Not since Barry Goldwater’s infamous daisy ad has a politician dared suggest that unless we vote for him, the world will end.
Goldwater’s example was the very real, and very imminent threat of a nuclear bomb ending during the Cold War.
Goldwater’s message was a chilling 60 second commercial that remains the most memorable ever, and is the definitive political attack ad.
Andrew Romanoff tried to top that with his new four-minute ad that features a hodgepodge of news clips depicting every natural disaster known to man while declaring a climate apocalypse.
In short, Romanoff bombed.
This is the definitive, worst political attack ad, ever.
Narrated by Romanoff, the climate apocalypse story beings in Colorado Springs and features a family wearing spacesuits and living in a tinfoil house because the temperature outside is 124 degrees and a tornado is coming.
The family doesn’t seem concerned their tinfoil dwelling is unlikely to withstand a tornado, because daddy is angry.
Not only does the climate apocalypse cause tornadoes, but in the future, climate change also causes domestic violence.
The ad does raise several important questions.
For example, can humans really survive 124 degree heat while wearing spacesuits and living in a tinfoil house?
And what are they doing for food? Surely mankind is not destined to live on a diet of tomatoes once grown in Texas hot houses?
If the world is being rocked by all those floods, droughts, zombies, hurricanes, fires and tornadoes shown during Romanoff’s science fiction documentary, how is that tinfoil house still standing?
The scriptwriter was just phoning in the whole episode.
That little girl’s only wish was to see the sun again?
Dude!
It’s 124 degrees outside!
Continuity, please!
There were at least two important messages to take away from this docu-ad:
Romanoff believes Greta Thunberg is the 21st Century prophet, and says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of our nation’s true leaders.
Obviously, Romanoff has spent too much time in the sun and is hallucinating.