but he won't even let me keep my own doctor," she adds, referring to the Affordable Care Act complaint that patients can't always keep their plans and doctors, which has been the focus of numerous Republican ads in races across the country this cycle.

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How utterly patronizing.

[MADem]

1. Gee, at least they don't have him picking up blonde Playboy bunnies and insinuating that he's a

libertine ...and the woman isn't half dressed...like they did to Harold Ford (I met Haaarold at the Plaaayboy Club!!! Haaarold, call me!!)

That's a step UP for the GOP. They've "graduated" from racism and sexism to simple sexism!

They're still in the gutter, mind you...and they should be ashamed.


Reference (from days gone by, from Corker campaign v. Ford):

Note the He's. Just. Not. white Right. at the end of the ad.....

About as subtle as a train wreck.

[applegrove]

2. Oh man. Those are just sad.

[MADem]

3. The GOP doesn't have a clue how to argue the issues. They have to get snide, and snarky, and

well--STUPID.

I guess they've given up on women voters based on that ad. It's just offensive on so many levels. They might as well have just cut to the chase and said what they were actually thinking, that they harbor a strong institutional dislike for intelligent, articulate, self-actualized women--this is how that ad came across to me:

"Hi, I'm a GIRL and I can only relate to politicians as potential BOYFRIENDS because I'm too STUPID to talk like a MATURE ADULT about the IMPORTANT ISSUES of the day...SQUEAL!!"

It's just...well, vomitous!!!

[applegrove]

4. I was trying to say why it was so offensive but didn't want to upset myself anymore. You captured

it perfectly.

[MADem]

6. I know the terms "dismissive" and "patronizing" are often overused, but some days it seems like

the GOP invented the doggone concepts!

They insult half the population at their own peril!

[applegrove]

7. You have to wonder if they aren't pandering to their base at the same time with a wink wink

to the masogynists out there who vote GOP.

[Rex]

5. And this is the reason GOPers are so out of tune with the real world.

"He thinks the only thing I care about is free birth control..." Exhibit A.

[Trajan]

8. It's a Republican political ad ... What did you expect?

The truth? ...

[JustAnotherGen]

9. They are assholes

Why am I not surprised?