TPM reader TCB responds to TPM Reader DR.
The DCCC has 2 negative ads up in this market, one hitting Roskam for being in favor of banning books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Martin Luther King and one for voting with the NRA in favor of guns in schools.
Theyâre both quite negative.
Why positive? Well, there are 8 candidates who are up in this market trashing each other. The positive stuff breaks through.
Here’s the thing on negative ads. It’s time for the closer to come in on this campaign. There’s no question this campaign has been effectively nationalized. Both sides are playing on that terrain. But it’s time for the closer to come in. And from the numbers I’ve seen from various states and districts, this is all about President Bush and Iraq — with the awfulness of the Republican Congress, its irrelevance and corruption sort of second-tier, atmospheric issue. If I’m programming the negative ads, I front the disaster of Iraq and that voting for Republican X is another rubber stamp for President Bush. Another free pass to let the disasters keep coming. That’s the deal closer.
Is book-banning like on anyone’s radar? Maybe we get some ads about evolution too. A few good ad runs about driving the speed limit could put this one away.
Says another TPM Reader: “I have been watching the RNCC ads for Peter Roskam. They are, to say the least, distorted and blatant lies. What I can’t figure out is why the DNCC isn’t countering with ads as to how the RNCC treats our veterans. Ms. Duckworth lost both legs in Iraq and these ads are the thanks she gets from the Republicans. Democrats need to drill home the point ‘Why does Peter Roskam and the RNCC chose to smear one of our decorated Iraq veterans?'”
