NPR: Ron Paul's 'Big Dog' Ad One Of GOP Race's Coolest Commercials

[anaconda]

This ad is great. The allusion to Hawkeye football and Reagan is pure brilliance.

I love it.

I missed both of these. What are the two allusions of which you speak?

 

[harikaried]

I missed both of these. What are the two allusions of which you speak?

The big rig running over the crumpled picture is just like Hawkeye's intro where they have a video sequence where the opposing team's helmet/logo gets runs over by the Hawkeye's big rig.

Reagan once said:

I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. (February 10, 1982)

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/-i_know_it-s_hard_when_you-re_up_to_your_armpits/338218.html

 

[kylejack]

'Drain the swamp' has been said by Reagan and many others. DC was built on a tidal plain, which some have erroneously called a swamp.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

If it originally wasn't a swamp geographically, it's definitely a swamp now.

 

[anaconda]

The big rig running over the crumpled picture is just like Hawkeye's intro where they have a video sequence where the opposing team's helmet/logo gets runs over by the Hawkeye's big rig.

Reagan once said:

I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. (February 10, 1982)


http://thinkexist.com/quotation/-i_know_it-s_hard_when_you-re_up_to_your_armpits/338218.html

Thanks.