{"id":14131,"date":"2012-07-19T18:24:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=14131"},"modified":"2012-07-19T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T02:50:09","slug":"best-presidential-ads-of-the-last-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=14131","title":{"rendered":"Best Presidential Campaign Ads of the Last 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Mitt Romney&#8217;s campaign has taken Obama&#8217;s yawning gaffe and run with it, producing a dozy of an ad called &#8220;These Hands&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Lr49t4-2b8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I like it!<\/p>\n<p>But people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2012\/07\/romney-camp-releases-these-hands-in-response-to-obamas-attack-on-small-business-owners\/\">calling it<\/a> &#8220;the best political ad in 30 years&#8221; are overselling it. Even if you&#8217;re just looking at Presidential ads, there are several I think are a lot more effective.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Dukakis Tank ad from George H. W. Bush&#8217;s 1988 presidential campaign:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BRPZQ3UEN_Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Swift Boat Veterans for Truth&#8217;s devastating ad against John Kerry, using his own words against him in 2004:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/phqOuEhg9yE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(By the way, whenever you hear someone on the left saying that one of their candidates has been &#8220;swiftboated,&#8221; it means is &#8220;Republicans have attacked them effectively with the truth.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NpwdcmjBgNA\">Ronald Reagan&#8217;s Bear in the Woods<\/a> campaign from 1984.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Reagan&#8217;s Morning in America ad:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YYs8KKWU_Ms\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Any I missed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Mitt Romney&#8217;s campaign has taken Obama&#8217;s yawning gaffe and run with it, producing a dozy of an ad called &#8220;These Hands&#8221;: I like it! But people calling it &#8220;the best political ad in 30 years&#8221; are overselling it. Even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=14131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":32,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,18,411],"tags":[928,1179,1709,1019,2878],"class_list":["post-14131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections","category-republicans","category-video","tag-2012-election","tag-mitt-romney","tag-political-ads","tag-presidential-race","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14131"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14145,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14131\/revisions\/14145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}