N&O: Dole's 'godless' ad held as last resort [LINK]
Pertinent Portions:
For starters, Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole's campaign didn't think Democratic challenger Kay Hagan would follow through with plans to attend a Boston fundraiser hosted by a couple known for promoting atheist causes. Certainly not after the Dole campaign had sent out a news release attacking Hagan for even scheduling such an event.
Even then, Dole's campaign thought it would run such an ad only as a last resort. And then it would be the mildest version of the ad.
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In postelection interviews, Dole campaign advisers said the genesis of the commercial occurred when a Dole campaign researcher spotted a posting on a liberal fundraising Web site, ActBlue, announcing a Hagan fundraiser at the Boston home of Woody Kaplan and Wendy Kaminer. Further checking revealed that both were leaders in the Secular Coalition of America, which advocates for atheists and humanists in public policy. Kaplan sits on the advisory board of the Godless American PAC, which advocates for nonbelievers.
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After Dole's criticism, Kaplan and Kaminer's names were removed from the ActBlue invitation. Among the 10 chairmen/ chairwomen of the fundraiser was U.S. Sen. John Kerry.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent a crew to Boston to film the event in case Hagan showed up.
"We thought no way would she actually show up," Davis said. Hagan, a state senator from Greensboro, has declined to say why she decided to attend the fundraiser.
That same evening, Sept. 15, Dole was attending a "God and Country" rally in New Bern sponsored by the Christian Coalition.
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Davis, a nationally known media consultant who did work for GOP presidential candidate John McCain, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and many other Republicans, is no stranger to controversial ads. It was Davis who made the ad comparing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to celebrities Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. In 2002, Davis helped elect Republican Sonny Perdue governor of Georgia by casting Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes as a giant rat casting his shadow over the state.
1 comments:
Which explains the grainy Hagan shots in StalkerVision.
So what does "as a last resort" mean? As a last resort, if we're going to lose by 1 percent, we have to make sure we'll lose by 10?
This just confirms the ad was both shameless AND stupid.
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