John McCain and Bill Kristol must be sharing notes because, as I wrote about earlier, concern trolling is now an official Republican campaign tactic.  McCain and his campaign have released a new TV attack ad against Obama. It’s titled “Passed Over” and it has but one purpose, to be a blatant an attempt to siphon off Hillary’s die-hard supporters for John McCain:

For those of you who can’t watch clips online this 30-second attack ad uses the classic announcer narration with candidate soundbite combo usually used to highlight a candidates weaknesses.  In this case?  The ad tries to paint Obama as a resentful and spiteful winner taking his anger out on the woman who “called him out”.  To be perfectly honest… it doesn’t do that good of a job.  The script follows:

Script For “Passed Over” (TV :30)
Announcer (middle-aged female voice): She won millions of votes.
But isn’t on his ticket.
Why?
For speaking the truth.
On his plans:

Hillary Clinton: “You never hear the specifics.”

Announcer: On the Rezko scandal:

Hillary Clinton: “We still don’t have a lot of answers about Senator
Obama.”

Announcer: On his attacks:

Hillary Clinton: “Senator Obama’s campaign has become increasingly
negative.”

Announcer: The truth hurt.
And Obama didn’t like it.

John McCain: I’m John McCain and I approved this message.

The Hillary dead-enders are, of course, eating this up and taking it at ‘honest’ face value.  And why not?  People love it when their irrational and unjustified greavances get noticed and encouraged.  Never mind that Hillary herself has, at least in public, tried to derail the meme that “she wuz robbed!” or the fact that a John McCain presidency would likely be one of the worst things to happen to the women’s right movement for years to come.  No, it’s more important to throw a temper tantrum and take your electoral toys home because your team lost fair and square.