UPDATES:
• The New York Times picks up the theme, with a western Pennsylvania reference late in its story.
• The link to the Post article is now repaired.
• The New York Times picks up the theme, with a western Pennsylvania reference late in its story.
• The link to the Post article is now repaired.
Republicans are spotlighting Melissa Hart's anti-Barack Obama web-only ad for the national media, but Hart is not calling media attention to it locally.
The Washington Post reports "Republican party committees and candidates have launched a series of ads this week linking Democratic candidates for lower offices to controversies surrounding Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaling that a racially tinged campaign may lie ahead, should the senator from Illinois secure the Democratic nomination."
More from The Post:
In western Pennsylvania, a GOP challenger unveiled an ad on a campaign Web site accusing freshman Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) of defending Obama after he told donors in San Francisco that white working-class voters "cling" to gun rights and religion because they are "bitter."
"Barack Obama said our bitterness makes us cling to our religion, and our guns. This was simply an insult. But maybe the biggest insult of all is how Jason Altmire continues to defend Barack Obama," says Melissa Hart, the former representative who was ousted by Altmire in 2006 and faces a rematch this fall.
...and The Atlantic Online:
Former Rep. Melissa Hart is testing the effect of Sen. Obama's "bitter" comments against Rep. Jason Altmire in PA's 4th congressional district with this web ad.
HART: I'm Melissa Hart and I approve this message.
ANNC: Barack Obama described small town, hardworking, God fearing, Second Amendment-respecting families of western Pennsylvania as bitter. Barack Obama said our bitterness makes us cling to our religion, and our guns. This was simply an insult. But maybe the biggest insult of all is how Jason Altmire continues to defend Barack Obama. Jason Altmire. Just how much of the liberal Kool-Aid did he drink?
The Post also reports:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee dismissed the building wave of ads against Obama, or even against Clinton, if she's the nominee. "This is just more of the same from National Republicans so disconnected they believe there has been great economic progress under George Bush," said DCCC spokesman Doug Thornell. "The reality is the American people simply don't trust Republicans and won't buy their false attacks launched from the gutter against strong Democratic candidates with independent records of getting things done."
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Melissa Hart had two choices for ads's:
The first was, "I'm a true conservative so I plan on cutting taxes for millionaires and paying for it by cutting social security and medicare even though I spent more than any government in the history of the world when I was in office"
The second was, "my opponent hasn't been critical enough of a candidate who may become the presidential nominee"
She chose the latter, and it is a clear sign of how little the Republicans believe in their core philosophy.
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