Adapting To Win

Here is the Democrats' new campaign ad-



Not too shabby. Could do without the silly music, though... the content speaks for itself.

Meanwhile, Sen. Frist tells Republican candidates to avoid "the Iraq and terror issue".

And while this drama plays out at home, the death count in Iraq continues to grow.

UPDATE: The Bush cultists' solution to the failing war? Escalation. That worked so well with Vietnam.

[PS- Fairly off-topic, but since we're discussing campaigning, I understand that there is a lot of talk about the whole Limbaugh/Michael J. Fox thing all over the place. I find the whole thing too disgusting to discuss and, as with Coulter, I don't think Limbaugh deserves the validation that mentioning him in detail provides... especially since this carefully-crafted sideshow means that we miss the point in an important debate about stem cell research and the priorities of the two main parties (science v. religion). We all know already that the lowest of low conservatives dominate the political dialogue in this country (and that the average conservative doesn't seem to mind at all). That they're stooping to even new lows in the face of predicted defeat is also not surprising. We can only hope that these idiots are in their last throes (David Weigel thinks they are) and that the media at large will stop treating them as if they are in any way relevant or insightful analyzers of politics, and start ignoring them like the carnival barkers they are. Most people in this country don't know who George Will is. But they do know Rush Limbaugh and that speaks volumes about the state of conservatism. Finally, Chris Matthews looks at the anti-Ford ads in Tennessee.]