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onenote

(42,714 posts) Fri Oct 25, 2013, 04:31 PM Oct 2013

Cooch's campaign descends into incoherence and theft

At last night's Virginia gubenatorial debate, Kennie the Cooch put an exclamation point on his bizarrely run campaign by tagging Terry McCauliffe with the following goofball slogan: All Puppy, No Plan. To say that the audience was befuddled by the sudden insertion of puppies into the campaign would be an understatement.

But it gets better, the Cooch campaign, doubling down as it were, put out an ad featuring the whacky All Puppy No Plan slogan. And front and center in this ad, approved by the Attorney General of the state of Virginia, is a copyrighted photo lifted off the Internet without the consent of the photographer (or the pug featured in the ad).

Way to go Ken.
http://happyplace.someecards.com/27118/virginias-gop-candidate-for-governor-got-caught-stealing-a-copyrighted-puppy-photo-for-the-lamest-attack-ad-ever

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Cooch's campaign descends into incoherence and theft (Original Post) onenote Oct 2013 OP

I hope the guy who owns the photo denounces it and sues. tanyev Oct 2013 #1

I'm sure the slogan that's meaningless to us Warpy Oct 2013 #2

Not in this case... Chan790 Oct 2013 #8

Here's the 'explanation' from the article. noiretextatique Oct 2013 #9

what a fucking clown gopiscrap Oct 2013 #3

+1 noiretextatique Oct 2013 #4

He ran "all hat, no cattle" through Google translate central scrutinizer Oct 2013 #5

With a quick stop at Portuguese! n/t A HERETIC I AM Oct 2013 #6

that's as good an explanation as any noiretextatique Oct 2013 #7

tanyev

(42,564 posts)

1. I hope the guy who owns the photo denounces it and sues.

Reply to onenote (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 04:41 PM

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Warpy

(111,270 posts)

2. I'm sure the slogan that's meaningless to us

Reply to onenote (Original post)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 04:41 PM

Oct 2013

is probably red meat thrown to the fundies. If we wanted to know how, we'd have to hold our noses and start reading fundy sermons and no thanks.

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

8. Not in this case...

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 06:37 PM

Oct 2013

it's a reference to Cooch's talking-point that McA doesn't have an economic plan, only platitudes. AG Nuts goes on to say during the debate "I like puppies but I don't bring home a puppy if I don't have a plan on how to feed it and take care of it."

Everybody laughs...and Cooch fails to realize they're laughing at him.

It's like having a bad idea mid-debate and waking up the next morning convinced you're witty; making your non sequitur the center of an ad campaign.

noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)

9. Here's the 'explanation' from the article.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 25, 2013, 06:37 PM

Oct 2013

There is an explanation for this ad, if you can really call it an explanation: during their last debate, McAuliffe gave a wishy-washy answer about his goals being "creating jobs and diversifying the economy." As normal-person standards go, that's a very vague and evasive answer. In politics, it's about a 4 out of 10 on the nonsense scale. Cuccinelli wasn't about to let that slide:

"Cuccinelli pounced on the apparent lack of focus. "I like puppies," Cuccinelli said.
"But I don't bring a puppy home if I don't have a plan to take care of that puppy."
McAuliffe, he said, is "all puppy, no plans." The response elicited giggles—one of
the few crowd reactions of the night." (via TIME)

There you have it, folks. He got giggles, and he needed to keep that gigglementum moving, so he turned that one zinger from the end of that one (of three) debates that not very many people probably watched, and made it a new slogan. Political genius.