Saturday, November 03, 2012

I'll take irony for $500, Alex...

While we're on the topic of accuracy in political attack ads, there's one from some Democrat PAC or another running here in Indiana that takes Mourdock's rape comment and then tries to tie him to Mike Pence, currently set to blow out the Democrat contender in the Hoosier gubernatorial contest by a near double-digit margin.

It does this by pointing out that Pence was a co-sponsor of the Republican's "No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act", which the voice-over describes in hushed, indignant tones as "a bill that would have re-defined rape as 'forcible rape'," without mentioning that another co-sponsor of that bill was...

...fellow Congressman Joe Donnelly (D-IN), currently running against Mourdock for RINO Dick's old senate seat. As Slate puts it:

So it should be Donnelly, not Mourdock, who’s squirming to explain his abortion stance. For a while he was, giving mushy answers about his stance on the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate. Then Mourdock effectively bailed him out, and Donnelly has benefited from third-party attacks on his opponent.
Oddly, the attack ad in question neglects to mention that Rust Belt Catholic Blue Dog Donnelly skipped down the aisle hand-in-hand with demonic conservative zealot Pence on this issue. Huh. Funny, that...

4 comments:

og said...

I can't weait for the elections to be over and we can get back to normal partisan sniping

Buzz said...

You must be having some serious masochistic hunger, Tam.

Slate?

HuffPo, MoveOn, and Democratic Underground planned for later?

Anonymous said...

It's Racist to mention a Liberal's voting record.

Steve Skubinna said...

So he was for it before he was against it?

Yeah, that'll work.