Drudge says GOP negative Ad's have started. Anyone seen any?

[Quixote1818]

How bad are they and can we fend them off?

http://www.drudgereport.com/

[LSK]

1. yes, they are smearing Tammy Duckworth in IL06

They are lying about her stance on illegal immigration and Tammy has a commercial out there of her refuting the RNC commercial and she finishes it with I approve of this message because its the truth.

[EST]

9. Wasn't there an ad charging Tammy,

who, of course, left her legs in an explosion in Iraq
and is bravely facing a future that would hammer any of us, with the puke clown sin of cut and run? Perhaps I am mixing it up with some other publicon regurgitation.

[LSK]

15. no, that was in a debate I think

Check the IL section for details.

[EST]

17. Yeah, you be right--thank you.

[KharmaTrain]

32. It Was In A Radio Debate

Here's a good recap:

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/sep/26/il_06_vet_amputee_duckworth_hits_back_at_gopers_cut_and_run_broadside

I live in the 8th District...right next to the 6th. We get commercials here for Melissa Bean (she's been on since 4th of July) and McSweeny who just started after Labor Day. He hasn't tried to slime her yet...maybe cause he's got such poor name recognition and is trailing by 10-15 points in most polls.

I saw some of the Chicago Media pick up on Rokesma's sleazy shot at Tammy and they were ridiculing how a paper-pusher for DeLay has the cajones to question a lady who lost her legs in Iraq. It took this campaign off the back pages and have started to generate some media buzz in Chicago...and most of its been pro-Duckworth.

There's also a couple of good diaries on dailykos on the race and Instapundit, too.

Cheers..

[havocmom]

2. Sorta lame ones against Tester in MT airing

We beat them by asking why the GOP won't talk about THEIR OWN RECORD. If they want to be re-elected, they must be proud of something ;)

They can't run on their record and they can't run on real issues. People are seeing right through the wedge issues straw-man. The got nuttin... we need to keep pointing that out.

[mitchtv]

3. every day all day long

negative Groper ads and Gop ads for the assembly race, CA 80 AD I am getting disheartened to see no Dem ads whatsoever. In the assembly race the Puke is not mentioned, just the Dem

[joefree1]

14. Just saw 3 anti Gropenator ads in the last 30 minutes

The Unions have started waging war.

[mitchtv]

35. they must be targeting areas they think they can win

the same mistake made by Davis( acting like LA county and the Bay area could save him) this election is statewide, and conceding Riverside County is a mistake.

[Mr_Spock]

4. I would expect nothing less from craven cowards

When they do go down, it's going to be for good reason - and they will go down HARD.

Fucking Republicans suck.

[leftofthedial]

5. tons of lies and smears in Colorado races

blatant lies

[C_U_L8R]

6. just put a bright light on the republican lies

it totally proves our point

[bullwinkle428]

7. "Bruce Braley (IA-01 candidate) is an EVIL TRIAL LAWYER!"

"He supported the plaintiff in the McDonald's hot coffee spill case, don'tcha know!"

[Goblinmonger]

8. Glad I don't live in that district

That has to be one of the most misrepresented cases ever. Unbelievable the extent people will go to in order to make trial lawyers look bad.

[bullwinkle428]

21. Whalen, his Bush-supported opponent, was one of the main

architects of the Social Security privatization plan... :banghead:

[SharonAnn]

10. Where the woman had to have skin graft on her genitals? That case?

people make fun of that case without knowing anything aabout it. All she wanted was for McDonals to pay the medical bills. I think it was less than $10,000. But they stonewalled her and when the jury found out that they knew their coffee was so hot it caused 2nd and 3rd degree burns, that they had been warned many times that they had to lower the tempature but they refused to, the jury just took it on themselves to send them a message. The amount was overturned on appeal and ended up being a reasonable settlement and punitive damages, based on the evidence.

And remember, it was a jury of "regular people" who took it upon themselves to awrd the original punitive damages. They were angry when they found out that McDonald's was flauting the law, didn't care about people being maimed by their product, and was continuing to provide their coffee too hot.

Now, if a man's genitals were burned so badly that he had to have skin grafts, would it still be a "frivolous" lawsuit?

