WASHINGTON — Nervous Democrats went sharply negative yesterday in the unexpectedly tight race to hold on to Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat in Massachusetts.
Democrats and their money are flooding into the state, along with new ads reliving old elections and invoking radio king Rush Limbaugh as Hitler, in an attack on the Republican candidate.
The state’s attorney general, Martha Coakley, released the first negative ad of the campaign comparing state Sen. Scott Brown to former President George W. Bush and ex-veep Dick Cheney.
“Who is Scott Brown really?” the ad’s announcer asks.
“A Republican. In lockstep with Washington Republicans,” he answers as pictures of the retired Bush and Cheney flash across the screen.
Then a picture of Limbaugh, appearing to give a Nazi salute, is shown.
In all the scramble to produce the ad Coakley’s campaign misspelled the word “Massachusetts” in the ad, as Massachusettes.