Bob Casey under the gun

This means we’d not only have shithead Republican Tom Corbett in the governor’s mansion, we’d have two wingnut Senators? Man, I hope they don’t pull this off:

In yet another reminder that Republicans are smelling blood in the water in the race between U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and Republican Tom Smith, a GOP-friendly super PAC will start airing a TV ad hitting Casey for his support for the Wall Street bailout in 2008.

The new group, Fight for the Dream, is run by Lehigh County Republican Chairman Wayne Woodman. And it received a $240,000 infusion of cash from the company that bought Smith’s coal mining company., our Washington colleague Colby Itkowitz reports this morning.

Woodman’s PAC initially supported Smith’s GOP primary challenger, Steve Welch, and even aired some anti-Smith ads during the spring canvass. But with new polls showing Smith within striking distance of Casey, Woodman’sgroup  (courtesy of the donation from Rosebud Mining Co.) has circled the wagons and will start airing the ads in “select markets”

The ad, Itkowitz reports, features a line not often heard in attack advertisements on Democrats: “We need someone who will fight for Pennsylvania families, not Wall Street millionaires,” a narrator says in the spot. It’s made all the more ironic given the fact that Smith is a gazillionaire.