Uniter not divider ad to counter "Bush hatred" TP

[gulliver]

I like the idea of commercials that feature Junior in his Top Gun costume, but here is another angle I don't think is getting enough attention. All this talk about Bush hatred from the right is nothing but an attempt to blame the bitterness of current American politics on Democrats. We need to counter that.

Therefore, I suggest an ad as follows:

Intro: Bush saying "I'm a uniter not a divider."
- and another "I'm a uniter not a divider."
- and another "...niter not a divider..."

Then: Bush saying
- Senators (majority Dem) are more interested in politics than
than protecting the country. (Homeland defense jibe.)

Then: Ari Fleischer saying
- "Americans need to watch what they say"

Then: Ugly still photo of Tom DeLay -- hard to find ;-)
- DeLay saying "Disgusting" (seems to be saying it
about himself because his picture and the term disgusting
are mutually resonant)

Then: Images of pollution/coughing people.
- Gale Norton saying something about arsenic in water and
ANWR

Then: Cheney saying something about Dem patriotism

Then: Bush saying Rick Santorum is a good man

Then: Rick Santorum gesticulating and foaming

Finally: Voice-over (and not that one smarmy, snide guy I can't stand, I hope). "George W. Bush promised to be a uniter, not a divider." A picture of George Bush winking (from the recent TNR cover for example) fades out.

Any other ideas?

[kentuck]

1. I think that would be effective....

Because most people do not see Dubya as a "uniter". He has been the most partisan leader of recent memory, moreso than Clinton.

edited spelling

[Bandit]

3. Do you believe President Clinton was a "very" partisan leader?

I always believed he was willing to go the extra mile and not become too partisan. I don't recall ever hearing him say a bad thing about the Republicans and in fact had several in his cabinet. He and Dole have actually become good friends.

[Catshrink]

5. The Big Dawg was a uniter!

He is a diplomat, a reconciler. He knows how to get things done.

#42: The last elected President of the United States of America. I was proud to be an American when he was our leader.

[bleedingheart]

6. I think Clinton handled himself very well given the grief the GOP

gave him...

He was a better person than I would have been about that crap....

[kentuck]

7. No. Clinton was a "uniter"...

But the right-wing think of him as a "divider". Why?

[Catshrink]

8. That's what I said....

Clinton, a.k.a. the Big Dawg, was/is a uniter. The repugs think of him as a divider because he won. He spoiled their little dynasty. Now the moron is trying to reestablish it but obviously doing a pathetic job of it.

on edit: I'm a moran. I read the thread wrong. Please accept my apology. This got posted in the wrong place.

[kentuck]

9. Yes. I was responding to Bandit.

:)

[ikojo]

10. Clinton lacked the backbone and support

to stand up to the constant criticism leveled against him from the right-wing of his party and the Repugnicans. At any whiff of criticism he would back off from a nominee and drop that person fast. I see this as a lack of conviction.

Say what you will about Bush, he refuses to back down. If people hate Bush, as I do, then it is with reason. He IS partisan. He DOES have contempt for working Americans and the rest of the world. He and his class do not know what it is to live on a paycheck so they don't care what they do to the working class.

Clinton hatred on the other hand was irrational. Here was a president who did all he could to enact the Repugnican agenda: Welfare Reform..passed
NAFTA...passed
DOMA...passed
GATT...passed
PNTR w/China...passed
Minimum wage...raised ONCE during Clinton's TWO administrations.
None of the above were friendly to the worker. All of the above legislation favored the employer over the employee.
The pugs hated Clinton ONLY because he was a Democrat and that is the ONLY reason. To the extremely partisan pug party of today Democrat equals socialist regardless of how conservative (as in Clinton, Lieberman and Gore et.al) the Dem is.

[Don_G]

2. That's A Good Idea

I hope the Democratic party airs commercials like this in 2004 to show the public just how the Rethuglicans have been operating in arrogant secrecy since "they've" taken control.

[tnlefty]

4. how about adding international protest pics and/or quotes from

foreign leaders to illustrate how his policies have had a negative impact on our relations with other countries?

[Ernesto]

11. TMHMOE is a "uniter"?

TMHMOE= The Most Hated Man On Earth.