Ouch...

[missroserose]

I just saw an ad in my Hotmail account that went something like, "We need Lisa Murkowski in the U.S. Senate. (Click here for a special message from Rudy Giulani.)" Or something to that effect.

I know that this is probably tailored advertising (I'm pretty sure the Hotmail program knows I'm from Alaska), but seriously, isn't this going a bit far? My personal dislike of the Murkowski dynasty aside, isn't it enough that I can't even listen to the radio this time of year without running into one of their attack-dog ads? (Ad: "*ominous music* A vote for Tony Knowles is a vote for people like Hillary Clinton to be in charge of the country!" Me: "Sounds good to me. What's the bad news?") Now I can't even check my email without seeing the name "Murkowski"?

...okay, I'm done.

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[eventhewaves.livejournal.com]

> I just saw an ad in my Hotmail account that went something like, "We need Lisa Murkowski in the U.S. Senate. (Click here for a special message from Rudy Giulani.)" Or something to that effect.

Damn. That sucks. There's a second question you should probably ask, too -- why do you need a special message from Rudy Giuliani convincing you to vote for a senator that's only currently serving because of unchallenged neoptism? ("OMG MY ELECTED OFFICIAL IZ PASTEDE ON YAY!!!!!)

> My personal dislike of the Murkowski dynasty aside, isn't it enough that I can't even listen to the radio this time of year without running into one of their attack-dog ads?

Nope. Sorry. This is politics -- the bastard child of advertising and religion writ large. You can't escape it. All your brain cells are belong to them.

> Now I can't even check my email without seeing the name "Murkowski"?

Nope. Sorry. Again. They want to make absolutely sure you don't forget who's running. And once you've got it, they want to make sure that you start having horrific nightmares/wet dreams -- depending on your party -- involving Lisa Murkowski turning into a bug-eyed alien from beyond the stars who eats Democrats and secretes Republicans.

Yeah. I'm feeling kind of weird this afternoon; what was your first inkling? =)

--Brian

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself Metaquoted. ;)

[sluggirl.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I can't check my email without seeing Tony's name. I've told them repeatedly that I haven't lived in AK for over a year, and I'm not an Alaskan voter, and being in Washington state I'm very unlikely to be able to attend their fundraisers, but to no avail. I got on some Democratic list somewhere, and I cannot escape.

Alaskan political ads are hilarious. We have. No. Shame. None!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Really? I always figured that nobody had any shame when it came to political ads, but my experience is fairly limited. ;)

[sluggirl.livejournal.com]

Not that anyone else is really any classier, but ours are just so bizarre.

[taktukbrightsea.livejournal.com]

You think that's bad? Dad's a registered Republican so every day now we've been getting like at least 2 phone calls with RECORDED MESSAGES urging us to vote for the worthless bitch.

If I were in the right town I'd TP their damn offices... with used tp.

[queencallipygos.livejournal.com]

Would you do me a favor? I may have need of this email if you still have it. A friend of mine compiles a sort of "voter's guide" each year for every Congressional race in the country, and this is exactly the kind of thing he's looking for. He collects the outrageous, crazy, silly, foolish stories from the campaign trail and the incumbents' voting records, and writes a paragraph about each race. For every Congressman in the country. Basically, it's kind of like the Drudge report, only it's left wing and is actually backed up with facts.

This is EXACTLY the kind of thing he'd be interested in. If you could forward this to me at empresscallipygos@yahoo.com, I'd really appreicate it. If it's just an ad that shows up on the screen, if you could email me describing the ad -- including the "special message from Rudy" -- that would be fantastic.

You could actually read more about his project on MY lj; I'll get you the link in a minute.

[queencallipygos.livejournal.com]

Here's the link: http://www.livejournal.com/users/queencallipygos/2004/09/10/