30 Seconds Over Washington: The Top 10 Most Menacing Guns in Political Ads
As 30 Seconds Over Washington host Kyle Kinane knows, there are few things American voters love more than TV and beer. Except maybe guns. Americans really, really love their guns.
Weapons are such a powerful symbol in fact, that many political candidates take to hauling their own arms on screen during their campaign ads. While they’re probably aiming for the whole “no-nonsense, not-to-be-trifled-with, all-American” angle, I think we can all agree that most of them come off as just one thing: scary as hell.
So grab a flak jacket, fasten your flag pin, and take a look at these more-than-menacing political ads:
Name: Dale Peterson (R)
Running for: Former candidate for Alabama Agriculture & Industries Comission, endorsing fellow Republican John McMillan
In his own words: “I’m endorsing John McMillan because he gives a rip about Alabama, and I better not catch any thugs or criminals stealing his yard signs.”
Running for: Arizona’s 4th Congressional District
In his own words: “Government-run healthcare? We don’t want it, we don’t need it, we can’t afford it. This is what I’d do to that law.”
Name: Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher (R)
Running for: Ohio’s 9th Congressional District
In his own words: “In 1939, Germany established gun control, 6 million Jews and 7 million others, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. I love America.”
Name: Bob McConnell (R)
Running for: Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District
In his own words: “That’s what I enjoy. That’s what I love. That’s what I will fight to keep the right to do.”
Name: Joe Manchin (D)
Running for: Senate in West Virginia
In his own words: “I’ll take on Washington and this administration to get the Federal Government off our backs and out of our pockets…I’ll take dead aim at the Cap And Trade Bill.”
Name: Brian Schweitzer (D)
Running for: Governor in Montana
In his own words: “It helps to tape a federal ID card onto the clay pigeon. It gives me motivation.”
Running for: Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District
In his own words: “Some things in life and politics are just not-negotiable…like our right to bear arms, our faith in God and the Bible.”
