The full page ad in our daily paper.

[JohnnyRingo]

I was pleasantly surprised to run across this here in NE Ohio:

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[samplegirl]

1. Holy shit!

Expect a long letter to the Editor from Ron Zeck!

[kimbutgar]

2. Unfortunately most of his supporters probably don't read newspapers anymore

They only get their news by watching tv or listening to right wing radio. I was told by a Qanon Idiot person that newspapers are deep state now!


But I loved what they wrote. In my local paper earlier this week someone put out an half page essay saying we have to save our democracy and vote out MF45!

[liberal N proud]

9. Many simply don't read

[kimbutgar]

16. My sister in law who is Right winger has no books in her home.

She doesn’t read only listens to books on tape.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. I am always a bit put off when I go to someone's home who have no books

on the shelves. Or even shelves sometimes.

When I visit someone for the first time, I always look at their books. I get fidgety if there are no books.

[liberal N proud]

23. Our house could be a library

[Pacifist Patriot]

26. Same here. Just this summer, one of my son's pointed out that there was not a room...

in our house that did not have a bookshelf in it, unless there was a toilet in it. And even then, it's not unheard of to find a book or two in those rooms either.

[kimbutgar]

27. Mine also

I have so many books I have to go though them and throw some out because I have no room to get a new bookshelf. Growing up my childhood home had tons of books.

Funny my first husband was not a reader and it bothered me. But my husband of 31 years always has a book he is reading and his shelf is full of dense books! Any my mother in law is a big reader also. But her oldest daughter has no books in her house.

[noneof_theabove]

24. like a friends sister

who is a pathological liar and narcissist

All tapes and cd's are of Reverend Jim Bob Jones thumping to pulpit with his bible.

[kimbutgar]

28. Yuck and ugh!

[TreasonousBastard]

3. This speaks to Republicans like my parents and grandparents.

[babylonsister]

6. And they're the ones who read newspapers. Win/win. nt

[JohnnyRingo]

10. Thanx! Now I feel age validated.

After all, ancient me obviously was reading that newspaper, albeit a pdf version online. And I cut & pasted the image into a forum where young dissidents got a chance to read it. LOL

By the way, your grandparents want to know when you're gonna get around to calling them.

[samplegirl]

12. Woodstock's over Grandpa

[DownriverDem]

22. Many of them

leaned left then and still do.

[crickets]

4. Wonderful to see. K&R

[samplegirl]

13. Considering where we live

has turned into trumpville.

[DaisyTom]

5. wow

[gristy]

7. I notice that the ad butters Trump voters up at the start.

“In 2016, Republicans looked forward to four years of competent, inspired leadership. The expectation was for straight talk, real transparency, good clean government and a leader who would truly try to lead, a leader who truly try to lead, a leader who promised to “drain the swamp.”

Probably a good idea (the buttering part). It's a pretty good ad overall.

[Tommymac]

8. Yeah. I had to really try not to throw up in my mouth reading the first part.

But after that bullshit it gets good.

All votes for Biden and all our down ticket candidates are good (not voting at all is almost as good).

But good god I've been around for over 5 decades and I have not met the conservative they describe. Compassion? Only for the unborn imho.

[Lokee11]

21. I'm with you Tommymac

Been around 4 decades and have only witnessed their FAKE compassion for the unborn. Abortion is only a talking point for these compulsive liars!

FDT!!

[Duppers]

11. K & R

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. That's pretty amazing.

It's unfortunate that the people who blindly support Trump probably won't read it, but at least some thoughtful people who consider themselves Republicans will.

The values outlined got lost after Eisenhower left office. They started eroding under Nixon, and were swept away almost wholesale under Reagan. That evisceration of good Republican values has only accelerated ever since.

But I do appreciate the thoughtfulness in that ad.

[Aussie105]

15. A thought provoking ad!

It describes what the Republican party strove to be, long ago.

Idealized, that image, for sure, but aspirational.

Drifted away from those ideals, somewhat. Currently unrecognizable, really.

Perhaps it is time for some Democratic Party ads asking Republicans what happened.
This is what your party stood for long ago, do you recognize it, and if not, what happened? What went wrong?

[lindysalsagal]

17. Only about 20x too long.

I appreciate the intent, but brainwashing can't be reasoned with. It must be deflated violently and personally. Otherwise, words are noise to be avoided.

[UTUSN]

18. Like one of my Eternal Questions I pester my local radio wingnut with, "How can a DECENT human

ever be a Repuke?!1"

But in the SHITLER era I've more often told him that Repukes have *ZERO* moral standing on anything, like the things listed in the O.P. - because they are traitors to all of them, including to the country.

******** But we have the opposite Full-Pager in my area, a doctor-owner of a mega-hospital-complex, who spends chunks of his millions to indulge his Wingnuttiness, paying for his own half-hour radio show to spew his crap and frequently also taking out full page ads for the same.

Funny how, since one of his themes is anti-government, he doesn't turn down MediCARE/MediCAID government bucks!1

[noneof_theabove]

25. turn him in for an investigation

it is part of the RWN business book

Customers pay the bills.

Government makes you rich with free money.

[burrowowl]

19. Kick for an echo from the past before the dumpster fire