re: #105 Targetpractice

I’d meet that with ads about how the GOP rejected an amendment to the Highway Bill, itself one big giveaway to the oil and gas companies, that would have banned export of oil and byproducts from the Keystone XL line. Or ads about the earthquakes that have been traced back to natural gas fracking, along with the tap water in towns that’s as flammable as kerosene. Or hell, just one ad showing the infamous apology to BP execs because they were being told to put money aside for victims of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

There’s plenty of fodder for ads that would put Big Oil on the defensive.

That is too much nuance. Subsidies and the workings of the world energy market are too abstract and compley for their target electorate.

The GOP is going with the fact that most Americans will feel the squeeze at the pump and look about for a culprit, which they will provide in the form of a President who refuses to drill, baby drill.