Here's an idea for an anti-Trump commercial.

[Baitball Blogger]

I think this happened back in the seventies when we faced our first gas shortages. The commercial had two actors. One was a stereotyped fat cat, Texas style senator with gallon hat driving in a large open convertible. The other guy was younger by twenty years, clean-cut guy who kept telling him, "Senator, we're running out of gas." But Senator Fat Cat just kept driving on, brushing it off with a noise that sounded like his windpipes were coated in tobacco sludge. I think it was meant to be a laugh.

Well, after repeating the scene three times, the car runs out of gas and the Senator looks shocked, and the passenger looks older and wiser.

So, why don't we do the same with Trump? Show the clips where he was continually warned. Though, he won't respond with the shock of awareness when it is obvious he's wrong. He'll just deflect the blame to someone else. Still, that's a pattern worth capturing.

[Jim__]

1. That was an anti "Democrat" commercial - the fat guy may have been Tip O'Neill.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Interesting. Brings to mind that we wouldn't be where we are today if the Democrats from another

era didn't make some very calculated errors. Though the Dems may have taken more flak than they were personally responsible for.

I wasn't aware it was an anti-Democratic commerical because Jimmy Carter was very pro-conservation. .

"Few political dividends seem to come from taking on conservation, it seems. Just ask Jimmy Carter."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/american-oil-consumption/482532/

Hard to say what was going on. The Democrats were in control back then, so they would have been targeted for any issue that fit the Republican's objectives

[Jim__]

3. The ad wasn't accurate - but it was effective.

In 2004, John Kerry was a Vietnam vet with a silver star, bronze star and 3 purple hearts. Bush was essentially a deserter. And the republicans ran against Kerry's war record.

Sometimes I wonder if Plato's philosopher kings aren't the better idea.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. It's good to remember their strategies, because it never does seem to change.

Our political ads will and should be on point.