This has Karl Rove fingerprints all over it. It pushes every hot button and plays to every stereotype.

Watch the video and follow along...

1- Looks Good, but no substance.
2- Soft on terrorism.
3- He will raise your taxes. (Inheritance Tax)
4- He'll take away your guns.
5- He chases white women & associates with Playboy.
6- He'll raise your taxes. (Marriage Tax)
7- North Korea is not an issue. (implying it's a diversion)
8- His supporters are outsiders. (porn industry contributors)
9- He sleeps with white women. (gotta get that one in again- just like taxes)

Tony Snow said he doesn't have a problem with it. Melman says he didn't see it until after it started airing and couldn't pull it even tough he paid for it. Corker claims he wants it pulled. The broadcasters/cablecasters will not return the money.

Now everybody says it's over the top, but nobody will do anything about it. Those at the very top say they don't think there is a problem with it. Uh-huh.

Plausible deniability

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Plausible deniability is the term given to the creation of loose and informal chains of command in government. In the case that assassinations, false flag or black ops or any other illegal or otherwise disrespectable and unpopular activities become public, high-ranking officials may deny any connection to or awareness of such act, or the agents used to carry out such act.
In politics and espionage, deniability refers to the ability of a "powerful player" or actor to avoid "blowback" by secretly arranging for an action to be taken on their behalf by a third party - ostensibly unconnected with the major player.

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This is the same Republican party that runs against itself claiming "Stay the Course" doesn't really mean stay the course. That Bringing Osama to justice, Dead or Alive, isn't REALLY a pledge to capture him. That the War on Terror isn't really a War because Wars End and this one goes on forever. That civil liberties aren't really liberties, they are privileges that the Executive Branch and the Republican Congress know to curtail in the interest of National Security.

The Republicans say "Trust Us" on WMD, Homeland Security, Global Warming, Privatized Social Security, and Iraq. And oh yeah, they're not racist either.

It would be SO easy to run a counter ad to this smear campaign. Just run the facts and clean up this government. But stop whining and counter-attack.

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Can anyone still be surprised at the depths to which these people will sink? Disgusted, yes...but surely NOT surprised!

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Who gives a shit about someone's sex life. Only voyers and those hard up for a sex thrill. It has nothing to do about changing the fucked up way this country is going! I am sick of this sensational bullshit. Please don't even discuss it anymore! If you do, include toilet habits and some ass shots with doo doo coming out. That would complete this travesty!

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Isn't there a commandment that says, "Thou shalt not bear false witness"? And how about "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods"? (like oil for a start) Oh never mind, Republicans are all hypocrits anyway, so why does it matter?

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This tongue-in-cheek attack almost makes me nostalgic for the doom-and-gloom approach to negative advertising. It gives humor a bad name.

I'm not sure what this comment is supposed to mean, Mr. Evan D.:

"The ad to the right, attacking black Democrat Harold Ford Jr., is only racist if your only definition of racism is calling someone a bad word. "

Did you leave a word out of that?

The ad's content is not overtly racist, but the subtext stinks, and you'd have to be an idiot to miss it. It is certainly playing into age-old panic about black studs and white women. There is no way that Mehlman et al could be unaware of that. But playing dumb is a specialty of his.

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Why are we at all surprised with Mr. Rove's dirty little tricks? The thing that makes me angry is that this little creep is more worried about black men supposedly sleeping with white women and Rosie sleeping with any woman while our kids keep getting KILLED in Iraq and Mark Foley sleeps with little boys!

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am i missing something? somebody please explain

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Jeeze.....I thought that ad was pretty amusing. If this one is worth losing sleep over, I'd say we don't have much to worry about when it comes to racism in this country. The real significance was the NAACP response, yet another example of how this group has completely lost any relevance to the real problems facing blacks today.

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I watched it twice and couldn't find anything racist in it. Did I look at the wrong video? Or did I miss something? Man they go overboard anyways anything the white race does is racist to the blacks there still crying from over 200 years ago give it up for pete sakes. You can tell just by looking at the ones that still think there owed something as opposed to ones that are over it . I Love anybody that's nice to me I don't judge anybody. Love and Hugs Linda J, and GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS.

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