NEW MEME: THE "WOLVES" AD MAY HAVE COST BUSH THE ELECTION.

[MallRat]

The wolves are cute and kinda cuddly.

The ad was an attempt to stir up fear among the voting public.

Instead, it became a 30-second display of how flailing and desperate the Bush campaign really is.

I don't think the Republicans intended for people to LAUGH at this commercial.

SPREAD THE WORD: THE "WOLVES" AD MAY HAVE COST BUSH THE ELECTION.

-MR

[TrogL]

1. There's an even shorter meme "Crying Wolf"

[Jack_Dawson]

6. Ditto

[Birthmark]

7. The President who cried, "WOLF!"

[Cha]

37. I like it!

I haven't heard about the "Wolves ad" and am almost afraid to ask?

[meegbear]

2. Im on it babe.

[H2O Man]

3. Another DU poster

suggested that the administration has cried wolf too often. I thought that was a great response.

[fob]

4. You know if you take the "W" out of wolves you're left with LOVES!

WOLVES = FEAR

W LOVES FEAR

NO W = LOVES

[LoZoccolo]

5. Yeah, it's so bad it's FUNNY!

You got the idea: don't whine about how cheap a shot it is, that makes us look weak and wimpy. LAUGH at it!

[jacksonian]

8. still think it's a setup

people chuckle "cry wolf" and then an October surprise attack comes.

[Nimble_Idea]

10. kick

kick

[timezoned]

25. Yeah but cry wolf means exactly that

The critique is that they've gratuitously used warnings as a political ploy, so people stop believing them even if there's a real one. Meaning it's they who have reduced the effectiveness of warning against a real one, by being slimeballs and using it as a tool to win votes.

[jacksonian]

33. no, we would be the ones talking about "crying wolf"

when the hypothetical terrorist attack would come. Therefore we would look like people not taking things seriously.

Just laying out possible Rovian shit. The lie, of course, is the notion that Kerry doesn't take these problems seriously. And the exclamation point to the lie is sleaziness of the whole operation - they would have to make the attack happen, and there is no lamer way to infulence democracy than that.

[Guaranteed]

39. But they're "crying wolf" over Kerry not defending our country,

not the terrorists possibly attacking us.

[Oscar2000]

9. description

could someone describe what that ad is about?

[many a good man]

11. "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."

Henry de Jouvenel

[Bunny]

12. Sorta like Dukakis in the tank?

Could be ridiculed for years, and seen as the decisive moment of loss for the Bush 04 campaign.

[timezoned]

26. boy if this isn't that moment, I can't imagine what is

I posted elsewhere that I want to see it cut together with the pet goat scene.

[swag]

13. It's amazing that they spent $15 million for the buy on the puppy ad.

[FrankenforMN]

14. This is NOT the real October surprise

Do not underestimate Rove.

[jacksonian]

17. kick

[swag]

18. I would never underestimate his sliminess, but it is amazing to me

that the central camp would spend 20% of their post-convention budget on this ad.

They can always pull it, of course, and recoup some losses, but they aren't ones to admit mistakes.

[FrankenforMN]

20. Honestly I think they needed ANYTHING ...

to take attention away from the flu vaccine problem. What better way to do that then to go back to their roots(fear mongering, and distortion)?

[crispini]

22. Did they really spend THAT MUCH?

Jeez......

[AlinPA]

15. The "wolves" ad will backfire. People in battleground states are not

stupid, and they have seen hundreds of ads . This one comes across as a blatant attempt to twist people's minds. People see through this and see it as pathetic. I have already heard people say (at the gym) that it is a stupid ad.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. The only thing we here in MI are worried about is the "wolves" at

our door.

[RetroLounge]

16. Crying Wolf!

LOL

RL

[archineas]

19. hmmm...

this is a pretty lame ad, actually...

the wolves are just out there...

what do trees have to do with terrorism?

OH MY GAHD! THE TERR'STS ARE COMING FOR THE TREES, AND THE PRETTY WOLVES...NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

this test marketed well? where? among whom?

i think it disturbed Mt St Barbara's beautiful mind...

j

[Rose Siding]

23. We SHOULD have been able to turn this on them

but I don't see the "Eagle" ad doing that. It's perplexing: Democrats are represented in the best, brightest, most creative segments of society. As far as psycological impression and media manipulation we should be RULING in the ad wars but I don't think we do.

How about answering the wolf ad with some cartoon footage of wolves and something along the lines of "while George Bush plays games with scary images, here are some images we want to remind you about", followed by bin laden or food lines or gas station price signs or Iraq footage or blah blah blah, I'm not the genius but we HAVE some.

[The Wielding Truth]

27. Yes, DNC . Act now, quickly!

[goodwalt]

24. Live in a red state, so

I haven't seen the "wolves" ad yet. Certainly hope it is a stupid as you say. What has me amazed is *'s new catch phrase that Kerry "can run, but he can't hide". I realize that I am extremely partisan, so please correct me if I'm wrong- But EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN TIME he says that, doesn't he remind the listener that he said the SAME EXACT thing before, and still hasn't caught Osama Bin Forgotten? I am beginning to think that Rove is just as big an idiot as his candidate.

[K8-EEE]

28. Exactly!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE HE EVEN SAYS THAT!

It makes him look extremely forgetful and...kinda crazy!! It sure didn't look like Kerry was hiding from GWB in the debates, it looked like GWB was falling apart. So it makes even less sense!

[timezoned]

29. Rove is given way too much credit

he couldn't get W elected last time, could he? And he's not succeeding this time either, as far as I can see. All this "political genius" stuff is nonesense, he's done a mediocre job at best, by any measure.

[Special_Ed]

30. hmmmm

I think 4 years of horrible decision making is really what is going to costs him the election.

[brook]

31. Wolves:

Never Cry Wolf is a classic novel of nature that examines how fear is derived from things we don't understand and how that fear can lead to potential destruction. Farley Mowat is the first to study and document the wolves in their natural habitat. His findings are astonishing and forever changed how science and society viewed canis lupus.

Interestingly enough, Mowat named the 'father wolf' George.

It's been many years since I read this book - but it dispels the myth of wolves as being the same sociopathic predator species as, say, the Halliburton or the Carlyle - or even the Neo-con.

[timezoned]

32. And *AHEM* not to mention, a critique of the text also

"they wanted to weaken our intelligence gathering abilities" ????

Oh right, now THAT would have been tragic. Just let the Democrats get ahold of that intelligence gathering mechanism, and who knows WHAT they might do to it! Why, when they were finished messing with it, our mighty infallible intelligence units might have, oh I don't know, gotten things wrong! Missed things! Made shit up that wasn't there! Just imagine!

n/t

[senseandsensibility]

34. PLEASE describe this ad

for those of us that don't live in swing states. Another site I vistit had lots of references to it too, but assumed that everyone had seen it. It's frustrating. Thanks !:)

[Cha]

38. I second that request, please!

Give us the juicy details, por favor!

[Cha]

41. I got this off another thread .thanks to

"blondatlast"..

http://www.georgewbush.com/

[johnnyrocket]

35. I STILL say the debates ( the FIRST debate ) cost Bush the election...

but we'll have to see if I'm right.

[phirili]

36. The first debate was a huge winner for Kerry and Bush will never recover.

[PSU84]

40. I though Chimpy was going after the environmental vote.

Y'know: "Save the wolves."

But I really think Kerry is stronger on protecting the environment.
;)