If I Were Writing John McCain Ads...

Ken Anderson has some ideas for McCain ads:
1.

Pictures of Obama-supporting zillionaires - and note, billionaires, so far as I am aware, trend Democrat - e.g., Soros, etc. Tag line: “Why are these super-rich people supporting Obama? Maybe they’re smarter than the rest of us. Maybe they know something we don’t know. Or maybe they’re just so rich they can afford to. But can you?”

I like that one.

2.

Run against Frank and Dodd and the Democratic Congress. Pictures of Barney Frank and Chris “the senator from Countrywide” Dodd ... America: you don’t live in Barney Frank’s district and you don’t live in Chris Dodd’s state. You can’t vote them out of office. But you can vote against the Senator who voted with them and who wants to be President with your money. With Barney Frank in the House and Chris Dodd in the Senate, can you afford Barack Obama in in the White House?

3.

Community organizing, Acorn, and Wall Street. What’s the connection? A Democratic Congress has been telling Wall Street and the nation’s banks to shovel money to community organizing outfits for years and called it “affordable housing.” Wall Street, in return for fat handouts and ten million dollar bonuses which your $700 billion is now going to pay for, was happy to do it. ... Can we really afford to have a community organizer in the White House?

4.

Yeah, let’s have a tax on the rich - the super rich - McCain should support a clawback tax on billionaires alone. A confiscatory one that causes the WSJ editorial page to go crazy. I bet you’d find they’re mostly Democrats and Democratic party contributors - and that would put Obama and the Democratic party in a genuine bind.

And I really like this:

McCain’s populism is unconvincing. He has to make the connection where it actually belongs: thread the needle of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd in Congress, Wall Street plutocrats who can afford to vote Democrat, corrupt community organizing entities like Acorn, and Obama as community organizer. Given what community organizing has given us so far - a trillion dollar mess - can we really afford a community organizer in the White House? The impression wanted is that Acorn, with its voter registration felons, is about to enter the White House. That, and the connection between out of touch billionaires who have profited from your soon-to-be-pain and community organizers who demanded that Wall Street, via Congress, give them cash. McCain needs to make that connection - the super, super rich, the do-gooding elitists who always know what to do with your money, and people who couldn’t really afford the mortgages they were given.



Those are the buttons I’d be pressing, were I McCain.