Thanksgiving week kicks off with several new ads from Republican candidates.

Mitt Romney’s campaign unveiled “American Family,” set to start running today in Iowa and New Hampshire. Seems pretty effective – lots of Romney and his wife Ann talking to – voters? neighbors? – about the importance of teaching children what television to watch, how to read, interspersed with cute snippets of Romney family home movies.

I notice a short clip of a Little League baseball player from Manapalan, New Jersey (I think, there’s also one in Florida). Presuming they picked stock footage of a team in Rudy Giuliani’s backyard deliberately… could this be a very subtle jab at the complicated home life of Rudy Giuliani, perhaps?

The script below the fold:

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GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: “I’m Mitt Romney, and I approve this message.
“The future of this country is more affected by the work that goes on within the four walls of the home than anything else.
“You teach kids about what TV to watch. You teach them how to read.”
ANN ROMNEY: “And that’s how we raised our boys, is knowing that they were the focus.”
GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: “It’s just essential to have a home where faith, where love of country, where determination, where all of these features that are so much a part of America’s culture are tied to our kids.
“And without them, I don’t see how a society continues to lead the world.”