Wrong for Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, the NRSC launched a new independent expenditure TV ad this morning, entitled “Interview,” highlighting liberal Congressman Joe Sestak’s far-left positions on a number of critical issues facing the Keystone State. National Journal’s Hotline On Call reports:

The NRSC is going up with its first IE ad in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. The ad, provided to Hotline On Call, hits Rep. Joe Sestak (D) hard on the stimulus, health care reform and cap and trade, using clips of Sestak interviews. "What did Joe Sestak think of the stimulus bill that failed to create jobs?," the narrator asks. "It's the minimum amount needed, I would have voted for $1 trillion," Sestak responds. On health care reform: "Hard for me to vote for a bill that doesn't have a public health care option in it," Sestak says. On cap and trade: "I pushed hard for the cap and trade bill." "There's left. There's far left. And then there's Joe Sestak," the ad concludes… While it is the first time the NRSC has launched its own ad in the Pennsylvania race, it is worth keeping in mind that the committee has already given $1.7M to former Rep. Pat Toomey's (R) campaign in coordinated campaign funds.

Meanwhile, the Allentown Morning Call reports that Sestak is under fire for his extreme anti-Second Amendment record:

With economic issues owning the political conversation this election cycle, there hasn't been much back and forth on social policy. But the National Rifle Association, one of the nation's most influential lobbying groups, is spending $400,000 to tell gun rights advocates that Democrat Joe Sestak is a man to fear. "They are pushing a radical agenda to take away your freedom, take away your Second Amendment rights" a voiceover in the ad says. "And Joe Sestak is helping them do it. If Joe Sestak wins, you lose."