Virginia GOP launches "gotcha" gun control ad -- except they forgot to do any research

[benEzra]

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Virginia GOP launches "gotcha" gun control ad -- except they forgot to do any research
May 26, 2010 | 7:10 pm


It's the perfect "gotcha" campaign ad. Well, except for the gotcha part.

Credit the Virginia Republican Party for coming up with a creative idea. Discredit the Virginia Republican Party for doing a horrific job of research. The party released ads on Wednesday raising the possibility that Virginia Democratic Reps. Rick Boucher and Tom Perriello might be secret gun control proponents (despite evidence to the contrary).

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Making it even less suspenseful and infinitely more boring, neither congressman were even there. Yawn. "I did not attend the speech," Rep. Boucher told The Ticket. "I oppose gun control. And my opposition to gun control has resulted in the National Rifle Assn. endorsing my reelection." Not only that, adds Boucher spokeswoman Courtney Lamie, he's earned an A+ rating from the NRA.

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Perriello's press secretary, Jessica Barba, laughed when we told her about the ad mentioning that her boss was meeting with constituents during Calderon's speech. "Shockingly, the ad was not well-researched," she told The Ticket. Barba included a letter to President Obama signed by her boss stating his opposition to Atty. Gen'l Eric Holder's "plan to reinstate the assault weapon ban."

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So since the question has been answered and they weren't even in attendance, does the party consider the ad to be a failure? Not at all. They should have spoken out against the speech they didn't attend. So says J. Garren Shipley, communications director for the Virginia GOP.

:rofl:

[jazzhound]

1. Yeah ---- quite pathetic. But equally pathetic is the fact the Democratic

Party dishonesty re. "assault weapons" and numerous other firearm/ammo issues have empowered these assclowns.

[benEzra]

2. Working on that part, though.

The fact that BOTH Dems who were targeted by the ads are actually opponents of the fraud is encouraging...

[jazzhound]

3. Absolutely true. Much reason for encouragement. n/t

[X_Digger]

4. Yeah, folks in Virginia won't buy it.

Boucher, at least, has been 100% behind the second amendment, with nary a bobble or misstep that I can recall.

[virginia mountainman]

5. O HELL NO...

As a resident of VA's 9th District, Boucher, is MY, congressman...Everyone including the Republicans "around here", know he is very pro-gun.

That won't fly around here at all. I was dumbstruck when I saw those articles yesterday, and amazed that they would attack him on THAT.

But if that is all they got, then they got NOTHING, but lies and distortions.

But, we also must be aware, that people are going to react very, VERY poorly, to ANY TALK of a new AW ban. The republicans know this, and are trying to use it....But they picked the WRONG target for such an ad.

[backwoodsbob]

7. yeah he's mine too nt

[east texas lib]

6. Pay no mind to that man behind the curtain...

Reality is what we tell you it is, now hush.