DNC on Young Guns Ad: ‘Like The Movie, Policy Ideas Are Best Left In The ’80s

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by Tommy Christopher | 2:18 pm, September 2nd, 2010

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A new ad, promoting a book by GOP Reps Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy, has been eliciting some interesting reactions from fellow travelers. The spot for Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders stars the three congressmen, an overwrought voice-over, and the tiny glowing particles from the film Avatar.

Former GOP Congressman and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough torched the “Young Guns” on his show, re-dubbing them “The Young Turds,” and leading a veritable Friar’s roast of the ad by his panel.

We reached out to the Democratic National Committee to see if the Young Guns would fare any better with the opposition. The results might surprise you.

Here’s the “Young Guns” ad again, in case you missed it:

While the DNC doesn’t seem to be a big fan of the ad, they’re still considerably kinder than Scarborough and Co. DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan‘s response to Mediaite: (via email)

The ideas in the book are anything but new, and have already been rejected. The American people don’t want to privatize Social Security or end Medicare as we know it. They don’t want more tax breaks for the rich and companies that send jobs overseas, while opposing tax relief for middle class families. We want to move forward. Like the movie, the policy ideas by the ‘young guns’ are best left behind in the 80s.

Hari’s got a point. As re-branding efforts go, Young Guns isn’t exactly a cultural high-water mark. Red Dawn has hipper nostalgic cachet, and given the popularity of the Tea Party, The Breakfast Club seems a better match. Given the current opposition party’s penchant for saying “no” to everything, though, they might just as well have gone with “The Brat Pack.”

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Update on the Party of White-Hating Racists:

A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning media operations is seeking videographers and bloggers who will search out “racism” and “extremism” among Tea Partiers.

Teapartytracker.org will feature tweets, interviews with people at rallies, blog entries and a picture of a t-shirt they say someone spotted at a rally that reads “Blacks own slaves in Mauitania, Sudan, Niger & Haiti.”

The site, sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America, will monitor “racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement. We call on the Tea Party to repudiate extremists among their ranks and join in civil dialogue with all Americans.”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

Can you really be considered a “young” gun if you have gray hair? That said, I think the ad is a little cheesy but it’s not that bad. The music and the voice are a little much. Thank God, they didn’t dress up like cowboys and ride up on horseback. The movie “Young Guns” is a classic. I used to watch it all the time when I was a kid.

Joe Scarborough on the other hand shouldn’t be calling anyone names. He’s a disgrace. He sold his soul for a place in the liberal elite cocktail circuit. He’s a complete phony.
shootfromthehip

The funny thing about this ad is that Spector was a Republican for years and he also DID let that crazy dude at that Town Hall meeting speak. A lot.

Misleading propaganda style ad from the right.

Not like anyone expects anything different from the GOP these days.
Ninja

Given the current opposition party’s penchant for saying “no” to everything, though, they might just as well have gone with “The Brat Pack.”

Exactly what piece of legislation did those pesky Republicans block? Seems to me every piece of legislature that Obama has wanted has passed. Ask yourself this, is this country better off than it was in January 2009? Has it even occurred to you that they were probably right to oppose those ideas? If it has not yet, history will prove it so just as it always proves liberals wrong.

How about all of the Republican ideas that 0bama rejected during the health care meeting at the Blair House? Is he the President of NO?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-M-Chick/507482075 Daniel M. Chick

Why is this not in the “Columnists” section?

This is [i]laced[/i] with opinion all throughout.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-M-Chick/507482075 Daniel M. Chick

Shit.

laced
http://SailRabbits.com Magister

I don’t know if they named themselves “young guns” or if that’s how some of the older members refer to them, but I’d bet that they really wanted Bon Jovi’s “Blaze of Glory” to play under the latter half of this trailer, but either he wouldn’t license it or they may have decided that he was too Democratic to ask.
Greg

Cantor blamed Democrats for a bullet
That hit nothing
Shot by someone
With no political intent
http://www.facebook.com/people/Aladine-Vargas/644022687 Aladine Vargas

Damn that was stupid. We need honest conservatives. These “leaders” need to grow a set of balls and fight, represent and defend the people of this country from the enemies with in… it’s own tent. Then they can be trusted. Honesty .. though her voices sometimes annoys me .. but Sarah Palin is a great example. I swear she has a bigger set of balls then all 3 of these dudes. Personally I like these guys — but damn .. this gimmick is ridiculous.