Saturday, December 30, 2006
Hunter in PAC Ads
California Representative Duncan Hunter has two ads running for his Peace Through Strength PAC.
The ads, entitled “Football” and “Submarine,” cite China’s growing economic power, calling them “cheaters.” (Nobody likes a cheater.)
Then, Rep. Hunter proceeds to “scaring the living daylights” out of the viewer by listing off what American money buys for China: “… ships and planes and missiles.”
Word is that the phrases “Holy hell! Look what they’re buying!” were axed from the original script.
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(Hat tip: Daniel Owen, Oval Office 2008)
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
Matt Browner Hamlin
Well, I don’t know about scaring people about what China spends their money on. Weapons of war are scary. It doesn’t matter who’s buying them.
But China’s trade and monetary policies do concern Americans, particularly working Americans. There is certainly a space for a protectionist through populism, which I think is how Hunter is painting himself. The problem is that he goes further to tie it to nativism.
This extra anti-China, red-scare isn’t too appealing to me, and I’m someone who works full time for Tibetan independence.
December 30, 2006
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