And by “Hicky,” they don’t mean “Mayoral.”
As The Associated Press reports:
National Republicans are pulling a West Virginia Senate ad after Democrats revealed a casting call for actors who looked like hicks to play state voters…
…The ad showed men in flannel shirts and baseball caps worrying that Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin would side with President Barack Obama if elected to the Senate.
It’s a theme the GOP has been hammering in the battle to replace the late Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, though Manchin’s opponent, businessman John Raese, denounced the ad.
“The ad is ridiculous and I am happy to say that no one with the Raese campaign had anything to do with it,” Raese spokesman Kevin McLaughlin said.
The casting call listed clothing options including trucker or “John Deer” hats that are “not brand new, preferably beat up,” as well as jeans, down filled vests and “Dickie’s type jacket with t-shirt underneath.”
“We are going for a ‘Hicky’ Blue Collar look,” it said. “These characters are from West Virginia so think coal miner/trucker looks.
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according to the article I saw.
Sure, travel would cost more but there’d be no need for actors in Delta County, where Deere caps, flannel shirts, bad teeth and slightly-off eyes are standard.
Now they know.
“This is good enough for the rubes in flyover country, isn’t it?”
Next up: the NRSC shoots an ad for Ken Buck. Casting call: “These guys are from Colorado, so think cowboys and gold miners. Preferably missing teeth, bowlow ties, big cowboy hats, maybe even riding a cow if one is available here in Philadelphia.”
Smell bad, with cow poo dripping from their cowyboy booties. A little BrokenBack Mountain sheep too.
It was the ad agency, not the NRSC. The real story here is that a Governor with a 60% approval rating is going to lose a race because people just don’t want Dems in the Senate.
They do things like pass shitty Health Care “Reform” bills in the middle of the night with bribes and tricks.
so they must have approved it before.
for NRSC to pull the ad.
Blame it on whoever. It hurt.
He’s always behind the scenes…
Rogue Stafferman!
Watch out or he’ll spill the beans…
Rogue Stafferman!
Whenever you find trouble
You’ll find him in the rubble
So fire him on the double
Rogue Staffermaaaaaaan!
But it’s an entertaining piece of political theater, no?
You can spin the rest as you wish.
No way a candidate would denounce or even comment on an advertisement done to attack his opponent – that would be illegal. RIght, wilson?
Wilson?
Wilson?!
Willlllssooooonnnnn!