Posted on 03/05/2008 4:51:39 PM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- A Democratic-leaning group financed by a major labor union and wealthy liberal activists is running ads against Sen. John McCain in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the beginning of a media campaign against the GOP nominee-in-waiting.
Called "McSame," the ad portrays McCain and President Bush as interchangeable on key issues such as Iraq, tax cuts and health care.
The ad is the work of the Campaign to Defend America, a nonprofit organization that is among anti-war and left-of-center groups that have pledged a multimillion-dollar effort to target McCain and congressional Republicans on the consequences of the Iraq war on the U.S. economy.
The group has pledged to spend more than $1 million on the current ad campaign, which is to extend to other states. The group is buying relatively modest amounts of time compared to what presidential candidates like Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are spending.
According to records filed with the Federal Election Commission last week, the group planned to spend only about $140,000 on the ad in Ohio.
The ads come just as McCain clinches the Republican presidential nomination. McCain is now free to aim his campaign at Obama and Clinton while the two Democrats preoccupy themselves trying to secure their party's nomination.
Republican-leaning groups also are expected to mount similar campaigns against the eventual Democratic nominee.
The anti-McCain ad's message echoes a theme Democrats have been developing against McCain — trying to link him as closely to Bush's policies as they can.
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I am sure there are people here at FR who would be willing to help them.
But seriously, let them spend as much money as they can now. There will be that much less to spend closer to the election.
And maybe, just maybe, McCain will recognize the scorpion riding on his back before it is too late.
The ad has been playing a lot here in northwestern PA for the last two weeks or so.
“let them spend as much money as they can now. There will be that much less to spend closer to the election”
If you don’t respond to these ads, they become truth. McCain has little money to respond to these attacks. He’s up shit’s creek so to speak.
I'm no fan of RINO McCain, but I might be if he WERE more like W!
McCain doesn't need MY help to lose the election...
Another Soros marxist front of America-haters.
Podesta - a slimely little b**t**ard, one of Soros top asskissers.
Senator McCain,
I’m sure you will finally agree with the ACTUAL conservatives in the GOP now that your travesty of a campaign bill has resulted in catastrophe after catastrophe by taking soft money out of the political parties where it could be made accountable to shadowy groups who can claim NOT to be affiliated with either campaigns, candidates or even parties (which we all know is a brazen lie but cannot be proven without a defector possessing a handful of documents).
If you would like to apologize to us know for your sin of arrogance and seeking to empower the Federal government and the MSM over actual voters and contributors, we will add it to your acknowledgement that you were wrong not to seal the border first. And continuing on the road of apologizing to conservatives for your arrogance, mistakes and betrayal of your party and conservatives as a whole may be the only way that you get more than 85% of the GOP vote this November which is the only way you will win the White House.
And this may be your fastest route to getting real conservatives to take to the battlements to defend you against these 527 who want to bury you in money you exempted from your ‘reform’. And we might even be convinced to part with some of our own money to respond in kind since you will desparately, desparately need it.
Yours Sincerely,
BPJAM
An Actual Conservative
>> McSame
Better than McFlip, McRun, McProphet, or McCommie (which he is none of.)
That ‘Betraeus’ thing didn’t work out too well for those idiots.
Ads are ads. They’re going to get rougher as we go along. The question I want to ask, however, is whether the union is contributing PAC money to this ad, which would be ok, or compulsory dues money, which is not. My guess is that the ad is written to avoid “magic words” and is therefore being funded with compulsory dues money. If so, that’s what should be attacked.
They might be making a mistake, especially since Iraq is going better now, and everyone knows that as soon as the Democrats have the White House, they'll be pushing for higher taxes, and government run health care. I think they're going to find that most folks don't really like the Democrats' stands on those issues.
Yes, at least Bush pretends to like conservatives.
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