How damaging is this? I guess you'd have to ask who it is aimed at. What is the audience for this? Does this motivate their base? Not for any reason I can see. They may not like Obama, but their beef is with McCain and this doesn't give any of the Ron Paul, Bob Barr or Evenagelicals a reason to come out for McCain.
Will this sway independents? Might. Other than Edwards, these are not super popular politicians swinging at Obama. Do independents sit up and take notice because of a warning from Joe (who?) Biden? meh.
So why use voices of Congressional Democrats? Who don't Republicans and Independents, especially Independents, want to hear from? Congressional Republicans. Or the President. Or anyone else in the Republican Party.
McCain needs the evangelicals to come out for him. From CBS -
White evangelical Republicans were 14 percent of the 2004 general electorate. More importantly, white evangelical Republicans comprised 25 percent of Bush's vote, favoring him 97 percent to three percent for Kerry. Losing this bloc of support, or even a portion of it, would be fatal to McCain's candidacy.
Does this hit their issues? Is this what their concerned about? Will this kind of negative appeal get them out to the polls?
We'll see, but this sure looks like an appeal to the disaffected Clinton voter, and well done by the RNC. This is the best time to twist that knife. Now is when they are most upset. And therein lies the...
Question worth asking:
Will the iron cool in the next five months as disappointed (bitter?) Clinton supporters meet the charming Senator McCain again?
Another question worth asking:
Are the Republicans betting that the personal antipathy the older women - who are really the angry folks here- feel towards Obama is stronger than than their antipathy to Antonin Scalia, a $9,500,000,000,000 debt or the War in Iraq?
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