I have a question: why, when I turn on the TV, don't I see liberal groups running advocacy ads for all kinds of things?
Is it just a question of money? Are we really that short-changed? I would think that it would be easy to raise a couple million dollars for an issue ad. Heck, I remember when Howard Dean could put up the bat and raise 500,000 in a day. As I understand it, the original swift boat ad ran for less than that.
Or is it that we can't get our ads on the air? If so, I'd say that's not as bad as it sounds. When the UCC tried to get their ad on the air and failed, the result was a lot of free (good) press. Plus, the UCC got to keep their money, which they can still use to run the very same ad later, on another network.
So what's the story? Why no ads?
And while we're at it, what about infomercials? I think it would be really cheap to produce a 30-minute talking-heads show with (say) Brad Delong, Al Franken, Kevin Drum, and some liberal congresscritter, all discussing social security. These infomercials can't be very expensive to run. Heck, you could even solicit donations: it might be self-funding.