McCain Slams Clinton, Dems on BetrayUs Ad

As Russel Ziskey said of the Warsaw Pact, "They're Pussies!"

Finally finding fault with Hillary!:

Senator Clinton said that believing General Petraeus' testimony requires a 'willing suspension of disbelief.' I think it willingly suspends disbelief to not repudiate an advertisement run by a radical left wing organization that impugns and dishonors the integrity of a man who has served his nation with dedication all of his life. If you're not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous, outrageous attack such as that, then I don't know how you're tough enough to be President of the United States.

This is a nice sentiment, but actually McCain's crappy campaign finance reform law seems to forbid the Democrats from doing what he claims they ought to. Though I suppose it has long been the law that parties and candidates cannot "coordinate" messages with supposedly-independent issue advocacy groups.

It has been suggested that even publically commenting on such an ad would constitute such "coordination," a public rather than private bit of coordination stating "This particular message is unhelpful to us; please try again."

I had hoped the far left, left to its own devices, would so alienate the swing voters with its various lunacies that the avalanche of soft, shady money to liberal PACs would have a net-zero kind of impact, but I'm not nearly sure that's the case. Still, on occasion, the Lunatic Left will buy its rhetoric that it's actually the "political center" and indulge itself in fiascoes like this.

posted by Ace at 03:34 PM

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