I didn’t think my comment was that obscure. I’ll attempt to clarify. I believe the following is an accurate characterization: Over the past several years BB commenters have complained many times that Democratic politicians are not using against their Republican rivals the same dog-eat-dog tactics the Reps use against them. The point is frequently made that attempting to take the moral high ground–by running a “clean” campaign, making reasoned policy arguments, seeking bipartisanship, refusing to go for the jugular, etc.–doesn’t bring in votes the way that rage-inducing emotional attacks do.
My point is that this guy’s ad is what people have been asking for. Vicious, over-the-top, aimed straight at the gut. In their ads Republican candidates have mass-murdered Democrats and humped oil wells.In this ad Boebert literally spews shit. I’m not calling anyone a hypocrite. I’m just saying that if one says “go for the jugular” this is the sort of stuff you get.
Will this ad help unseat a Qnut? I tend to agree with gracchus that Dems “should look to the neoCons at The Lincoln Project instead of imitating teenage edgelords from 4chan.” But that’s just my opinion, worth no more than anyone else’s. I’ll hazard a guess, though, that if this candidate gets elected, other Dems will look at his campaign and set about creating their own sleaze ads.
I guess I see what you are saying, but everybody sees things through their own filter. I haven’t seen calls to “go to their level”. I see people that are appalled by ads of Republicans shooting their opponents, or calling out for Guns Babies and Jesus.
I see people saying that Democrats pull their punches, that they pussyfoot around things, that they are too concerned with appealing to centrists and that they need to go harder in showing people the damage caused by republican policies, whether it’s in numbers of people killed by guns, dead from lack of health care, or living in poverty because of wealth inequality.
I have not seen anyone saying that we need to go to their level in terms of the course, blunt, appeal to people’s worst instincts way that the right wing does.
But, we might be reading different posts or reading the same posts differently.
In any case saying “why are you complaining, this is what you asked for” seems strange in a thread where everyone has said “Do not want”.
ETA: and I think that even the most fervent fans of going for the jugular are thinking more, in the case of Boebert, about something like hitting on her husband being an SO and the details of that, rather than spraying a bunch of shit around
Yeah that’s a huge red flag. Either this guy is a traditional, moderate (aka conservative) Democrat, or he’s just throwing this out there because he knows it’s a popular idea that plays well in that district. Either way, it’s a sign that this guy isn’t the one, regardless of the juvenile ad.
There are so many Dems running in the primary to go against Boebert at this point, it’s impossible to keep them straight. I hadn’t heard of this guy before. There’s a slight chance that someone who could speak to people in Pueblo and Durango as a working class person and point out policies that help them that Boebert didn’t support could break through, but it will be an uphill battle. Those are indeed very red areas. Every time we go down to Durango we see at least one Trump clown car, covered with banners and stickers.
At least the redistricting didn’t put my awesome rep, Joe Neguse, up against her like an early map they proposed did.
Get with the times, Paw-Paw. Lot of these ads in the past 10 years are created for an online audience, and then whatever brave/desperate-for-content local broadcasters decide to spend time bleeping and blurring them for the evening news.
There’s nothing funny about the misogyny, either. That line (at 1:39) “Colorado needs a bull…” was the worst part of the whole thing! Is that this candidate’s slogan?
Now that guy running for the Senate in LA… he had the right idea. He didn’t make something focused on his opponent, but rather on what he wants to do for the good people of Louisiana. That was an effective ad that tells you something about the candidate in an engaging way…
Raphael Warnock also had great ads - the one with the puppy was excellent.
His name is Gary Chambers and I agree completely. “Scars and bars” is a campaign ad I can get behind. The ad from Colorado doesn’t even call out Boebert for anything specific; its just shitty in every sense
