Pro-Paul group unleashes fiery attack ad

[nikcers]

We'll find out who wins Sunday- when I found out Cruz voted for that democrat bill he lost any chance of being my number 2. I was already miffed when he kept implying that Paul was an isolationist. That guy is just another koch candidate to me now.

 

[Massachusetts]

I'm as big of a Rand supporter as anybody, but there are way too many sycophants that will say everything that is done on Rand's behalf and by Rand is genius Spoiler alert: his campaign f***s up just as much as any other campaign does and may sometimes be the victim of groupthink and sycophancy..whether you want to hear that or not.

Sometimes you have to take your head out of the sand and smell the roses. If the idea was to make something so stupid it would go viral, and in the same breath you say "it's not a big deal, no real voters are going to see it"...what the hell did you spend x amount of dollars on? For all the fundraising letters they send out, they should be utilizing donors' money to get a better ROI..

 

[jj-]

I'm as big of a Rand supporter as anybody, but there are way too many sycophants that will say everything that is done on Rand's behalf and by Rand is genius

Some people like Matt Collins also often have some financial interest.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

No. Matthew Boyle has been favorable to Paul. Breitbart is a Cruz support site and has been so for at least half a year. There are plenty of Cruz and Walker shills there.

I'm getting (or, at least I WAS before this) all kinds of Paul-love from Breitbart people on my fb feeds the last quarter.

 

[eleganz]

The comments on the Breitbart article clearly demonstrate why attacking Cruz at this point in time was a really stupid idea.

ETA -- Breitbart, which has been overwhelmingly favorable to Paul so far, has just united in hatred of Paul and support of Cruz.

Great job dimwits.

All of the viewers and especially the commenters are all the same on the political wing websites, I rarely see pro Rand comments on breitbart as it is, they only came around to huddle around him for single issue events like the filibuster. They will come around and huddle again later regardless of what happened today but the rest of the time they will still spend talking about Rand's close relationship with Mitch.

Its the same old story told over and over again. This one ad is not the end of the world guys.

Its funny, laugh it off and go to sleep knowing that Rand is the only senator putting up a damn good fight to end the Patriot Act once and for all.

 

[jj-]

Its funny, laugh it off

How do you laugh at something that isn't funny?

 

[GunnyFreedom]

All of the viewers and especially the commenters are all the same on the political wing websites, I rarely see pro Rand comments on breitbart as it is, they only came around to huddle around him for single issue events like the filibuster. They will come around and huddle again later regardless of what happened today but the rest of the time they will still spend talking about Rand's close relationship with Mitch.

Its the same old story told over and over again. This one ad is not the end of the world guys.

Its funny, laugh it off and go to sleep knowing that Rand is the only senator putting up a damn good fight to end the Patriot Act once and for all.

There are ways to attack another candidate without alienating his supporters for whom your guy is #2. I'm getting a lot of Rand negativity from Cruzers on my fb feed right now. We pull from Cruz more than anybody. Losing the 'second choice' position of Cruzers could in fact be devastating to the final outcome of the Primary. There are ways to criticize Ted Cruz without pissing off his supporters and making them retrench and hate Paul.

Rand's campaign is doing great. The turd from Benton cannot be polished, and should never have been laid.

 

[francisco]

... This one ad is not the end of the world guys.

Its funny, laugh it off and go to sleep knowing that Rand is the only senator putting up a damn good fight to end the Patriot Act once and for all.

All true, but I gotta say this ad is a special kind of stupid/awful.

Saving grace: If Benton had anything to do with it, his stock with his Super-PAC employer must have gone way down. One beautiful thing about the marketplace is that eventually the incompetent performers are weeded out.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I've been publishing stories for months that have been winning Cruz supporters over to Rand. I'm losing some of the ground I've gained now.

 

[TaftFan]

I've been publishing stories for months that have been winning Cruz supporters over to Rand. I'm losing some of the ground I've gained now.

It's a little damn frustrating to see hard-earned progress washed down the drain, isn't it?

 

[GunnyFreedom]

It's a little damn frustrating to see hard-earned progress washed down the drain, isn't it?

My posts on Cruz on the TPA have worked wonders. Not just regular folks but heavy influencers too. I've converted a dozen heavy influencers from Rand to Cruz on the TPA vote, and now three of those have gone wishy washy and another one went silent.

 

[jj-]

Rand Paul tried so hard to distance himself from the hardcore fanatics who were loud and obnoxious and off putting and Jesse Benton takes the behavior of those people, and replicates it but elevating it a thousand orders of magnitude.

 

[TaftFan]

Rand Paul tried so hard to distance himself from the hardcore fanatics who were loud and obnoxious and off putting and Jesse Benton takes the behavior of those people, and replicates it but elevating it a thousand orders of magnitude.

Exactly.

 

[puppetmaster]

Would like to see Rand object to this superpac

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

You don't have any clue what you're talking about...

You say that, but look what you're defending. Your position is quite ridiculous.

Rand Paul doesn't even need any attack ads at this point. Attack ads in such a large field are a bad strategy anyway. Better to spend the money building your guy up, than tearing the other guys down, considering there are like 15 candidates (would you rather spend money on 15 attack ads or one positive ad?).

The low information voters this might potentially work on are not paying attention to the current political situation, and probably have no idea Rand even had a filibuster. They'll start tuning in next year as the vote approaches. The people who ARE paying attention, older working folks who listen to talk radio and follow politics recreationally will be utterly repulsed by this.

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You claim I don't know what I'm talking about without any knowledge of me personally, my experience, or my intellectual capabilites. You might be more convincing if you didn't sidestep critics, and instead addressed their points head on.

 

[FSP-Rebel]

So, did anyone divert campaign funds from the campaign to this shitty-PAC? I think we all donated to the official campaign and this money to the PAC came from elsewhere. Who gave money to the PAC?

 

[francisco]

In a bit of depressing news, this crappy ad has over 86,000 views on Youtube. Somethin' aint right in this world

 

[timosman]

All true, but I gotta say this ad is a special kind of stupid/awful.

Saving grace: If Benton had anything to do with it, his stock with his Super-PAC employer must have gone way down. One beautiful thing about the marketplace is that eventually the incompetent performers are weeded out.

This gets you marked as fake. You guys should be more careful when creating #fakeactivity

 

[timosman]

In a bit of depressing news, this crappy ad has over 86,000 views on Youtube. Somethin' aint right in this world

You are damn right, sir! #fakeactivity

 

[Crashland]

I must say, this ad is getting covered everywhere. Massive exposure. Rand better have a good plan for Sunday because it sure would be anticlimactic for his efforts to fall flat now.

And that snapshot of muscle-man Rand will never go away and can never be unseen lol