--- title: Republican Ad Says Republicans Are People, Too description: Amusing new online ad campaign canonical: https://time.com/3427049/republicans-are-people-too-ad/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-24T22:55:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:36.448Z article:section: Politics og:title: Republican Ad Says Republicans Are People, Too og:description: Amusing new online ad campaign og:url: https://time.com/3427049/republicans-are-people-too-ad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Republican Ad Says Republicans Are People, Too twitter:description: Amusing new online ad campaign twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Republican Wants You to Know That Republicans Are People, Too > Sponsored content. 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Watch this commercial on the various types of Republicans_ by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Sep 24, 2014 10:55 PM UTC by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Sep 24, 2014 10:55 PM UTC A former member of Mitt Romney’s ad team wants you to know something: Republicans are people, too. An amusing new online ad campaign created by political strategist Vinny Minchillo fights back against GOP critics by showing Republicans doing what some Democrats might pride themselves on: driving Priuses, recycling, using Macs, putting together Ikea furniture and reading the New York _Times_ in public. It also states the obvious: Yes, there are black, Hispanic and Asian people who are Republicans. “Republicans have feelings,” says the ad’s narrator. “The goal of the campaign is to let people know that the common misperceptions and stereotypes of Republicans are inaccurate and there is a vast range of everyday Republicans among us,” Minchillo said in a statement. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3427049/republicans-are-people-too-ad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3427049/republicans-are-people-too-ad/"},"headline":"A Republican Wants You to Know That Republicans Are People, Too","datePublished":"2014-09-24T22:55:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:00:36.448Z","description":"Amusing new online ad campaign","url":"https://time.com/3427049/republicans-are-people-too-ad/","keywords":["2014 Election","republicans","Congress","Republican Party","democratic party"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2014-election/","name":"2014 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3427049/republicans-are-people-too-ad/","name":"A Republican Wants You to Know That Republicans Are People, Too"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Republicans Are People Too","description":"Watch this commercial on the various types of Republicans","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fBFU6whV/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-09-24T22:36:08.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fBFU6whV.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3427049/republicans-are-people-too-ad/","duration":"PT1M36S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3427049/republicans-are-people-too-ad/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```