If the NRSC actually airs an ad like this, attacking Webb's writing again, I predict that it is going to backfire big time on many fronts, but especially among the veterans who actually served in combat, especially in the Vietnam war.  They know the true horror that war inflicts on everyone, combatants and non-combatants alike and that Jim's novels tell it like it is...and was.  This smear, on this subject, is going to make them really, really mad, especially when it comes on behalf of a candidate who has never even been within spitting distance of military service.

It puts the word "deviant" in big words acrsss the screen.  Really awful smear.  The will stop at nothing.  I do think the public has moved on with the issue of Webb's novels and I think they have overwhelmingly come down with us.  So I am not sure whether this ad will have an impact.  But it truly reaches a new low.  George Allen and his supporters have no real values.  For them, ends justies the means.

from Americablog:

Sunday, November 05, 2006

The Republicans admit they are breaking to law to stop people from voting
by Joe in DC - 11/05/2006 06:34:00 PM

The Republicans are up to their dirty tricks, and honestly, someone should throw these people in jail - on either side of the aisle, if you do things like this.

Talking Points Memo has been gathering evidence that Republicans are using robo-phone-calls to annoy voters, especially Democratic voters, in Connecticut and New York - i.e., the calls make voters think it's the Democratic candidate harrassing them, so they won't vote for him or her.

The messages start like they are going are from the Democratic candidate "I have a message from...." but then turn in to a negative call. However, callers are only hearing the first part of the message, thinking that it is the Democrat. If callers hang up, they're called back again, and again, and again. End result? The Democratic callers are so ticked off at the Democrat harassing them that they don't vote, or vote for the Republican - without realizing they've just been tricked.

The National Republican Campaign Committee admitted they're making the calls in an Associated Press article reported on TPM Muckraker last Wednesday:
NRCC spokesman Ed Patru denied any illegal intent.

"All of our political calls are in compliance with the law," Patru said.

Not so, said the Democrats.

"They are violating the regulations that were set up," said Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who said the DCCC employed one robocall this cycle and paid $500 for it.