Rubio's First Attack Ad: Look, Here's A Picture of Crist with Obama

Yesterday, Marco Rubio unveiled the first attack ad on his Republican primary opponent, Charlie Crist. The imagery is a slow, trippy reveal of a picture of Crist with President Obama, while an ominous narrator straight out of a dark fairy-tale movie paints the stimulus package that Crist supported in strokes...

By Kyle Munzenrieder

May 12, 2009

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Yesterday, Marco Rubio unveiled the first attack ad on his Republican primary opponent, Charlie Crist. The imagery is a slow, trippy reveal of a picture of Crist with President Obama, while an ominous narrator straight out of a dark fairy-tale movie paints the stimulus package that Crist supported in strokes of nightmare and outrage. Rubio, of course, is running far to the right of the more moderate Crist.

Dear God, how horrible for this state to have a senator who has a congenial, working relationship with the man in charge of the country -- the man Floridians voted for. The horror!

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