One of my kids announced the other day that they were sick and tired of all the political commercials on YouTube. There are tons of them, and they are all from Democrats attacking Republicans. He asked me if they were running on anything. I said yes – attacking Republicans.
There is the odd “I did this” moment, but these are without context. For example, one Harris commercial says something about Kamala and her mom asking her, when she saw something wasn’t right, “What are you going to do about it?” I shouted out, “**** a ****?” You figure it out.
Locally, Democrat Joyce Craig is running for Governor. This is the woman who ruined Manchester, New Hampshire’s largest city—still tough compared to actual cities. She added that she lowered crime without mentioning how much she raised it first. Even “lowered” from whatever high she’d been on, and that claim itself is suspect. Manchester is a messed-up zoo with lots of drugs, vagabonds, street people, and crime—lots of it. Context.
And where are the Republican counterstrikes? The rebuttals against the attacks? Great question. My YouTube-viewing offspring didn’t cite any. Every streaming service we watch that has ads has Democratic ads. Every break, there are at least two. Where are the Republican ads?
In New Hampshire, we get Pappas (Congressional Incumbent Dem), Harris, Craig (NH’s Lady Elaine Fairchilde mentioned above), Harris, Craig, Harris, Harris, Harris, Harris, Pappas. No Trump, no Prescott (challenging Pappas). There’s an Ayotte ad (Republican challenger for governor) where she says, “Shucks, I’m not changing New Hampshire’s abortion laws—those Democrats are just joshing.”
I see Trump ads on Whatfinger, X, and Facebook shared by supporters but not in the broader media world. Sure, the wider media world hates Republicans, with rare exceptions, but they have to take their money for ads, and I do not see any.
If voters take the same approach come November, as in – yeah, whatever – we’re all screwed.
