Erik Paulsen (R-MN), a current Congressional Representative, has aired a completely tone-deaf ad attacking his opponent, Democrat Dean Phillips:
If you didn’t listen to the end, it says Congress doesn’t need another “shady businessman.”
In case you hadn’t noticed, Rep Paulsen, neither does the White House. Perhaps you could get rid of the one we have now?
But it is interesting that this ad, this blunder of an ad that’ll remind every listener who sees it and is paying attention that Paulsen’s own Party has a shady businessman in the White House, a shady businessman with poor polling numbers and a large number of scandals hanging over him, making bad decisions, well, how could this ad be made? Just who did Paulsen employ to make an ad that’s this tone-deaf?
Another bunch of amateurs? It is a theme for the GOP.
Or is Paulsen subtly bucking his Party leadership with this ad, telling them very quietly to fuck off and trying to tell his constituents that, no, he really doesn’t like his President at all, and this proves it?
I dunno. I’ve never paid much attention to Paulsen, so I can’t say if he’s really that subtle. But my money is on it being a mistake.
