From Kansascity.com:

Although the real battle will be waged on TV and in mailboxes, one skirmish is already under way among Democrats vying to be Missouri’s next attorney general.

The battleground in this case is YouTube.

Candidate Jeff Harris, a state representative from Columbia, has launched a series of online advertisements assailing Chris Koster, the Cass County senator who left the Republican Party last year to run for attorney general as a Democrat.

The Koster campaign said it will strike back with statewide TV ads beginning today and running through the Aug. 5 primary.

In one of Harris’ spots, pedestrians sing a parody of “My Favorite Things” with lines like “When the winds shift/when the polls change/Koster switched parties.”

In another, bobbleheaded animations of Koster, Gov. Matt Blunt, former senator John Ashcroft and President Bush — all Republicans — croon a Beatles song with lyrics that are more Rove/Shrum than Lennon/McCartney.

“Oh, I’ll get by with a little help from my friends,” the animated Koster sings in the refrain.

The Beatles-inspired ad has since been taken down, but the message in both ads is clear: Democratic primary voters should not allow Koster to escape his Republican past.

Koster called the ads a diversionary tactic.

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