Ron Paul's Unintentionally Hillarious 1st TV Ad

[maximusveritas]

Run time: 00:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30yxHqSUva8   Posted on YouTube: October 27, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 28, 2007 By DU Member: maximusveritas Views on DU: 3305

 
This ad is so bad, it's good.
Everything about it is bad. The script, the acting, the editing.
The funniest line is when the guy says "Actually...I agree with him most of the time...I really do." Did somebody really write it like that or was it just terrible acting? Either way, it's hillarious.
Some of the comments are just as funny. Even the Ron Paul fans who worship everything he does appear to be upset with the quality of this ad.

[Bonobo]

1. Thank you for that. It was sublime.

[nvme]

19. wow

This is up there, "wheres the Beef", "I've fallen and i can't get up", The clapper, chia pets , and porn quality acting in ron pauls commercials!

[rockymountaindem]

2. Was that second to last dude real?

Or did he bleed over from the "Leave it to Beaver" signal?

[trotsky]

4. Gee Wally...

I really like Ron Paul!

LOL that ad is so cheesy it's almost painful to watch.

[DuaneBidoux]

3. He believes in liberty: like the liberty to die in the Non-existent public streets, or die of....

poisened meat because there are no standards, or have our kids die of asthma on a smoggy day because there are no clean air standards, or to die of mercury poisening because there is nobody to stop greedy corporations from pouring their filth into our rivers and lakes. If you want a really good idea of his kind of America, read The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair.


Actually, if you look close his ideal country would be some third world African country deep in the Congo: no government, no taxes, lots of guns, lots of disease, and many many uneducated ignorant kids.

Progressives need to make it real clear to the people falling for the get out of Iraq message that there is a lot of ugly stuff beyond that.

[laconicsax]

6. You forgot some.

such as the liberty to have your house burn down while privatized firefighters shrug it off, the paramount liberty of being denied the ability to adopt a child if you're gay, and the fundamental liberty to be denied safe and legal access to abortion.

I'd have to say that it's generally bad to have elect someone to the highest office in the Federal Government whose attitude is along the lines of "the only good government is no government."

[tomreedtoon]

15. You put it very succinctly. Thank you. BUT...

...why was I the first to recommend this thread? Where were the rest of you guys?

This needs to be seen, especially around my neighborhood, where people have been posting these hand-stenciled red-white-and-blue signs saying "Who is Ron Paul?" and "Ron Paul for Freedom." It makes him look like a candidate for a high school student council presidency.

Well, beating up him is kind of pointless, since he doesn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell of getting elected, but at least it isn't Hillary or Obama bashing for a change.

[DuaneBidoux]

21. I'm think my concern is that he's pulling more ignorant progressives than conservatives

that's my big concern.

[tomreedtoon]

22. Thanks again, for recognizing the "ignorant progressives."

People here on DU tend to complement anyone who agrees with progressive views. But that doesn't mean that a person is automatically smart, or has thought through the positions. Someone could have progressive views and be sold a loon candidate like Ron Paul easily.

There can be ignorant progressives. It should be the duty of a place like DU to make them less ignorant.

[DuaneBidoux]

24. I've always believed ignorance is a non-partisin condition.

(I do happen to feel in general the right has the advantage--but they are everywhere).

[Perry Logan]

23. I'm pretty sure Ron Paul would have lost New Orleans.

[ryanmuegge]

25. Libertarians believe that people are inherently good.

That's obviously foolishness. Actually, it's beyond naive: it's fucking idiotic.

Communities will police themselves and help each other without a state apparatus to mandate it. If the government's out of the way, people will take care of each other out of the goodness of their own hearts. At the same time, though, they encourage greed. It's a very strange ideology.

