Here’s an interesting ad put out by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), painting President Obama and Democrats as extreme on a slew of issues.

The ad is interesting because it starts out by repeating charges by liberal commentators and Democrats that the GOP is extreme and then spends the rest of the ad attempting to turn the charge against Obama and his party.

Another way to have done the ad would have been to jettison the attacks on the GOP and concentrate solely on painting Obama and Democrats as outside the mainstream. The argument for doing it that way is that the “extremist” charge is already out there, far and wide, and by taking it head on in the way the NRSC has, Republicans discredit it.

My first impression is that this ad was done in just the right way. I, at least, found it effective. I’ll be interested in what others think.