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May 14, 2008 09:30 PM UTC
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Denver — Bob Schaffer launched a new television ad in Colorado where he claims to have “Colorado Common Sense” while falsely claiming that Denali (Mt. McKinley) is Pike’s Peak.
What a hoot!
parasailing on the Colorado River!
Yeah, that’s right, the South Platte.
Thanks for making my day.
1. he’s a republican
2. he was in the house
3. or any policy.
Man they are going all out to make him look like a moderate.
well produced though.
It looks like he’s walking through a video game.
Dick Wad. really thinks that the Silent Bob routine is going to win the election? I have always heard that this guy is a brilliant political operative… Is DW over-rated?
He did challenge Udall to seven (!) Lincoln-Douglas style debates over the summer. Where, presumably, he would finally have to speak.
Schaffer touts “The Change We Need,” which bears an uncomfortable similarity to the Republican slogan stolen from antidepressant Effexor. Aren’t these guys supposed to coordinate their message?
What else can we expect from Schaffer and his antidepressant advertising?
Bob Schaffer: Your Life is Waiting (Paxil)
Bob Schaffer: Depression Hurts (Cymbalta)
Bob Schaffer: No. 1 For Millions of Reasons (Zoloft)
Side effects may include loss of Americans jobs shipped overseas, sky-rocketing fuel prices while oil companies profit at record rates, cuts to health care programs for kids, and higher insurance rates.
May cause sleeplessness, thoughts of suicide and lack of sexual function.
Maybe that explains wave of pick ups in men’s rooms.
Most anti-depressants are not recommended to people with suicidal tendencies.
Such as: “I think members of Congress ought to be looking at that model [the Marianas] and be considering it as a possible basis for a nationwide program.”
Take any image and put it behind him as he nods back at “Pikes Peak.”
Take any drug slogan and put it after his name. (Try it with the “Smilin’ Bob” of the penis-enlargement ads a while back – that’s funny! “Here’s Bob…”
Mt. McKinley
Wadhams can’t remember what state he’s in.
not only does he support shipping jobs overseas: he think’s washing has better mountains than colorado
Next you’re going to tell me he’s a raiders fan.
its in CA
that Mt. McKinley is in Alaska.
Also known as Denali, located in Alaska.
You’re obviously thinking of Mt. Whitney or Mt. Shasta, or maybe Washington’s Mt. Rainier. None of which are in Colorado (note to Schaffer ad crew).
they’re all so photogenic, as opposed to Colorado’s dull, drab mountains.
Wadhams could take some pix “Sweatshop” with Pikes Peak in the background
on the top of Pike’s Peak. You’d think he might have had some photos to commemorate the occasion.
He just mis-remembered.
But one thing’s for sure: he observed no forced abortions while he was there!
That’s another reason for Schaffer to avoid the El Paso County Lincoln Day dinner this Sunday. Think the locals will give him shit over mistaking Denali for Pike’s Peak?
(The ad does run a picture of the Pikes Peak under his proposal narration.)
“Bob Schaffer, a new direction for Colorado …”
Yeah — North — WAY North.
Schaffer might have a better chance winning the senate seat in Alaska…their Senator Ted Stevens (R–of course) has his own ethics issues this year….
have the baby today . having a 2yr old crawling over you shrinks your brain.
thinking ranier
It does pretty well introducing Schaffer to the general population. Everyone here will beat him up on the details but I think this will play nicely next to Udall’s first crack…
I stand by my initial reaction – short on substance compared to Udall’s, and Danny’s critique is spot on too.
after the “Thanks Bob” and “There’s Something About Bob” ads. Not coordinated, mind you. But dovetails nicely on those.
Schaffer, Wadhams and Schaffer’s other consultants know that the old right wing fanatic image he fostered as the congressman from the 4th CD doesn’t have a prayer of winning this November. They also know that Schaffer has not run in a high profile race since the last time he ran for Congress in 2000. In the intervening years, the population of Colorado has grown and, to a degree, turned over which means there are many Colorado voters who have never heard of Schaffer and don’t have an opinion about him. Those voters are wide open for the new image he will attempt to foist upon them.
It may be time for a good attack add that lays out in bullet point form the positions Schaffer has taken in the past. No need to allow him to redefine himself. He needs to be held accountable for the positions he has taken in the past. If the public is made aware of his actual positions, he doesn’t have a chance this Fall.
running to the right of Pete Coors. Democratic-leaning 527s can just run his ads from that primary and help reintroduce him to voters.
Is it just me, or is it a bit disingenuous for B.O. Bob to be running on a “The Change We Need” message when he is running to replace a fellow Republican in the Senate for Colorado? Shouldn’t it be “Senator Allard’s done well, I’ll keep the train rolling?” Oh, wait, I forgot, Sen. Allard voted with all the other Republicans to unbalance the budget earlier in the decade, and cause the spending train wreck we’re in now. Silly me.
Bob Schaffer: “I came after Wayne Allard in 4th District, just as he came after Hank Brown. Won’t you allow me to come after Allard, who came after Brown, in the Senate too.”
