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You'd better vote for Rick Perry... or else
By Delia PlessSeptember 26th, 2011, 11:15 amComments (16)
If you don't vote for Rick Perry, America's headed for I Am Legend status in, like, two weeks.
Perry's first official campaign video premiered last week during the GOP debate. The first half of the ad is quick, grey-filter shots of what looks like post-apocalyptic middle America with an overlay of scary statistics. The second half is quick, sunny shots of Rick Perry shaking hands with happy people who are clearly not living in that shit hole we saw during the first forty-five seconds of the ad. Take a look:
What's surprising is how similar this ad is to Perry's gubernatorial re-election ad from last year. Same half-doom, half-sun split — although in the new ad Perry's not wearing leather chaps (above) and someone upgraded to a better version of Final Cut Pro. Maybe it's predatory, but you can't deny it's effective. Somehow, I find myself thinking America will be completely screwed if we don't give executive power to this man as soon as possible.
Commentarium (16 Comments)
Maybe instead of power we should give him a movie deal.
+1
HA HA HA! Good one.
e gads...
Man, I hate him so much, but he has a badass advertising team.
Vote for Perry, he's LESS THAN ZERO!
While we're at it, let's take that famous shot of W in his flight suit with the "mission accomplished" banner, and paste Perry's head in. Same difference.
This looks like a fantastic Gatorade commercial.
Folks have been telling me how "pathetic" Perry is; he isn't. I count Obama's chances as slim to grim. It might help if we still had Molly Ivins around but we - sadly - don't.
Anyone who has not been taking Mr Goodhair seriously had better wake up.
The fact that he has a good chance to make it doesn't make him less pathetic, though. I mean, hell, GWBush was pathetic, and he still got two terms.
Oooh...a new Michael Bay movie!
Ugh, another cowboy politician.
Is it just me or does it seem like adds are getting even more asinine. It could have at least thrown in some skewed claims as to why RP would actually be better. Instead it does the whole "vote for him because we can use buzz words to make unsubstantiated claims and also because these pictures look super cool and are way cooler than those pictures you saw juxtaposed to Obama. Oh, and we are going to take these statistics out of context." routine.
No one from the southwest should be able to run for president. endofstory
What an asshole.
Well I guess I don't have to spend the weeenkd figuring this one out!