Republican presidential candidate John McCain said a while back that U.S. troops should have a presence in Iraq until they finish their mission — even if it takes up to ” a hundred years or a thousand years or 10,000 years.”
The liberal online activist group MoveOn.org is now taking that figurative statement and applying it literally to attack McCain. “A hundred years in Iraq — and you thought no one could be worse than George Bush,” MoveOn says in a new advertisement.
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With hundreds of delegates at stake in Super Tuesday voting tomorrow, John McCain and Mitt Romney are continuing their battle for the hearts of conservative voters over the airwaves.
McCain has been the one taking the most heat from establishment conservative commentators, but he is trying to score points by using Romney’s own words against him. In an ad titled “Trust,” McCain’s team highlights Romney emphasizing his independence, noting his vote in a Democratic primary and distancing himself from the time of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Romney’s campaign, meanwhile, has an ad dubbed “Very Close” that compares McCain’s views on hot-button issues like immigration with those of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Another Romney ad says McCain “Falls Short” in key policy areas.
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The online activist group MoveOn.org has had enough of Rep. Albert Wynn. The group is backing his rival, Donna Edwards, in the Feb. 12 Democratic primary in Maryland and putting its ad money where it’s mouth is.
MoveOn the second independent group to advertise against Wynn. The Service Employees International Union also is not a fan of his.
House races in Maryland are drawing quite a bit of independent ads. As noted last week, The Club For Growth also is making the case against Rep. Wayne Gilchrest in the Republican primary race for his seat.
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She calls New York home now, but Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton first made her mark in the political world as the first lady of Arkansas. The Natural State is among those holding primaries Tuesday, and Clinton is on the air there now to remind Arkansans that she is one of them.
Following the lead of Democratic rival Barack Obama, Clinton also has a fan from the Kennedy clan, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in two different ads.
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Now that the Republican presidential race has all but narrowed to John McCain and Mitt Romney, the two of them are clashing over who is the “true conservative” in the race.
McCain staked his claim in a new television ad that characterizes him as “a footsoldier in the Reagan revolution” who went to Congress when Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980.
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