As the only South Dakota blogger out with 5 daughters, I feel I need to weigh in on the whole discussion that's occurring with regards to the HPV vaccine, and Governor Rounds' proposal to make it available. My family (including my three oldest girls) watched my mom, their grandmother, succumb slowly and painfully to cancer which spread throughout her body. If a similar fate from a different type of cancer was preventable through a simple shot, why wouldn't anyone advocate for it? At the age most of my kids are going to be getting it, they're still playing with barbies, and negative influences such as most of the programming on MTV, and other assorted trashy television is verboten in my house. All they're going to know about this vaccination is that it's a shot, just like for teatnus or measles. They'll go "Ow, I don't want a shot," and that will be it. Just another mark on their vaccination record. One check box for DPT, one for HPV, and so on...
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The Rounds commercial is better. It does what it's supposed to do. But I question whether it will change any minds. As just one part of the overall campaign plan though, it builds on Kelly's theme. If Rounds does this for only Kelly I give the ad an A. If he does the same thing for 5 other Sioux Falls Republican candidates, the value of its message gets diluted and I give it a C.
His "goofy" ad is goofy however. Why does he have a couple of college kids who sound like they just left the Crow Bar doing the voice-ins to the ad? Maybe he wants to connect with younger votes.
Rounds kind of sounds phony in his ad....going through the motions. He just needs to remember he is a salaried employee of the state and he was getting paid pretty good money that day for sitting in a studio and cutting ads for Kelly, Heineman, Earley and the rest of the foot soldiers in our great Republican party.
Pulling the Gov endorsement out tells me Kelly's really worried and feeling desperate. It was nice of Rounds to do it, but I don't think it helps the campaign.
And now that I've ripped him up ... good luck Dick. I hope you win!
Kelly's in trouble and he's showing it. 1215 and abstinance only educ doesn't sit well in 13. Out of touch.
I was told it's on the cell phone tax...slickly produced but lacking substance.
Match that with Dick's thoughtful but rough around the edges spots and it sounds likes the candidates' ads kind of reflect them.