They ARE some charming lil MFers aren’t they? What a nice touch to personally ‘hand deliver’ it.
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GOP: We did a favor to the Liberals by leaving her face mostly White. She was supposed to be depicted as a Latina.
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The GOP forgets that the Party of Lincoln was not conservative. They were the progressives in their era. The democrats then (1850’s-1870’s) were the conservatives. The party of Lincoln gave us the 13th - 15th amendments which were very progressive then.
13th ended slavery
14th defines citizenship, Representative apportionment, validity of the debt
15th gives the right to vote to former slaves
Today’s GOP would be dead set against such things.
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Let’s say the ad’s main claim is true, and that she’s not campaigning very much. If she can only campaign part-time and still run a virtual tie with the long-standing senior Senator and former Presidential nominee, well, that isn’t something McCain would actually want to draw attention to. Staking ground on that claim would remind everyone that he’s weak and unpopular and vulnerable. Either they’re really stupid and haven’t thought that through (a possibility, to be sure), or the poster means something else.
Likewise, let’s say the claim isn’t true, and that she’s actually running a normal campaign taking up the normal amount of time - that she isn’t “running” from anyone. That means this poster isn’t really about that central claim, either, since the claim could be easily debunked. What about the other things it says? Well, attempting to smear her as a friend of the current Democrats in power would only be meaningful to partisans like themselves. Of course she knows Obama and Clinton, she’s a Democrat. Just like John McCain knows George W. Bush and Mitt Romney because they’re Republicans.
So, since the poster is only full of partisan nonsense that wouldn’t sway anyone outside of their own base (the Iran deal and Obamacare mentions are both right-wing media nods), and since the campaigning claim either makes McCain look horrible or could be easily and thoroughly debunked, that leaves only one real meaning to this poster: It’s a picture of someone they don’t like and that they’re afraid they could lose to on a wanted poster riddled with bullet holes.
In Arizona.
Everything else on this poster is just there for ‘plausible’ deniability.
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Also, they have no sense of juxtapositional irony.
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simply
ask John McCain if he is endorsing or supporting the current GOP presidential nominee. Either answer is a nail.
make him say the current GOP nominee’s name.
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FIFY
Edit: Seriously though, if I were to go hand deliver, to say, my neighbor a picture of them with bullet holes overlaid on the image I would be getting a talking to from the police over possible charges related to death threats.
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I grew up in a rural gun owning culture in the mid-west. Hunting and target shooting was expected. but when not doing these things the guns were locked up and put away. I didn’t need one to define my manhood. My son and grandson, who is 7 yrs old, do that in a far better way. I haven’t hunted in 20 years. My dad’s guns that I inherited stay locked in a dead bolted closet. My grandson has never seen them and does not know they exist. My son wants nothing to do with guns (smart guy). I’m posting all that to say guns don’t define who I am. I don’t need them to prop up my self image. I am all for responsible gun ownership, strong universal background checks, required liability insurance for gun owners just like we do for drivers. I also like the new technology that allows for only the rightful owner of a gun to be able to fire the weapon. That way stolen guns can’t be used. None of this will end gun tragedies completely but it will slow them down.
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Ducey was once the CEO of Coldstone Ice Cream. Once I heard he was elected AZ governor and a certifiable wing nut I canceled my yearly free ice cream coupon. It’s the least I could do.
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There’s a Cold Stone near the University where I worked and it was staffed by college kids. I let them know what sort of person their former CEO was much to their shock and chagrin.
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Ignoring of course that many parts of the “Wild West” enjoyed stricter gun laws than we have today in some places.
Edit: I mean can you image the NRA reaction today to a law like Tombstone’s Ordnance 9 that called for people coming into town to turn over their firearms and other weapons shortly after arriving in town?
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I’m sure wingnuts would disagree with this, but Obama and Hillary look like total badasses on that poster. I’d sure rather have either of them looking out for me than this guy:
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#USA! USA! USA!
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“Home, home on the golf range!!”
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And appealing to their voters. Maybe the democrats should make some posters of McCain as a prisoner and being tortured, that would be so funny. Dickheads!
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We have lots of regulations on other dangerous things I don’t get what responsible gun owners have against some on guns. DO they really want everyone running around with a gun? And what I really get a laugh out of is when they claim we need guns to keep the government in line. WTF are are a bunch of unorganized gun owners going to do to overtake the US government that has the biggest military in the world? Jesus, some legal gun owners have been doing a lot of illegal drugs!
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I agree 100%. I expect we’ll see a lot of that face on Hillary during the debates.
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Hey, it’s just ‘sarcasm’.
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Nothing bleeping funny about it.
These are the same moe-rons that keep giving us Arpaio, McLame, Jeffy Fake and the likes of Jan Brewer and the Pearce Bros.
The party of Lincoln? Sure.
George Lincoln Rockwell.
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You mean you don’t associate a bullet-riddled picture of your opponent with “absent on the campaign trail”?
Sorry if you were offended.
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