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Is Mitt’s Willie Horton Ad Man Up To The Task?
“Which leads me to wonder: why has Restore Our Future so far come out with only weak tea to pour on Santorum? The PACs ads…pretty much all revolve around Santorum’s fondness for earmarks and his status as a Washington insider. Both of these things are true, but they are also fairly generic charges, lacking the specificity of Gingrich’s $1.6-million haul from Freddie Mac. The ads also hit Santorum for voting to raise the debt limit five times, but surely many voters absorbed enough from the debt-ceiling fiasco this summer to understand that for years voting to raise the debt limit was but a Washington formality. The closest the ads come to drawing any real blood is their cynical mention of Santorum’s having supported restoring voting rights to felons—a depressing bit of race-baiting coming from Mitt Romney, whose father led a walk-out from the 1964 national Republican convention over the party’s rejection of a civil rights plank.”
—Alec MacGillis, “Is Mitt’s Willie Horton Ad Man Up To The Task?”
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