So Howard Dean proves once again he has no integrity, but McCain's age is a perfectly legitimate issue, and no one really believed that Democrats wouldn't make it central to their general election strategy.
Still, this strikes me as a horrible way to go about making the case that McCain is too old to be president. Even though McCain's age is a legitimate issue in a way that race and gender are not, raising it may in fact be riskier than some kind of thinly-veiled appeal to racism (Obama's got the black vote pretty well locked up). The problem here for the Democrats is that old people vote, very reliably, and in very large numbers. This kind of thing could offend them. I doubt a lot of old folks will see this--senior citizens aren't a terribly internet savvy demographic--but I suspect McCain could run this ad on the History Channel and pick up a lot more votes than he loses.
Also, does anyone buy that McCain is older than the narrator's grandfather? You'd have to figure she's 23, her father had her at 23, and his father had him at 23...it's possible, but there's not a lot of room for leeway there. Maybe that's why the guy who made it refused to identify the "group of twenty-somethings" who put it together. Lying would make this ad extra classy.
