Over The Barrow

by digby

John McCain’s been throwing librarians out of his rallies for holding signs that say “McCain=Bush,” and it seems that Blue Dog John Barrow doesn’t like being compared to him either. Blue America took out some ads in Georgia papers today pointing out that he’s been Bush rubber stamp on every important vote and Barrow’s complaining to the papers about it:

The attack drew a sharp rebuttal from Barrow.

“This ad is ridiculous,” he said. “They should take a look at the commercials that were run against me during the last election. They (the Republicans) spent $2 million telling voters that I don’t support … Bush’s policies.

“I’ll take on anybody to do what’s right for Georgia, on either side of the aisle, and I’m confident that’s what the voters want me to do.”

It seems that those Republican ads were quite helpful to Barrow. The people of his district don’t know that Congressional Quarterly has reported that Barrow has voted with Bush more often than any other Democrat in congress. Somebody needed to tell them about it.

Here’s the ad. You can read more about the campaign over at Down With Tyranny.

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