McCain morphs into Grandpa Simpson
When John McCain's ad "Celeb" hit the airwaves many people said it was just plain silly...that the smear campaign has come up with a new spin on the superficial. They're attacking Obama because he's a celebrity! Only someone from McCain's campaign would find something wrong with being popular. Having never experienced much of it, you see...
But the ad stirred up a lot of attention and I can just imagine the high-fiving in the McCain camp--“Yessss! We’ve applied the Rove handbook perfectly! We are suuuuper geniuses!”
Uh, except for a little problem. Just because your attack is aimed at your opponent’s strength doesn’t mean it makes sense...and even McCain’s own allies and former close advisers are agreeing that the “celebrity” angle is simply ridiculous.
Here's a spoof of McCain's "celebrity" attack ad.
Meanwhile, speaking at an economic town hall in Iowa, Barack Obama pushes back on McCain's Britney/Paris "celebrity" charge:
This alone would be an awesome ad. No fancy PR firm voice over, no fancy graphics. no cutting to cheesy stock footage...just Obama in his own words is powerful enough. One candidate, at a podium, eloquently tearing his opponent to verbal shreds. He is confident, aggressive, convincing, and dismissive of McCain's smear all at once.
Obama is his own best messenger.
If McCain's people are this desperate this early in the race, brace yourself for them to play more hardball and throw more slime. Remember, McCain ceded control of his campaign to Rove/Schmidt/Davis. They've done this before...a lot. The run of attacks against Obama over the last couple of weeks have been veeeery reminiscent of the McCain-fathered-a-bastard-black-baby bunch.
See, that's the only way McCain can win, by playing dirty and tearing Obama down. All he has to do is show an outrageous ad a couple of times and the media will cover it and keep it going for days.
So while Obama's campaign introduced the "low road express" site....
....McCain's campaign accused them of playing the race card...which is laughable...but it was all over cable news.
BTW--what's funny about McCain's celebrity attack ad is that Paris Hilton's wealthy daddy Hilton has showered McCain with mucho cash...I wonder if Camp McCain’s phones were ringing off the hook with complaints.
