The Bush Campaign, or more accurately the ‘progress for America voter fund’ have released the election ad which could win Bush the election. Recalling one of his finest moments (he doesn’t have many but they sure are doozies) in halting his hand-shaking to embrace a girl who’d lost her mother in the WTC attacks. Spontaneous, compassionate and utterly applaudable.
All the demonization of George W Bush has largely been a foolish endeavor because, when reminded of what he is capable of in terms of compassion and human connection, as we saw in the post 9/11 days, any such assertions appear unfounded. All that wrapping protest in a layer of hate for the man himself has done is discredited the often legitimate criticism of his policies when the ‘Bush is evil’ meme proves itself to be fallacious.
At the end of the day the smart play is reminding America of why Bush had those soaring approval ratings back in December 2001. By taking out the largest Ad block in history, this pro-bush group have probably won him a good few swing voters who had perhaps forgotten about why they would want to vote for Bush in the first place.
If you’re going to make personal attacks you’d better make them against someone who doesn’t have such outstandingly powerful stock footage to discredit those attacks. The Kerry campaign largely understood this, it has been the liberal outriders such as Michael Moore who’ve done the most damage and who will be to blame if this Ad is as effective as it seems to be.
Hillary in ‘08!
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at October 20, 2004 03:29 AM | TrackBack