GOP US Senate hopeful David Malpass has gone negative against one of his two primary opponents, Joe DioGuardi, turning the former congressman’s signature gimmick against him.

Malpass released a Web video that features DioGuardi holding his old House voting card – the one the ex-congressman uses in his own book and new TV ad to slam Congress for turning it into the most expensive credit card known to man – and slams him for his anti-Reagan voting record.

Malpass, as you’ll recall, used to work for Reagan and is styling himself as the only true fiscal conservative in the race, even though DioGuardi has the Conservative Party line.

He clearly doesn’t think the third contender in the race, Bruce Blakeman, is a serious threat, beacuse he’s not bothering to go after him, even though Blakeman has done his fair share of hitting Malpass.

Here’s the script for the ad, entitled (what else?) “This Card”:

“When Joe DioGuardi voted against Ronald Reagan in Congress, he used this card. Using this card, he voted against Reagan 40 percent of the time. He used this card to vote himself three pay raises. The National Taxpayers Union gave DioGuardi a 31 percent rating because of the damage he did with this card. Do we really want to give Joe DioGuardi another? David Malpass, the fiscal conservative for US Senate.”

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