Here’s the latest attack ad from the Republican National Committee:
This strikes me as more evidence of a directionless, bitter Republican brand in a year Democrats are confident of winning the White House and expanding their majority in Congress. It makes a false deductive argument in one segment (Marxists support Obama, therefor Obama must be a marxist) and mocks him for being like a popular American “rock star” in Germany ala David Hasselhof.
Yet, can we really act surprised when the GOP throws this out there when on just about every major issue, Democrats have them beat? Reid Wilson of RealClearPolitics notes how Americans are looking for broad, serious change, not perhaps the kind of “gradual” change McCain’s talked about. And it’s well documented that the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy did not create enough jobs to keep pace with the number of workers who need them, that the buying power of the American middle class has gone down by a $1,000 per year, a majority of people think the Iraq war was wrong and a high percentage of people feel the country is headed in the wrong direction. And yet McCain’s advocating an extension of the Bush tax cuts and maintaining the course in Iraq; in other words, on the wrong side of the majority of American public opinion. He’s against universal health care at a time costs have skyrocketed and people feel the government can help solve their financial problems. So what else can the RNC do but pursue ad hominem attacks on the Democratic nominee?
