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Chuck Norris, The KKK, & Nukes: The Top 10 Most Brutal Attack Ads In Presidential History

Sep. 14, 2012 1:14pm Benny Johnson

This week, we saw the Romney campaign brutalized by the media over Romney’s supposed ”unconscionable attacks” on the Obama administration. But are things really that bad? A quick look at our nation’s presidential campaign history should clear things up:

10. Eisenhower: “Taxes break our back…it’s tragic!”

9. W. Bush: John Kerry looks ridiculous on a windsurfer

8. H.W. Bush: Dukakis looks even more ridiculous in a tank

7. Kennedy: President Eisenhower can’t really name any Nixon accomplishments

6. Clinton: President Bush kinda did this to himself

5. I mean, if you get Chuck Norris in your ad you are automatically on this list

4. LBJ: The KKK “like” Barry Goldwater

3. H.W. Bush: Willie Horton murders children, Dukakis approves of that

2. LBJ drops a nuke on a little girl

1. Adams: “Jefferson is the son of a half-breed Indian Squaw raised on hoe cakes.”

Jefferson: “Adams is a hideous, hermaphroditical character.”

EXTRA: Harsh campaign Ad against John McCain featuring his Vietnamese POW camp guards

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Trollkiller68
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 1:59pm
I’ve read several reports about John McCain using his father’s name, a US admiral, commanding an entire fleet, to get special treatment. There are reports about McCain giving himself over to the Vietnamese communists. They secretly filmed him as he gave up top secret information. Another report also states that has a Vietnamese wife and children which he abandoned after leaving Nam.

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Balpit
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 1:24pm
Political attack ads were much worse back then. Some politicians openly called their opponents, “lepers” and “S*d*mites”, among other things.

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bdandsl
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 1:16pm
Obama and Clinton have blood on their hands! This is a direct result of a weak leadership and their arrogance that they do not need DPBs. If America is to have a chance to correct herself, obama must go!!!!!!!!!

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bdandsl
Posted on September 15, 2012 at 1:13pm
This admin insults our inteligence. obama thinks he is the only one that is smart enough to solve out problems. Well, how is that working out?

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ChiefGeorge
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 6:31pm
The last one was the best because its truly how silly some of the attacks are when they are not even trying to be funny. Ya gotta be a moron to believe either the Dems or Pubs have the American peoples back. I approve of this message.

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- grayling646
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 8:23pm
  I agree. I think we’re screwed but still gotta vote for Romney. He ain’t much of a hope but right now he’s our only hope. I doubt he’ll stop the bleeding but will probably slow it down.
  
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- REAL
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 11:42am
  Agreed….lesser of two evils
  
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Lowell1775
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 6:30pm
The Johnson ad on the KKK really brought back memories of my father’s dislike for the man. Dad was a diehard Republican from West Virginia whose family paid a high price during the war (Civil War) for being abolitionists. His grandfather was born in 1850 and was a young man when the barns were burned and animals stolen or killed by Democrat neighbors with slaves.

Here is a taped conversation from Johnson’s White House.

”These Negroes, they‘re getting pretty uppity these days and that‘s a problem for us since they‘ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we‘ve got to do something about this, we‘ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
~Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)

President Lyndon Baines Johnson, on his “Great Society” to help the *****… was recorded on a White House taped (and saved) conversation claiming, “I’ll have them ******* voting Democratic for the next two hundred years.”

From the Frederick Douglas Institute in NYC

http://www.fdfny.org/blog/2011/09/18/these-uppity-negroes-lbj/

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” — Josef Goebbels

And so it goes on today. How can a self respecting African American vote for these people?

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- VoteBushIn12
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 9:29am
  Because no one cares what a party “used to be” they only care what it is now.
  
  In the 1800s, the Republican party was the left leaning party compared to the Whigs.
  
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- Lowell1775
  Posted on September 15, 2012 at 12:04pm
  Greater liberty is always “left” of greater government control. Don’t get lassoed in and burned by redefinition of freedom as a conservative/right issue….conservatives have been defined as monarchists/oligarchs through most cultures and Western history except for the recent US. Johnson and Obama fit the oligarch description better than the GOP platform in 1964 or 2012.
  
  Johnson, Carter, Gore, Clinton what color uniform did their grand daddies wear in 1864? Butternut and gray. The populist radical GOP (like me) was/is always towards the working man, the mechanic, the farmer, the small businessman who wish to be free with “free” labor and left alone (libertarian) by monopolists, slave owners, government or unions.
  
  Only in the last 50 years have we seen a melding of the GOP and Democratic ruling classes such that they become indistinguishable except in degree. The Tea Party, Perot, libertarianism is the popular will expressing anger at the betrayal of the GOP establishment trying to pull the party back to radical liberty…..blacks need to join us other little guys if they want freedom and not reservation status. As Johnson tapes above show….they are just chained on another plantation today, their families destroyed, their children bereft of hope.
  
  The GOP leadership needs to give us more radicals and fewer tepid RINO’s like old man Bush, Dole, McCain, and now Romney.
  
  Beck, despite his faults, is making a great contribution to providing a voice to radical
  
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Disgusted_in_CT
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:40pm
Two words “Chuck Norris”

LMAO, loved it

But being serious, why would this be rated as an attack ad.
It was simply an endorsement.

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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:16pm
Is the last ad real? If it is, I don’t know when I was transported to the land of oz.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:30pm
I could of swore that was Robert Byrd in # 4,the democrat party was full of racists back then and nothing’s changed.

