Allen Campaign Ad Reaches New Low

Quite awhile back we predicted the Virginia Senate race would, ultimately, get quite ugly.

We're there.

Both sides are duking it out over the airwaves, with the RSCC and DSCC funding and airing negative attack ads.

The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee's first attack ad against Webb reaches a new low. It totally twists and confounds a fairly simple and straightforward statement Webb made about the Navy "tailhook" scandal in a 1992 New York Times op-ed piece.

The GOP ad says Webb "called this scandal [Tailhook] a witch hunt and a feminist plot." That's not just misleading--a sad staple of political ads on both sides--its downright false.

Here's what Webb said:

"A botched internal investigation and the ongoing revelations of inexcusable harassment of women at a Las Vegas convention of naval aviators a year ago have also left in their wake a witch hunt that threatens to swamp the entire naval service."

On another note, we're glad to see Webb's new ad with Mark Warner. We'd rather see one with Webb in person, but at least the Warner ad is positive and tells voters about who Jim Webb is.

For the rest of the campaign, we'd like to see Webb anywhere but Northern Virginia. He can still pick up plenty of votes in the rest of the state. In NoVa, the key is turnout, but running around with Jim Moran isn't going to help that.