A little bit of lies and controversy always seems to help more than they hurt in this crazy political atmostphere. Maybe that was Rick Perry’s goal when he launched a new ad, calling for the military to bring back don’t ask don’t tell, and implying that President Obama and the Democrats are engaging on a war on Religion.
But even before the ad launched, Perry’s own camp questioned the wisdom of the ad, with one top pollster objected to running it and called it “nuts.”
“…not everyone was comfortable with the script. When the ad was being crafted several weeks ago, Perry’s top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, called it “nuts,” according to an email sent from Fabrizio to the ad’s main creator, longtime GOP operative Nelson Warfield. In a separate email to The Huffington Post, Warfield confirmed that the ad was made over Fabrizio’s objections.
“Tony was against it from the get-go,” Warfield wrote. “It was the source of some extended conversation in the campaign. To be very clear: That spot was mine from writing the poll question to test[ing] it to drafting the script to overseeing production.”
Maybe Rick Perry should have listened to his pollster. As of 3:30PM today, December 8th, the ad has 216,181 dislikes on Youtube, and just a little over 4500 likes.
