PA-SEN: Hard-Hitting Casey Ad Blasts Santorum's "Trash"

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/sep/22/pa_sen_hard_hitting_new_casey_ad_features_rendell_blasting_santorums_trash

Dem Bob Casey has just released a ferociously hard-hitting ad blasting back at GOP Senator Rick Santorum's recent ad depicting Casey donors behind bars. Casey's TV spot features popular Dem governor Ed Rendell mounting an aggressive defense of Casey: "To somehow insinuate that there are crooks or criminals behind his campaign, that sort of stuff is trash." The ad continues: "And it was Santorum who created a corrupt lobbying system exploited by felon Jack Abramoff." It concludes that Santorum is "everything that's wrong with Washington." Don't miss this very tough ad -- you can view it http://www.bobcasey.com/multimedia/video/11.aspx

Also since Santorum ran an ad with his kids - check out Casey's daughters in an ad - good one - great girls! And great tag "I'm Bob Casey and yeah I approved this ad at the end". Cute.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

1. Yeahhhhhhh, baaaaaaaby!!

LOVE IT!!!................ SMACK DOWN!!!

[snowbear]

2. OoOOoh that is good !!!

Thanks for sharing that! Santorum looks like a pencil-nosed clueless twerp in that ad, and Casey looks awesome!!

Oh, and the gub'ner there sounds GREAT too!

**** WE NEED LOTS OF ADS LIKE THAT !!! ****

[radfringe]

3. WGAL-8 PA news station investigates the santorum attack ad

youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSam9NCYl0A&NR

[chieftain]

4. What a great commercial.

The Republican majorities are built on lies and we have to have the moral courage to say so and the requisite skill to do it in a convincing way. This commercial is exhibit A on how to do both. Every Republican office holder that I am aware of deserves the sobriquet "... what's wrong with Washington..."

[blue neen]

5. Terrific ad.

I've been waiting for Casey to counter on that one.

[Zynx]

6. Santorum should resign for running such crap.

What's he going to do next? Call Casey a baby eater?

[TheFarseer]

7. OMG, that is a bitch slapping

but what did Ricky expect when he runs an ad so ridiculous. I mean to vilify people and try to connect them to your opponent when they are in fact connected to YOUR campaign is the most idiotic strategy.

[corkhead]

11. But it is classic rovian repuke tactic, attack their strength even

if it is your weakness, i.e. swiftboating.

[nickshepDEM]

8. Id like to see Rendell run for higher office someday.

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[Lugnut]

9. K&R

The Casey campaign is airing some very good hard-hitting spots. The 98% spot video is featured on the campaign homepage. I've seen it several times on the local stations.

Bob Casey was not my first choice but I have no other option than to vote for him. Sick Rick must go back to VA where he lives.

[tblue]

10. Oooh! That's so sexy!

This gut-punch stuff sells. You know Repubs vote out of their gut, so this should reach some of the reachable ones. Yow! Clone this ad. Santorum looks so milky, like just please don't touch me.

[JPZenger]

12. 1 Guy's Dead for 2 Years, 2 Gave to Santorum, 1 Gave $250

From an AP article published today: "Santorum aired a TV spot featuring actors supposedly portraying four big donors to Casey's campaign meeting inside a smoke-filled jail cell. The senator's campaign later conceded that none of the men had given money to Casey's Senate campaign and that two of them had actually contributed to Santorum's campaign, which donated the money to nonprofit groups."

From http://www.factcheck.org/article436.html :

"...The "Philly businessman" is lawyer Ron White who gave Casey $31,000 from his Citizens Watch 2000 PAC. White, who last donated to Casey in 2001, died of cancer nearly two years ago...Feldman... has never been formally charged with a crime... Feldman is the only one who can be said to have had an official role with any of Casey's campaigns, and that was in his 2002 gubernatorial race...

Calling Fekos and Mollohan "major contributors" is a stretch. According to Santorum's own research, Fekos gave Casey a total of $250 in 1999 and Mollohan's political action committee, Summit PAC, gave Casey the federal maximum of $2,000 in June 2006. Mollohan's PAC donation is the only contribution from any of these men that went towards Casey's bid for the Senate.

The first line of this ad would lead a reasonable viewer to conclude that all these "campaign team" members are currently part of Bob Casey's campaign staff. That is not the case for any of them...

We see a bit of a double standard at play here. Santorum's campaign hasn't mentioned that two of the alleged miscreants have also donated to him. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Christopher Fekos, one of the "other contributors" mentioned in the ad, has given a total of $1,500 to Santorum since 1996, including $500 for Santorum's current campaign. Robert Feldman (Casey's "hand-picked finance chairman") donated $1,000 to Santorum in 1997 and 2003. The Inquirer reports that the 2003 donation from Feldman was donated to charity by the Santorum campaign, but makes no mention of the 1997 contribution."

[bobthedrummer]

13. Rick Santorum's Republican child molestors link

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

[samsingh]

14. good to know that Casey is starting to fight back.