In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has released an Irish-themed ad attacking Chris Dodd. It has Irish music, weird animations and an announcer with a really bad Irish accent (think the leprechaun from “Lucky Charms” bad). The ad rolls several attacks against Dodd into a single ad (including the Irish cottage), which detracts from the overall effectiveness.
But it does have a little animated Dodd riding down a rainbow, and being whisked on a little cloud over to Iowa.
It’s called “The Luck of the Dodd,” and here it is:
Transcript:
ANNOUNCER: It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and no one feels luckier than Christopher Dodd!
AUDIENCE: Booo.
ANNOUNCER: Did you know he owns an estate among the shamrocks in Ireland? Connecticut must not be good enough for the old lad! The whole Dodd clan even moved to Iowa. Home sweet home! But not as sweet as the sweetheart mortgage deal from his friend, Angelo Mozillo! How lucky! Oh, but how unlucky his constituents in Connecticut are!
DODD: [cackles at sad Connecticut person]
ANNOUNCER: No wonder his poll numbers are bottoming out, like a pint of Guinness. The luck o’ the Dodd is running out! The National Republican Senatorial Committee is responsible for the content of this advertisement.
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I watched the Face the State segments last night at MLN. Dodd did a good job of coming off as earnest and likeable.
However, will someone please tell him that EMBRACING LIEBERMAN is an IDIOTIC MOVE. I watched him give his prodigal son response to Dennis House, and it just made me think that Dodd has been in D.C. way too long.
Among Dems Lieberpuke isn’t regarded as a wayward son, he’s regarded as a McCain/Palin loving traitor.
If Dodd thinks he can repair that breach he’s nuts. And it will cost him with his base.
It’s as if the Senator wants the front-pagers at DailyKos to start chanting “throw Dodd uner the bus, throw Dodd under the bus”, (in favor of Blumenthal).
Who the hell is advising Dodd?
There’s also the chance that Senator Dodd doesn’t give a damn. He could be more concerned with doing the right thing and getting results for the people of Connecticut than keeping front-pagers at DailyKos in his corner.
Just like Colin Powell, Lieberman had the right to support whomever he wanted for President, but that makes him no less effective in the Senate. Focusing on avenging that is arrogant, foolish, and obnoxious.
Dodd knows what’s more important, and that’s exactly why he’ll have my support.
This is hilarious. It’s a funny way to poke fun at someone as ethically challenged as Sen. Dodd. Good stuff
Wow, nothing makes me more excited to help Dodd in 2010 than knowing in advance that he’ll be working against us in 2012. Where do I contribute?
Okay Jim. You call it leadership, I call it foolishness.
Btw, which night did Colin Powell speak at the Democratic convention?
Oh, that’s right, he didn’t.
Actually, to follow up on AS’s comment, what Joe wants (and what Jim seems to want for Joe) is leadership without a cost. He wanted to lead Democrats to oppose our Presidential nominee, but doesn’t want to lose his chairmanship over it. He wanted to let Roberts and Alito on the court, but didn’t want to be blamed for it. He wanted to form his own party when he got beaten in a primary, but heaven forbid the party should censure him some thirty months after the fact!
What Powell wanted was to get an easy dig in on his way into retirement. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s a long way from “leadership.”
Lieberman supported the Presidential candidate he felt was best for the job. He thought that qualified candidates for the bench deserved an up or down vote. He didn’t want Connecticut to be stuck with an unqualified, polarizing Senator just because under ten percent of Connecticut’s registered voters nominated Lamont. If there are consequences for that, so be it.
No one expects the blogosphere to get behind Lieberman in 2012, but the blogosphere shouldn’t expect Lieberman, or anyone else, to play by their rules. If Dodd loses nutroots support over embracing Lieberman, then we’ll just let Connecticut’s reasonable voters re-elect him. It’ll be just like 2006.
This is a tacky, stupid ad pitched at about the fifth grade level, so it ought to work just fine among the converted. But they had better get a bit more sophisticated going forward. With someone as vulnerable as Doddie, they really need a better act than this.
I dunno, this guy?
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