Susan Collins scrambles away from vicious GOP ad featuring her own attack: report

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) wants a vicious Republican attack on her opponent pulled off the air, but there's an awkward wrinkle in her objection.The Maine Republican on Thursday disavowed a new radio ad from the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with Senate Republicans, that labels her Democratic challenger Troy Jackson as a "creep," The Hill reported. The trouble is that the ad's central attack rests on a personal claim Collins herself put into circulation.According to the Associated Press, the spot plays out over a country tune carrying the lyric, "If he'll screw his own family, he'll screw yours too."The line traces back to remarks Collins made in an interview with Politico, where she pointedly raised Jackson's relationship with his second cousin while insisting she wasn't raising it."I'm not going to bring up the fact that the mother of his two children is his second cousin," Collins said at...