1 Wow, a shiny and new thread. 

2
Vote or die, muthafuckas!

3 I'm Chuck Norris and I approved this message.

4 Good ad.  Where's it runnig?

5 I think I just got a nut.

6 blugar, that is soooo stolen

7 OT: Are they any recent polls of the Maryland congressional races that are not Harris/Kravitol? How's Cummings doing? Hoyer?

8

Umm, no.

I'll get bitch-slapped for this, but why? Not a smart ad.

I mean they already paint us as slack-jawed hilljacks. Why give them the ammo?

9 If voting is for fags, what's voting for f.. awwww, never mind! 

10

From the sidebar, this wonderful tale of the reconquista.

http://www.washingtontimes.com /news/2010/aug/31/signs-in-arizona-warn -of-smuggler-dangers/print/

remove spaces

Unfuckingreal.  We have no-go zones in our own country.  When will we start with teh IEDs and no-fly zones over Mexico

THis sounds one hell of a lot like war has been declared by the drug runners.

11

8  yeah, get fired up, get mad!!!

my little blugar

12 >>>I mean they already paint us as slack-jawed hilljacks. Why give them the ammo? I worried about that. I would say they're trying to portray those who opt out of actual voting in favor of "para-politics" as I term it as kind of, well, dimwitted and ineffectual.

13 Plus we are slack-jawed hilljacks.

14 I'll get bitch-slapped for this, but why? Not a smart ad.

Depends where it's running, I think.

The NRA has to maintain a non-partisan stance, but by doing the ad this way the audience can self-identify.  I guarantee no Obama supporter will even watch this ad. 

15 The very end made me LOL. The music when Mr. Mullet is hitting on Blue Cougar?

Wang Dang Sweet Poontang

16

10  even worse

yahoo news shows that sheriff joe (the real one, not the guy playing with his poo) is getting sued by the feds and if you read towards the bottom, it is being instigated by some 'immigration rights' group

pathetic

17 And ace's point @12 is even better.

18 I mean they already paint us as slack-jawed hilljacks. Why give them the ammo?

You got lead in that ammo, teabagger?

19 It's time for all you non voters to get up be counted and above all BE FABULOUS!!!

20

If you want to direct who is in charge of candidate selection and who sets up the conventions and primaries where candidates are selected, then you have to be in the party.  Simple, really.  If you aren't in the club you can't put a motion on the floor or vote against a motion.  If you aren't in the party, you don't get to select the candidates you want.

So simple even a moron can do it.

21

I mean they already paint us as slack-jawed hilljacks. Why give them the ammo?

Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 02, 2010 03:08 PM (pLTLS)

Well, it is an ad to get out the vote. If it makes Bobos and other assorted leftwingers think that voting is some yokel thing, well, isn't the ad doing double duty by depressing leftwing votes?

22

I would say they're trying to portray those who opt out of actual voting in favor of "para-politics" as I term it as kind of, well, dimwitted and ineffectual.

I agree with that.

But, as Y-Not has said, it depends on where it's being ran. I think your point is highly nuanced. Almost a reverse psychology. Not to bash the electorate, oh what the hay!, our electorate is comprised of functional retards that TiVo Jersey Shore to see what the little cum dumpster Snookie's up to this week.

23 She may have blue drapes, but I bet her carpet's red.

24

From the sidebar, this wonderful tale of the reconquista.

It's worse than that.

We really do need a revived Un-American Activities Committee.

25 8

Umm, no.

I'll get bitch-slapped for this, but why? Not a smart ad.

I mean they already paint us as slack-jawed hilljacks. Why give them the ammo?

Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 02, 2010 03:08 PM (pLTLS)

I AM  a hillbilly, and guess what, I ain't ashamed of it. Hillbillies make great soldiers, and are patriotic to a fault. Why should I deny my heritage? The "sophisticates" you seem to admire are mostly fucking statists, like Da Zero. I don't want to associate with them or be compared to them.

26 With all due respect to steve, I firmly believe that if you don't vote, then you can't bitch.

27 >>>our electorate is comprised of functional retards that TiVo Jersey Shore to see what the little cum dumpster Snookie's up to this week searching in vain for something untrue here.

28 Plus we are slack-jawed hilljacks.

Posted by: ace

 

If a car jack raises a car, then what does a hilljack raise?

