As predicted RIGHT HERE ON DU!!

[PCIntern]

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20101021_Michael_Smerconish__The_ad_that_may_bag_it_for_Sestak.html

The ad that may bag it for Sestak
By Michael Smerconish - Daily News
Philadelphia Daily News

Daily News Opinion Columnist

POLITICAL gurus Neil Oxman, J.J. Balaban and the Campaign Group have marked their territory - again.
They've created what is the most effective campaign commercial of the season. And if Joe Sestak defies the odds and a hostile electoral climate for Democrats to win election to the Senate, he'll be the latest politician to owe them a massive thank-you. He should also give his dog a bone.

"My family loves Belle," Sestak says in the new ad. "But she can make a mess and we have to clean it up." He didn't want to bail out the banks, he confesses, but needed to in order to forge a recovery from "the mess left behind" by George W. Bush and his opponent in the Senate race. "They let Wall Street run wild. Now Pat Toomey is attacking me for cleaning up his mess."

With that last line, Sestak deposits a bag of Belle's brownies into the trash.


I ASKED the creator of the ad, J.J. Balaban, his thinking behind the spot.

[Pab Sungenis]

1. Smerconish calling a Democratic ad effective and a game-changer

is like General Johnston looking out the window of an Atlanta hotel and admitting that General Sherman might be carrying a torch.

This is one of the nuttiest radio wingnuts admitting that we just might have this thing won after all.

[montanacowboy]

2. Fantastic

and there are a lot of dog owners out there who can identify

I love it!!! Sounds like it comes right out of Don Draper's creative office