The Campaign for American Values PAC launched “A New Morning,” a new anti-Obama ad targeting the President’s support for marriage equality. In the segment, a fretful mother puts down her newspaper and complains to her husband that President Obama is “forcing gay marriage” on this country.
You hear that, America? You’re all gonna have to get gay-married! Your mother and father will have to divorce and marry same-sex partners. That’s how Obama wants it!
The tagline to this attack ad is “That’s not the change I voted for”—indicating it’s aimed at socially conservative Democrats or Independents who voted for Barack Obama in the last election. But a majority of those Americans support marriage equality—and even those who don’t aren’t as concerned with banning same-sex nuptials as they are with the economy, defense, immigration and other issues.
Maybe “A New Morning” would have more of an impact if it didn’t feel like a MAD TV spoof—right down to the dramatic music that rises when the husband announces they can “vote for someone with values.”
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Seriously?
Of course, the real crisis here is not that President Obama is now in line with how more and more people feel about marriage. It’s that this woman is wearing a hideous blouse and no makeup when she knew she’d be on television. Clearly the gay stylist on this shoot was exacting a small measure of revenge.
Jabaroo
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Gotjee
I…. What? It really, *really* isn’t a skit? Dayum.
horace
Thats not the Tom I voted for either honey but every Tues and Thursday
when I get plowed at lunch and I’ll ask around and certainly get to the bottom of this..
ShowMeGuy
…we hold these truths to be self evident…
You either believe in the Declaration of Independence or you’re a fauxmerican.
nycbearman
1) It’s like the 80s when all the Designers were straight.
2) The Husband looks SOOOO suspect.
3) Where’s Dan Aykroyd?
nycbearman
NOTICE THE HUSBANDS SHIRT! ONE SLEEVE UP ONE SLEEVE DOWN.
wardrobe malfunction.
tdx3fan
I thought that after it was quite obvious that the polls favored Obama’s support of gay marriage on a national level that Romney was smart enough to leave this topic alone. However, I must have overestimated the brains Romney possesses.
Its like the Republicans do not realize that they do not have the numbers needed in their base to win this election. This ad does nothing but pander to the base while pissing off anyone that is moderate. Nice move!
yaoming
Now that gays are getting married, I guess they’ll just have to get divorced… or, if they’re like a majority of breeders, they were probably going to get divorced anyway, so what do they care?
defused73
It’s pretty obvious that this is not a SNL skit…I haven’t laughed this hard at any of their material in nearly a decade!
Kevin B
@tdx3fan: This PAC is, I think, small enough and far enough outside Romney’s camp (its leader was an early Santorum supporter) that the campaign didn’t really have anything to do with this ad. That said, this ad is airing in North Carolina, which did quite recently reject gay marriage by a fair margin. I mean yeah, some people outside North Carolina will see it online, but chances are most of them are either already fully engaged in the election or specifically gay rights issues, and hence pretty much decided already.
Within North Carolina, it’s not unreasonable to think that a lot of those who voted against gay marriage were also supporters of Obama in 2008, and with that state so close, this might not be the stupidity it seems to be. If this ad were running in Ohio, New Hampshire, or even Virginia, you might have a better point, but sadly I think this kind of thing might play well enough in North Carolina to be, if not a great political move, at least not stupid.
randalaw
Memo to CAV-PAC: Dump the next load directly in the orchard.
Aidan8
Interesting how none of our conservative/Republican members (Brent, BJ McFrisky, et al) are quiet as church-mice about this post…. Hmmm? Cat got your tongues boys? Can’t come up with a snarky comment about liberals on this one can ya? And just so it’s not lost on you, this is the kind of shit that conservative and GOP PACs and other groups spew against us. This is why it’s so hard to understand how you can be apologists for the GOP.
jwrappaport
@Aidan8: I really couldn’t have said it better. These people, that is to say the GOP, are not our friends: they either expressly favor our legal marginalization or simply don’t care about it and are content to throw us under the bus. I’m not sure which is more morally reprehensible.
dvlaries
A nice big clean kitchen, big windows looking out to a big yard with the sun filtering through, a husband who serves you your coffee, floor-to-ceiling filled book shelves, healthy indoor plants – what nice surroundings to be miserable about expanded freedom for all citizens that’ll do your life no trouble in the least. My heart is going right out to her.
Mjl-428
@Aidan8: I was expecting them to show up here too. I mean if they’re gonna spout Liberals and Democrats are blah, blah, blah, the least they could do is keep it consistent, when there’s evidence of Republicans showing love to them
Little-Kiwi
how appropriate that this video comes out the same day as the video from the cowardly Gay Republicans with their pathetic excuses for voting GOP.
here ya go, boys. the party you love is spending money promoting hatred against you. and you like it.
😀 enjoy your wasted worthless lives.
tazz602
So – Values huh – values like lying whenever it suits me to help me achieve whatever goal I want? Values like hiding my past so that people will never know? that I committed felonies like hiding assets in hidden foreign accounts? Values like changing my opinion based on whomever is paying for my campaign? Those are not the values I would vote for.
Boytoy
LOL
Aidan8
….. crickets still from our conservative/Republican members…. crickets…. lol
ScaryRussianHeather
@tdx3fan:
It’s a super pac ad not a Romney ad. With a SURPRISING number of California donors!!
763K cash on hand and one guy has given 50K! Jeeze.
http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/outside-spending/committee/campaign-for-american-values-pac/C00489617/
ScaryRussianHeather
@tazz602:
“that I committed felonies like hiding assets in hidden foreign accounts”
Come on now. You seriously believe the ridiculous Harry Reid claim that Mitt Romney is a FELON “hiding” ASSETS and the Dems just let him go, because well…why bother?
There is nothing illegal about Romney’s accounts. But if it makes you feel better, have at it.
BTW you can have a Swiss bank account, too, it’s easy.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/should-you-care-about-mitt-romneys-swiss-bank-account/259598/
ScaryRussianHeather
BTW tazz602 since the accounts were on his income tax filing, they were hardly “hidden”. But you could say they mighta been “hidden” from Romney himself since his money is in a blind trust. eyeroll.
richhenz
Yes tazz. I believe that the guy that is hiding the evidence is lying. The guy accusing says he’s protecting the identity of his source. The guy being accused says, “Shut up. Nothing to see here.”