[bullwinkle428]

24. Freepers love to bring up that case in almost Pavlovian fashion

when the subject of lawsuits comes up with regards to any case at all! 99% of the public doesn't know the basic facts about the case; specifically, the willingness on her part to settle for just the medical bills, but the McAsshats got greedy so she decided to go after them. Just another tragic consequence of our 5-second sound-bite culture...

[Mr Rabble]

11. I just saw an Allen ad in Virginia.

It called Jim Webb a "fiction writer", and then talked about his time in the Reagan administration as "brief". It had a nasty tone, and although I dont remember any other specifics it seemed that they were trying to say that Webb was only with Reagan a short time and it ended badly.

This is going to be ugly.

[Poiuyt]

12. John Gard (R) keeps painting Steve Kagen (D) as a multi-millionaire (WI-8)

[razors edge]

13. guess I missed the positive ones. n/t

[Mister Ed]

16. Malodorous Ads Here in Minnesota Congressional District 6

The scenario: religious-right Republican wacko Michele Bachmann vs. Democratic candidate and child-protection advocate Patty Wetterling in a race ranked as one of the twenty closest in the country.

The Republican National Congressional Committee mailed me two anti-Wetterling attack ads last week. They're large and conspicuous, expensively produced, featuring photos that make Wetterling look like one of the Munsters.

The front of one ad shows a photo of a dockhand pushing a heavy crate marked "AMERICAN JOBS: OVERSEAS SHIPMENT" up the gangplank. "Shipping American jobs overseas hurts American workers", the headline intones.

Turn the card over, and a headline screams, "PATTY WETTERLING IS HELPING LOAD THE SHIP".

"Huh?", I wonder. "How do they figure? She doesn't even hold public office!" The ad hastens to explain:

"Patty Wetterling's financial disclosures reveal that she has had a financial interest in companies that outsource jobs overseas or employ cheap labor overseas."

"SEND PATTY WETTERLING A MESSAGE", it continues. "ON NOVEMBER 7, VOTE FOR MICHELE BACHMANN."

Sooo...what's it all about?

Turns out that Wetterling has some shares in some mutual funds. And some of those mutual funds have shares of stock in companies that have outsourced some jobs, or taken advantage of cheap overseas labor. (Are there any Fortune 500 companies that haven't?)

Of course, Wetterling's opponent has similar mutual fund holdings. And so do I. And so does anyone who has a 401k. But the attack piece leaves a casual reader with the impression that Wetterling is responsible for shipping American jobs overseas.

The whole scummy thing is exposed by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in this article:

http://www.startribune.com/blogs/bigquestion/?p=270#comments

I'd like to know if this dumb-ass tactic is being used to smear Democrats in other races across the country.

[Hippo_Tron]

20. That's about the same as Ned Lamont owning Halliburton

[Bonobo]

18. Nasty ads against Deval Patrick by Kerry Healy in Mass. Governor race...

"Weak on crime, bows to labor, etc..."

[cynatnite]

19. Corker's done some pretty bad ones...

People ain't buying it. Ford is ahead of him in the polls.

[johnaries]

25. Yep, and Ford slapped him hard with his response ads.

Ford has gone up in the polls since Corker's attack ads.

You can see Ford's ads here:
http://haroldfordjr2006.blogspot.com/

Click on the ad titled "The Difference" to see Ford's smackdown of Corker's attack ads.

[cynatnite]

27. That's a good ad...

I don't agree with him on a lot of things, but the ad is good. Having it filmed in a church was a brilliant move.

[jseankil]

22. THESE PEOPLE WANT TO KILL YOU!

Oh yea, this one has the whole works, 9/11 video and all. It's been playing in Ohio for about 3 weeks now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUMSdv3GfFk

[Initech]

23. Yup. Ahnuld is slamming Phil Angelides big time.

He's stating that Angelides is going to do nothing but raise more taxes, blah blah blah and how, um, great the state is since he stole office from the democratic guy (typical GOP rhetoric).

[kerry-is-my-prez]

26. Nope only ads by Bill Nelson trying to hide the fact he's a Dem.

"I don't care if people are Dems or Republicans - I work with all of them." No kidding Bill. To be fair, I'm in a 60% Repubnlican area so I guess that's the only kind of ad he can run HERE.

