Brace Yourself, Here Comes the Santorum Incorporated Sleaze Machine

From the Santorum Blog, an e-mail from Santorum Incorporated (guess they took us off the dis list):

The Santorum 2006 campaign announced today that it will begin airing television advertisements in every Pennsylvania media market beginning Friday, June 23. The campaign will air television ads continuously between Friday and Election Day.

It's a pretty safe bet that the Santorum ads won't be any more substantive than the new radio ad he posted on his web site today, called "River City", the ad doesn't even hint at a single issue facing this Congress, the next, or even the Commonwealth. Instead, it's all attack, innuendo and sleaze. Santorum, Incorporated attacks Casey on three points:

• Casey has conducted five statewide campaigns in ten years
• As auditor (1997-2005), he supposedly left 800 unfinished audits
• Casey has supposedly been away from his Treasurer's office "almost half" the time
• Casey signed the Pennsylvania pay-raise checks

Let's see, we are still mired in Iraq, the NSA is spying on Americans, a major concern of the Commonwealth citizens is the economy, North Korea is testing a missile that can reach the US, Iran is developing nuclear weapons, Global Warming needs to be addressed, and Rick still isn't dealing with any of those issues. Instead, he prefers to slime it up.

No wonder his approval rating is approaching Nixonian lows.