Well, our teevees are now officially the right wing attack mouthpiece run by the criminal enterprise occupying our White House. These ads are not so much for the Little People's consumption, but are outright threats to their own GOP members. It really won't be long now.
Madam Speaker....? Oh, forget it.
Don't give up, ads urge GOP$15M blitz aims to keep pols' support for war
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Saturday, August 25th 2007, 4:00 AM
WASHINGTON - Following Sen. John Warner's call to start pulling troops out of Iraq, jittery Bush loyalists are pressuring Republican fence-sitters to stay the course with a $15 million ad campaign.
Republicans weighing a U.S. military withdrawal in Iraq got hit this week by a blitz of intimidation ads - paid for by fellow Republicans.
The TV and radio spots targeting 37 House and Senate Republicans urge support for President Bush's war and not "surrender."
One of those targeted with an extraordinary $145,000 TV ad buy is upstate Rep. Jim Walsh, a politically vulnerable Republican from Syracuse who has aligned himself with Democrats to oppose the Baghdad surge.
The spots are the latest sign of a White House worried about lawmakers turning on Bush to urge that troops be brought home, as Warner (R-Va.) did this week.
Freedom's Watch, the group behind the ad campaign, is run by ex-Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer and Bradley Blakeman, who also worked in the Bush White House and for ex-Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) at Park Strategies.
Warner, 80, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a former Secretary of the Navy, said Bush should bring some G.I.s home by Christmas.
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"Warner is viewed as an old codger," the Republican official told the Daily News.
Other states where ads were bought include Nevada, Kentucky, Georgia, Ohio, New Mexico and Pennsylvania, according to the liberal group Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.
About $1 million is being spent on TV spots in Philadelphia, home of moderate Republican Sen. Arlen Specter. Spots also appear aimed at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), who wants troops home.