He's running aginst Katherine Harris so there' absolutely no way I'm not voting for him. If Katherine Haris won I would simply have to drive off a cliff.

[Mister Ed]

28. Minnesota Congressional District 6 (Part II)

(Cross-post to my post on this topic in the Minnesota forum)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x21206

Minneapolis Star-Tibune Spanks Repubs For Lying About Wetterling In Campaign Lit

http://www.startribune.com/587/story/690973.html

The National Republican Congressional Committee has sent two literature pieces to households in the Sixth Congressional District attacking Democrat Patty Wetterling for failing to vote in three elections.

The attacks are inaccurate. Calling them merely deceptive would be a kindness. The Wetterling campaign calls them a "lie." You decide.

The Republican National Congressional Committee has been sending out shrill-toned mailers to aid Bachmann. The mailers make a big stink about Wetterling supposedly passing up the opportunity to vote in the elections of 2000, 2002, and 2004 (as if that would disqualify anyone from holding office).

Turns out that she did vote in the general elections all three years. She just didn't vote in the primaries in 2000 and 2002. In 2004, she voted in the primary -but she didn't exercise her right to vote in her precinct caucus. As far as the Repubs are concerned, that counts as not voting in 2000, 2002, and 2004.

Sheesh.

[Ravenseye]

29. Nothing but lies from Santorum

http://www.bobcasey.com/news/article/view/?id=162

Santorum portrays seven men as backroom dealers working for the Casey campaign, as all being corrupt. Only one of them has given a small donation to Casey's senate run, one is dead, and two have donated to Santorum.

The ad even claims Robert Feldman is Casey's handpicked campaign finance chairman, yet he hadn't given any money to Casey, isn't involved in the Senate campaign, and he and his wife have instead given money to Santorum.

Lies and distortion.

His poll numbers haven't budged.

[neebob]

30. I've heard one on the radio

Scott Tipton v. John Salazar in my Congressional district, this 2-part deal that starts out with John Salazar voted against this, that, and the other good thing or for this, that, and the other bad thing. Then Tipton comes on and says he's for border security including "a good old-fashioned fence," against "giving welfare benefits to illegal immigrants," and whatever else. "Let's bring some good ol' Collerada common sense back to Congress," sez he. He sounds like a total hick.

Salazar's ad is just silly. He's a farmer. Let's send a farmer to Congress.

I should add that I'm only assuming Tipton's a Republican, because so few of the ads state party affiliations anymore.

[newportdadde]

31. We have a couple here in MO, one US vs Them one and another

with a retired general. The retired general talks about how this war has been going on for 20 years etc and the commerical ends with how this is about our contries survival.

The one US vs Them is a little more harsh and is basically a scare you commercial we are all going to die.

[MiniMe]

33. Here is a link to a democratic 527 organization

http://www.dscc.org/index_home.html

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. I saw one last night against Michael Steele, it was pretty amusing so I followed the link.

[MiniMe]

34. A few links to their commercials

You have to hit the video button across the top to get their commercials.

Ricky Santorum: http://www.dscc.org/news/multimedia/20050804_overtheline/

Conrad Burns: http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/video/20050808_dscc_smelltest.mov

The GOP majority http://www.dscc.org/news/multimedia/20051030_halloween/

Jeannine Pirro http://asphaltjungle.com/Speechless.mov

Abuse of Power (this one is pretty funny) http://www.dscc.org/news/multimedia/20050715_abuseofpower/

Out of Control http://www.dscc.org/news/multimedia/20050705_out/

[leftchick]

36. Vernon Robinson running for the House in NC

has been leaving filthy messages on my machine about the threat of gay marriage. He is also running disgusting tv ads about the Liberal, Homo loving agenda of Brad Miller. :puke:

I read he has gotten 90% of his funds for ads from the RNC and only 10% locally.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. Yes, Talent is after McCaskill in MO

There are a few negative ads but mainly stuff on blog sites that is just horribly negative. Here is what I think is the worst blog:

http://thesource.typepad.com/thesource/2006/09/claire_bears_ne.html

Talent also has signs in Kansas. Yes I know - he is a senator from Missouri. But he is putting signs up in Kansas. Go figure.