[LoZoccolo]

5. And who really suffixes a sentence with "I'm tellin' you", lol! n/t

[Hissyspit]

7. Yipes! "I'm undecided, but I'm gonna vote Republican"

TRANSLATED: "The Republicans have been in charge of everything for the past seven years and are completely corrupt and have fucked up everything. I can't decide what to do about it, so I think I'll vote for ... a Republican! Yes, that's right. I'm an idiot! I am so gonna get some action tonight."

[Faryn Balyncd]

8. Here's a Ron Paul YouTube video that DESTOYS the establishment GOP . . . . . . , , , ,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfv4nC3xyr0


Whoever wrote this could teach the DLC strategists a thing or two.

[tnlurker]

9. That did not seem like a Ron Paul video

It was just a Bush video from the 2000 election

[Faryn Balyncd]

18. You're right. Here's the correct link . . . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDjkDALABJ0


While the title of this video is not factual, the attack on the administration's foreign policy is thorough.

[StClone]

10. Why is he a Republican?

I don't get it...so different -- a breed apart -- yet he's still an R. At least Perot saw the benefit of labeling.

[NoGodsNoMasters]

17. Actually...

..historically speaking, he's the MOST republican candidate running. Neoconservatism, the prevailing ideology on the right today, may sound like you're average republican, but they're actually dramatically opposed. traditional, old-school republican values are states' rights, small government, a maximum of individual liberties (Though not necessarily in a good way.), and a noninterventionist foreign policy. First of all, although sometimes the things he says absolutely blow my mind, i don't support Ron paul, I wish that he was more representative of the right than Dick cheney, however many Ron paul fans on this forum and elsewhere have a skewed perception of where he stands. Ron Paul generally opposes social welfare programs, and embraces privatization just as much as Bush and co. He also opposes a woman's right to choose, although he has said he would not directly overturn it, but seeks to leave it up to state governments. The gray area arises because the republican party is turning into the neoconservative party, so traditional republican ideas sound unfamiliar.

[ryanmuegge]

26. The "conservative" part in "neoconservative" is a definite misnomer.

[Mark D.]

11. Why? Healthcare?

Why is he a Republican? He's self-centered, that's why.
That's one common trait they all share, as you'll notice.
As others above say, people have no idea how ridiculous
it would become to have a Libertarian president and that
is exactly what he would be. "He understands Healthcare".

What a crock of bullshit. He understands one thing. Roll
away Medicare/Medicaid, seniors, poor rural folks, they
have it bad enough as it is with the system now. So in
his mind, the best way to fix a leaky boat is to blow
the boat up and let the fuckers swim for their lives.
It's not HIS problem, his boat is doing just fine...

Ron Paul's campaign is based not on lies, but on a
dissastisfaction with the neo-cons from the right,
and left folks just too blind to see the huge and
horrible plan he'd have to sink this country into
a have and have nothing at all free for all mess.

It's based on only partial disclosure. Scream in
his pipsqueak voice about Iraq being bad and the
Neo-Cons being bad (and we all agree) oh I'll be
screwing up the US in every other way but pay
no attention to that. He is not fooling me at all.

I'm constantly amazed how many people who would
be voting Democrat favor him for just his war stance
as if he is offering something there Kucinich isn't in
that regard. My only hope is Ron runs independent
and splits the GOP vote between the fake-con and
corporate liberal neo-cons on one side and the all
for me, screw you Libertarians...on the other side.

[Tab]

12. Howard Dean is a medical doctor too

Fat lot of good that did him.

[BobTheSubgenius]

13. so is Bill Frist

And a fat lot of good that did ANYONE.

[TheFarseer]

14. what was the budget on that?

about $11.50? I think that's indicative on how he will be frugal with the tax payers money. Think someone will try to spin that?

[NoGodsNoMasters]

16. You'd think....

...they could've put together a better ad. Or somebody in the editing room might've said "ahhh... I think this needs some work." Possibly the worst political ad I've ever seen.

[D23MIURG23]

20. Horrible

If Ive seen a worse campaign ad, it doesn't come to mind.