Worst political attack ad ever

[D-Backs Hack]

If you guessed floundering Rick Santorum, you're right!

If the Casey folks respond -- and there might be no need too -- that ad should be a beauty.

http://www.wgal.com/politics/9895620/detail.html

After the message from Santorum, a narrator opens the ad by saying, "Meet Bob Casey's campaign team."

In general, the ad is false outright. None of the seven men portrayed in the ad are actually members of Casey's Senate campaign team. One man referenced is actually dead. And though the group is shown in one shot behind prison bars, none of the men referenced are currently behind bars.

Claim No. 2: "A Philly businessman gave Casey $31,000."

Here, the ad is talking about Ron White, who was charged with conspiracy and extortion. But White has not given to Casey's Senate run. And it's impossible for him to be part of Casey's campaign team because he's been dead for two years. White's donations all were directed at Casey's run for governor in 2002, and that was before word came out that he was under investigation.

The campaign also said that over the years, Casey has taken huge sums of money from people with questionable morals. But of the seven men portrayed in the ad, the Casey Senate campaign has only accepted a contribution from one individual, which was for $2,000.

But there's more -- Rick Santorum has taken money from two of the men portrayed in the ad, including a man the ad references with these words: "Several more of Casey's largest contributors are under investigation, including Casey's handpicked campaign finance chairman."

That line refers to Robert Feldman. But Feldman and his wife actually gave Santorum $2,000 for this Senate campaign. Feldman hasn't given any money to Casey, and he's not Casey's handpicked campaign chairman.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

What a fool.
I think the one guy being dead is the best part.
I'm no big fan of Bob Casey, but, if I did such things, which I don't, I'd write him a check today.

 

[alleyallen]

Dem or Republican, it doesn't matter in this case. This is sleaze at its finest. Santorum and his team should be proud.

 

[terrier]

It's just frustrating the hell out of Santorum that his opponent is another pro-lifer, not somebody he can scream "Liberal, liberal, liberal" about. This time he won't be getting the Catholic Democrats who voted for him in '94 and '00, so the only choice he has left is to up the sleaze factor (or kiss Don Imus' ass a little harder - pretty nice feat for a homophobe, Ricky).
Ever wonder what santorum actually is?
http://spreadingsantorum.com/

 

[heyabbott]

It's just frustrating the hell out of Santorum that his opponent is another pro-lifer, not somebody he can scream "Liberal, liberal, liberal" about. This time he won't be getting the Catholic Democrats who voted for him in '94 and '00, so the only choice he has left is to up the sleaze factor (or kiss Don Imus' ass a little harder - pretty nice feat for a homophobe, Ricky).
Ever wonder what santorum actually is?
http://spreadingsantorum.com/

Hence the phrase, felch the santorum, ******



* editors note: Felching is not considered safe sex

 

[BTExpress]

My favorite over the past year . . .

 

[OnTheRiver]

My favorite over the past year . . .

As bad as the karma is over on the Death Pool thread, I think it's even worse for whatever insensitive knob slobber drew up that flier.

What an asshole.

 

[Bubbler]

As OTR can attest, the Indiana Bloody 8th has produced some doozies from incumbent John Hostetler. You can't swing a dead cat without Willie Horton-like distortions and lame liberal-this, liberal-that attempts at fear mongering.

And as usual, the Democratic candidate is as vanilla as it gets.

 

[zeke12]

I caught the Barry Goldwater doc on HBO over the weekend, and I thought this was going to be a thread about the little girl with the daisy ad.

They showed that on the doc. LBJ should have been mortified. His campaign advisor's response?

"Politics ain't beanbag." Sheesh.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

As OTR can attest, the Indiana Bloody 8th has produced some doozies from incumbent John Hostetler. You can't swing a dead cat without Willie Horton-like distortions and lame liberal-this, liberal-that attempts at fear mongering.

And as usual, the Democratic candidate is as vanilla as it gets.

