The House Leadership PAC, which is backing Democratic candidates in an effort to take control of the House, dropped a brutal ad on the House GOP leadership today.
– SCRIPT (from POLITICO): “They’ve shut down the government” [Video of Newt Gingrich flashes]
“Resigned in shame” [Video of Bob Livingston, with headline “Speaker-elect Admits Illicit Sexual Affairs”]
“Paid hush money” [Video of Denny Hastert in a wheelchair, with a headline “Hastert Paid Sex-Abuse Accuser $1.7 Million to Stay Quiet”]
“And tried to end Medicare and Social Security” [Video of Paul Ryan]
“Here’s who Republicans might have to answer for next” [Photos of Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise and Kevin McCarthy, with the headline “Republicans Brace for a Brutal House Leadership Race”]
“Jim Jordan, remind you of Joe Paterno?” [Video of Jordan, with the headline “Rep. Jim Jordan is Named in New OSU Sexual Abuse Lawsuit”]
“Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan’s protege with a lot of baggage” [Video of Ryan and McCarthy, with the headline “2015: ‘Kevin McCarthy Quits Speaker Race Amid Allegations of Affair’”]
“And Steve Scalise, linked to KKK leader David Duke” [Video of Scalise, with the headline “Steve Scalise Once Defended Himself Against Links to David Duke”]
“No wonder they aren’t looking out for you” [With photos of Jordan, Scalise and McCarthy]