Iowahawk is running a contest.
VOICE OVER
Just how brown is Republican Scott “Brown”? Here’s what the Republican says:SCOTT BROWN CLIP
I’m Scott Brown.V/O
But the pictures tell a different story. In fact, Republican Scott Brown is not brown at all. He’s 100% lily white. And 100% Republican. if Republican Scott “Brown” is willing to lie about that, what else is he willing to lie about?Republican liar Scott “Brown.” Wrong on color, and wrong for Massachusetts. And Republican.
Especially Republican.
[Update a few minutes later]
I like this one from comments:
WIFE: They say Scott Brown wants to end poor people’s medical care.
HUSBAND: I hear he wants to steal Ted Kennedy’s corpse and drop it from a plane onto school children.
WIFE: The same school children he wants to run naked through a bonfire as they worship Azathoth.
HUSBAND: The same giant demon that will appear on the state flag after Brown moves the capitol to Dunwich.
V.O.: Scott Brown: Good for the Great Old Ones; Bad for Massachusetts.
Plus, he’s a Republican.
I’d love if the lefties really ran ads like that.
Actually, some of them come pretty close.
some funny stuff, but how about this…
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[montage throughout, voice over by Tim Robbins,or some other well known, liberal maggot]
[JFK, young and virile, RFK same way, Ted Kennedy’s picture, grey haired elder statesmen look]
[voice over]
We all know the Kennedys as an American institution. They’ve fought for or country [picture PT-109],
fought for civil rights [picture of RFK and MLK]
and fought for our children’s education [picture Teddy signing No Child Left Behind with Mr. Bush]
Now, we need to be good Americans and fight for America’s Health Care. Support Martha Coakley for Senate. [picture of Martha’s Mug]
Besides, that seat belonged to Ted Kennedy, his daddy paid for it fair and square!! He’d want Martha to have it.
Vote for me because you just hate intolerance!
For the Republican side: Vote for me because you want to carry on giving half the health budget to lawyers! Vote tort-Luddism; you know it makes sense.
Fletcher, you do know the Republicans favor tort reform and the Democrats oppose it right?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/10/AR2009091001865.html
There’ve at least been nods in that direction.
Mike, I took a look at that Washington Post article. It appears that the Republican idea is to limit the size of awards – which of course will hurt all those who win such awards, including those where there really was negligence involved.
The ideal is to get people to accept that sometimes things get missed or medical treatment goes wrong through no fault of anybody’s including the doctor. The American litigation culture – probably driven by America’s incredible number of lawyers looking for work to do – is part of the cause for health care costs being higher than they should be, “defensive medicine” being a rather good phrase for this problem.
Cue all the old jokes about the rapaciousness of lawyers, and the old Shakespearian quote.
The Shakespearian quote is dissected here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/shakespeare-and-lawyers/
Note the ‘law.harvard.edu’ domain 😉
I too thought that the Shakespearian quote was actually a warning about removing all lawyers – something akin to what Sir Thomas More says to Roper in ‘A Man for All Seasons’ – http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/quotes
So I then thought that having a lot of lawyers was a good thing, as they would be constantly fighting against Government in the courts. Sadly, it seems that too many of them are fighting on the Governments’ side 🙁
And that’s worked so many times in the past, which is why lawyers stand on the side of the road with signs that say, “Will litigate for food.”
Fletcher,
they want to LIMIT the awards, not do away with them. There should be accountability for wrong doing, I don’t know of anyone who disagrees with that. But there shouldn’t be profit taking, by the lawyers OR the plaintiffs.
If someone is injured by a doctor, they should be compensated for time, trouble, suffering and any further care by a competent doctor. But losing a toe after a botched ingrown toenail procedure isn’t worth MILLIONS of dollars. And some of the decisions are that crazy.
If a child is harmed, there should be money, FOR THE CHILD. Mom and dad shouldn’t get a new car or big screen TV, or a house. I use those as examples, because that’s what some of John Edwards clients bought after doctors caused birth defects in the clients children, supposedly. I say supposedly because the “science” he used to get hundreds of millions of dollars has since been disproved. It was dodgy at best to start with.
