Granted, the first time somebody did a parody of the “priceless” MasterCard ad, it was humorous, but after everybody and their brother flogged all the funny out of this now-tired idea, the Republicans think it is the height of sarcasm in a campaign that has been reduced to lame smears of Kerry.
I’m sick of the all the negativism coming from the White House these days, but if that is all they have, is it too much to ask that they at least come up with something original? Or better yet, run on their record (oops, guess that’s out)?
Nonsense! It makes a very valid point, one that resonates with the heartland: that Kerry is a rich liberal elitist. Not a country boy like GeeDubya, who spends his vacations at his ranch, wearing manly work gloves and clearing brush. (Must have a hell of a lot of brush, spent about 80 days this year clearing that same brush. Either there’s a lot of it, or he sure ain’t very good at it. Hell, I was born and raised in Waco, and I didn’t know there was that much brush in all of McLellan County…)
GeeDubya is a “man of the people”, from the simple, rural gated community of Midland, Texas (close on to Odessa, the “pustule on the plains”). His was the simple life of local, down-home country clubs. He endeared himself to his servants and chauffuers by bestowing affectionate nick-names on them like “Hey, you!”, a habit that he followed throughout his life. Kerry, of course, lacked his imagination, and was reduced to asking thier names. Typical.
And Kerry, as you know, got a lot of his money from his wife (from ketchup, which is of course commonly used on French fries!). GeeDubya got his the rugged and manly way, from his Daddy. Kerry spent the 'Nam years gadding about the Mekong Delta on a speedboat, while GeeDubya was valiantly defending the skies above Amarillo from Viet Cong bombers (not one of which successfully attacked Texas during his watch! Not one!)
I just heard this ad for the first time on NPR not long ago. And it would work as a folksy populist ad. The downside, of course, is that Bush is not the simple man of the people that he’s being portrayed. And for someone who tore hell outta Kennebunkport in a cigarette boat to get pissy about Kerry’s yacht is simply not done. Bad form and all like that.
Bill Maher said it best: Class Warfare - Yale class of 66 v Yale class of 68. Or maybe those dates aren’t quite right, but you get my point. I hope.
First of all, the GOP aparently figured that value by adding 7, carrying the two, and multiplying by pi factorial after pulling it out of their ass. I know road bikes alright, and the market value of his Serrotta is NOT $8000. Finally, no, $40 is not an unreasonable amount of money for a bike tire. A quality car tire can easily run into the couple-hundred dollar range, and I doubt that it will have been hand-made in Italy by master-craftsmen using an exceptionally high TPI casing for suppleness and resistance to puncture.
Finally, can we all just get over spending $5000 on a bike that does less damage to oil supplies, the roads, the environement, takes up less space, and will make your Lard-Lad ass considerably less so when no one even seems to blink an eye at spending $30,000 for an SUV that will never, ever, ever, ever go off road?
Good gawd, that concept has been flogged to death. What’s next? Got President? Just Vote it? A picture of Bush with his swimshorts getting pulled down by a dog?
