U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers latest ad is a blatant rip-off of Ronnie Reagan's "Morning in America." It even has the same honey-toned narrator, who, as rays of sunshine beam through a window onto the coffee-drinking congressman, soothingly says, "It's morning in Ohio." And Iraq veteran Stivers is the reason why. Only Stivers will keep the sun rising over Ohio. He is the light. (Robe and sandals optional.)
Senate candidate Josh Mandel says it was "fiscally irresponsible and morally wrong to bail out Wall Street." (Remember, TARP was a Dubya deal.) Josh believes that nothing should have been done. "So, actually, even though nobody asked me, I was in favor of an even deeper recession and of prolonging the economic crisis. Fuck GM and Chrysler, fuck the financial sector, fuck 'em all. That's my plan. Sound good? Vote for me. I'm a Marine."
Willard Mitt Romney says, "This president can say he needs your patience, he can say it's someone else's fault, but he can't say that you're better off." The voice-over explains that Obama's China policy has cost us a hundred bajillion jobs, most from right here in Ohio. My dear Mitt, objectively, we are better off. Linguistically, your words are a Moebius strip of pretzel logic: unrelated hot-buttons about how we're in bad shape, and patience, and blame, and another country. So I guess you're saying that it's obviously Obama's fault, that you will impatiently kick some Chinese ass, and somehow that will make us better off. In Ohio.
(I must remember to unplug my TV, tomorrow.)
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