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A PAC run by former White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer is running ads to encourage dummies to continue to support the Iraq war. They're running them in areas represented by people like Arlen Specter, Dick Lugar, and Olympia Snowe, who are anti-War and are considered by this group, Freedom's Watch, to be politically vulnerable and who are not huge fans of the war. The ads are running in advance of the upcoming report by General David Petraeus about the progress of the troop surge. Ironically, this just screams "pre-emptive strike."

• They're laying out 15 million clams on this ad campaign.
• The Petraeus report isn't out for almost a month.
• They're launching a mass media campaign against members of their own party.
• They're doing it by trying to convince the public that if they vote against the presumably upcoming troop-withdrawal bill, they're not doing their job.
• If the ads accomplish the desired effect on the public but the legislators in question vote their conscience anyway, the GOP loses yet more congressional seats.

In sum: The neo-conservatives took a wealth of public approval and drove it off a cliff. With plummeting approval ratings for the president, the war, and the GOP in general, the right wing is seeking to jettison its more squeamish (translation: sensible) members and trim the party down to a sleek, diabolical death machine that may be monstrously unpopular, but is once again ideologically focused. Perhaps the only respectable thing about the last eight years of Republican Party politics is that they are no longer solely interested in maintaining power: they are now trying to crucify their own in an attempt to stay consistent to the same ill-conceived ideas they started with.