I guess you could call this Representative the “gift that keeps on giving,” almost as good as Sen. Joe Biden’s many gaffes. Let’s get started:

Vets For Freedom have an absolutely brilliant ad (hotair.com) out for the challenger, Iraq veteran Bill Russell.

How big of a deal is this? Hotair.com reports that there’s “‘[n]o goddamned way’ will a Virginia carpetbagger represent my district” (really, check the video).

In fact, Speaker Nancy Pelosi & Co. are dropping $84,000 (redstate.com) into his district in an attempt to help Jack save himself:

But that’s just the start. We also have (hotair.com) former Sen. Fred Thompson, Gov. Mike Huckabee, and the NRCC getting into the mix. Here’s a current ad:

Further, Roll Call reports:

In an effort to protect one of its most famous Members, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s independent expenditure unit will go up Wednesday with an ad in Rep. John Murtha’s (D) southwestern Pennsylvania district.

This thing ain’t over yet, folks.

-Phil

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Update:

Nope, it’s far from being over, though Rep. Murtha’s career may soon be (redstate.com):

Embattled Democrat porker (and current defendant in a pair of slander lawsuits stemming from his repeated shouting from rooftops that U.S. Marines are “cold-blooded killers”) John Murtha (PA-12) sent a message to MoveOn.org’s email list asking members to “chip in” to his surprisingly difficult reelection bid.

Further, a Murtha fundraiser sent an urgent request this afternoon to “defense industry lobbyists” which read:

Cong. Murtha is in a brutal re-election campaign. The “Swift Boaters” have put up a candidate from Virginia and have raised millions of dollars against Cong. Murtha. In addition, other 527s and the NRCC have spent millions to smear Cong. Murtha on TV, radio, and in newspapers. We need to raise another $1 million to compete. If you have contributed, thank you. We are asking all to MAX their campaign contributions: $5,000 PACs and $2,300 individual. We need money immediately.

“We need to raise another $1 million to compete.”

“We need to raise another $1 million to compete.”

Now those are words I’ll wager the 17-term Democrat representative never expected to have said about one of his campaigns, especially five days out from an election — and its tone sounds pretty distantly removed from Murtha’s bravado-filled declaration of two days ago that there is “no gddmned way” a “Virginia carpetbagger” will “represent my district.”