Hillary's next tactic: use what didn't work for Rudy, an ad starring Keith!

[Berry Cool]

Hey, kids! Remember Rudy's ads (yes, remember back in those halcyon days when Rudy still had ads?) in which he tried to imply that he was being marginalized out of the Republican primary only by media pundit chatter, and attempted to appeal directly to the voters to give those big bad old media pundits what-for?

Remember how the commercial had Keith in it, amongst many other media figures, and said essentially "You voters know better than these gabbling pundits, you know what America needs, and what America needs is Rudy"? And how Keith even aired it and had a guest comment on it?

Remember how it didn't work so well for Rudy?

Well, never let it be said that Hillary is above using someone else's failed tactics.

Read all about it: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10420.html

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is increasingly aiming its punches not at her front-running opponent Barack Obama, but at the media.

On the campaign trail, in a new ad and in her meetings with donors and superdelegates, she blasts the D.C. punditocracy for counting her out and urges anyone who’ll listen to ignore the hardening storyline that places Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee.

...The ad, titled "What's Right," shows video snippets of a cadre of television show hosts who have dismissed or downplayed Clinton’s chances – NBC’s Tim Russert, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and MSNBC anchors Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews.

Their voices are muted, and a narrator intones over their images: “In Washington, they talk about who's up and who's down. In Oregon, we care about what's right and what's wrong.”

...Clinton’s anti-media ad may tap a vein of distrust of the D.C. establishment that runs deep in the Pacific Northwest, thanks to its geographic and cultural distance from the East Coast, said Tim Hibbitts, a Portland-based pollster.

But he sees another strategic motivation behind the ad.

“This may be as much about men as it is about D.C.” or the media, he said, pointing out that all the pundits featured in the ad are men.

...“It’s a resentment ploy, basically,” he said. “That all the big boys are trying to push Hillary out of the race..."

OK, three words to open: What. A. Joke.

Hillary's ad starring Keith should work about as well as Rudy's, especially given that about 60% of Oregon has already voted early. And how pathetic is it to play the gender card? Don't they realize, that's preaching to the choir?

Another thing I just love: the two-facedness of it all. On one hand, Hillary flogs the need to have every single voice, every single voter counted. On the other, she talks about how they really don't matter, it's the superdelegates who should choose the candidate. And you can bet that if she stays in till all the voters have had their say and Obama is STILL ahead on all counts, that's exactly the argument she'll make. "What do the people know, it's the supers who matter!"

Also, you can bet your last dime that if she'd been a crushing winner on Super-Dee-Dooper Mega-Tuesday, she wouldn't feel this pressing need to count every vote right through June. Instead, her song would be "It's over, the people have spoken--anything said from here on in will only confirm the inevitable--buh-bye, Barack, see you in '12. Nice first try, though."

[SeattleGirl]

1. Well, she can save her breath with the majority of my family in Oregon.

They've already mailed in their ballots, and voted for Obama. :7

[Berry Cool]

2. The article said 60 percent had already voted.

How dumb do you have to be to spend money on ads in a state where 60 percent of voters have already voted? What a campaign.

[Mabus]

3. 109 million in the bank, 109 million. Take one out, pass it around, 108 million

in the bank. . .

Don't worry. There is plenty of money left to draw on.

[Berry Cool]

4. Yeah, I know. But a million here and a million there,

sooner or later you're talking about real money.

[Mabus]

5. Now you're whipping out logic

That's not fair.