Darcy Burner has released her 1st ad, as covered by David Postman, and fawned over by Horse's Ass and the NW Progressive blog.
I'm with Postman, it really doesn't end well at all. I would argue 60 seconds is too long an ad for any Congressional candidate of either party, but I thought this ad really fell apart at about the 40 second mark...and it didn't have much of a message sinking in at that point anyway.
Posted by Eric Earling at August 10, 2006 09:49 PM | Email ThisNothing about what she stands for (or hides behind)
For many families the American dream is slipping away....and it's those damn politicans fault....but our savior...Darcy Burner is on the way......To...Congress!
I feel better now...my headache has LEFT!
Posted by: Andrew R. on August 10, 2006 09:57 PMBut what's with the "and so do we" thing at the end? I first saw that on the freaky Ned Lamont-Kos ad, it struck me as bizzare then, and it still does.
Ad odd ad, strategy-wise. She can't be foolish enough to want to fight a battle of the biographies with Reichert, can she? Reichert may be vulnerable, but certainly not from that angle.
Posted by: Timothy on August 10, 2006 09:57 PMI don't think so........
Posted by: sgmmac on August 10, 2006 10:21 PMI was able to meet Doug Roulstone (Republican challenger to Rick Larsen in Washington's Second District) yesterday at his new campaign office in Everett.
So now I want to give my impression of both Darcy Burner and Roulstone, both challengers of imcumbents but from different parties.
From Darcy's campaign I get this sense that she feels she needs to be elected to Congress, that it's life or death...My guess is that her campaign will become nasty and she will go down in flames...I hope not literally! IMHO she would not be a good fit for the 8th district! She reminds me of Gregoire...Did I spell that right I don't speak French?
I checked and I did spell it right:)
Doug Roulstone is a very good man and as time progresses I come away with a better feeling about what kind of Congressman Roulstone would be! I asked him why he was running and he told me that he wanted to get Congress back on track by being a leader, something that he has been all his life! Roulstone told me that he does not need to become a Congressman, which reminds me of Dino Rossi telling us that he would be happy out of politics. I believe them both. I also asked Roulstone one last question...what are his hobbies??? He didn't come out with any specific answers except for travel, and that he likes to work to get things done. I hope for the sake of Washington that they both will be elected sometime sooner rather than later.
Posted by: Andrew R. on August 10, 2006 10:37 PMNow Darcy has one-upped Gary with both a veteran father and a veteran husband, but it still says nothing about HER. In fact, it burns up ad time without having to talk about HER, which is most likely a key point.
Posted by: TB on August 10, 2006 11:35 PMDamn good point. This veteran thinks so too!
Posted by: pbj on August 11, 2006 12:14 AMVery perceptive of you all. Good work.
I hate these ads that say they are for Social Security, Vets, Education, etc. I am too, but I ain't voting for her or any of the others.
Me, yes, it seemed she wished she were in the military and was trying to get some gravitas. However, with her constant resume shifting and 'rolling moss' background, she probably thinks she is stable.
Posted by: swatter on August 11, 2006 07:08 AMYeah the "american dream" is slipping away. That surely explains all the 6th graders running around with cell phones glued to their ears and the high school kids that overflow school parking lots and clog neighborhood streets with their cars.
What a wonderful bunch the Dems are. They spare no effort creating doom and gloom and more categories of victims they can pander to.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on August 11, 2006 08:35 AM
Watching the ad and not closely paying attention you will quickly think she is a veteran because you see that caption. She is not, she was a daughter of a veteran, but the pop up caption does not say that.
Maybe I am not so crazy after all...
Posted by: Karl on August 11, 2006 08:38 AMA picture of Darcy gaveling in a rousing session at the Ames Lake homeowners community center to highlight her local government experience.
A picture of Darcy stopped at a crosswalk for an elderly person crossing the road to show her commitment to Seniors and Social Security.
A picture of Darcy dropping the change from her Big Mac into the Ronald MacDonald house bucket to show her charitiable giving.
Yep,it's going to be fun. Hey how come she's not highlighting that fundraiser with the California Mafia and McDermott? Don't forget her mugging with Dwight CAO Pelz in Westlake? They must have footage of that too.
Posted by: Smokie on August 11, 2006 09:16 AM1. She is self-interested and doesn't care about affecting real change, as she claims
2. She cares too much about other people to talk about herself.
I would have difficulty reconciling these.
Posted by: Ben Diamond on August 11, 2006 10:01 AMAs usual, you're spot-off.
Here are the two points:
1. She is self-interested and doesn't care about affecting real change; and
2. She attempts to gain gravitas and street cred from other people, like family members in the military.
See, when you actually understand it, it's very easy to reconcile.
Posted by: Larry on August 11, 2006 10:17 AMBut back to Darcy. As always, the ad ends by playing to the have nots. By any measure, the economy is doing quite well right now. And an increasing majority of the population is young enough to realize that bankrupting social security will not help the country, nor provide them with any future benefits.
I think there are many selfish Americans, and possibly many poor Americans and Seniors that would back Darcy's altruist values that put into place policies of redistribution. However, I doubt that there are really a significant number of such people in the 8th CD. And there are also a lot of principled people in the 8th that realize that propping up Social Security might provide them with some short term benefit, but would be to the detriment of the country in the future.
It's these honest people that won't be falling for Darcy's message.
Posted by: Jeff B. on August 11, 2006 10:37 AMDarcy Burner...puh-lease. The add reminds me of our highly esteemed senator in tennis shoes for some reason.
Posted by: dan on August 11, 2006 01:09 PMReichert's colleague when it was pointed out that no one pulled Ridgway's arrest record after he was DNA identified --- "It was no one's (no one is another name for Reichert) fault"
Posted by: John McDonald on August 12, 2006 07:44 AMThanks for enunciating the liberal POV for us liberal~john. Now, isn't it time for your medication?
Posted by: alphabet soup on August 12, 2006 09:31 AMFeel free to post a thought, you've been in a dry spell lately.
Posted by: John McDonald on August 12, 2006 08:47 PMCall it an irresistible impulse, or a hobby (or simply an irrationality if you prefer ;'} but I actually like to see loons like liberal~john blather on. He/she/it typifies the departure from reality that the leftists have become. Like it or not, these lunatics scurry around the fringes of our society, and, since I can't smack it with a shovel, I'm content to goad it from time to time.
liberal~john claims to be a conservative, but its words belie any notion of that. Its deliberate attempts to derail the only true political mechanism of conservatives - the Republican party- prove that its true allegiance is, if not Dhimmicrat, then Anarchy. As such it is a repugnant little troll who is richly deserving of every bit of wrath it gets.
liberal~john it too dim to recognize that not a person here GAS about anything he says, so it presents a target rich environment for me!
Ditto. Like after 8 gazillion posts no one knows that you hate Reichert. Give us all a break, please. Or maybe you could better spend your energy building a companion site to your anti-Reichert site. "Why Nancy Pelosi will make an excellent Speaker of the House."
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on August 13, 2006 05:40 PM