Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Arkansas Politics Boozman plays Hog card
Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Funny. Republican John Boozman hits the air with a commercial filmed in Razorback stadium and replete with Hog-logoed stuff and a photo from his Hog playing days. Fine.
Presumably he got written permission to use the stadium, as is required in the rule banning political activity at Razorback tailgate parties.
UPDATE: Somebody asked my question about Hog permissions for use of Razorback stuff. Uh, well, no, none was given.
UPDATE: Lincoln has a fact sheet debunking Boozman's boasts, particularly his record as a budget-balancer. Not much of a line held under Bush and Boozman has been nothing but a regular Republican rubber stamp.
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Oh, I am sure it's all on the up and up since that area has few Republicans in the general population.
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And your comments about Blanchie's attempt to jump on the Ryan Mallett bandwagon?
Dear dr. NO, you are running for the United States Senate. So, why did you say you would "stand up to Pelosi"? Just wonderin.
PS - she's the Speaker of the House in case you didn't know.
ArkieProud, Pelosi is the new Republican cuss word. They must have a boogey man, well, er uh, now a 'boogey person', for any of their election strategies to work.
Good vs. Evil is about as complex as their supporters can handle.
"Evil empire"
"Axis of evil"
A person is morally right or morally wrong. There is no simple disagreement. Policy debates left the table long ago.
JohnnyBlanche stood his ground real good when he stood with Pelosi and voted For
TARP which nationalized banks and auto makers.
JohnnyBlanche is fiscally responsible when he stood with a minority and voted NO on
FIFTY different veterans' benefit bills. I sent Max the entire list including bills and dates.
Those are his values.
In 2005/6 he voted to cut student loans by 50%. Those are his values.
In 2001 he voted for the Patriot Act then returned home to tell a group of NWA conservatives that we've got to "keep an eye on this Patriot Act." Subsequently he voted for every re-authorization and funding request plus expansions of the Act.
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"In the conservative moral system, the highest value is preserving and extending the moral system itself. That is why they keep saying no to Obama's proposals, even voting against their own ideas when Obama accepts them. To give Obama any victory at all would be a blow to their moral system. Their moral system requires non-cooperation. That is a major thing the Obama administration has not understood."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/0…
Hmmm...thinking about 1972. Hogs were 6-5. Defense gave up as many points as the offense scored that year. Hogs even lost to SMU. Doesn't sound to me like Boozman was "standing his ground" back then.
From the video, it's not at all clear that this was filmed in the stadium. Looks like it could have been done via greenscreen. Does that make a difference?
This isn't surprising. The only qualification Boozman has ever had for public office is that he was repeatedly knocked in the head while wearing a Hog helmet.
Maybe someone should ask him why he didn't balance the budget or cut wasteful spending when the Republicans had both houses and the presidency. And if he's really serious about balancing the budget if he's also in favor of cutting the defense budget and raising taxes. So many mixed messages!
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It occurred to me too that this might be a green screen. It might make a difference on its use if you think the UA has any business saying who may and may not use public property for political speech. As I indicated earlier, I don't think the UA should have such a rule. Boozman can wrap himself in the Hog flag at will as far as I'm concerned. (Burn it, too, should he choose.) It's just amusing because the Hog empire is generally AWFULLY protective about use of the Razorback logo, colors and so on.
If its a green screen then I'm definitely changing my vote, I don't vote for green screen candidates. You have to actually shoot on location before I will vote for you.
But seriously, either way he has to have UA approval otherwise they will sue him, just like they sue T-shirt people that didn't get permission to sell Hog t shirts.
ughhh... these canned ads on each side; values, etc..makes me wanna puke! Give us something to sink our teeth into, rather than regurgitating tired verbage.
The thought of this boob beating out Lincoln would be a sadder tale of the lazy, knee-jerk and under-educated direction of our country. While there are things to fault Lincoln, she has been a far more moderate demo and assuming they hold the Senate, an important asset to our state.
Boozman could make his time more useful and find two corks: one for his mouth and the other for the Duggars bith canal!
So sad to see Blanche fact check the lessons Boozman learned as a Razorback.
Is she now anti-Razorback?
Now wait.....if I shelled out 800 bucks to the football team and then pay big rent for my parking/party spot and jumped one or two other money sucking hurdles just so I could tailgate in the big lot off Razorback Drive and still couldn't put up a NISWONGER FOR CONGRESS sign in the back of my SUV.....how in the hell can John Boozman use U of A property to shovel his line of political shit? What larger Razorback logo is there in the state than Razorback Stadium in Fayettenam?
The Arkansas Good Ole Buddy system is killing us! They can but we can't.....is a crock. Why do we put up with this? Razorback Inc. has just worked my last nerve!
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Nice thing about "defending Arkansas values" is he ended the adv over in Blanche's country, a cotton patch.
"Cotton Patch John" has a nice ring to it, wouldn't ya say.
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If Boozman is saying he learned his budget balancing prowess playing on the Hog line, that could explain a lot about how things got so bad out of whack.
Y'know when a pol speaks of "Arkansas Values", its a dog whistle for "conservative values"
Now how long before Boozman's DPA opponent invokes "Arkansas Values"?
Talk about pandering: cotton fields, "razorback" football, "arkansas values". I guess the Booz will trot out the footage of him in camo next week with either a) a mounted Whitetail deer-head on the wall, or b) walking across a field carrying a shotgun..
I'm still waiting for a commercial of Blanche killing a dear and field dressing it.
Apparently, U of A doesn't want this jug-eared fool using his "glory days" BS to promote his candidacy.
But, this is Arkansas. Hook your wagon to your Hog-Star (even if you were not a star) and you will go places.
I remember the great John Boozman. Yeah, John Boozman, quarterbackin' man. That was a tough day for all of us when Boozman went down against LSU and probably cost Frank Broyles a national championship. But boy could that Boozman pass the buck, er, I mean ball with the best of them.
Yeah, Razorback hero John Boozman, who learn so much on that football field and gave us such great memories.
Wait, I'm thinking about Jon Brittenum.
Never mind ....
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