A prominent feature of Senator Daschle's campaign is to cast himself as a victim of the "evil Republicans" (to use Argus Leader editor Patrick Lalley's phrase) and their negative ads. The problem is that in order to cast himself as a victim of a negative ad, there first has to be a negative ad. This week, Daschle has reached into his grab bag of video footage showing people castigating negative ads and produced a new ad which contains the following quote from a woman named Kris Graham:
"As a Republican, I would like to tell John Thune to stop running the negative ads."
Um, John Thune has not run a single negative ad. The fact that the Daschle campaign would run this quote in an ad is itself negative, because it maliciously distorts John Thune's record. When the Argus Leader and KELO-TV run an "Ad Watch" of this ad (and they should) the fact that John Thune has not run a single negative ad should be reported if they are interested in accurately reporting the whole story.
Isn't it interesting that Daschle is so eager to be a victim that he's willing to conjure up a phantom negative ad made by Thune? The paranoia* must have finally reached the delusional stage.
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*Tom Daschle's campaign motto is "Only the paranoid survive."
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