bush's ads: what's the split-screen effect of feel-good ads/R Clarke?

I was wondering how bush's "steady leadershit" ads are playing these days. On the one hand, you've got Richard Clarke's revelations as the talk of the town with major media play, especially the clip where Clarke says he's offended that bush is running as 2004's anti-terror candidate when he's done nothing to fight terrorism. On the other hand, you have the ongoing fantasy of bush-as-leader portrayed in his idiotic ads.

I wonder how that plays to most Americans? Hearing Clarke's revelations followed immediately by bush's lying ads?

If anything, Clarke's revelations have the effect of wasting $10-20 million worth of bush's BS ad campaign...and possibly turning what the bushies saw as a big positive into a questionable negative. Now, every time Joe Six Pak sees the bush "terror fighter" ads, he may well stop and think, "hmmm, I used to think that, but now..."

If anything, it negates the effect and waste's Bush money. The whores are on the defensive and that's where they should be until they are thrown out of office.

Best defense is a good offense, and it's nice to know that so many people who worked for Bush know that he is full of shit.

We can't let Bush set the tone for the debate and as long as it is scandal after scandal, he can't.

Once Bushco are established as liars in someones mind, these ads would seem
ridiculous and could actually have the opposite effect from what was intended.