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Obamatross

By V on May 2, 2008 at 10:25 PM in Barack Obama, DNC, Democrats

Even if the people smoking hopium won’t see or admit it, the GOP has figured out who they want to run against. The AP reports that Obama is being linked to local candidates to drag them down and stomp on them and boost their candidates. Here is an example of an ad using Obama and his 20-yr spiritual mentor, Rev. Wright to bash Democrat Travis Childers:

Mr. Childers can’t seem to be running as fast and as far as he can from Obama:

Are these kinds of ads having impact? The Republicans say yes and are backing up that belief with lots of money:

Republicans clearly hope Obama is a Democratic albatross. The Republican Party and one of its conservative allies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads portraying Obama as a liberal and tying Cazayoux and Childers to the Illinois senator.

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NRCC Chairman Tom Cole, a GOP congressman from Oklahoma, this week said Republicans would rather run with Obama at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket than Clinton. That represents a change in attitude for Republicans, many of whom had argued earlier that Clinton would likely energize Republicans against her and thus help down ticket Republicans.

But now, some Republican strategists say, any connection between Democratic candidates, even conservative Democrats such as Cazayoux and Childers, and Obama will erode their support among blue-collar voters. And they say that since the ads began running, the Democrats’ leads have shrunk.

Obama “is by any definition very liberal, to the left of Hillary Clinton, in a center-right country,” Cole said. “That is very, very helpful to us.“

Here are a four more ads hanging Obamatross around Democratic necks. The last is from North Carolina:

I’m sure we will see many more of these if the Party is foolish enough to nominate Obamatross.