But even at the base of this, the money should have covered the medical and life expenses for those children, and some for suffering, and we have formula for punitive damages in the law. So there is no need for a $100 million settlement in a medical case.
FC, you realize that if the Government runs health care, doctors will make less and will have less ability to pay for all that insurance, right? They certainly make less after the government stepped in and began running the systems everywhere else in the world. And you can’t have it both ways.
…and you can click on my name for an article making my point.
“…and you can click on my name for an article making my point.”
Not the “click on my name” feature of Rand’s Web site. Der Schtumpy has crossed over to the Dark Side (cue John Williams music for “Imperial March”). Noooooo!
Has Coakley done an ad yet about Brown defending Sarah Palin, and alleging that Obama’s parents weren’t married?
I was pretty sure we were going to prohibit polygamy when we redefined marriage, clearly Jim feels otherwise. Ahh well. Such is life when you’re willing to redefine words on a whim.
@Jim: “Brown defending Sarah Palin…” Hmm, I watched the clip. Most of it was about Palin.
I was pretty impressed, except for the very end where Obama was mentioned. Still, I was impressed enough that I whipped out my credit card and made a $50 contribution to Brown’s campaign.
http://www.brownforussenate.com/
Thanks for the link to the video, Jim!
Darkstar:
You’re impressed by someone defending the Palin selection, after Palin admits on The O’Reilly Factor that she had to ask Steve Schmidt (a campaign manager!) to clarify who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks?!?
Jim, do you even know?
Palin admits on The O’Reilly Factor that she had to ask Steve Schmidt (a campaign manager!) to clarify who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks?
Is that really worse than Joe Biden fantasizing that we (and the French) kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon?
You really are a tool. And like him, a fool.
I liked the part where Obama disses Brown’s GM truck.
Is that really worse than Joe Biden fantasizing that we (and the French) kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon?
Yes, it really is. By 2008 most Americans knew that Saddam Hussein wasn’t involved in 9/11; I doubt whether 10% had any opinion at all on Hezbollah. Sarah Palin admits that where the #1 foreign policy issue of the previous decade was concerned she was less informed than the median poll-responding “adult” (“idiot”, I believe, is your term for them). That’s really bad.
People sometime joke that they’d rather have the country run by names pulled out of a phone book. If Palin is ever elected to public office, we’ll know they weren’t actually joking.
So you’re admitting that Obama was a fool to select Biden for his vaunted foreign policy wisdom?
So you’re admitting that Obama was a fool to select Biden for his vaunted foreign policy wisdom?
Biden’s mouth worries me, but my impression is that he’s provided good advice, e.g. on Afghanistan. His Hezbollah statement was a howler (even if not in the Gerald Ford Eastern Europe gaffe hall-of-fame category), but I doubt Palin could even have told you what Hezbollah is. She apparently had trouble even remembering Biden’s last name!
I take it that Coakley just doesn’t care about the voters of Innsmouth or Arkham. All those stimulus dollars, just gone to waste…
Yeah, but Zim, who else are they going to vote for?
Democrats are clueless. They should know by now most Americans don’t want Obamacare. So by showing Brown’s statement that he will be the vote to kill Obamacare, the Democrats are actually giving Brown a free positive add.Socialist still think most Americans are brain dead and that we all need their help to run our lives. Perhaps that was trues when Obama took office, but Americans have awakened to the false Hope and Change that Socialist Obama wants to push on all of us. And we don’t like it.Scott Brown, for State Senator. “Its not Kennedy’s seat, its not the Democrats seat, its the people of Massachusetts seat.”
It may well be. I live here in Boston and things do seem to be getting dicey for the Dem. She has run a horrible campaign up till now and Brown, despite the fact that he is and will be a lockstep Republican in the Senate, has managed to make himself seem more moderate, just like Romney did before voters caught on to him, and he’s telegenic, just like Romney. What’s more, the rightwing has mobilized and completely taken over the web, flooding every local media site with Brown cheerleading of every sort. If there is a low turnout, watch out,Brown could squeak in.