29 Lacey, who cares what they paint us as? That was a great ad. I was sure it a fake Chuck Norris silhouette in the doorway, but then things took a turn for the professional and the good guys showed they can take it up a notch.

30 That ad was more ethnically diverse than a Benetton catalog.

It's a funny ad.

Possibly even effective.

31

I AM  a hillbilly, and guess what, I ain't ashamed of it. Hillbillies make great soldiers, and are patriotic to a fault. Why should I deny my heritage? The "sophisticates" you seem to admire are mostly fucking statists, like Da Zero. I don't want to associate with them or be compared to them.

The "Yankee Doodle Effect", if you will. Let us wear our anti-Leftist elite badge with pride.

32 Good God, that ad was out-and-out painful to get through.  Any glimmer of humor was overshadowed by the embarrassingly trite dialogue delivered by buffoons.  To whom is this supposed to appeal?  It looks like something the DNC would make.

33

The "sophisticates" you seem to admire are mostly fucking statists, like Da Zero.

Wow.

So there's no middle ground here? Because I don't think mullet pot-bellied hicks make for great comedy I surely must admire 'sophisitiated statists'?

One helluva leap, friend.

34 Chuck Norris doesn't vote.  The ballot gets so scared of being punched by him it punches itself.

35 Paul Newman had his own brand, why not Chuck Norris pudding cups?
Available flavors include Sterno, Brillo or Draino

36 >Obviously, I agree wholeheartedly. I always find a danger with conservatives is this: Because we all sort of... are rejectivists of the system, we sort of have a distaste for conventional politics, we look down on that as sort of join-ey, something liberal.



This is why we have a lot of lousy candidates, especially in blue states. We're the party of limited government yet candidates have to want to be part of the "System" in order to run for office, so a lot of times we get squishy douchebags who bail when they don't get their way.

37 With all due respect to steve, I firmly believe that if you don't vote, then you can't bitch.

Such words came out of my long passed, mother, grandfather and great aunts.  And I've followed them ever since.

38 26 With all due respect to steve, I firmly believe that if you don't vote, then you can't bitch. Exactly. Which is why I vote on everything from band booster officers to presidents. I NEED to be able to bitch about these things.

39 "Voting is for fags."

That's why I'm workin' the polls!

40 NASCAR is one hellova lot bigger than Wimbledon in the US of A.

41 13 Plus we are slack-jawed hilljacks.

Posted by: ace at September 02, 2010 03:11 PM (QbA6l)

YES!

42 I AM  a hillbilly, and guess what, I ain't ashamed of it. Hillbillies make great soldiers, and are patriotic to a fault. Why should I deny my heritage? The "sophisticates" you seem to admire are mostly fucking statists, like Da Zero. I don't want to associate with them or be compared to them.

Well then (snif) don't expect to be invited to the right cocktail parties on the Upper East Side and the Hamptons.

43 7 OT: Are they any recent polls of the Maryland congressional races that are not Harris/Kravitol? How's Cummings doing? Hoyer?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 02, 2010 03:08 PM (bAySe)

Harris-Kratovil is the only race that is even competitive in this Socialist working paradise of MD.  I'm sure that the good Rev Elijah Cummings will pull in around 116% of the vote in his district.  Douchenozzle Hoyer brings home the bacon to Southern MD so he isn't going anywhere.  I wish that they could run anyone against the fat disappearing act that is Dutch Ruppersburger. 

44

The "Yankee Doodle Effect", if you will. Let us wear our anti-Leftist elite badge with pride.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at September 02, 2010 03:17 PM (ujg0T)

I know I do.

45

NASCAR is one hellova lot bigger than Wimbledon in the US of A.

And? March Madness is bigger than both combined for five years running.

Again, there can be a middle ground.

46 There's no reason kicking the Democrats asses can't be fun. It's about time the conservatives swaggered a bit.

What is the use of being the party with all the balls if all our men and women simper around like Richard Simmons?

Embarrassed emo liberals that mummy and duddy didn't hug stay home on election day and cut themselves while huffing glue. So shine every light you can on their lunacy. Point and laugh.

