It worked back in 1964 for Lyndon Johnson, so why wouldn’t it work for Hillary Clinton in 2016, more than half a century later?
Scaremongering, that is. Which Merriam-Webster defines as raising or exciting alarms “especially needlessly.”
It comes in a Hillary Clinton television ad that has raised the eyebrows of Myra Adams, a WND contributor, in her new column at BizPacReview.
“This new ad raised my political antennae because its message was eerily familiar. The commercial channeled the same voter fears that resulted in one of the greatest Democratic presidential landslides in American history. I immediately recognized that Hillary was ‘planting daisies.'”
She cited the 1964 campaign ad known as “Daisy.”
“It is a lasting legacy of the 1964 campaign waged between Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) and the Republican nominee, Arizona’s U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater. The ad contributed to LBJ’s landslide victory by subtly branding Goldwater as a nuclear warmonger. It was an image Goldwater could not shake,” Adams wrote.
Here is it:
Adams described: “The black and white 1-minute spot began innocently with an adorable little girl standing in a field counting the petals of a daisy. Her child-like counting dissolves to a serious military-style countdown with real footage of a nuclear explosion. While a horrific mushroom cloud fills the screen, LBJ’s distinctive voice begins saying, ‘These are the stakes – to make a world in which all of God’s children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die.'”
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Adams noted that LBJ’s warning “would come back to haunt him as [he] blew up the Vietnam War at a cost of 58,220 American lives.”
But the message is appearing again, in Clinton’s new ad.
Here it is:
“Jujutsu, in action on ‘Unfit,’ presents well-respected anti-Trump Republicans, among them Michael Hayden, CIA director under George W. Bush. About Trump, Hayden says, ‘If he governs consistent with some of the things he has said as a candidate, I would be very frightened,'” Adams wrote.
“Max Boot, another well-known conservative national security professional, warns that as commander-in-chief, Trump might trigger Armageddon saying, ‘This is not someone who should be handed the nuclear codes.'”
“‘Unfit,'” she wrote, “practically mirrors ‘Daisy’ minus the nuclear explosion and Johnson’s foreboding voiceover with the blatant message: Vote for Clinton to prevent Trump from waging nuclear war and blowing up the world.”
She noted that Clinton “plants in the minds of voters the ‘Daisy’ like fear of electing a nuclear trigger-happy madman.”
“No doubt,” Adams wrote, “that Trump eventually will air his own fearmongering ‘Daisy’ type ads against Clinton. (At this writing Trump’s campaign has yet to air any television ads.) But for now, voters on all sides can agree, ‘the stakes are too high for you to stay home.'”
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