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Dems continue to think evoking memories of last year’s McCain- Palin campaign remains a useful tactic for tarring the GOP among swing voters as harsh and divisive.
The latest: Virginia Democrats are planning to go on the offensive today against GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell by using comments by Mike Huckabee, in which he seemed to disparage North Virginians, to remind voters of similarly controversial comments about Virginia by Palin and the McCain campaign last year.
Huckabee was recently caught on video by the Virginia Dem tracker at a rally for McDonnell, where he said that “some folks up there near the Beltway” don’t think the “same way folks like you and me think.”
The Virginia Dems are set to unleash a Web vid hammering McDonnell, a self-styled centrist candidate who Dems regard as far right, by airing the footage of Huckabee and similar McCain-Palin campaign comments.
“You remember the Republican strategy for winning Virginia last November?” the vid says, going on to air then-controversial footage of former McCain spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer describing the non-northern parts of the state as the “real Virginia.”
It then airs Palin’s infamous quote: “The best of America is in these small towns we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call Real America.”
“The Republican Party,” the ad concludes. “No New Ideas. The same failed divisive attacks.” Full script here.
It’s another sign that Dems remain convinced that Palin — and memories of the harsher moments of Campaign 2008 — remain a major turnoff to swing voters.
Hater Police: Excellent answer
The latest: Virginia Democrats are planning to go on the offensive today against GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell by using comments by Mike Huckabee, in which he seemed to disparage North Virginians, to remind voters of similarly controversial comments about Virginia by Palin and the McCain campaign last year.
Huckabee was recently caught on video by the Virginia Dem tracker at a rally for McDonnell, where he said that “some folks up there near the Beltway” don’t think the “same way folks like you and me think.”
The Virginia Dems are set to unleash a Web vid hammering McDonnell, a self-styled centrist candidate who Dems regard as far right, by airing the footage of Huckabee and similar McCain-Palin campaign comments.
“You remember the Republican strategy for winning Virginia last November?” the vid says, going on to air then-controversial footage of former McCain spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer describing the non-northern parts of the state as the “real Virginia.”
It then airs Palin’s infamous quote: “The best of America is in these small towns we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call Real America.”
“The Republican Party,” the ad concludes. “No New Ideas. The same failed divisive attacks.” Full script here.
It’s another sign that Dems remain convinced that Palin — and memories of the harsher moments of Campaign 2008 — remain a major turnoff to swing voters.
Hater Police: Excellent answer
