Brown Ad Uses Whitman's Words Against her

[bemildred]

(Video)

The ad's simplicity is powerful, contrasting Whitman's nostalgia for the California of 30 years ago with the blunt reality that Brown was the one running it.

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Brown, meanwhile, does not seem to have taken much of a hit from the recording of someone on his team referring to Whitman as a "whore." And snappy, hard-hitting ads like this may help him keep his momentum in the last week before the election.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/brown-ad-uses-whitmans-words-against-her/65142/

[tabatha]

1. The last two ads were absolutely brilliant.

Meg Whitman is the star of the ads, and Meg Whitman destroys herself.
Brown did not have to say a thing.

[itsrobert]

2. I think even the Whitman campaign can applaud these ads

They are genius and they know it. They know they are beat. If they are decent people they have to give it up to the Brown campaign.

Of couse, they are more likely crying like the babies they are.

[tabatha]

4. As a child, Meg Whitman used to have a temper tantrum

when she lost. I wonder what she will do when she loses Nov 2.

[Hekate]

3. Kickety-poo for Governor Brown!

:evilgrin:

[opihimoimoi]

5. Brown gonna clean her clock and drag her to the cleaners..she ain't got poo poo

[Control-Z]

6. Brown's ad have been brilliant.

Think about all the money Nutmeg spent getting in our faces for weeks on end while Brown just sat back and waited patiently.

Then, without fanfare but with perfect timing, out come these amazing Brown ads. Fantastic!

I haven't seen this new one on the tube yet but look forward seeing it. It's right up there with the parroting Ahnald-Whitless ad. The damaging words falling right out of Whitman's mouth. You gotta love it.

Edit: typo

[PhilosopherKing]

7. Whoever is running his campaign

should be in charge of the DNC.

[bemildred]

8. Anne Gust plays a critical role in Jerry Brown's campaign, insiders say

After courting a number of police unions in his bid for governor, the Democratic nominee and California attorney general had just learned that he had lost an endorsement to his Republican rival, Meg Whitman, and feared others would follow.

Fuming as he huddled with a small group of advisors in his Oakland headquarters, Brown ordered an aide to call another police union. Then Anne Gust, Brown's wife and political confidant, stepped in.

"No, no, no, no," she said sharply. "Jerry, let's not sound desperate. OK? Really, let's not sound desperate. Now just move on. You've left messages."

The exchange was inadvertently captured in a voice mail that also featured an unidentified aide's use of the word "whore" to describe Whitman's jockeying on the issue of public pensions. It provides a rare window into the critical role Gust has been playing in her husband's political career as she helps steer his gubernatorial campaign in the final weeks of a rough-and-tumble race.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/22/local/la-me-anne-gust-20101021

[66 dmhlt]

9. Hanged from your own petard. Thanks, Meg!

[Merlot]

10. Brilliant Ad!

We know Jerry's a smart guy, but this ad and the one before it take it to a whole new level.