punkndisorderly wrote:Heven't had a chance to sit down and watch the add all the way through, so feel free to slap me down if what I say isn't accurate.
Seems the NRA is pulling a page from the liberal playbook, and not a good one. It's the page with the heading "Don't bother attacking the arguement, attack the man". I don't think it will work. It preaches to the choir, like us and the majority of gun rights people. May get a few people who were on the fence. Will turn off the block of people who support Obama, but maybe not his take on this (blue dogs, Union types, and those who disagree with everything the liberals do but still vote Democrat "cause their Pappy did").
I just have a harsh opposition to emotional pleas.
I agree with you about emotional pleas, but I don't see this NRA ad as being one. What it is doing, however, is pointing out liberal hypocrisy and nothing more. No guns for US but yes guns for THEM. No security for US, but lots of security for THEM. In other words, do as I say, not as I do. Now, if that evokes an emotional response (and I know it makes me madder than a wet hen - but then again, this whole situation does), then that's one thing. But they certainly don't seem to be pulling the usual "think of the children" bull.