“Don’t Carlyfiornicate California.”

To keep things tied into comics: here’s an ad for Crazy Morty’s

After all, Crazy Eddie might have been crazy, but if his prices were lowest, that’s all that mattered.

In this case, though, you’re electing a person to represent your interests in the U.S. Senate. You’re not going to vote for somebody you already know is a lunatic.

The posts here seem to provide plenty of evidence that Bill’s title is spot-on, although I’ll add one more: How about the phrase “…literally set the stage for the recent decline of California?” Leaving aside the mis-use of the word literally, this is unbelievably weak - especially in comparison to the overall tonality. Oh no - he set the stage! For a decline! Horrible! How about, “led directly to our current fiscal catastrophe” or something with some teeth?

All this raises an interesting question… Are these people really this clueless in thinking that this ad can do anything at all? Are they caught in a feedback loop wherein they’re getting responses from their own supporters telling them how great the ad is without realizing that it’s the other people they need to sell?

Or are we on this forum grossly overestimating the intelligence of the average Californian?

“Who would remembuh that as the Guhvanuh’s chief budget officuh…”

This v/o announcer has the worst articulation I have ever heard outside of those commercials where a regional dialect is intentional.

This looks and sounds like a rough cut that an ad agency would use to pitch an idea to a client before producing the real ad.