Sometimes, an ad should do nothing but stand back and just show its target saying all the wrong things. The DSCC does just that, featuring clips of Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey proclaiming, “You know, I’d like to defund Planned Parenthood,” and “I would support legislation in Pennsylvania that would ban abortion, and I would suggest that we have penalties for doctors who perform them.”
When Toomey is asked by host Chris Matthews if he would put people in jail for performing abortions, the senator is shown responding, “At some point, doctors performing abortions I think would be subject to that sort of penalty.” Besides featuring some on-screen text between the Toomey clips, the DSCC does nothing but let Toomey do the talking, which is the right approach: There’s pretty much nothing that a narrator could add that would make Toomey sound worse than he sounds in this commercial.
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