A new ad that will air, according to the McCain campaign, nationwide.
The message: "I won't tolerate a system that puts you and your family at risk. Your savings, your jobs. I'll keep them safe."
The tag line: "experience and leadership in a time of crisis."
The visuals: stills of Wall Street with newspaper headline chyrons highlighting McCain's plans.
The content: It's been a while since we've seen this side of him, but McCain was once a populist. He opposed the Bush tax cuts on the grounds that they were tilted toward the rich. He supported a patients' bill of rights. He seemed to relish fighting big corporations who were unfairly gaming the system. Then he listened to advisers who urged him to become an orthodox Republican on the economy, and the past was forgotten. Now -- his rhetoric today is a bit much -- if, as the chairman of the commerce committee he indeed had some control over the levers of finance, he didn't do much....
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