And so the "independent" attack ads begin in earnest:

[phantom power]

A newly formed Republican group broadcast its first commercial Sunday in four battleground states as part of a $3 million advertising campaign aimed at Senator Barack Obama.

The advertisement opens with images of gasoline prices flying upward at the pump as a narrator says, “Record gas prices, a climate in crisis.” It then highlights Senator John McCain’s differences with his own party on energy policy.

The commercial closes by summing up Mr. Obama’s positions on energy as “just the party line,” a reference to his opposition to suspending gas taxes or drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as he and other Democrats contend that a McCain presidency would represent a third Bush term.

(...)

The group is an independent expenditure arm of the Republican National Committee, which is flush with cash in comparison to its Democratic counterpart; under federal election restrictions, the new group is not allowed to coordinate with the McCain campaign.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/never-heard-of-em-by-digby-and-so.html

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Also a bunch of Black Republicans radio ads targeting black area

calling Obama a racist and an elitist.

[Cronus Protagonist]

7. I knew that they would do this - "he's not black enough"

That's what they would do... go after his strong suit... make him out to be a traitor to his race and an enemy to whites at the same time.

McCain needs to feel the same kind of pinch - our side needs to go after that traitor's patriotism (collaborated with teh enemy), his war record (how hard is it to get shot down?), his fiscal responsibility (same as Bush), AND his wife (rich eletist snob out of touch with the common man).

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Remember New Orleans and McCain's birthday cake

Nobody in the black community will buy their poison water after that.
I have a black friend, no really I do and not like Colbert's joke who heard
the radio ad and said..... its some of the best comedy he has heard.








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[zbdent]

10. jeez ... they have some?

wonder how much they got for their souls ...

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. A total 527 Front group selling their souls

Same group that did the Martin Luther King jr. was a republican billboards

[TNOE]

2. Exactly how stupid

does a person have to be to believe that the high gas prices are the fault of Obama or the Democrats?

And shouldn't these same people be drawing some kind of disability for the mentally challenged?

[phantom power]

3. I don't know, but the GOP has based their last 40 successful years on...

blaming Democrats for problems that they created. Their key insight is that it doesn't matter if a meme is true, or even if it makes much sense. What matters is that you get your memes out there before your competitions does.

I have a sense that Obama understands this better than Kerry did, although I'm not sure if he understands it enough.

[TNOE]

6. Even the severe knuckle draggers

are going to have to say huh? to this. Bush the Oil Man gets in office & gas goes sky high. 2 Wars for Oil. Although I've seen a couple of R's on the payroll trying to push this meme on CSpan. Linda Tripp's kid for one.

As Bill Maher once said - if we had elected Colonel Sanders 7 1/2 years ago - we'd all be paying $100 for a bucket of chicken.

[madeline_con]

5. Go out in public....

That's step 1

Step 2: Look around. You will notice large numbers of people doing and saying really stupid things. In some cases, they will just be standing open-mouthed, trying to decide if they should wind their watch or scratch their ass. They are the target.

Step 3: Don't stick around. The jury's still out on whether whatever they have can rub off onto intelligent people.

[NeoConsSuck]

13. How stupid?

A majority of murcans voted in * for a second term. *That* stupid.

[madeline_con]

4. Suddenly, climate change is an "issue" to be

embraced by Repugs?

And all this time, I thought any independent thinking in areas like religion, war, terra, science and the environment was verbotten! :wtf:

[spanone]

8. ol maverick john...whatta man!

:sarcasm:

[Overseas]

12. Very Republican style-- blame the other guy for what is worst in your candidate

John SIdney McCain III has been very non-maverick over the past 7 years, towing the Republican party line, so he's got to get out there first and accuse his opponent of that.

There it is. Right out there. The former maverick has become too establishment-- well, then, let's accuse Obama of being that. I just didn't expect such a clear example so soon.