47 We can all agree this is teh funny ... bitch.

Vote or Die

48 yeah long ads are almost always web-only. this is a free-media ad, one intended to be linked and emailed and transmitted that way. That is my belief, anyway. TV ads are boring by design. This is not boring. You don't run "Blue Couger"/"Blugar" ads on TV.

49 40 "Voting is for fags."
That's why I'm workin' the polls poles!
Posted by: Andi Sullivan


FTFY

50

I mean they already paint us as slack-jawed hilljacks. Why give them the ammo?

Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 02, 2010 03:08 PM (pLTLS)

It's a nice parody of what "our betters" believe

..own it..have fun with it...laugh at them

51 40 "Voting is for fags." That's why I'm workin' the polls! Posted by: Andi Sullivan at September 02, 2010 03:22 PM (MMC8r) Don't you mean "working the POLES"? Just askin'.

52 Everybody hates a redneck until their car breaks down.

53 Dammit, real joe. Got there before I did. Hmph.

54

>>Well then (snif) don't expect to be invited to the right cocktail parties on the Upper East Side and the Hamptons.

 

Gee, I had not considered that. Guess they will just have to miss out on my deer hunting stories...

 

55 But great minds do think alike, AngelEm.

56 Keep your dick skinners off of my firearms, boy.

57 Chuck Norris and Ted Nugent  (which from the end music of the ad was likely involved) have their own base they'd like to get to the polls to vote against the dems. That base by the way includes a lot of hunters that are also union members. The ad will likely appeal to them.

58 yeah school just started for me and i just watched in astonishment at how excited everybody was to sign up for as many different groups as possible at the activities fair. it's a completely different mentality, like you say, i really have to push myself to even join one group, even if i do agree with it, and then i run away the first moment someone says 'committee' or 'meeting.' I think it's maybe because conservatives are by now so used to obnoxious, loud, bossy liberals infiltrating every group, no matter how non-political it's supposed to be, and turning every sci-fi aficionado event into some rachel corrie fundraiser or something.

59 Well then (snif) don't expect to be invited to the right cocktail parties on the Upper East Side and the Hamptons.

Posted by: the new york times at September 02, 2010 03:23 PM (IpIBJ)

Y'all have any them mini-weenies at that thar thang?

60 Bout time somebody went after the Kenny Powers demo.

Kenny mother fucking Powers.

61 searching in vain for something untrue here.

Posted by: ace at September 02, 2010 03:15 PM (QbA6l)

I don't have TiVo (or any DVR) and I vote!

62 What about the karate teacher from Napoleon Dynamite? He'd make a great ad!

63 the double-secret conspiracy is that the "Blue Cougar" is named "Louise"

as in  Louise from the "Harry and Louise" commericials from the 1990s which helped defeat HillaryCare

Coincidence? 

I think not.

wheels within bigger wheels within even bigger wheels.

64

So there's no middle ground here? Because I don't think mullet pot-bellied hicks make for great comedy I surely must admire 'sophisitiated statists'?

One helluva leap, friend.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 02, 2010 03:17 PM (pLTLS)

Whoa, slow down.  This ad is very CLEARLY geared towards men.  So, target audience hit.  Non-target audience missed.  Seems like a good shot.

65

Chuck Norris and Ted Nugent  (which from the end music of the ad was likely involved) have their own base they'd like to get to the polls to vote against the dems. That base by the way includes a lot of hunters that are also union members. The ad will likely appeal to them.

Exactly. With all due respect to those who don't like this ad, it will pull in the right voters.

Can they put this in heavy rotation on the Outdoor Channel?

66 The black guy had a mullet? I musta missed that.

67 Is there a Spanish version?

68
What about the karate teacher from Napoleon Dynamite? He'd make a great ad!

This ad has that vibe mashed up with Larry the Cable Guy and top with the Ted.

69 Despite feelings of futility when voting, I have voted in every election since I turned 18 and will continue to vote until I die. (And probably after I die, too. Um, can someone make sure that I still vote R when I'm dead? Thanks.)

70

Despite feelings of futility when voting, I have voted in every election since I turned 18 and will continue to vote until I die. (And probably after I die, too. Um, can someone make sure that I still vote R when I'm dead? Thanks.)

I hear you--especially on the Left Coast. That said, I do know people with "voter's block", namely, the attempt, however futile, to register disgust with the system by simply not voting. Hopefully an ad like this gets through to those people.

