The campaign to re-elect Republican Senator Mitch McConnell launched a new TV ad Thursday, which continues to pummel liberal super PAC Progress Kentucky and other groups for their attacks.Asking "how dirty" will Democrats get, the narrator says McConnell is President Obama's number one target while highlighting the FBI investigation into a secret recording of a McConnell campaign strategy meeting. WFPL broke the story that a local Democratic official alleged two activists involved with Progress were behind the recording.The ad also digs at Americans United for Change, which launched a commercial which said McConnell's position against gun background checks put him in agreement with the terrorist group al-Qaeda."The far left is desperate to hurt Senator McConnell and have resorted to some of the dirtiest tactics in memory," McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said in a release. "Whether it be the left's racist attacks, their spying and illegal recording of our office meetings or comparing Mitch to mass-murderers and Al Qaeda terrorists, Kentuckians are appalled and will not stand for it."Watch:The 30-second spot hits cable and broadcast air on Thursday and is a six figure buy, according to the McConnell campaign.Last month, McConnell's campaign launched its first ad that was all about Progress's racially charged Tweets about the senator's wife. WFPL News was the first to break that story in late February.National Democrats have said the ad shows McConnell is "desperate to play the victim."
