House GOP Targets Obama

Real Clear Politics ^ | April 29th, 2008 | Reid Wilson

[The_Republican]

In the first two advertisements of their kind, Republicans seeking an advantage in a Mississippi special election are invoking Barack Obama in arguing that a Democratic Congressional candidate is too liberal for his district. That flies in the face of what has been conventional wisdom for months among national Democratic strategists who have not publicly taken sides in the presidential contest; many privately express more hope in Obama's potential coattails than in rival Hillary Clinton's.

But while Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have made appearances in Republican advertisements before, the GOP is now taking on Obama, reflecting both a growing consensus that the Illinois Senator is the most likely candidate to emerge from the ongoing primary fight and that Republicans believe he, like Clinton, can be transformed into a lightening rod used to tarnish downballot Democrats.

The advertisements target Travis Childers, the Prentiss County Chancery Clerk who led his Republican opponent, Southaven Mayor Greg Davis, in last week's special primary election to replace Senator Roger Wicker in a northern Mississippi House seat. Both Davis and the National Republican Congressional Committee released the spots less than a week after Childers came within about 400 votes of avoiding a runoff by scoring above the 50% mark. And beyond Mississippi, NRCC chairman Tom Cole, meeting with reporters today, suggested that ties to Obama could hurt downballot Democrats nationally.

"When Obama's pastor cursed America, blaming us for 9/11, Childers said nothing," Davis' spot begins. "When Obama ridiculed rural folks for clinging to guns and religion, Childers said nothing."

While bringing up the Rev. Jeremiah Wright may be dangerous for some Republicans, the NRCC's commercial sounds a theme that will prove a more universally-sounded concept. "Travis Childers claims he's a conservative.

[WKB]

Mississippi ping

[vetvetdoug]

I agree with the ads. Here in NE Mississippi I am seeing almost every black with an Obama sticker on their car. I would love to have a sticker that says, Vote Democrat, God Damn America!!!.

I liked what Jackie Mason said on FOX this morning....Why is it when 47% of whites vote for a white candidate its racist & when 97% of blacks vote for a black and it isn't racist?

Travis Childers is a liberal left sucking Democrat that has bamboosled the yellow dog Democrats of NE Mississippi.

[Sybeck1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sPeQ2mKRro

Here’s the ad. The libs on youtube are going crazy over it.

[Sybeck1]

I live in Southaven. Davis has been a good mayor.

[tioga]

I LOVE it.....let libs panic over that one! LOL

[NeoCaveman]

Great ad.

Or more precisely, an excellent test case to see if this effective.

I think it is.

[tioga]

Hey, hillary is workin it.........Obama has not had a win in awhile, not after this has gotten some press.

[NeoCaveman]

I’m beginning to think we should have decapitated that she-vampire when we had the chance....

(in the political sense only)

[dixiechick2000]

I certainly am glad to see that Davis and the NRCC put up this ad.

I like it!

Thank you for the post and ping!

[dixiechick2000]

Thank you for the link!

It’s a good ‘un, isn’t it! ;o)