The D is winning, though, isn't he? Or running close?

 

[Bubbler]

As OTR can attest, the Indiana Bloody 8th has produced some doozies from incumbent John Hostetler. You can't swing a dead cat without Willie Horton-like distortions and lame liberal-this, liberal-that attempts at fear mongering.

And as usual, the Democratic candidate is as vanilla as it gets.

The D is winning, though, isn't he? Or running close?

As ever, it's close. There's no reason it should be, Hostetler is worthless.

But Ellsworth is yet another in the line of vanilla candidates the Dems think can overtake the GOP through a smile and blandness. I have no idea how he inspires anyone, outside of dismay for Hostetler, which is considerable, especially in my Democratic bastion in the GOP woods.

As one might guess, both parties are bringing in the heavy attack ad artillery for this one. Debates are coming soon.

 

[Starman]

I caught the Barry Goldwater doc on HBO over the weekend, and I thought this was going to be a thread about the little girl with the daisy ad.

They showed that on the doc. LBJ should have been mortified. His campaign advisor's response?

"Politics ain't beanbag." Sheesh.

Hey, LBJ, although certainly an oil-soaked asshole who ****ed up spectacularly in the ensuing four years, wasn't the one throwing off casual quotes about how he'd use tactical nukes to clear the Vietnamese forests. :o

Cronkite was on the money when he said, in so many words, he's had enough of the Goldwater apologists crying about being "lynched by the media" in 1964. Goldwater provided the media every inch of the rope it needed all by himself.

The two main planks of Goldwater's 1964 campaign:

1) Let's use nukes in Vietnam.

2) Let's defeat/repeal the Civil Rights Act, and keep the Negroes in the back of the bus.

There aren't many presidential elections where one side is "right" and the other is "wrong." But this was one of them.

 

[shotglass]

About Santorum vs. Casey: I've determined that I won't vote for either one of them because of the mud-slinging. I'll vote for anybody else on the ballot before them.

Casey's been pretty sleazy, too.

Swann and Rendell have been dancing around the mud, but they haven't quite gotten into the slop yet.

 

[Bubbler]

Swann and Rendell have been dancing around the mud, but they haven't quite gotten into the slop yet.

I'm going to submit this for Ed Rendell's approval ...

Lynn Swann proudly wears his yellow Pro Football Hall of Fame sportscoat ... he fashions himself as the toast of the Pittsburgh Steelers' four-Super Bowl teams from the 1970s ...

(turn extreme close-up of Canton Swann to a black-and-white screen negative)

... but who is Lynn Swann trying to fool?

-- He never had more than 61 receptions in a season and never, never had a 1,000 yard season. In his nine seasons, he only had three All-Pro or Pro Bowl seasons. (Source: ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia).

-- He's not even in top 100 of all-time NFL receptions or receiving yards. (Source: ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia).

-- Swann sips drinks and saunters with movers and shakers in Canton -- but Harold Carmichael, who has over 200 more catches and 3,000 more yards, cries his big self to sleep every night longing for what Swann took from him. Even Mike Quick has a legitimate beef.

How can Swann explain this nefarious influence? Something stinks about that Terrible Towel, Mr. Swann.

Lynn Swann. He thinks he belongs in Canton, let's make sure we don't make him feel welcome in Washington.

I'm Paul Krause, Mark Washington, Bennie Barnes, Rod Perry, Ed Rendell, and I approved this message.

 

[OnTheRiver]

As OTR can attest, the Indiana Bloody 8th has produced some doozies from incumbent John Hostetler. You can't swing a dead cat without Willie Horton-like distortions and lame liberal-this, liberal-that attempts at fear mongering.

And as usual, the Democratic candidate is as vanilla as it gets.

The D is winning, though, isn't he? Or running close?

Indiana's 8th District races have lost the right to be called "Bloody" ... now it's just bull****, and it's bull**** that started in heavily back in July.

