Sprintin' Sununu Takes Ownership of his own Epithet

Oh, that's wonderful!!! (0.00 / 0)

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by: hannah @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 05:57:24 AM CDT

in that case (0.00 / 0)

If he's the future I yearn for the past

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

   Dorothy Parker

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by: JonnyBBad @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 06:16:31 AM CDT

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Sorry, hit return instead of tab. (0.00 / 0)

I've been saying for quite a while now that the political promotions industry is full of Hollywood rejects--failed script writers and "packagers" who come up with "projects" for investors, without bothering to actually make a movie.
While you might assume that a "trailer" is a snippet from a finished film, as often as not, the trailer is the only thing to see.  Oh, and maybe a couple of posters that are cheap to print.

For a while, the tax laws were written so that an "investment" in a movie that was never filmed could be written off one's tax liabilities.  I think that loophole is no longer available and that may account for the practitioners of the art of losing other people's money on flaky projects have ended up at outfits like "Strategic Perceptions."  They don't seem to last very long.  The Swifties were served by an outfit that called itself "Red Sea" which, like the packagers of movie projects seem to come together to promote one or more candidates that don't go anywhere.  

They seem to have discovered that they can make a more reliable income from failure than from success.  Not only are there many more of the former than of the latter, but, so far, investing in political candidates seems more attractive than the movies.

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by: hannah @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 06:19:01 AM CDT

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That Sununu ad is brilliant (0.00 / 0)

"I think I'll stick with the future." Ouch!  Forget the tortured logic. That perfectly highlights Shaheen's biggest liability. In a "change" election, she is not a new candidate, she's the one who ran against him last time.

Sorry to be the wet blanket, but that ad is really good, and dangerous. It's political jujitsu, implying Sununu is the candidate of the future. "Younger ... faster" -- faster than who?

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by: JimC @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 09:08:07 AM CDT

The Sununu ad... (0.00 / 0)

Sets Sununu up for a punch line. On it's own it's just vapid. He's a sitting senator, former rep, and son of a NH governor... Hardly a stranger to New Hampshire voters. Yet the ad plays like a senior class video project for an unknown third party candidate.

The ad simple serves as fodder for a Shaheen ad. It's like parody.... I don't even know where to start.

Not as smart as I think I am, but not as dumb as I look.

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by: epm @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 12:16:21 PM CDT

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Start soon n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: JimC @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 12:54:02 PM CDT

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The Sununu Ad is missing something (0.00 / 0)

It's nice that Sununu has a slick Hollywood with Character Actor and Republican Favorite Robert Davi toting him being young and strong and for the future for New Hampshire.

However there is two huge problems.

The First is the obvious, there is no mention of what Sununu has done for New Hampshire (pay serious attention here) or for the country.

Is this because his voting record might tell a story that either he is so in lock step with Bush or that his votes have really meant serious damage to the lesser affluent members of his constituency.

The Second is that Sununu is running in the woods on no trail and it may seems no real direction.  Why is that, could it be is he trying to run himself to get elected or is it that he is really trying to run and hide from what he has done for the last six years in Washington.

If I was with the  Jeanne Shaheen campaign I'd be writing the response commercial and proucing it to broadcast during the Repubican Convention.

Tom


VALOR, n.  A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's


hope.

- Ambrose Bierce from "The Devil's Dictionary"

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by: TJMCNH1 @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 19:39:49 PM CDT

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I agree that the jujitsu strategy is very clever. (4.00 / 1)

Shaheen has wide name rec and experience in NH, so it makes sense for him to pretend he's actually the "change" candidate for the lowest of the low-info voters.

One HUUUGE problem with that, though - the name "Sununu" is just as widely known as Shaheen's, both for his ten years in Congress but also because of his father the former gov and Bush I CoS.

So it'll be hard to get people to think he's a sprintin fresh face so long as his last name is what it is.

Wonder if Sununu's fired now.

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 19:39:18 PM CDT

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Hand me down my walkin' shoes (0.00 / 0)

Hey y'all, prepare yourselves
I'm the rubber-band
Ma-annn...

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by: elwood @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 09:12:01 AM CDT

From the Cornyn ad... (4.00 / 1)

"Kept Texas in power / Made lesser states squirm"

WTF! What the heck is in the water down there in Texas? Does it contain some sort of pompous ass drug or what? Then again, I guess Texans still see themselves as an independent republic.

Not as smart as I think I am, but not as dumb as I look.

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by: epm @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 12:10:54 PM CDT

And it's way too long (0.00 / 0)

Big like Texas?

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by: JimC @ Thu Aug 28, 2008 at 12:14:53 PM CDT

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Length. (0.00 / 0)

I should have mentioned - the clip was for the TX GOP convention, not for a TV ad, though I think there might be a shorter version that did/will go there.

Wonder if Sununu's fired now.

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 19:40:16 PM CDT

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