AUFC Announces Anti-Bachmann Ad Buy
Monday, March 22nd, 2010According to Paul Schmelzer’s post, AUFC has announced that they’ve made an ad buy against Michele Bachmann:
Americans United for Change has been creating a series of ads in favor of health care reform, and this one dings the sophomore representative for not voting to give the rest of us insurance as good as her own government plan:
Finally, Congress passed the health reform bill to rein in the power of the big insurance companies and guarantee that all Minnesotans can get the same health insurance as members of Congress. But our Congresswoman Michele Bachmann voted against that? She may be an “important” politician in Washington, but when it comes to health insurance, if it’s good enough for her shouldn’t it be good enough for the rest of us?”
Schmelzer doesn’t do Tarryl or Dr. Reed any favors by saying this:
The New York Times’ Jeff Zeleny says that while Bachmann isn’t seen as particularly vulnerable, the commercial’s intent seems to be to provoke Bachmann into responding, thereby sending the ad viral.
Whether the ad “goes viral” or not, this is a certainty: people think that health care rationing will happen as a direct result of this bill. People have read the New England Journal of Medicine’s poll showing that doctors would consider retiring early if Obamacare passed.
Rep. Parker Griffith responded to my question by saying that it’s easy to create health insurance for everyone but that it’s more difficult to actually treat patients when there’s a doctor shortage. Griffith stopped short of predicting a doctor shortage but he said that it’s a strong possibility.
AUFC’s ad might “go viral” because Americans know that the
Democrats’ health care bill didn’t do anything to change people’s health shopping habits. Until that happens, health care legislation can’t legitimately be called reform.
Another point must be made on this announcement, namely, that AUFC isn’t in touch with the American people. They’re doing their best to spin the Democrats’ health care legislation to make it sound like this is a positive thing. AUFC is hoping that people ignore the tax increases contained in the Democrats’ health care bill. AUFC better hope that nobody tells the American people that they could’ve gotten all of the popular reforms if the Democrats would’ve valued bipartisanship.
Instead, the Democrats had to resort to bribing Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu to get the bill through the Senate. Bart Stupak showed us that he’s as spineless as the other Democrats. Speaker Pelosi thought about passing the Senate bill without voting on the Senate bill.
In that respect, AUFC’s ad buys across the nation will remind people of the Democrats’ corruption. Their ad buy will also remind people that there’s no such thing as a moderate Democrat. This year, that isn’t a good place to be. AUFC’s ads will do more harm than good for Democrats.
Technorati: Campaigns, Ad Buys, Negative Ads, AUFC, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Bart Stupak, Speaker Pelosi, Corruption, Tax Increases, IRS Agents, Tarryl Clark, Maureen Reed, Democrats, Michele Bachmann, Republicans, Election 2010
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog