Yesterday I stumbled across a NYT article titled "‘Creepy, Weird’ Steve Hilton Ad Denounced by California Republicans" and when I finished reading it I couldnt help but laugh. For those of you who have not seen the ad, click on the YouTube link and just watch it as it plays on common stereotypes people often joke about.

Surprisingly, this time people are getting offended by it, and I am not exactly sure why, given this is a California ad. While people in the Bible Belt would never like it and would definitely be outspoken about it, the same cannot be said for Cali.

As with most political ads, the attention is the point.

Polls have consistently shown Mr. Hilton, a former Fox News host and adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron, trailing Xavier Becerra, a former California attorney general and cabinet secretary under President Biden.

“The only question is whether he loses by 20 or 25 points, so there’s a bit of a ‘what the hell, why not’ in it,” said Dan Newman, a longtime Democratic political consultant who has worked closely with Gov. Gavin Newsom.

I mean, you even have a Democratic strategist saying "What the hell, why not." So I gotta ask do yall think it is as bad as Cali Republicans have made it out to be? I see it as the same as the goofy stuff we see from both parties during campaigns, where the ad itself is moot; the important thing is talking about it.