DCCC hits Comstock on values issues in new ad

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is launching its first online ad attacking Republican Barbara Comstock in one of the country’s top House races. 

The online targeted ad is backed by a buy of around $30,000, and portrays Comstock as too conservative for the northern Virginia district now held by retiring Rep. Frank Wolf (R).

{mosads}It hits Comstock on abortion, gay marriage and guns, three issues that could drive women voters in the district. 

“Roe v. Wade. She wants to overturn it,” the ad states. “She even wants to ban common forms of birth control.”

“Same sex marriage. She wants to ban it,” it continues. “She thinks gays and lesbians shouldn’t have the same rights as the rest of us.”

“Guns. She voted to repeal a 20-year law so that people can buy as many handguns as they want,” it states. “As often as they want. She even voted to allow people to bring guns on school grounds and into bars.”

The closing line: “Barbara Comstock. She’ll bring her radical views straight to Washington.”

The ad comes with a new website, therealcomstock.com, which the DCCC said in a press release, “highlights how Barbara Comstock’s right wing agenda on issues like women’s healthcare, same sex marriage, and gun safety is out of touch with Northern Virginia’s values.”

Republicans have also been seeking to portray the Democratic candidate, Fairfax County Supervisor John Foust, as out of touch with women, jumping on his comment last month that Comstock, a state legislator, hasn’t “even had a real job.”

“This desperate attack shows how out of touch he is with who it is that lives and works in the 10th District and the challenges that working women, working moms and moms at home face every day by men who demean their many and demanding roles,” Comstock’s campaign manager, Susan Falconer, said in a statement at the time.

Foust later told The Washington Post that the remark was taken out of context

The Naitonal Republican Congressional Committee also released a paid web ad last week, hitting Foust’s cuts to education while on the Fairfax County board. 

This post was updated at 6 p.m.