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- MCDAVE
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:22pm
  @ PROGRESSIVESLAYER Watch this video, The road to WW111,,, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP7L8bw5QF4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
  
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pattik
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:29pm
OMG Tractorboy ….i can’t stop laughing….i can’t see from the tears…..just struck me as hilarious. Good job. Love the comments here so much. Smart people that are funny as hell!

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huey6367
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:14pm
Obama will go down in history as one of the greatest Presidents in history. Oops, I meant to say failures not presidents. I’m all thumbs today.

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- encinom
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:27pm
  You were right the first time, mean while Mittens and Lyin Ryan will be footnotes.
  
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katzkiner
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:56pm
Tractorboy That’s the best one yet.

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MONICNE
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:55pm
Before he died of brain cancer, blue-collar guitarist and political operative Lee Atwater (Willie Horton, Dukakis Tank ads) converted to Catholicism and wrote a series of contrite letters admitting he did most of his negative campaigning as “blood sport” instead of promoting truth, justice and the American way.

His two main legacies today are 1) Karl Rove, and 2) the upscale Red, Hot & Blue barbeque restaurant chain.

Our family eats at Red, Hot & Blue 5 or 6 times a month, and we have frequently seen the great collections of southern musical & political memorabilia there. That’s how I was inspired to view his biography, Boogie Man.

TEA

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:35pm
  He was a fine guitarist.
  
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- MONICNE
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:52pm
  He recorded with Leadbelly, Elvis and BB King, among many others.
  
  He even had a semi-legendary (if not famous) guitar session with George Herbert Walker Bush.
  
  TEA
  
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vic138
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:48pm
Whoever made this list better be careful… Chuck Norris doesn’t like to be fifth.

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- LuvsYeshua
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 3:25pm
  Huck’s was definitely the best. Although I would hardly call it a “brutal attack”.
  
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PoliticallyRightUs.Com
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:35pm
That last one made me laugh!!! Bahahaha

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Gonzo
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:30pm
I’m surprised Obmam hasn’t dusted off #4 and used it yet. Oh well, there is still time.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:23pm
  The Marxist mulatto in chief has until Nov.6th 2012,after that he’ll be busy pardoning terrorists and cop killers.Gonzo have you seen dreams from my real father? He pretty much nails the Marxist fraud POS.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:29pm
  Given Romney’s record of being on every side of every issue Obama could easily use the John Kerry ad. Romney was for Planned Parenthood before he was against it, was for healthcare and the mandate before he was against it, etc.
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 8:34pm
  You should do an ad enimeanie. You could stand in front of the camera and say, ‘BLAH, BLAH, BLAH’.
  
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jimbo_from_suwanee
Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:17pm
Jay Carney’s press conference today (9/14/2012) should displace one of these as one of the top ten attack ads…..

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/jay-carney-on-unrest-in-middle-east-this-is-not-a-case-of-protest-directed-the-united-states/

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- JRook
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:29pm
  Wow GB, Rush and now the blaze all circling the wagons to take the heat off Romney. Rush provided his typical silliness to day claiming that its not Romney that looks like the foreign policy neophyte. Rush does nothing more than take the attack lines that are justified for Romney and come up with a narrative that applies them to the PRESIDENT. Which means the listener with a fully functioning brain that is stronger than their ideological addiction realizes that Rush is doing nothing more than validating the statements against Romney. Cause if they weren’t true he wouldn’t feel a need to make a lame attempt to deflect them onto the PRESIDENT.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:39pm
  Awwww, poor little JROOKIE. Did you soil yourself again? Bless your heart.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:40pm
  Your empty suit in chief is being exposed as the impotent modern day Jimmy Carter JROOK…and America is watching.
  
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- huey6367
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:44pm
  @jrook
  
  I am guessing Rush is not on your Christmas card list
  
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- Tractorboy
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 1:48pm
  Hey JROOK, if your boy Obama wins the election, just look at the mess he will be inheriting!!
  
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- WindyDualism
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 2:41pm
  Rookie
  That is the hilarious part. Rush owns real estate in your pea brain, while you have to remind us who Mathews, olberdink, and madcow are. That is too much. Which tea is your fav?
  
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- DIR
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 4:28pm
  JROOK is right! Obama ‘orchestrated,’ indirectly, through his insightful planning, guidence and wisdom, those attacts on our Councelet and Embassy and all the associated mid east unrest at this time. What a stroke of geneous. Barry is in complete control! Then the admin’s appologies to the aggressors, later discarded and replaced with bold ‘we’ll get you’ dialogue, then retracted on itself 4 or 5 times. That way he makes everyone happy. It all really makes Barry look like he knows what he’s doing. He’s got a game plan! Of course Rush et al are using conservative talking points to make Barry look like a bigger, well probably not bigger, fool than he’s doing brilliantly on his own. The lamestream media is coming to the aid of ‘O’, but through their inept efforts they are hilariously fanning the flames.
  
  As an aside, the dem convention accidently, on purpose, shows Russian war ships behind dem. veterans. The dems are inadvertently providing a priceless comedy skit for the world to enjoy through their clumsy efforts. This whole dem fiasco would be funny, if it didnt adversely affect peoples lives even unto death. If Barry wins this election i’ll be surprised.
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 8:29pm
  So Rook, what you’re say is that Rush is living in your head rent free?
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on September 14, 2012 at 8:39pm
  Sorry Windy. Didn’t see your post. If I had I would’ve just ‘dittoed’ it.
  
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