In case you didn't have the GOP Senate strategy down in West Virginia -- tying what polls show to be popular Gov. Joe Manchin to unpopular president Barack Obama -- the National Republican Senatorial Committee spells it out as clearly as possible in a new ad launched yesterday. It even uses flannel-clad coffee-slurping actors -- talking sloooooooowly -- to deliver the lines.

"Obama's messin' things up."

"He's spending money we don't have -- stimulus, Obamacare."

"And Joe Manchin supported it all."

"Joe's not bad, but when he's with Obama . . ."

" . . . he turns into Washington Joe."

"And Washington Joe does whatever Obama wants."

"Yeah, well e better keep Joe Manchin right here in West Virginia."

"Away from Washington."

"Yup. It's the only way we're gonna stop Obama."

It ends with this tag line: A vote for Manchin is a vote for Obama.