Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008...8:54 pm
Timby On Offense
One common thing that campaigns do is hand out football schedules at games. Back when I was a teenager, I handed out schedules that had Dennis DeConcini’s campaign logo on them. I remember that Eddie Basha had schedules that included a cartoon of him in a football uniform.
The main point of these is to get your name associated with something fun and positive. You can’t get too much of a message out doing this.
Enter Tim Bee. Bee’s folks distributed a flyer at this weekend’s Arizona game that had one one side a guide to referee signals, but on the other was a series of attacks on Gabrielle Giffords’s votes. Bee’s name is only in the small letters on the bottom required by federal law.
Like I said, usually the aim here is to associate your name with something positive (and, unlike most seasons, associating yourself with the Wildcats this year is acutally positive). So, why make this into yet another attack?
3 Comments
October 22nd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Kral said it best the other day. This is all they have left. They are down to peddling cheap xerox’s with three misleading examples of her voting record on one side, and a guide to the ref’s hand signals on the other.
Not only does this demonstrate a baffling misunderstanding of a very simple campaign strategy, it also demonstrates an apparent misunderstanding of modern day football. The ref announces the call to the fans as he makes the gesture. People don’t need a guide.
He might have been better off just slapping a “Jim Click Ford” logo on the back…it might help him make up for the dwindling contributions.
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:26 pm
hahahah, well said Tucson Vice.
I have absolutely nothing to add.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Done and done.