Posted by
Buckeye McFrog on Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:32:28 AM
...at least it is in the Santorum-Casey Senate race.
Santorum has run some of the most brilliant political advertising that I've seen in a long time. His latest TV spot is a response to somewhat slimy Democrat charges that he actually moved from his Pittsburgh area home to one inside the Beltway, but left his children enrolled in a PA public school which they attended online. At one point this involved some pending burglary charges against local Democratic operatives who were trying to detemine whether his Pittsburgh home was in fact occupied.
(..truth be known, virtually all of our elected representatives, save for those representing Maryland and Virginia are living in the DC Metro for purely practical reasons. Most Senators however are far too long of tooth to have such issues involving school-age children)
The ad features the Santorum children...and there are many...and they are all quite eloquent! They gaze wistfully into the camera, and describe how "some people are attacking our Dad for enrolling us in a Pennsylvania public school"...and it rolls from one child to the next, expanding on what a wonderful father they have, and how he brought them to DC so that he could spend time with them, despite the demands of his job.
Take that...bleeding-heart Liberals! You wanna talk about everything being "for the children"?
Well, here's something for the children...and it is being done for their own children by responsible parents...not for far-away hypothetical children mentioned in some think-tank policy report.
All in all, this ad is a deliciously guilty pleasure for me. A well earned sucker-punch to the Democrat groin. For those of us who remember the filthy James Carville-conceived ads for Bob Casey Sr., this is a long overdue and richly deserved comeuppance.
Santorum has some equally brilliant TV spots running, including a funny and self-depreciating spot that depicts him at a Seniors Polka dance, and one showing an exasperated billboard worker changing the Casey billboard repeatedly as he runs for one office after the next.
But the ones most effective in closing the twenty-point gap (yeah....right!) have been the Blitzkrieg of radio spots that attack Casey savagely for his support of the Senate Amnesty Immigration Bill.
He is hitting traditionally Democratic Pennsylvanians on the issues that matter to them most....
family, faith, jobs, and living up to your commitments. It is truly refreshing to finally see somebody in the GOP who is fighting and holding firm to his principles.
Sadly Lynn Swann remains almost invisible in the Gubernatiorial race. He could use a little help from the ad consultants who are helping Santorum.