# The most bizarre campaign ad EVER! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 26, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829 "2011-10-26T05:44:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829/21 "2011-10-27T03:12:10Z")
The wink-nudge shows he’s got a pretty good sense of humor and made me like him more. Not in a “you should be president” way but he seems like a cool guy. ---
**Author:** ![medicated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@medicated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medicated)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829/22 "2011-10-27T03:29:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Sure, he smoked (does he still?), but he never tried to _brag_ about it. I can have pity on a smoker: By all accounts it’s really tough to quit (or at least, to stay quit). But someone who thinks smoking is a good thing, that should be emphasized? Speaking as a smoker, that ad came across as really, really weird. I can’t imagine what they were aiming for. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829/23 "2011-10-27T03:36:57Z")
That ad was absolutely hilarious. If Cain actually had any hand in thinking it up, it raises my estimation of him significantly, though maybe not as a presidential candidate. [Obvious Cain is Obvious.](http://files-cdn.formspring.me/profile/20110623/n4e03232aa0c7c.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829/24 "2011-10-27T03:40:34Z")
And that’s not even his weirdest campaign ad. Not by a long shot. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829/25 "2011-10-27T11:14:55Z")
> [@rock\_party](#): > > The wink-nudge shows he’s got a pretty good sense of humor and made me like him more. > Not in a “you should be president” way but he seems like a cool guy. Can’t tell if serious. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829/26 "2011-10-27T16:26:52Z")
I don’t get it. Aside from the overall weirdness of the ad, how is an endorsement from one’s own campaign manager going to win votes? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829/27 "2011-10-27T20:52:43Z")
It was that, or put Cain himself on camera. I’d say they made the safe choice. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829/28 "2011-10-30T11:47:29Z")
> [@TheonX](#): > > I’m not sure that is even the bizzarest Cain add. [This one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSlC7BxmSqY) must be in the mix too. That ad seems quite racist. The Black “lib’rul” spits on the hero’s shoes. The charge "just reads from a teleprompter"is made only to imply stupidity. Since Obama was a Magna Cum Laude at Harvard Law School, such a charge would be unthinkable were he not a nigger. Does Cain have a good chance to become the V.P. nominee? After all, the alternative tickets are Mormon-plus-Mormon and Mormon-plus-Moron. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-bizarre-campaign-ad-ever/600829.md?page=1)