AP: Outside Group Aims at McCain "McSame"

[Omaha Steve]

http://southernledger.com/ap/106469/Outside_Group_Aims_at_McCain

By Charles Dharapak (AP)
Published: 2008-03-05 18:20:03
Location: WASHINGTON

A Democratic-leaning group financed by a major labor union and wealthy liberal activists is running ads against Sen. John McCain in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the beginning of a media campaign against the GOP nominee-in-waiting.

Called "McSame," the ad portrays McCain and President Bush as interchangeable on key issues such as Iraq, tax cuts and health care.


Republican nominee-in-waiting, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., smiles as he looks towards President Bush in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2008, where the president announced his endorsement of McCain. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)


The ad is the work of the Campaign to Defend America, a nonprofit organization that is among anti-war and left-of-center groups that have pledged a multimillion-dollar effort to target McCain and congressional Republicans on the consequences of the Iraq war on the U.S. economy.

The group has pledged to spend more than $1 million on the current ad campaign, which is to extend to other states. The group is buying relatively modest amounts of time compared to what presidential candidates like Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are spending.

According to records filed with the Federal Election Commission last week, the group planned to spend only about $140,000 on the ad in Ohio.

The ads come just as McCain clinches the Republican presidential nomination. McCain is now free to aim his campaign at Obama and Clinton while the two Democrats preoccupy themselves trying to secure their party's nomination.

FULL story at link.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. McCain is headed for a defeat in the style of Goldwater.

[Prefer]

2. Wow, nice name

McSame. Says it all.