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New Toomey ad says ‘Washington is failing’

The latest TV ad from Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey continues his campaign’s drive to blame Democratic opponent Joe Sestak for the rising national debt.

The 30-second spot, unveiled by the campaign Tuesday, criticizes the financial bailouts and the economic stimulus package, noting that Sestak “voted for all of it.”

“We can have a booming economy if we end the bailouts and stop the runaway spending,” Toomey says in the ad, “reduce taxes for workers and job creating businesses, and lower health care costs by making insurance companies compete with each other.”

The ad blames the stimulus and the bailouts for the record federal deficit, though many economists pin the bulk of the current debt on the recession, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Bush administration tax cuts. The ad also implies that the stimulus package didn’t create jobs, an assertion disputed even by some conservative economists.

The Toomey campaign said the ad would be running statewide. The campaign has made relatively small ad buys on and off since the May primary, betting that continuing to get the former congressman’s message before voters now—while Sestak is still off the airwaves—will lead to a better result in November. Sestak is almost certain to wait until the final weeks of the campaign to begin running TV ads.

“Congressman Sestak talks a lot about presidents of the past, but he says very little about his own record,” Toomey campaign spokeswoman Nachama Soloveichik said in a statement. “When Pennsylvanians look at Joe Sestak’s record of 100 percent support for Nancy Pelosi, and when they see that he has voted for taxpayer-funded bailouts, government-run health care, and $3.5 trillion in new deficits, they’ll says, ‘thanks, but no thanks.’”

See the ad below.

Toomey Plan from Pat Toomey on Vimeo.

August 10, 2010 at 12:16 pm

--pa2010.com Staff

Tags: Joe Sestak, Pat Toomey

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