DNC Parodies "Dems Praise McCain" Ad ... By Using The Same Talking Heads

So is John McCain a maverick who can elicit praise from across the aisle, or isn't he?

The Arizona Republican's campaign put out a web-ad this morning that featured past encomiums from several high-profile Democrats. The DNC wasted no time assembling their response ... using the same Democrats as McCain's campaign.

The DNC's response piece is a skillful mimic of McCain's ad -- straight down to the loping, country slide guitar boogie rhythm on the soundtrack.

Sens. Joe Biden, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, former Sen. Tom Daschle, and DNC Chairman Howard Dean all offer up-to-date evaluations of McCain, summed up by the ad's first two titles: "John McCain ... Maverick No More."

But where McCain's ad used Hillary Clinton's praise as the coup de grace, Democrats are giving President George W. Bush the closing honors.

After a title card reads "Let's Let President Bush Have The Final Say," the president proclaims:

"It's been my honor to welcome my friend John McCain as the nominee of the Republican Party. I wish you all the best. I'm proud to be your friend."

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Full script:

TEXT: John McCain ...Maverick No More.

Senator Joe Biden: "But stylistically and substantively, there is no daylight between George Bush and John McCain. They are joined at the hip."

Senator John Kerry: "John McCain has changed in profound and fundamental ways that I find personally really surprising, and frankly upsetting. He is not the John McCain as a senator who defined himself quote as a 'maverick' though questionable. This is a different John McCain."

Senator Tom Daschle: "On Iraq, on the economy, on tax policy, on domestic policy, across the board. He is espousing the Bush policies. He's changed a lot since 2001."

Senator Hillary Clinton: "But in the end, after eight devastating years under President Bush, Senator McCain is simply offering four years more."

DNC Chairman Howard Dean: "You know, the John McCain of 2000 wouldn't' vote for this John McCain. We don't need another four years of George Bush. What he's proposing is four more years of George Bush's economic policy and its ridiculous and its unfair the American people."

TEXT: Let's Let President Bush Have the Final Say

President Bush: "Its been my honor to welcome my friend John McCain as the nominee of the Republican Party... I wish you all the best. I'm proud to be your friend."

TEXT: We Can't Afford Another Four Years of the Same Old Politics.

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Comments

[InfosolutionWiz]

"FLIPPER" JOHN at his Flipping Best!!!

**********­**********­THE -- REAL -- MCCAIN***********

Lies after Lies and Flip-Flops!!!

CLICK> http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
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HERE IS MCCAIN Singing The Same Tune Like His Advisor Phil Gramm:

CLICK> http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0P6bkbdAkFg

BOLD Face LIES ON SOCIAL Security

CLICK> http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvgBpXPMko
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[Danigirl65]

Can you say OUCH???

[donaldw6]

They started it, we finished it. We've got lots more where that came from.

Keep 'em coming, John. This is a fun game.

[ShamusNYC]

Good & good response time!

[bryansmith]

I like it, but if they wan to help Obama, they need to stay quiet. Nobody that is on the fence likes any of these people - save perhaps, Hillary.

Please, for the sake of the country, shut up.

[Danigirl65]

Say what??

[RadhaColalurver]

Hit 'em right back. It was clever to let Bush have the final say in this one. That's the way you do it.

[DIMPLES]

CBS Evening News aired only part of Bill Clinton quote about Obama, ignored praise that followed, Link go get dems

[InfosolutionWiz]

CBS IS FULL of BALLONY-FROM-SONY and so his "CURIC"!!

[boogygran]

Well, this was okay, but I'm waiting for an ad describing the antics of McNastyHarleys and MrsBuffalochip

[SouthFloridaDem]

OK, now THAT was good!

[amcg50]

I would love to see an ad where they use John McCain's words against John McCain...i­e you don't cut taxes during a time of war...evan­gelicals agents of intollerance etc....

[bryansmith]

agreed, there is actually a really good youtube video somewhere

[Egalitare]

It's coming.

McCain wanted a war of definitions. We'll he's got one now.

And for once, we have both the cash and the anger to stay at it.

[loax]

This is FABULOUS..­Please run it on Television also. This, "MY friends," is the real John McCain!!!!!!!

[jrterrier]

this is lame. the fact that dems are dumping on McC during the campaign isn't news.

the McC ad, with DEMS praising McC is much more effective. dog bites man is not news; man bites dog is.

and sen kerry, for whom i voted, really needs to get a better make-up person and smile every now and then.

[jrterrier]

this is scary. if this is the best the DEMs can throw back at McCain, we are in real trouble.

[heather11483]

WIN.

[InfosolutionWiz]

"FLIPPER" John Gets a whip Lash From This One!!

[jrterrier]

flipper -- the only flippers are the DEMS, who appeared in the first ad when there wasn't a race, saying what they believed is true. this time around, they are all pandering for the DEM nominee.

I'm a DEM but this is a very silly response.

Even the Bush closing doesn't have much of an impact. if that's the best bush praising mcc clip they could find, it's pitiful. all he does is introduce him as the rep nominee.

[JAB20]

This is a great ad. Such ads are the only way to respond the kinds of things which are going to be thrown at Obama more and more and more over the next two months.

[Mildmannered]

DNC response piece is excellent

[cdub1991]

Nice play. Glad to see the DNC is in the game.