Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, running for President as a Democrat, released a few new web ads this afternoon.

In one, titled “Social Security” Sanders channels his inner Charlton Heston in suggesting that efforts by “Republicans, and some Democrats” to “cut cost-of-living-adjustments” for Social Security would happen “over their dead bodies.” An appeal to seniors, but with a clear attempt at separating his plans from that of traditional Democrats. Nonethless, a tact similar to Democratic rote campagining.