Republican Ad campiagn featuring Osama

[mburbank]

Negative ads have worked, but I think this one may be a little over reaching. It depends on response. People have short memories, but it is possible to remind them that W didn't mention the Big O's name at all for over a year, and finished the year by saying on two separate occasions that he wasn't concerned about him.

Also, his administration went on a whole thing a few years ago abot how no one should give play to Osamas messages, because at best they encouraged people to kill Americans and at worst they might contain secret coded messages for sleeper cells.

You are, unfortunately, quite correct about negative ads, and so far no one has really screwed up by going negative, but it's bound to happen someday. For instance, if one ran an ad that said

"It's said my opponent has sex with dead children in broad daylight at crowded shopping malls. Can America really afford that kind of leadership?"

It would probably backfire.

Then again, maybe not.