WASHINGTON — Republican candidate John McCain touts his independence from President George W. Bush and his plan to fight global warming in a new TV ad.
Two liberal groups, meanwhile, are slamming McCain’s support for the Iraq war in an ad of their own.
McCain’s ad, highlighting an issue important to many independent voters, will run on local TV in 11 battleground states, as well as national cable channels like Fox News and CNN. An aide said the ad buy would be “substantial,” but declined to provide a figure.
“John McCain stood up to the president and sounded the alarm on global warming,” the ad’s narrator says.
It’s the second national TV ad for McCain.
Some of those same viewers might see this ad by MoveOn.org and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. An actress portraying a mother holds up her child and asks McCain: “When you said you would stay in Iraq for 100 years, were you counting on Alex? Because if you were, you can’t have him.”
The two groups say they plan to spend $540,000 to air the ad in three battleground states — Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin — and nationally on cable.
What about Obama? His campaign isn’t buying any national TV ads yet, though they were sitting on a much larger pile of cash at the end of April ($47 million vs. McCain’s $22 million, according to the latest FEC filings).
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Mccain is a fractious man on the wrong side of history and human events. He and his party will be relegated to oblivion in November. It is presumptuous to elevate Mccain as the competitor to Obama and dangle the losing proposition as an alternative for America. In the coming election majority of Americans are going to vote based on their deteriorating economic and political conditions, the twin sinister and dark legacy of the Republicans. Mccain is inextricably linked to what GOP has brought on America. Chaotic Wall Street, insecure main Street and destruction of American wealth for the poor and the rich alike.
- Posted by JakeRegarding McCain’s “maverick” voting record, he has made an about-face on almost every issue where he ever opposed the GOP party line (and there weren’t that many to start with). Opposition to Bush tax cuts? Caved. Holding the CIA responsible for torture? Caved. Immigration reform? Well, he never really opposed Bush, but he caved on that, too. Criticism for Katrina? McCain voted against the Katrina Commission and against benefits for the survivors. Health Care and Social Security? Their records are identical.
And comparing Iraq to Germany, Japan, or S. Korea is rediculous. The difference is that hundreds of thousands of troops were not required for post-war combat in those countries. That was an entirely different kind of warfare fought with an entirely different enemy. Iraq is engaged in a religious war that has been going on s the seventh century, and, my friends, it’s not going to be over by 2013. The difference is that the longer we stay in Iraq, the more Americans are going to die. Americans stopped dying in Germany after Potsdam. We already had our “mission accomplished” moment, and the death toll just keeps getting higher. It is a never-ending quagmire. BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW.
- Posted by TXCourtney