You know things are going well for the RNC when even Republicans are annoyed by them...that's the reaction they're getting to a video they put out trying to link President-elect Obama to Rod Blagojevich, since Rod just got caught for major corruption in Chicago.

In a nearly three-minute spot entitled "Questions Remain," the RNC seeks to raise questions about involvement by Obama or his staff in Blagojevich's alleged plan to award Obama's former Senate seat in exchange for political favors.

[Newt] Gingrich calls the video a "destructive distraction" and asserts that the national committee "is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles."

Instead, "Republicans should be working to help the incoming president succeed in meeting" the "real challenges" the nation is facing, Gingrich writes to Duncan. When Republicans believe Obama is wrong, the GOP should "offer a better solution, instead of just opposing him," Gingrich also wrote.

The letter ends with Gingrich's suggestion that the RNC "pull the ad down immediately."

Gingrich's letter echoes recent comments from Obama's former rival, Sen. John McCain. In a television interview Sunday, McCain also took issue with the video.

"In all due respect to the Republican National Committee," McCain said, "right now, I think we should try to be working constructively together . . . on the economy stimulus package, reforms that are necessary."

Hey RNC, the election is over. Deal with it. And stop putting out this garbage.