Honestly. The DCCC and the RNCC were running attack ads in ****ing July for heaven's sake. And Bubbler, you must be getting different commercials than we're getting down here. Probably 95 percent of the commercials currently on air are not from either candidate -- they're from the national committees.

The one exception that comes to mind is an Ellsworth ad where he talks about the campaign being about moving Indiana forward, not scare tactics re: Pelosi and raising taxes.

The commercials are doozies -- anyone that has followed a lick of the news can see an avalanche of lies from both sides. Our paper's been running fact-check pieces on the ads, and it's gotten to the point where there's so many untruths that it's making the fact-check stories cumbersome and long. Just total bull****.

Our paper commissioned a poll, the results of which ran over the weekend, that showed Ellsworth with 51 percent, Hostettler with 34, and roughly 16 percent undetermined.

The RNCC called the methodology flawed, of course.

In any event, every poll I hear about from people in the know -- including from one of the candidates himself in an informal conversation, has Ellsworth (the Democrat) up anywhere from 4 to 11 points, depending on the poll.

In other words: Who the **** knows what's going to happen here.

One interesting thing that I've not seen in the past few races in the 8th District -- there are a lot more Ellsworth signs in Northern Posey County, Ind.

Now, Bubbler will say: Who cares about a rural outpost like Northern Posey County?

It's Hostettler's home soil. The last few races, including the 2004 race when the Democrats suited up a carpetbagging New Englander, have seen very few signs for the Democrats out there. This year? A bunch. It's far from scientific, but it's got me wondering.

And per your PM, Bubbler -- I don't remember the mayor's name, but it was a woman. Does that help?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Hostettler's the one who ran some constituents who visited him to lobby for increased research money for breast cancer out of his office by lecturing them on the wholly bull**** "link" between breast cancer and abortion. (Don't post the stuff. It's bull****, and every doctor knows it. Just skip it.) This guys belongs at the Gas 'n Sip, splitting shifts with Dan (The Melon Killer) Burton.

 

[shotglass]

On Lynn Swann, it's appearing that "former" could be attached to his campaign in the near future:

http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/115915113374100.xml&coll=1

 

[BYH]

I'm going to submit this for Ed Rendell's approval ...

Lynn Swann proudly wears his yellow Pro Football Hall of Fame sportscoat ... he fashions himself as the toast of the Pittsburgh Steelers' four-Super Bowl teams from the 1970s ...

(turn extreme close-up of Canton Swann to a black-and-white screen negative)

... but who is Lynn Swann trying to fool?

-- He never had more than 61 receptions in a season and never, never had a 1,000 yard season. In his nine seasons, he only had three All-Pro or Pro Bowl seasons. (Source: ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia).

-- He's not even in top 100 of all-time NFL receptions or receiving yards. (Source: ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia).

-- Swann sips drinks and saunters with movers and shakers in Canton -- but Harold Carmichael, who has over 200 more catches and 3,000 more yards, cries his big self to sleep every night longing for what Swann took from him. Even Mike Quick has a legitimate beef.

How can Swann explain this nefarious influence? Something stinks about that Terrible Towel, Mr. Swann.

Lynn Swann. He thinks he belongs in Canton, let's make sure we don't make him feel welcome in Washington.

I'm Paul Krause, Mark Washington, Bennie Barnes, Rod Perry, Ed Rendell, and I approved this message.

That is excellent.

 

[terrier]

As much as I admire Hostetler's work with horses, I have to support Ellsworth - he's beholden to no human cocksucker (and he had the mad social skills to hook up with a rich babe, too).

 

[Dedo]

As much as I admire Hostetler's work with horses, I have to support Ellsworth - he's beholden to no human cocksucker (and he had the mad social skills to hook up with a rich babe, too).

Terrier,

Very good point -- I was thinking the same thing. Although you wonder how the campaign is going to be affected with both candidates now deceased. I guess that leaves the N. General and young Sophia to run in their places...