New McCain ad including Ayers-thoughts?
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| Sun, 10-12-2008 - 5:56pm |
The Republican Party on Monday morning will make a new push to convince voters that distant ties between Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and former radical William Ayers are somehow disqualifying for the presidency.
The Republican National Committee plans to e-mail “an audience of tens of millions” the link to a new video on the subject called “Guilt by Participation” and encourage recipients to forward it to friends and family, aides said.
“Barack Obama has no problem with forming relationships when politically convenient,” says the menacing narration, accompanied by brooding music.
The title comes from a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by conservative scholar Stanley Kurtz, who wrote on Sept. 23: “The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming 'guilt by association.' Yet the issue here isn't guilt by association; it's guilt by participation.”
The 80-second video ends with a new slogan, a variation of one Republicans have used in the past:

I think if they release something like this it is going to backfire on them, just as most of the strategic moves have backfired on them throughout this campaign.