527, attack!

oh boy. these guys are really going for it with their new ads. in their own words:

MoveOnForAmerica.org was created due to the Bush campaign’s largely timid ads against Mr. Kerry, and will air this first ad starting Thursday Sept. 9th in the Washington D.C. market and in key swing states beginning Monday September 13th. Since the organization is a “non-connected” committee, the ads will run non-stop until Election Day, and are not subject to the McCain-Feingold ban during the campaign’s final 60 days.

jesse taylor over at pandagon has some analysis:

The first ad on the page is a masterpiece of addled storytelling - John Kerry got a murder conviction (actually a charge of being an accomplice to murder) overturned for a man the ad admits could have been innocent. However, the man had done something bad...on a furlough, just like Willie Horton. Or something. It's the good old theory of criminal justice wherein future rights to a full and fair trial (as well as any claim to potential innocence) are denied to anyone who's done anything else wrong in their lives. Except for Bush Administration officials, of course.
The real test here is whether or not these nastier-than-Swift-Boat ads will be fit into the same "527s are bad, m'kay?" framework that placed MoveOn.org right alongside SBVFT. Despite the dubious moral equivalency of Laura Bush, mean and dishonest are not nearly the same thing.

so while we here in the golden state may not be subjected to these ads during the commercial breaks of our favorite shows, rest assured that your fellow citizens in "key swing states" will get to see them repeatedly. here at tepid industries, we feel that the ads are in such poor taste that they will actually cost bush votes and that he will have to state for the record that he had nothing to do with them, much like how he tried to distance himself from those crazed swift boat vets for (anything but) truth.

please contact Stephen Marks at 703-731-3539 and tell him that he is a poopy head.