Voted against diverting fuel from stockpilking in the strategic reserve, it passed 97:1. This may be the first time he has distinguished himself.
on politicians — Republicans or Democrats — talking about their families in ads? That is, unless the politicians want to explain how their families effect peoples’ pocketbooks or their ability to do their job effectively in Washington. Thank you.
that he’s not gay. Dog-whistle politics.
Impressive, though, that he has two kids in ROTC and one at the Air Force Academy. That 100-year war he supports is going to need soldiers.
That’s just one example where “gaydar” might have been more effective than a dog-whistle.
and Sen. Larry Craig ran ads featuring his beard and two children, too.
a subtle point that he’s not gay? or maybe like most intro ads he is telling people a short story of who he is.
Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) and have two families….
But what do you expect: he comes from “the state so nice, they named it twice.” He figured the same goes for families.
This is not a good sign coming so soon after the Marianas Islands screw up, the conflict of interests alegations against him as a SBOE member, and his insistence on taking no positions on public policy issues.
This has all the trapping of the Beauprez campaign heading for iceberg.
Dick Wadhams will spin this back on course. Sure he will.
I say we start referring to the candidate as Ohio Extremist Bob Schaffer. He’s earned it.
the Denali/Pike’s mix up is too funny.
from a guy from Ohio?
How soon until ProgressNow comes up with a response ad?
the ProgressNow people were just laughing their asses off when they wrote up their press release.
From Mike Riley’s blog at Politics West:
Guess I just lost a client for goodsies.
NEEDS CHANGING !
He can move mountains.
It was the media consultants fault,
Don’t blame me, I’m just the campaign manager and it is always someone elses fault, the buck stops someplace else, don’t you know, I am the golden boy, infallable and the next incarnation of Karl Rove.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
I think he’s my uncle’s (by marriage)cousin.
The name Begich is not only an political name in Alaska it used to be a political family in northern minnesota where Nick (Mark’s Dad) and I were born. Folks on the Iron rage are just a little crazy.
Don’t know anything about Mark’s politics (other than he’s a D), but it be nice if he could unseat one of the most corrupt politicians in national politcs, ted stevens.
He’s polling well and if you’d really like to stick it to the GOP, let’s win that race. Send him a little money.
http://www.begich.com/
Just because Matt Hamlin is working on it. He was my counterpart on the Dodd squad, and really did some great things.
is all over it:
http://www.rockymountainnews.c…
on the day you release your campaign’s first ad:
Why is Bob sheilding himself with kids? This is the third ad airing for Sweatshop starring kids without any real substance.
Just to be fair, he didn’t air the other two. They were aired for him by a group he no longer supports.
Why are Bob’s handlers, and 527 campaigns from out of state. shielding him with kids?
There’s no real substance there. Kids sell. They also don’t do damage unless they’re dead or underage and caught in your bedroom.
Those are DEFINITELY his kids, gosh darnit! Yes, that’s his wife. Yes, we stole our slogans from the Democrats….
And his daughter attends Fairbanks Community College.
I’d like to compare this ad for “change” with what Bob has said in the past running for office as the conservative who’s more extreme than Dick Cheney. Anyone have any vintage tapes they’d like to put up?
Dicky doesn’t have that much originality in him.
Whether it’s borrowing the “Change” theme from Barack Obama without attribution, or appropriating “Millionaire Lawyer Lobbyist” from Gene Nichols, Wadhams has never been shy about using Democratic campaign slogans.
It’s actually Mt. Maccaca!!! Which is somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
That’s why DickWad thought it was familiar.
Maybe Denali Bob should do a guest appearance on “Are you smarter than a 5th grader?”
Like recognizing the mountain you proposed to your wife on???
Must know how to type with your tongues. The Posts keep coming and I know you must have broken both your arms patting yourselves on the back by now after catching this.
we use voice-recognition software. You conservatives still use keyboards?
You’re saying you wouldn’t be cackling insanely if Ritter had made the same mistake?
It’s just so incredibly amateurish: you make a mountain the visual AND verbal centerpiece of the ad, and then you pick the WRONG MOUNTAIN and one that’s not even IN Colorado?
I mean geez Louise, how could anyone NOT have a field day with that?
Just grin n’ bear it!
Um, did Smilin’ Bob even LOOK at the ad when it was done, before it went out? “Hey, that’s not the mountain I proposed to my wife on!” “Hey, there’s not a gigantic lake in front of Pikes Peak!” Geez Louise, what a joke.
I know Dick Wadhams is a carpetbagger and shouldn’t be expected to know any Colorado landmarks, but what about the freakin’ candidate himself?
He came from Ohio and was almost instantaneously in the state Senate.
He’s been a politician since he was 25 years old.
He’s been so fascinated with being a frothy-mouthed ideologue that he hasn’t had time to actually learn about Colorado’s geography. Obviously he couldn’t even bring himself to go outdoors for a photo shoot in front of a Colorado mountain. If he had, he wouldn’t be having this trouble.