Well, William Kristol of The Weekly Standard is taking the approach that it is obvious this “stretch” of Brown’s record should be recognized by both sides as a vile lie, and is asking if Obama, in his appearance tomorrow, will repudiate it:

“Will President Obama, who’ll be in Massachusetts Sunday campaigning for Coakley, associate himself by his silence with these smear tactics? Or will he denounce them?”

The Weekly Standard is also reporting that Brown’s campaign is filing a criminal complaint against the Mass. Dem. Party due to the flyer.

http://www.theweeklystandard.com

ESPECIALLY when they are demonstrable lies.

First, there is no way Obama is going to say anything about the ad. He went negative on McCain and McCain tried to take the high ground.

Still not sure if taking the high ground was a good idea for McCain.

He needs to at least make another commercial saying “Please do research on your own and don’t let my opponent try to feed you lies about me.”

A fresh new ad. Or maybe just an ad saying that Coakley doesn’t want religious people in the ER. And have her quote.

He has to do something though.

For those of you who don’t recall, Bobby Jindal should’ve been Governor during Katrina, but lost to a woman who was woefully unqualified to be Governor, who sadly for Louisiana was the one in charge during Katrina due to a very costly mistake that Bobby made at the end of the campaign. With about a week to go Jindal was comfortably ahead in the polls, and his campaign decided it would just go positive at the end, and ignore his opponent’s negative ads. Given that he had really dominated the campaign up to that point, and given that he was comfortably ahead he trusted the voters to see the last minute attack ads for what they were, a desperate hail mary pass at the end of a campaign they were about to lose. It turned out to be a REALLY bad idea, as his silence allowed his opponent’s campaign to fool the voters into thinking the last minute attack ads were true, and he somehow lost a race he totally had won. Scott Brown can’t afford to make the same mistake. Like Bobby, he has this race all but locked up, but unlike Jindal, he isn’t going to sit back and trust the voters to see through his opponent’s last second desperation attack ads. He isn’t going to make the mistake of letting these smears go unanswered, I REALLY like how he filed a criminal charge against them for these malicious lies. The fact that these negative ads are SOOOOOO far outside of the realm of sanity makes them especially good targets for a Brown counter-attack, if he does it right it should definitely result in the ads totally backfiring on Coakley and boosting Brown in the polls.

Of course Jindal was able to win the Governorship in his second go round, but only after tremendous damage was done to the state due to having someone ill prepared in office during a crisis. We don’t want history to repeat itself here, with Coakley winning, destroying our Health Care System by providing the 60th vote, and then Scott Brown wins in 2012 after the damage is already done. Best to do it right the first time, by Scott effectively countering these lies and getting elected the first time around, and stopping Obamacare in its tracks!

I just get the sense this thing is slipping away and Coakley’s going to steal it by 2-3%. I think Brown peaked at midweek and has stalled.
Yeah, I’m an Eeyore.
So far there hasn’t been much use of Coakley’s daily gaffes(not in commerials, anyway). A good, sarcastic, funny ad about the Schilling mistake could help here.