The Virginian-Pilot is reporting that a group that styles itself the "Center for Individual Freedom" is running anti-Kaine television and radio ads in the Norfolk market. I haven't heard of any ads in other markets, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has. The group is the succesor-in-interest to the "National Smokers Alliance," an interest group that met its demise when it attacked Sen. John McCain and caused Phillip Morris to publicly repudiate its tactics.
Am I the only one who thinks these guys are getting started on this awfully early? Between Behan, Lowell, and myself, we remain the few, the proud, the only three who are paying any attention to this whole debate. Perhaps they want to take to the airwaves before they become just another part of the "noise pollution" that is sure to come in the Fall. However, I'm still not convinced anyone will pay attention or retain the information in the ads until Election Day. It's still a long way away.
A short note to the Center for Individual Freedom: if you run the ads in Northern Virginia, drop the part about the Million Mom March. There are still hordes of soccer moms up in NoVa sporting Million Mom March bumper stickers next to their Jim Dillard stickers. That might work well in Hampton Roads and Richmond, but those crazy Northern Virginians practically invented the word Republicrat.
