It’s apparently still a dig in Washington to be compared to cheap plastic footwear, or to Sen. John Kerry, for that matter.
The Republican National Committee is using the old “flip-flop” charge against moderate Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln in a new Web advertisement against her position on health care reform.
The Arkansas moderate might vote to get the Senate health care bill to the floor, but then might not vote for the final package. Thus, she would be voting for it before she votes against it.
Sound familiar?
“It looks like Blanche Lincoln wasn’t paying attention in 2004 because she may be planning to pull a John Kerry with her health care reform vote in the Senate — voting for it, before she votes against it,” RNC Chairman Michael Steele said Monday in a statement releasing the ad.
The video melds Lincoln and Kerry’s faces together at one point, having them flip and flop about as the narrator ominously says, “They want Sen. Lincoln to tell voters in Arkansas: ‘I voted for government-run health care for my party boss, before I voted against it to save my job.’ ”
Now, that’s scary stuff.
