MoveOn Again Targets McCain

MoveOn.org Political Action has released its latest anti-McCain ad: "Gimmick." The spot features an actor speaking directly into the camera, telling McCain he "let me and my kids down."

The man says he told his kids McCain was "a principled guy." He continues: "So when you said you were going to help make driving affordable again, I believed you."

"And then your idea is to do offshore drilling, which I find out won't produce much oil for 10 years, and then barely save us any money anyway," he adds. "That's not a solution, Mr. McCain. That's a gimmick. We expected better." (Here's a CBS News fact check on offshore drilling.)

MoveOn, which is working with the Sierra Club and Campaign Money Watch, calls the new spot a sequel to "Not Alex," its ad featuring an actress portraying the mother of a baby. She tells McCain he "can't have" her son to fight in Iraq.

MoveOn is spending $150,000 to run "Gimmick."

Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant emailed a response to the ad this morning: "A day after Barack Obama told voters to inflate their tires and reject domestic exploration, his special-interest friends are echoing his anti-drilling message on TV. Attacking John McCain's solutions to America's energy crisis and offering nothing but tire-maintenance advice will not reduce prices at the pump. Special-interest groups that oppose America maximizing its own natural resources hope Obama wins, but voters who want lower gas prices will support McCain."

Watch it:

UPDATE: The Sierra Club has also released an anti-McCain, pro-Obama spot today, slated to run in New Hampshire, Colorado, Ohio and Washington, D.C.

"Big oil companies have our economy and politics in a choke hold," an announcer says in the spot. "...John McCain's answer: Another $4 billion giveaway to big oil."

Watch: