Gaffe in Bush ad pisses off Republican town in key state (PA)....

[flowomo]

FROM THE YORK (PA) DAILY RECORD (editorial)
Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Is it too much to ask for a campaign free of attacks, distortions and errors?

Well, at least you have to give the Bush campaign points for aplomb. When it shoots itself in the foot, it does so with a tank, not some little pistol.

It’s no secret that President Bush badly needs to win Pennsylvania for re-election. Neither is it a secret that he pretty much has the York County vote locked up.

But last week’s campaign ad gaffe probably didn’t help his cause here.

Workers at United Defense in West Manchester Township are feeling a little left out — hurt that the Bush campaign seems to have forgotten their contributions to the figurative war on terrorism and the literal war in Iraq.

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[phillybri]

1. Great post...

:kick:

[gratuitous]

2. Overheated hyperbole from "both" campaigns?

Not sure I see where the overheated hyperbole came from out of the Kerry campaign. Probably just another example of our fine "librul" media and its famous even-handedness, trotted out anytime it's the Repubs caught doing wrong.

[flowomo]

3. So you'd rather they didn't print this piece?

[w4rma]

5. The article repeats Bush's attacks on Kerry, also without rebuttal.

"… criticized presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry for votes against various weapons systems. An ad that ran in Detroit claimed Kerry voted against the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, a tank-like weapon that saw extensive action in Iraq."

[flowomo]

6. What are you talking about????

Partisans will spin that question two opposite ways. But the Annenberg Political Fact Check, a Web site that bills itself as a nonpartisan evaluator of campaign rhetoric, says no.

Kerry never specifically voted against the Bradley — or the other weapons cited in the ads.

He has voted against some spending bills that include those weapons, though. Make of that what you will.

[Quahog]

4. You'd think they could at least get the weapons right

I mean, that's the one thing this maladministration really cares about: weapons. You'd figure they could recite chapter and verse on where every gun, bullet and bomb is manufactured.

They're so weak.

[Kinkistyle]

7. Isn't the Bradley a huge friggin FAILURE?

I remember watching a movie on HBO starring Kelsey Grammar that was a bit of a parody on the whole Bradley fiasco. Apparently it was extremely expensive and turned out to be a hunk of crap (it would catch on fire and cook all the soldiers inside alive).

It was made to be able to do everything, but it turned out to do none of it well.