Your analysis is right on the money.
"Asshats". I like that.
Or to be more specific, the conservative weblogs did a fast fact-checking on the NARAL ad and when the ad was shown to be anything BUT factual, that was the end of the ad campaign! You'd think NARAL would have learned from the Rathergate experience but alas....
Liberals seem to be the last to realize that their playbook is totally out of date. Have they not heard of cyberspace news cycles? Do they think we still abide by 20th century news reporting? The MSM is dying as we cyberspeak.