--- description: Amusing new online ad campaign title: Republican Ad Says Republicans Are People, Too image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2014 Election](/tag/2014-election/) ## 2014 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # A Republican Wants You to Know That Republicans Are People, Too by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 24, 2014 10:55 PM CUT by [Alex Rogers](/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 24, 2014 10:55 PM CUT 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":"2026-02-21T10:23:59.761Z","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"}}] ```