Alison Lundergan Grimes Goes Skeet-Shooting To Prove She's 'Not Barack Obama'

[KamaAina]

Derp.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/alison-lundergan-grimes-senate_n_5822452.html

The ad, released Monday, has Grimes firing critiques toward her opponent, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), as she shoots clay pigeons. She refers to a mix-up in a McConnell web video that featured an image of the Duke University Blue Devils instead of the University of Kentucky Wildcats as well as a comment he made about whether it was his responsibility to stimulate local economic development.

“Mitch McConnell wants you to think I’m Barack Obama,” she says in the ad. “Mitch is the same guy who thought Duke Basketball players were UK! Or who’s attacking me on coal, after doing next to nothing while we’ve lost thousands of coal jobs. He even said it’s not his job to bring jobs to Kentucky.”...

After the ad flashes a photo of McConnell carrying a musket onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Grimes quips "that’s not how you hold a gun."

Grimes has now joined a club of candidates who have featured guns in their campaign ads, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.) as well as Republican Senate hopefuls such as former Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan (R) and Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst (R).

[TwilightGardener]

1. What a fucking idiot.

[msanthrope]

14. No...shrewd woman, with a punchy ad produced by pro-Obama forces sent

to help her.

This is one President who rolls with the punches.

[TwilightGardener]

16. We're going to have to disagree. Ads of candidates firing guns to prove their manhood

are universally fucking idiotic. Photo-ops are bad enough, but ads are how the low-info's choose a candidate, and guns featured in ads make me sick. Just plain gross pandering.

[Hippo_Tron]

25. I agree with this sentiment, but not in this particular instance

I wasn't a fan of Dale Peterson pretending to shoot at someone trying to steal a yard sign or Joe Manchin shooting at a copy of Obama's climate change proposal because these ads promote a reckless gun culture.

But this is an ad where the candidate is depicted shooting at clay pigeons on a range, which is a controlled and appropriate setting for someone to be using a firearm.

[AtomicKitten]

17. (edited) Do you have a link for reference?

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On edit: I researched this. The TV spot was done by Mark Putnam who did some of Obama' ads. He sounds like a wizkid. Which makes this icky ad with guns particularly puzzling.

I can find no evidence of "pro-Obama forces sent to help her." ... From all I've read, she is a Clinton protege who convinced her to run away from the ACA which is nuts since Kynect is Kentucky's well-received and popular version of the ACA.

[Hippo_Tron]

24. Yep same ad consultant that produced Obama's 30 minute TV spot in 2008

It's a great ad.

[KamaAina]

2. Next up: Obama goes golfing to prove he's 'not Alison Lundergan Grimes'

[Eric J in MN]

4. The headline is misleading.

She didn't say that skeet-shooting proves she's not Obama.

She said, “I disagree with (Obama) on guns, coal and the EPA."

[get the red out]

6. Yes

But you know, GUNS!!!!!!!

[Eric J in MN]

3. She's trailing and figured that a dramatic ad was worth the risk (NT)

NT

[bigdarryl]

8. her internal polls has her ahead

[IronGate]

9. Internal polls don't really mean much,

what do a variety of national polls say?

[get the red out]

5. I figured people would hate on her for that

I saw the ad this morning and knew this was coming.

There are things I would change about this state, but if she has any chance at all she has to distance herself from the President. It has to be done.

[Travis_0004]

7. Doesnt that make her more like Obama?

I live in Cincinnati and I saw the commercial and thought it was dumb. I also think she is a long shot to win.

[SunSeeker]

22. Her ad appears to be patterned after the Manchin ad. And he won with that ad.

Dead Aim - Joe Manchin for West Virginia TV Ad:

[Eleanors38]

23. Well, that IS a high-dollar shotgun...

According to WaPo, it is a Browning Superposed costing <> $5,000. He shoots it regularly for skeet.

[tularetom]

10. I'd feel better about her if she spent more time telling me how she disagreed with McConnell

And less time telling me how she disagrees with Obama.

But I guess considering everything she's as good as we're gonna get.

Since she claims to support "coal jobs", I wonder how she feels about things like, oh I don't know, mine safety.

[flpoljunkie]

11. It's Kentucky!

A very red state.

[fifthoffive]

12. Alison Lundergan Grimes Goes Skeet-Shooting To Prove She's 'Not Barack Obama'

Being from Kentucky, I believe that people in Kentucky need to come to grips with the fact that the coal jobs that have been lost are never coming back. Coal, as an energy source, is being replaced and until someone finds another profitable use for coal, the number of coal jobs will continue to decline.

It's time to move forward instead of looking backward.

[KamaAina]

13. Coal country generally responds well to fracking

Where there is coal, as in Pa., there's usually natural gas.

[King_Klonopin]

18. Another way to interpret this ad

she is saying: "I'm more of a man than Mitch McConnell!"

The Turtle is constantly making veiled, misogynistic comments about his
opponent's gender. He is the stereotypical wimp, and she needs to counter-
punch his condescension. It's worth a shot (pun intended)

I can't believe she is trailing in the polls to this tool. How many Republican
voters who signed on to the Kynect program will vote for him anyway ?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. Kynect has absolutely nothing to do with "Obamacare"!

Derp

[Sunlei]

15. Like her political positions & so should the people of Kentucky. Kentucky declined under McConnell.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. *sigh*

The things that Dems in red states have to do to get elected there. Question: If we have to pander to red state idiocy and simple-mindedness in order to win, how are we helping advance our country and our civilization? Plus, I'm getting tired of Dems having to pander to right-wing prejudice against President Obama. Why do Dems have to apologize for supporting him when he hasn't done anything wrong or embarrassing (more so than any other politician)? If anything, Republicans ought to be way more embarrassed about their own candidates.

[stevenleser]

21. You play the game as it is until you have the power to change it.

That's always been my motto.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

27. I know, I know

But still..........

[Recursion]

26. Run the campaign you have to run

Seems like a decent ad to me.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. Will it work, though?

[Recursion]

29. Time will tell

We have to trust the people on the front lines, though.

I think in most states running away from Obama is a loser. But, in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, and Wisconsin as it stands right now it's a winner.

That's my own completely amateur opinion.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

30. Well. Weirder strategies have worked I suppose

Like Mark Sanford debating a cardboard cutout of Nancy Pelosi, which, I guess, plays quite well in South Carolina.

[Reter]

31. At least she didn't shoot at poor animals

I don't see a problem with her shooting at inanimate things. I like to go to the archery range myself.

[IronGate]

32. What's wrong with hunting animals?

She'd probably endear herself to a lot of voters, after all, KY is a big hunting state.

[SmittynMo]

33. As much as I want McConnell out of there

I'm not so convinced she is the one. Not supporting the ACA is not a good stance for a democrat. And I still haven't heard anything about her other than her negative ads. What does she stand for? She needs to push it from that perspective too.