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What do you think? I thought it was effective and funny. Will voters get it?
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DCCC Ad On Medicare
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Funny but fraught.
Fraught with what, Auntie?
I loved it!
Short and sweet and to the point!
It opens to the door to Republicans saying that Democrats think old people are useless fools. On the other hand, it is tough, funny and direct. We have to put on the boxing gloves at some point. Why not now?
The lawnmower vignette was OK, but I didn’t get the fireman thing.
I guess there will be more direct ads later.
One thing I haven’t seen pointed out with the Ryan plan: Obama’s health insurance exchanges are abolished, so there will be no floor for quality of the private plans offered to seniors.
I’d like to see a kitchen table ad with a senior couple sorting through piles of junk insurance offers desperately trying to figure out which one is even close to their old Medicare plan, and not really understanding what has happened to their world. And then a sequel with their middle aged Democratic son/daughter trying to explain it to them using more direct terms how the Republicans let this happen.
This actually happened to me, when my elderly father was confused and upset that his prescriptions weren’t fully covered. I told him “Dad – you have been voting Republican for 50 years – what did you expect would happen? ”
He was too far gone to get it, but it would make a great commercial.
The fireman was working as a stripper. He was arriving to a bachelorette party. Personally I think the commercial was effective, but my generation is not the audience it was intended for.
If BLUNT-SKULLS accuse us of calling seniors “useless fools”, we counter by pointing out their thinking outside the box.
Unlike the BLUNT-SKULLS extreme TUNNEL VISION on any subject but their failed past policies and their objectionable ones planned for our near future.
You: “Dad – you have been voting Republican for 50 years – what did you expect would happen? ”
Dad: “…and it would have worked too, except for the liberal tree huggers and welfare queens messing everything up.”
Just asked an old guy to view it and he thought that it was funny and effective. He got the stripper thing where anon did not.
Oh.
How depressing to learn old people are more familiar with strippers than I am.
Actually, I know an old guy who would love to be welcomed at a bachelorette party to dance with the young girls.
skipper, fraught because no matter what we say the Republicans find something to whine and whinge about. It’ll be reported by Politico tomorrow, just wait.
OK Auntie.
And BTW,Auntie, I’m probably just a couple of years before the cut-out pants and raincoat enter the equation.
Poor,poor,pitiful me.
@anon – now don’t get mad but a fireman shovels coal into the furnace on a train
a firefighter puts out fires
hat tip to Pandora…….and equality
It’s not a furnace; it’s a firebox.