Finally. I had to e-mail the link to the DUmpmonkies before they started mentioning this HUGH NEWZ STORY!!!!!
cali (97,231 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025915201
yikes. what are they thinking? Hillary PAC puts out country music vid "Stand with Hillary"
A bearded cowboy slings a guitar and swings a sledgehammer in a new country-music video that gushingly praises potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
This does not bode well for anyone hoping the coming campaigns will tone down the rhetoric.
We can't wait for the video with Chris Christie doing some sexy break-dancing.
Oh... it gets worse...
fredamae (2,143 posts)
22. You're a lot tougher than I. After the first couple "strokes on the strings" and the youngsters that were "bill/hill" yuck...I had to EXIT
Cali_Democrat (22,629 posts)
2. This is what's going to happen. Hillary will try to appeal to white NASCAR voters in the next election. She will run away from the black dude in the White House, Barack Obama. She will buy into the narrative that he's a weak, effeminate latte-sipping liberal who doesn't really love his country and is weak on foreign policy.
Just watch.
cali (97,231 posts)
5. oh yeah, but this is a delicate, difficult proposition. she needs a huge AA turnout.
nichomachus (10,251 posts)
55. Why does she need recovering alcoholics?
samsingh (12,324 posts)
4. it will completely destroy the gop if we make inroads into the nascar crowd all their what I believe to be disgusting attempts at voter suppression and congressional lines were based on Obama being in office. He had a more specific support base that allowed them to do this. Now with Arkansas folks running, those house strongarm district tactics are no longer relevant. it would destroy the gop. embrace the nascar crowd. give them something to think about.
is he being serious? I can not tell if he is being serious.
tularetom (19,477 posts)
107. This crappy video won't make any inroads with the "nascar crowd"
First of all, it was gruesomely, almost painfully, awful. The music was mediocre and the words sappy and saccharine. It's not "country music", believe me. I'm from Bakersfield and I know.
Secondly, the nascar crowd as you call them, has been hearing for 25 years from rush limbaugh and other idiots on the radio how hillary clinton is the most liberal person on the face of the planet and she's coming for their guns. One amateurish video won't change their minds.
What this piece of crap will do instead is convince black voters that hillary clinton just plain does not give a shit about them. Of course they won't vote republican, but if she keeps up such obvious pandering to the hick demographic, and keeps trashing the country's first african american president, she can expect a pretty dismal turnout among black voters.
She's not gonna win over any rednecks but she needs the black vote. Without it she's toast.
Bakersfield? Bakersfield, California is the Country Music Capitol of the US?
geek tragedy (42,125 posts)
26. I didn't think the country video was that bad Hillary 4 u and me is a legendarily bad video
Coach said it didn't sound bad to him either.
they posted this to DU!
Warren DeMontague (58,189 posts)
86. Yeah, between this and her favorite bible verse, she's REALLY inevitable, now!
HOLY **** YOU CAN PRACTICALLY SMELL THE INEVITABILITY, CANTCHA?
HappyMe (17,848 posts)
11. Holy horrible Batman!
What the hell...
I think this may offend country music fans.
Aerows (28,175 posts)
94. It's so bad
it could stunt the growth of children. Won't somebody think of the children?
m-lekktor (600 posts)
25. that is truly ****ing hideous.
but i needed a good laugh so what the hell! lol
Rowdyboy (21,846 posts)
28. This stuff is what passes for serious discussion on a political website today...
Make me long for the days of substantive issues like Gary Hart on the "Monkey Business" or Ed Muskie tearing up over insuts directed at his wife.
Somebody is all butthurt.
Rowdyboy (21,846 posts)
40. If this is truly the outrage de jour then you're scraping the bottom of the barrel....
Post anything and everything you like whenever you like, that's what DU is for. But don't expect every half-baked middle-school criticism to be taken seriously. Drone warfare is a serious issue-bad country videos are just irrelevant bullshit. In 10 years which will people give a damn about? How many innocent kids did bad country videos ever kill?
How many people did Hillery let die in Bengazhi?
Aerows (28,175 posts)
97. RowdyBoy
That video was a giant cocktail of pandering, simpering and condescension. I applaud your commitment to getting Hillary elected, even if I don't share that vision.
That said, that video was absolutely embarrassing. I'm nearly embarrassed FOR HRC supporters.
Oooo.... Homo fight!
Rowdyboy (21,846 posts)
108. Woah, woah woah. Fullstop. You are implying something I never said, either here or ANYWHERE on DU
No, I do not share the distain (and outright hatred) of Hillary Clinton that so many here do. But to the best of my memory I have never committed to any candidate this cycle. It would be pretty stupid since there aren't any yet. But if the Democratic field in 2016 is as expected I'll likely vote for O'Malley in the Mississippi primary. In 2008 I voted Edwards in our primary. But in both elections it was my stated intention to eventually support whichever candidate the party nominates (and that certainly includes Secretary Clinton) and I did-just like I've voted for every Democratic nominee since 1976. That's who I am-I knew I was a Democrat before I knew I was gay.
You can't necessarily equate defending a political figure with supporting that person for president. That's a bit too much of a leap.
And yes I understand that the party has degenerated into a pathetic caricature of itself but its too firmly embedded in my DNA at this point to change.
delta17 (239 posts)
90. Tim McGraw released a song called Truck Yeah.
I think he is a good guy, and I'm glad he is on our side, but as an artist he will release whatever is selling at the time.
Jason Isbell is the real face of good country, and he wrote at least one song protesting the Iraq war.
I hear the Dixie Chicks are looking for work.
Proud Public Servant (1,467 posts)
58. So aside from the fact that my ears are bleeding...
Why should I support Hillary? Because the country was more united in the 90s -- you know, when Congress hated the president enough to impeach him? Or because she's "a wife a mother, and used to be a First Lady" -- which you could also say of Laura Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Zombie Bess Truman?
Yep, Stand Up with Hillary, because she stands for...
stands for...
um...
Guys? We're gonna need a second song...
obxhead (8,128 posts)
76. Any republican 2016!
That's what this video (and all of the others to come) will get us.
Election of Clinton in the primary decides the general election for whichever Republican runs.
Warren DeMontague (58,189 posts)
111. I hadn't decided whether or not I would vote for her in the primary
until now.
