Sinking to New Low

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)is desperate to save Teddy Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, desperate enough to use images of the now destroyed World Trade Center in an ad:

A new ad from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee usesan unlikely symbol of Wall Street greed: The World Trade Center.

The image in the attack on Scott Brown for his alleged closeness to Wall Street pictures the Trade Center and the destroyed Marriott Hotel on its western side.

A National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman, Brian Walsh, attacked its use.

“Using the image of a site where over 2,700 Americans died in a terrorist attack to distort Scott Brown’s position on regulating Wall Street is both distasteful and disrespectful. Martha Coakley should immediately renounce this ad and call for it to be removed from the airwaves," he said.

A spokesman for the DSCC, Eric Schultz, said the image should not have appeared in the ad, and that it was being pulled and aired with a different image.

I'll bet it never occurred to the person making the ad that those images mean something important to a lot of people, and misusing them this way is disgusting at best. It also has the possibility of backfiring on them in another way - reminding people of the 9/11 attacks and how unserious the Democrats are about conducting the war on terror and defending America against a future attack.

Just another gaffe from a gaffe-prone campaign.