(This started out as a comment I made in a diary by Bob Sackamento. It got a lot of recs so I added pictures and fleshed it out into its own diary)
It seems these days that McCain can't go five minutes without stepping in it. He lies, he switches positions, and he has ties to dozens lobbyists. His running mate Sarah Palin is even worse, she seems to know nothing about foreign policy and little about anything else. She is mired in scandal and exudes incompetence. As the never ending stream of lies, scandal and deception filter into the public consciousness, John McCain's support is falling.
And falling and falling and falling.
But there is one last hope for John McCain's campaign. He needs to run a "Willie Horton" style ad. The original such ad ran against Michael Dukakis in 1988. It tied Dukakis to convicted murderer Willie Horton who was let out of prison as part of a weekend furlough program, only to kill again. McCain needs a Willie Horton.
But who?
Maybe not a murderer, but perhaps there is a corrupt politician that McCain can link to Obama. Ideally, it would be someone with a freshly tarnished image that has been photographed many times with Obama. Visuals work well in campaign ads. I found lots of damning photos of Obama with such a man. They are interlaced with my script for John McCain's new commercial below, just as they would appear on your TV. This man with links to Obama has served in the Senate for many years, was involved in the Keating Five scandal, and has run a presidential campaign built on lies and ran by lobbyists.
This commercial would be the ultimate Hail Mary pass.
New John McCain Commercial: "My Friends"
Scary Voice: Barack Obama says he's running a clean campaign, that he is against politics as usual, that he will bring change to Washington.
However, he has been seen time and again with John McCain.
In the Senate.
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At the debates.
And here is with John McCain and Joe Lieberman.
John McCain is a man whose career and campaign have been marked by scandal and incompetence.
Even his running mate has been caught in a number of lies.
And yet Barack Obama praises McCain's service to his country and continues to talk about him in his speeches.
Would you trust for a man who respects John McCain?
McCain: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.
And there you have it, the thirty second ad that will sink the Obama campaign.