Political Ad: China, the Debt Limit and Nevada's Special Election

Nevada’s US Representative Dean Heller has replaced John Ensign in the US Senate (Ensign resigned), thus leaving his seat vacant and to be filled by a special election. Running in that special election is Mark Amodei, whose political ad is the subject of this blog post.

James Fallow brings the following political ad to our attention and writes (here):

Unlike many people, I admired the panache and artistry of the "Chinese Professor" ad used during last fall's campaign to warn about the self- destructive tendencies of America's borrow-and-spend era.

But the similar ad being run by Mark Amodei -- at right, with his mother -- a Republican candidate for Congress in Nevada's special election, is like a lobotomized version of the Chinese Professor. It loses the wit and holds onto only the xenophobia. You can judge for yourself, but the beauty part is his connection between "raising the debt limit" (which he promises never to do) and PLA troops goose-stepping across the plaza in front of the U.S. Capitol. It's tedious to have to point this out, but: refusal to raise the debt ceiling is the move most likely to touch off a panicky dumping of U.S. securities and increase doubt about America's status as a power that knows what it is doing.

 

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