..we’ve seen this before and talk about taking a page out of Karl Rove’s playbook….
Here’s one of hill’s latest tv adds: It’s 3 a.m. and a telephone is ringing—do you know where your kids are? They are in bed! But who will answer their phone? It is terror calling, and when terror calls, who do you want to answer? You want MOM, that’s who!
I’m not sure about you, but this looks strangely like an ADT Ad. In the next seen, you sell W breaking into the oval office to get a last smell of the leather, then ADT dispatches the secret service….
The point is lost on many intellectuals, maybe the point is Obama was too drunk the night before and couldn’t answer the phone at 3 am… what ever the case we have seen this tactic before. Check out Walter Mondale’s commercial in 1984:
Hill’s commercial is not nearly as random as Regan’s pitch in 1984 about a bear in peace:
by not nearly as fear mongering as Johnson’s atom bomb in the 60s: