Because it worked so well for them?
It technically follows the adage: āIf you canāt say something niceā¦ā
Why not also upload to YouTube? It doesnāt cost a penny does it? Maybe you have to pay a staffer for 10 minutes of their time - 30 minutes if theyāve never seen YouTube before.
Or possibly because of the fine-grained kickbacks / favors the service can afford its favorite government partnersā¦
I suspect that Trump would proudly run this ad himself as validation that heās not like (and not liked by) āthe establishmentā. Heās that delusional.
Many Republicans I know are now looking at Garry Johnson, the Libertarian candidate.
If he gains traction, Hillary is a shoe in, just like Clinton One won because Perot took too many voters that would have otherwise voted for Bush.
Sheās starting to pick it up. Good. Finally. Glad to see her campaign starting to focus and show some spark.
Dear GOP,
You did this to yourselves.
Love,
Liberals, centrists and everyone else who isnāt in a political party.
So sheās doing campaign ads for Trump now?
Pssst, Hillary, the fact that lots of people hate Trump is part of the reason others love him.
Also, Iām really not going to get scared into voting for you. Give me something to vote FOR, not just something to vote against.
Itās all in Googleās hands now. Itās not like any of us were using democracy in the first place so:
~whatever~
Right? I canāt imagine Sanders endorsing ads that stoop this low. Nor Obama, actually.
To be fair, if Trump wasnāt born rich he might have built the family fortune the same way his grandfather did.
(Granted, Canada doesnāt allow brothels any more.)
Now, if we can get the right people to see thisā¦
While thereās a loud fringe of people who definitely love him because heās a racist bigot, I think that with the campaign going widespread, getting film in front of average voters of respected Republicans saying that ātheir manā is a racist xenophobic bigot isnāt going to help Trump very much.
Itās a tactical miscalculation on her part, and itās showing that her campaign strategists have a critical weakness: they donāt understand the fundamental (and, to a certain extent, shared) appeal of Trump and Sanders.
I think the fact that heās a racist xenophobic bigot that makes career politicians nervous is exactly Trumpās appeal to many of his supporters. A commercial saying āDonāt vote for Trump because other Republicans hate him!ā is like an anti-Bernie add saying āDonāt vote for Sanders because the investor class hates him!ā
Really? I think Romney doing exactly that completely backfired. āRespectedā Republicans are the very sort of āestablishmentā figures that so many voters on both sides are sick to death of.
I think the Trump minions are going to have a lot to work with in their own smears of the other side. As Kshama Sawant points out in her argument that the energy generated by Sandersā run must not be wasted:
As a U.S. Senator, Clinton voted for the Iraq War, the Patriot Act, the Patriot Act re-authorization, for new āfree tradeā deals (including the 2008 Panama agreement which helped perfect it as a tax haven), for bank deregulation, the Wall Street bailouts (TARP), the 2006 border fence legislation, and the list goes on. As Secretary of State she was perhaps the administrationās most aggressive proponent for interventions in Libya and Syria that fueled the humanitarian crisis in the region. She acted as a global spokesperson for fracking, and in spite of considerable pressure from Sanders has not backed down from this environmentally devastating practice.
Hillary won the admiration of Bloomberg Businessweek for her corporate advocacy as Secretary, noting that āClinton turned the State Department into a machine for promoting U.S. business,ā and sought āto install herself as the governmentās highest-ranking business lobbyist.ā
How can anyone seriously argue that we can continue our political revolution by supporting one of the highest profile opponents of that revolution, who has essentially vowed that the things weāre fighting for will ānever ever happenā? Hillary Clintonās actual policies will not be rooted in whatever platform is passed at the convention, but will be based instead on her own neoliberal politics and on the influence of Wall Street and the billionaire class that have funded her campaign. In fact, the Clinton camp has already responded to Sanders, rejecting attempts to push Hillary to the left.
