As Kaine Runs From Obama, NRSC Launches New Web Ad

Former DNC Chairman Has Spent Last Several Years As #1 Obama Cheerleader

As President Barack Obama campaigns in Virginia this week, the Associated Press reports that his loyal former DNC Chairman and #1 Cheerleader, Tim Kaine, will be conspicuously absent:

Don’t look for Democrats in fiercely contested Virginia legislative elections to join President Barack Obama as he brings his campaign-style American Jobs Act bus tour to three cities there. For that matter, don’t expect Tim Kaine, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and Virginia’s governor two years ago, to join his old ally either.

But as the Richmond Times-Dispatch notes, Kaine’s role as a key Obama ally and the President’s hand-picked DNC Chairman leave him “joined to Obama at the hip”:

“Kaine’s in a very special position,” [political analyst Larry] Sabato said. “He is joined to Obama at the hip. There’s nothing Kaine can do to run away from Obama that would be credible…”

Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports today that not only are Democrats like Kaine avoiding the President, they actively lobbied the White House to keep Obama’s reelection campaign away from close state legislative contests:

Three years ago, Democrats in Virginia couldn’t get enough of Barack Obama — a popular, transformational figure running for his first term as president. But as Obama arrives in Virginia Tuesday for a two-day swing to promote parts of his jobs plan, some Democrats are distancing themselves from him — even in supposedly blue Northern Virginia… The White House had considered stops in Danville, Newport News, Charlottesville and Fredericksburg. But prominent Democrats in Virginia — where Obama’s approval rating hovers around 50 percent — encouraged the White House to alter the schedule so he would no longer visit districts where members of his party were involved in tight elections. 

As Kaine struggles to distance himself from his (former?) boss, President Obama, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) today launched a new web ad, reminding Virginians that Kaine has been – quite literally at times – an ardent cheerleader for Obama’s failed agenda.

Click The Screenshot Below To View The NRSC’s New Web Ad:

“As Tim Kaine desperately runs away from President Obama, Virginians will be sure to remember that Kaine has spent the last several years as one of the most outspoken advocates for Obama’s higher taxes, record spending, and bigger government,” said NRSC spokesman Chris Bond.  “It’s ironic that only now, when Kaine wants to be Obama’s rubber stamp in the Senate, does he attempt to run away from the same Obama agenda he has so vocally supported as DNC Chairman.”

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