Jeanne Ives, GOP, for Illinois Governor Ad

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pete6032

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She's been getting a lot of heat for this ad, which aired during the Superbowl in Illinois. What say you all ATP&N? Insensitive or OK?

 
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Well... I guess it highlights the qualities of the candidate seeking to replace him: bigoted, insensitive, crude, and behind on the times.
 
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Sunburn74 said:
Well... I guess it highlights the qualities of the candidate seeking to replace him: bigoted, insensitive, crude, and behind on the times.
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In other words, time to replace a fake Republican with a real one.
 
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UNCjigga said:
In other words, time to replace a fake Republican with a real one.
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My sentiments exactly. Typical GOP primary stuff. Lets move even more and more to the extreme right whilst trodding all over the basic principles this country was founded on. I wouldn't be surprised to see the next ad out suggesting the rounding up of undesirables and the burning of books in the town square.
 
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imported_tajmahal said:
Who cares if it was in bad taste and insensitive? Was it accurate ?
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Setting aside accuracy, I find it very important that my elected officials be people with strong character. When it comes to state/local politics, I would happily vote for someone with opposing political viewpoints as mine if I thought he/she was more morally upstanding and respectful than the candidate who represented my political views.
 
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Maybe, but the GOP isn't responsible for IL's problems. And the GOP can manage their money, so that's something.
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:D

Well, Kansas says hi, and then the further irony that you proudly shovel over an adjustable-rate high interest loan to the feds, that you have no choice over, in what you stupidly believe to be "my own money!"
The piper is calling, and you are blissfully deaf.
 
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Sunburn74 said:
Well... I guess it highlights the qualities of the candidate seeking to replace him: bigoted, insensitive, crude, and behind on the times.
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I guess some folks from the GOP have seen how Trump won his election pitching wholesale lies, false promises, gutter trash talking and outrageously demeaning and denigrating his opponents while stupendously exaggerating his own qualifications. So now they now want to employ the same game plan.

It's actually the GOP game plan on steroids and Trump is simply the guy who is truly symbolic of the future of the party. Dragging his opponents down to his scummy low level of decorum and then shoveling mountains of bullshit all over them, all while his opponents refuse to denigrate themselves that way has worked for Trump and is now being copycatted by his fellow party candidates.

This year's campaigning by the Repubs will see this and a lot worse examples of how low the Repubs are willing to go. If the Dems running for office don't already have a solid defense built up against this style of dirty campaigning many of them may experience the same fate as Hillary's.
 
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imported_tajmahal said:
Who cares if it was in bad taste and insensitive? Was it accurate ?
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Only if you're a lying, racist, bigoted asshole who hates teachers and wants them to all lose their pensions because of the 2008 crash, wants to punish women for being raped and getting pregnant, want to tear apart families and penalize productive, tax paying immigrants for being brought here as children, can't understand why electricity rates had to go up because of a LONG overdue infrastructure overhaul (and the average increase was only $11) and think freedom of speech is evil.

So yeah. It's partially accurate if you're a lying asshole.
 
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SlowSpyder said:
Maybe, but the GOP isn't responsible for IL's problems. And the GOP can manage their money, so that's something.
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What is the point of posting one sided statements like this that are obviously false? Lets be honest, no politician can manage their money. Republicans are dead set in cutting taxes to the bone without budget cuts, and Democrats are no fiscal hawks either. For ever red state that has fiscal problems, there is a blue state that has fiscal problems.
 
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pete6032 said:
What is the point of posting one sided statements like this that are obviously false? Lets be honest, no politician can manage their money. Republicans are dead set in cutting taxes to the bone without budget cuts, and Democrats are no fiscal hawks either. For ever red state that has fiscal problems, there is a blue state that has fiscal problems.
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I didn't specify a politician, I am talking about the two parties, I linked some stories too. The Dems are broke, the GOP has tens of millions on hand.
 
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I didn't specify a politician, I am talking about the two parties, I linked some stories too. The Dems are broke, the GOP has tens of millions on hand.
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This is misleading. The DNC has fundraising issues however other Dem groups like the DSCC are enjoying record fundraising. Individual candidate raising is going pretty decently too. Conversely while the RNC is raising a lot of cash the Republicans are having a lot of trouble convincing their incumbents that haven't faced competitive elections in a decade or two that they need to be shaking the money tree while their Dem challengers are raking it in.

Outside PAC money from both sides is going to swamp a lot of this anyway.
 
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