UPDATE: Even the Clinton News Network finds the Joe Soptic ad false!

It has long been thought that the most despicable advertisement ever run in a presidential campaign, and perhaps any campaign, even for the proverbial “dog catcher,” was “Daisy.”

Unsurprisingly it was run in 1964 by the Democrat, Lyndon Baines Obama, er, Johnson against Conservative candidate Barry Goldwater, a haberdasher from Arizona. Okay, he was also a prominent Senator.

It ran only one time as opposed to the thousands of times ads run today. But, long before “social media” it benefited from the same phenomenon – it was embraced by the liberal press and media which wrote about its deep philosophical meanings and the distinct possibility that it was a portent into our immediate future. Simply, Goldwater wanted nuclear war!

We hear this tactic repeated often, and embraced by our “objective” journalists. For example, when San Fran Nan Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reid and even President Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama argue that “Republicans want the elderly, autistic children and children with Down syndrome to ‘fend for themselves,’ and that the GOP plan is ‘dirtier air, dirtier water. . . ” it goes largely unchallenged in the mainstream because it is their view too.

But, just as we’re seeing new record high temperatures in our summer season (who’da thunk it?) we’re seeing a new nadir in our silly season from Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Hussein Obama. (For those not in the know, Mr. Obama was Barry Soetoro while a youth attending Madrasah in Indonesia.) In this ad Barry claims that Romney causes cancer and that his actions led directly to the death of Joe Soptic’s wife, Ilyona.  Never mind that when “Ranae” Soptic died in 2006, Romney was governor of Massachusetts. Never mind that she received “health care” even though Joe lost his health insurance – a very different thing, indeed.  Never mind that Joe isn’t claiming he was financially ruined from her 22 day hospitalization, suggesting that he wasn’t – other insureds paid for Ranae’s medical care.  Never mind that Joe only speculates that Ranae may not have sought health care because she was uninsured. In fact, that he fails to make that claim strongly suggests that insurance was not the cause and that he has enough conscience to avoid such an extravagant claim. Never mind that Bain Capital kept Joe’s employer alive for eight years when steel companies were an endangered species in the midst of a colossal industrial restructuring. And, for those who note that it is a Barry Obama supporting Super PAC running this disgusting pile of bovine scatology, and not Barry himself, if Barry holds Mitt responsible for things he did not, Barry will be held to answer too.

Finally, if Mitt’s crew were smart – and that’s a rebuttable presumption – they’d run a counter ad charging Barry with a far larger abuse of “workers’ rights,” the firing of tens of thousands of Chrysler, General Motors and Delphi employees, not to mention the thousands terminated when Barry shuttered some 2,000 auto dealerships, predominately in right-leaning markets. Barry takes great pride in using our tax dollars to save the United Auto Workers at the expense of higher priority bond investors, but largely untold is the cost borne by thousands who were not in the favored unions.