Foley killer featured in Republican campaign ad
Source: CNN
The not-yet-identified killer of kidnapped American photographer James Foley is featured in an ominous and risky campaign ad released Monday by New Mexicos Republican nominee for Senate, Allen Weh, the underdog challenger to first-term Democratic Senator Tom Udall.
Weh, a Marine combat veteran and onetime New Mexico Republican Party Chairman, appears to be the first candidate this cycle to use Foleys gruesome execution as campaign fodder, portraying the murder as one consequence of a rudderless American foreign policy mismanaged by President Obama and Udall.
Foley himself is cropped out of the web video, leaving only the stark image of the black-clad jihadist, clutching a blade in the Syrian desert.
That picture is on screen for barely two seconds second and then fades quickly into a cascade of dark Middle East scenery including ISIS militants in Iraq and the bombing of mosques all of it intercut with video of Obama playing golf and vacationing on Marthas Vineyard.
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muntrv
(14,505 posts)aggiesal
(8,923 posts)it backfires on this candidate.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)they've got our governor all wrapped up, maybe this guy too.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)alsame
(7,784 posts)Max Cleland with the Osama ad.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)For Pukes and Baggers, no low is too low. They appeal to the HATE crowd, that grasp at straws to justify their hatred of anything.
Married with Children
Marcy Darcy to Al: "Al Bundy, you're a pig (etc.)"
Al Bundy to Marcy: " Well you are, uh, you are...a chicken!"
When Pukes got nothing...they can always go with the "you're a chicken" campaign.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)It will appeal to the brain dead Faux News audience, but nobody else.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)That's beyond poor taste. Good Lord.
Viva_Daddy
(785 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)fantase56
(444 posts)Allen Weh is not even a blip on the radar at this time. Senator Udall has a 20 point lead and is only running positive campaign ads not even mentioning his "opponent". wish we had some democrat or independent as strong as Udall to run against Suzanna Martinez for governor. at least she's not quite the nightmare Weh would be.