71 As Stalin said (?) it's not the votes that count, it's who counts the vote. Or these days, who decides whether the votes count. We live under a rule of judges where one man or nine people can decide that the legitimate, democratic results of an election (Prop or law (1080 AZ) can be discarded. This is enough to take away anyone's motivation to vote or register.

72 I missed one election when I was in the midst of moving, but Reagan managed to do OK anyway.

73 I don't know what the smiley face is doing there ... I meant to type Prop 8 ... it saw the parenthesis as a smiley I guess

74

This ad is very CLEARLY geared towards men

K, that explains why the vag didn't laugh.

75

I enjoy voting because it's one of the few ways I have of giving the finger to politicians I can't stand.  My vote for *shudder* McCain was really a vote against Obama.

And since I live in MA I get a charge out of knowing that I am at least cancelling out some bonehead liberal.

76 A small plane has crashed into the water in the bay area.  per shep smith on fox

77 Redwood city, CA 12:49 PM...he said he is just getting this in

78 One thing I learned from progressives is that you have to get INVOLVED.

Remember back about five years ago, when the joke was that conservatives didn't protest because we have jobs..and families...and lives? Well, the joke was on us! All those loud-mouthed progressives got their way, didn't they? And we get the bill, didn't we?

I've learned that politics is like your kid's education or the neighborhood planning committee. You have to show up, get involved, fill out the right forms, play the game, and get in people's faces (politely for the most part, but sometimes, like when your kid is stuck with a lousy teacher, not so politely)

I went to my first protest (a tea party thing) last year, and I didn't even get there until it was over! I don't like demonstrations, but I am going to make a point of going to one in the next two months.

I used to think it was enough to vote, but now I see that is not enough. I have to get at least one other like-minded individual to get to the polls. I dread the idea of getting involved with some Republican GOTV effort, but I am going to do it anyway. Ditto with donating Just like throwing something in the Church basket. Gotta do it or the Church bills don't get paid.

And the second lesson I learned is that I have to keep it up. You don't lose  weight and stop just dieting. You have to change your eating habits permanently. So I have to make a permanent change in my political habits as well. Every election, get another voter to the polls and throw a few bucks in the kitty. Every year, attend a political rally.

Boring Boring Boring. Necessary Necessary Necessary.

Because the alternative is to suck it up and live with other people's choices

79 Blugar! I'm taking it!

80 Criminy Ace, just how many people who read this blog do you seriously think don't vote?

81 Ace: "Conservatives like to style themselves (and frequently are) rebels, sort of outlaws, sort of loose cannon mavericks who play by their own rules and get their badges and guns taken away every week from their constipated Sergeant when they blow up a truck full of liquid nitrogen in pursuit of a hot-rod smuggling Krugerrands and sex-slaves."

It's like you're spying on me, man.

You're not, right? 'Cause then there's going to be trouble.

82

Um, can someone make sure that I still vote R when I'm dead?

No can do.  Necro-Americans are more solidly Democrat than blacks.

83 I always figured "someguy" had a mullet...

84 Voting is for fags.

85 omg! cannot stop laughing...."voting is for fags" i wanna t-shirt!

86

Voting is for people with something on the line.  It's the looters and whiners that turn out.

We tend to think government ought to leave us alone.  Regrettably, that same (right) impulse compels us to return the favor.

87 >>>Criminy Ace, just how many people who read this blog do you seriously think don't vote? 15%, easy.

88 Correct link: http://bit.ly/9wY2hA

89 I wanna grow up to be a Blugar. 

90 Look at it as an opportunity to sneer and insult the libtard handing out sample dem ballots. It's my favorite season. I've perfected my walk by and their friendly approach and then my obvious recoil and disgusted horrified "you are shit" sneer.

91 To sober up your asshole friend "Steve," Ace, please simply remind him that, in Communist countries and other tyrannies, HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO BOTHER WITH *N*O*T* VOTING.  So: CONSIDER the fucking alternative.

92 15%, easy.

Based upon what do you come to this conclusion? Their deliberate choice to read a political blog? Their interest in politics? What makes you figure more than one out of ten of your hundred thousand or more readers just doesn't bother to vote?

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