Hillary Clinton latest campaign ad borrows a strategy from John McCain. When the going gets tough, it's time to wheel out your mother.
Here's 71-year-old McCain with his spritely 95-year-old mother on MSNBC's Hardball last month. "There is no doubt now of our chances of success," he tells host Chris Matthews. "Any questions about my genes or my age ought to be dispelled."
But to all those presidential candidates who want to adopt this tactic, be warned. McCain was later to tell Matthews "The views of my mother are not necessarily mine" when she delivered the following assessment of Romney: "He's a Mormon".
