Mind you, this is all perfectly accurate (Via Ace):
…but a bit unexpected to have happen quite this early. Admittedly, the President hasn’t been having the best of months, but this is something that normally takes place after, say, disastrous midterms for the party in power.
I think that the answer is in the format: Ed Morrissey notes, this is a web-only ad*. It may be designed primarily to kick an anthill or two on the other side; from the NRSC‘s point of view, it’s not so much why the Online Left screams, as long as it screams. Which would also explain why the AIG shout-out; just a little extra flick of the earlobe. Cheap enough to do, and it’s kind of a slow season for the NRSC right now anyway while they wait for the next spectacular Democratic meltdown.
Moe Lane
*A point lost on a good number of critics of said ad, from what I’ve seen so far.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Dan Spencer
Dan McLaughlin
It's all true
djemi (Diary) Tuesday, March 24th at 2:46PM EST (link)And you never know it might get some free airtime if those clown ‘scream’ loud enough. But you would have thought Jlist members were smarter than that, but it’s happened before right?
“If I can’t shoot rabbits,then I can’t shoot fascist”
“With age, comes Wisdom, but only if you are paying Attention, son” my ‘Old Man’
RS Help files (h/t JLenardDetroit) Grassroots in Michigan
Moes Strategy
Using Gwen Ifill against Obama is a nice touch
silentcal40 Tuesday, March 24th at 2:58PM EST (link)Now, if the NRSC has nothing else to do, it might work on developing a positive program for America and an attractive way to market it. The Democratic Party finally won the 2006 and then the 2008 elections only because of Republican incompetence and hypocrisy, but I’d rather that the Republican Party relied on more than Democratic incompetence and hypocrisy in order to return to power. Simply being “not the Democrats” won’t help the country much.
“Nothing I never said ever hurt me.” – Calvin Coolidge