Pro-Stimulus Republicans Targeted In PAC Ads

The National Republican Trust, a political action committee famous for producing the anti-Obama commercials featuring Rev. Jeremiah Wright during the 2008 election, is back on the airwaves with new radio ads targeting four senators who supported the stimulus.

4793418 "Families like yours are in trouble, but leading economists, the Wall Street Journal, even the Congressional Budget Office all agree Barack Obama's nearly trillion dollar spending scheme just won't work. It's packed with pork barrel programs..." an announcer says.

The ads attack Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania -- the three Republicans who voted for the economic stimulus bill. Also released is a 60-second spot which attacks Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., who was included in the buy because she is a conservative Democrat who's vulnerable in 2010, according to the PAC's Executive Director Scott Wheeler.

As for why they're targeting the Republicans, Wheeler told CBS News' Steve Chaggaris, "This is an outrageous pork bill. It's not about bolting from the Republican Party. They bolted on a bill that has tremendous ramifications for the future. It's an outrage."

"It is not about them being disloyal to the Republican Party, they're being disloyal to the country," Wheeler added.

Last Monday, The PAC announced it would "support challengers in primaries of any Republicans who vote for the stimulus bill."

"Republican Senators are on notice," a release read.

"If they support the stimulus package we will make sure every voter in their state knows how they tried to further bankrupt voters in an already bad economy."

The radio ads are currently running Arkansas and Pennsylvania and will be on the airwaves in Maine "soon," said Wheeler.