Virginia GOP launches "gotcha" gun control ad -- except they forgot to do any research

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Virginia GOP launches "gotcha" gun control ad -- except they forgot to do any research
May 26, 2010 | 7:10 pm


It's the perfect "gotcha" campaign ad. Well, except for the gotcha part.

Credit the Virginia Republican Party for coming up with a creative idea. Discredit the Virginia Republican Party for doing a horrific job of research. The party released ads on Wednesday raising the possibility that Virginia Democratic Reps. Rick Boucher and Tom Perriello might be secret gun control proponents (despite evidence to the contrary).

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Making it even less suspenseful and infinitely more boring, neither congressman were even there. Yawn. "I did not attend the speech," Rep. Boucher told The Ticket. "I oppose gun control. And my opposition to gun control has resulted in the National Rifle Assn. endorsing my reelection." Not only that, adds Boucher spokeswoman Courtney Lamie, he's earned an A+ rating from the NRA.

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Perriello's press secretary, Jessica Barba, laughed when we told her about the ad mentioning that her boss was meeting with constituents during Calderon's speech. "Shockingly, the ad was not well-researched," she told The Ticket. Barba included a letter to President Obama signed by her boss stating his opposition to Atty. Gen'l Eric Holder's "plan to reinstate the assault weapon ban."

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So since the question has been answered and they weren't even in attendance, does the party consider the ad to be a failure? Not at all. They should have spoken out against the speech they didn't attend. So says J. Garren Shipley, communications director for the Virginia GOP.

:rofl: