Chrysler’s Clint Eastwood Ad Adopted by Democrats, But Remember Their 2010 Tea Party Ad?

”I was, frankly, offended by it,” said Karl Rove on Fox News Monday.

Oh really? Karl Rove, the slimiest, dirtiest, most disgusting, lowest form of life on the planet, was offended by a pro-America TV ad? Wow.

I am sure Clint got paid pretty well for it and if it were me I would have done it too and then got behind the wheel of my MB and rode off.

I am afraid that Fiat set the standard for commericials and from now on I won’t pay any attention to the rest of them.

Forget the political rhetoric; a lot of Chrysler auto-workers have jobs today because of the bailout. Mitt would have let Chrysler fail, then come in, buy the company for pennies on the dollar, then sold it to the Italians anyway.

I’ve been wondering how Obama would revive Reagan’s 1984 reelection campaign theme of “Morning In America”.

The here it is in a brilliantly executed ad by an Italian automaker with a Republican spokesperson selling cars instead of politicians. And every word resonates because it’s all true.

Roger Ailes should sue for copywrite infringement and Rove, about as offensive as offensive gets can just suck on my tail pipe.

Because one thing no team would ever do is change coaches in the middle of a game.

I heard on the news that some college in Chicago has a new class for Occupy wall Street movement or radical 1960s free loaders. I wonder if one class will be on the Tea Party and hoe too peacefully protest inlieu of being a radical destroy everything if you do not get your way Wallstreeter?

Too bad Chrysler is an ITALIAN car company.

“President Obama has made the government help that delivered GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy, a major plank of his economic platform.”

I guess Barry isn’t smart enough to realize that the bailout wasn’t exactly what saved GM and Chrysler. What really pulled their bacon out of the fire was the earthquakes and tsunami in Japan. It’s pretty easy to compete with even a superior product when their factories and supply chain have taken such an enormous hit.

So unless the government caused those disasters, claiming that the auto industry came back from the brink because they received billions of dollars and were allowed to screw their shareholders is like taking credit for the death of a mass murderer who died of food poisoning.

I would be embarrassed to use another country’s suffering as my best example of a success story. Your mileage may vary.

Karl Rove hates it, lol, the slimeball architech of unlimited dirty political tricks that made Richard Nixon look like an amateur. that tells you one thing….it was the best, upbeat, pro-american ad show during the super bowl. GO President Obama!. Thank God McCain didn’t win, the republicans would have sold all of us down the river for a few billion bucks

The President of Fiat/Chrysler aid that they tried to make the ad as non-political as possible. He said that it highlights America’s unique character of rising to a challenge and never giving up! Some are reading too much into what President Reagan called “Morning in America”!

Great commercial, a positive message for America and far above most automobile advertising that has been done previously. If succeeding in a global automotive marketplace means partnering with an Italian car company so you can improve your products here in the USA and put Americans back to work manufacturing quality competitive products again, good for Chrysler. Without the bailout funds Chrysler would not have been able to hold on until Fiat purchased them, and we would have lost a great American car company. Chrysler was well on it’s way back before supplies of Japanese cars were affected by the tsunami, it’s ridiculous to say that is the reason the American auto industry and the American economy are on the way back up again again. Some people apparently have to try to assign credit for the current upsurge in the economy to something other than good old American hard work and innovation and persistence and teamwork, which is what this commercial is talking about. Karl Rove is a meaningless has been and if he is offended by it, so what? Maybe get out there and test drive a Chrysler product and stop waiting for your Japanese car to arrive on back order. They happen to be just as good or better, and made in America will mean something again if we support our own car manufacturers. Regardless of the corporate ownership structures, Chrysler products are American and marketed as such here and worldwide, and American workers and car dealers will profit from the results of the automotive bailout orchestrated by the Obama administration. I have no doubt that Chrysler well repay their debt in full and that they are well on their way to becoming profitable again.

Fiat now owns most of Chrysler. And the U.S. Treasury has all but written off $1.3 billion it loaned them. Good job!

Uh, this was filmed in New Orleans. Makes sense. Oh, wait, it’s about Detroit…

The United States government “invested” in Chrysler and GM in 2009. Just like most people who watched their 401k become a 201k the government lost their shirt. At least Chrysler and GM have survived where many of President Obama’s other investments have already failed!

If republicans feel put upon by this ad, it’s only because they have guilty consciences, and are still trying to spin that saving American autos and lots of jobs is a bad thing. Shame on them.

MR. OBAMA DID NOT SAVE THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY! Ford neither asked for nor got government funds, so it is false that Obama saved the U.S. auto industry.

Moreover, if GM and Chrysler had been allowed to file for bankruptcy, as happens every day with inefficiently run companies, the physical plant and brain trust would not have evaporated into thin air. What would have happened is what happens with every bankruptcy: new entrepreneurs take over for pennies on the dollar and produce product with a new cost structure and offer it to customers at a new price level where the industry is sustainable, i.e., produces a profit. The new price point is generally a benefit to the consumer. Who knows, a new entrepreneurial team with a new business model might have efficiently produced those electric vehicle everybody seems to want.

The only thing the GM and Chrysler bailouts did is save a major Democrat constituency at the price of consumers losing out on better products at a more favorable price point.

Incidentally, I seem to remember another Chrysler bailout in the eighties that were suppose to turn the company around. Would anyone like to take me up on a bet that either GM or Chrysler, or both, will be back for more taxpayer money in ten years or less?

Did he voice support Citizens United ruling?

Clint Eastwood is absolutely committed to America. Why do people take a good American message and make it immediately political. He made this message for the American people, to the American people, to stand by the American people.
Take your blinders off, look and listen to his message. It is not political, it is not Democrat it is not Republican…he wants all Americans to get back in the game and if you don’t your either stupid, too greedy or don’t want America to win.

I would like to know what car Karl Rove is driving these days. Is it American made?

Funny how Rove was offended at an ad that spoke with optimism about the challenges we face. What did he want Eastwood to say? That it was a bad idea to bail out the auto manufacturers (which is what the GOP wanted)? Bummer, Karl, that this was an example of people actually working together, through out government, to get something good done.

Getting Osama bin Laden, there’s another example of people pulling together. Rove hated that. For all their usual bluster on foreign policy, the GOP f**ed up Iraq, failed to stop 9/11, just tried to scare the country, and never caught bin Laden. All the while they were filling the pockets of the top 0.1& while the economy came to a near-catastrophe. All talk — no action. Or worse, dumb action.

Every single one of those problems tat Obama inherited, he has turned around, despite constant obstruction from the GOP at every turn. The GOP have lost their credibility on cutting taxes for the ricn, and now they’re terrified that the public understands that they can’t be trusted on foreign policy either. Obama has a record to run on, and the GOP can’t decide which candidate they hate the least for 2012. I suppose they can always run on “evolution is wrong” or “no birth control for women” or “cut benefits to the bottom 1%” or “don’t you realize Obama is still Black?”. Lot of traction they’ll get there. Romney will giggle nervously while Obama completely wipes the floor with his flip-flopping B.S. — that’s the best the GOP can hope for; imagine the fun Obama would have with, who Gingrich? Santorum? There will be few surprises in ’12, but watching the GOP go into full freakout mode will be like tacky, guilty-pleasure reality TV.