How to waste $200,000

[quaoar]

These ads are a waste of money. Why? Because they are putting the ads in the NY Times and on cable news in D.C. and New York.

Is there anyone left who reads the NY Times that doesn't already know that these clowns are hypocrites? If they wanted these ads to be read by people who need to read them, they should have taken full-page ads in Indianapolis and Charlotte and Boise and Jackson, Miss.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4523699,00.html

An advocacy group will launch an advertising campaign today that accuses Focus on the Family founder James Dobson of having ties to high-powered lobbyist Jack Abramoff - a charge that Dobson calls a baseless distortion of his anti-gambling message.

The ads, by Campaign to Defend the Constitution, highlight what it calls hypocrisy over gambling by "religious right leaders," including Dobson, who is founder and head of the Colorado Springs-based conservative evangelical organization.

The campaign will begin with a $200,000 ad in The New York Times, claiming that "These Religious Leaders Have a Serious Gambling Problem."

Television ads will run in Colorado Springs, Washington, D.C., and New York.

[Selatius]

1. They should spend this money in Mississippi, home of the...

American Family Association. I'd be interesting to see somebody come and fight the AFA in its own backyard.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. Colo. Springs is a good place for the ads...

DC and NY make no sense, you're right, they'll be preaching to the choir.

[corkhead]

3. maybe they want the "choir" to fund them

they won't get many donors in the red states. at the risk of sounding cynical, having once worked for a "not for profit", funding themselves is a higher priority than the mission. it is the true mission.

[quaoar]

4. We seem to have too much

preaching to the choir going on with campaigns like this.