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Alabama candidate for governor McFeeters gets an owie

Dirt bike riders motocross race

Ken McFeeters (maybe should stick to his McFeeters from now on) had a little mishap with a dirt bike. Okay, you see, he’s a guy who ran for the U.S. House and I guess lost, and I don’t care enough to look up whatever the hell else he has done, but he is currently running for governor of Alabama in the Republican primary against Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Stupidest Senator Who Has Ever Lived). Anyways, he decided to try a stunt where he would do a sweet jump (wheelie) with his dirt bike and call out Tuberville for...

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Alabama Republican candidate for Senate Will Brooke shoots ACA, completely rips off Sen. Manchin

A second quality advertisement today comes from Will Brooke, who is running in Alabama for the Republican nomination for the Senate race. Invoking the Second Amendment, he gets in his truck, taking a print-out of the Affordable Care act with him out to where he can shoot it with a handgun, a rifle, and finally in super-dramatic-slow-mo an assault rifle (that music!), before eventually putting the whole deal through a Will-Brooke-branded shredder. However, this is such a rip-off of Sen. Joe Manchin’s campaign ad from 2010:

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Dale Peterson wants you to vote for somebody else

Dale Peterson, who we mentioned earlier during his race for Alabama Agriculture Commissioner, may not have won the primary, but he is not going gentle into that good night. Nay, he’s got somebody he wants the fine folk of Alabama to vote for: John McMillan. As long as it’s not dummy Dorman Grace. And he really “blasts” the point home. Don’t you wish you had Dale Peterson watching your back?

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Meet Rick Barber, Patriot for Congress

Sure, he’s no Les Philip, or Dale Peterson, or even Tim James, but Rick Barber’s got a pretty inspiring ad here. Look at that: Founding Fathers. And they hated taxes just like he does. I actually really love how Rick conflates health care reform and the IRS, while totally and unceremoniously diminishing the Founders’ motivation for revolt to just a mere “tea tax.”

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Have you met Les Phillip, the American patriot running for Congress from Alabama?

The newest in our unofficial series where we meet candidates and look at their awesome advertisements, I’d like you to meet Les Phillip, who vows to protect America from enemies both foreign and domestic: Honestly, I thought we were done with the whole “Obama-pallin’-around-with-terrorists” thing, but I guess nothing wins quite like the classics. Like an opening band playing ’80s covers, I guess you’ve got to give the people what they know.

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Dale Peterson, candidate for Alabama Agriculture Commissioner, hates thugs and criminals, loves guns and horses

As may be becoming pretty obvious, I have a thing for brilliant campaign ads. And Alabama seems to be producing a good number of them. This one, from Dale Peterson, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Agriculture Commissioner in Alabama, is yet another. It features a good dose of aggression (both in editing and in acting), a horse, a sweet rifle, and plenty of hostility to “thugs and criminals” who keep the citizenry in the dark, those who steal lawn signs, illegals bussed in by the thousands, and his opponent who brags about taking money from...

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