Bush defeats Kerry with ads like these..

[Professor Hoodoo]

http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Newscasts.aspx

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

Campaigning for him now?

[XanaDUer]

3. That was my first thought

:eyes:

[MoonRiver]

9. DItto here.

[Professor Hoodoo]

6. No. It's a first shot in the bow from the other side

and this ad is only the beginning of Kerry's death rattle.

If Kerry is nominated, then we are doomed for another four more years of Bush.

That's why I am showing you this -- so you can heed my warning to drop Kerry like a stone and go with Dean. GOP has NOTHING on Dean, and that is why GOP is saying that they want Dean - when they really mean that they want the weakest candidate of all -- Kerry. He's so weak and vulnerable, that this first shot has completely destroyed him because Kerry can't refute this.

Keep on jazzin'

PH

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. Quite humorous

Not only does using THIS to promote Howard Dean on this board make him look bad....it really doesn't lend the person who would use it a great deal of credibility.

What will Dean do when Bush "campaigns dirty" even though Dean has no actual proof of such? Lay down on the floor and kick and scream and cry, "I want my country back?"

Dean has proven when the heat is hot, all he can be counted on to do is WHINE.

Perhaps the WORST aspect of the "scream" speech was lost on the inaccurate propaganda that he actually "screamed." ( a kind of propaganda I was indeed critical of)

The WORST aspect of that speech was that he lost one state and IMMEDIATELY began to campaign to his own SUPPORTERS as the underdog when there was STILL no evidence that he was not the frontrunner.

[papau]

18. GOP media machine chases Kerry/Fonda & Kerry "special interests"

GOP media machine chases Kerry/Fonda & Kerry "special interests"

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/13/politics/campaign/13VETS.html

Conservatives Shine Spotlight on Kerry's Antiwar Record
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Published: February 13, 2004


WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — <snip> ...He is not the only one. With Mr. Bush answering questions about his National Guard service, conservatives are working hard to shine an unflattering spotlight on Mr. Kerry's antiwar activities and his record on military and intelligence matters in the Senate.

Commentators, including Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, have been talking up the Fonda photograph. National Review has a cover article entitled "The Senator's Other War Record." It says Mr. Kerry, who returned from Vietnam a highly decorated veteran and then led protests against the war, "helped to slander a generation of soldiers who had done their duty with honor and restraint." The Weekly Standard is highlighting a 1971 book co-written by Mr. Kerry, "The New Soldier," which commemorated a march on Washington by Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

And on Thursday, a new photograph of the senator and the actress began circulating via e-mail. Unlike the image Mr. Sampley bought, which shows Mr. Kerry seated several rows behind Ms. Fonda, this picture — its origins are unclear — shows them side by side, Ms. Fonda behind a microphone and Mr. Kerry, holding a notebook, to her right.(this turns out to be a photoshop fake- see snopes - but the NYT fails to note this)

<snip>

At the same time, Ed Gillespie, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, has been giving speeches around the country detailing Mr. Kerry's votes on military and intelligence programs, including his 1984 opposition to the missile defense program promoted by Ronald Reagan and his 1991 Senate vote opposing the use of force in Iraq.<snip>

But officials with the Kerry campaign provided documents showing that Mr. Kerry questioned the science behind the Reagan-era missile program, and quoting him as saying he believed the country needed more time in 1991 to build support for the war in the Persian Gulf.<snip>


http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/02/13/ad_c... /

(GOP internet video)Ad calls Kerry lobbyists' tool
By Scott Lindlaw, Associated Press, 2/13/2004

WASHINGTON -- In a new video message being sent to millions of people, President Bush's reelection campaign casts Senator John F. Kerry as a tool of the special interests he regularly denounces.

"Unprincipled," has the flavor of a campaign ad but is customized for the Internet users who were receiving it last night.

The one-minute spot depicts a woman surfing the Web. She finds a clip of Kerry railing against "the influence-peddlers and the special interests. We're coming, you're going!" Kerry declares.The woman narrates the piece as she digs further and finds online news and watchdog reports on Kerry's campaign fund-raising. An analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in Washington found that the Massachusetts Democrat accepted more campaign money from lobbyists over the past 15 years than anyone else in the Senate -- about $638,000."Whew!" the woman says. "For what?" The punchline: "Kerry -- brought to you by the special interests."<snip>



Kerry's spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter, responded: "If the Bush White House wants to raise special interests as an issue, then bring it on. "This White House has never met a special interest it didn't like . . . George Bush took more money from lobbyists in 2003 than John Kerry has in his entire career, and has managed to reward them handsomely for it too -- at the expense of the environment, our economy, and the middle class."

[RobertSeattle]

1. Kerry's campaign has already responded with a mass email

Here's a part of it:

Republican Smear Tactics and Clark's Endorsement

Trailing badly in the polls, George W. Bush is launching a negative attack on John Kerry. Bush couldn't even put this ad on television -- because he won't appear in it to back up its claims.

In an attempt to avoid an honest discussion of the issues, Bush has chosen to make his first campaign message to the American people a misleading, negative attack on John Kerry -- before the Democratic nominee has been chosen.

The video clip Bush sent, titled "Unprincipled," sounds like a campaign ad, although it was sent to millions of Internet users. This video demonstrates two things: the Bush White House is going to run a gutter campaign, and their worst fear is a Democratic nominee named John Kerry.

The clip attempts to cast Kerry as a pawn of the special interests. Well, we have three words for George W. Bush and his tactics:

"Bring. It. On."

[Professor Hoodoo]

So Kerry resorts to spamming?

Lovely.

[RobertSeattle]

10. To those registered

Kind of grumpy this morning?

From bottom of Kerry email:
"If you feel you have received this message in error we apologize.
If you wish to unsubscribe from receiving email from John Kerry, please click here. "

[janx]

14. I'd say their easiest TARGET is a candidate named John F. Kerry.

n/t

[mikehiggins]

2. actually, that was pretty clever if dishonest.

I guess $200 million can buy you a lot of talent.

Of course, Child'sPay is a much better ad.

[codegreen]

4. that ad is creepy. wonder what other pre-1984 crap we'll witness this year

[Burma Jones]

5. If they want THIS kind of fight, we'll be happy to oblige

I am no great Kerry supporter, never even considered him, but if he's the guy, he's my candidate. I would be more than happy to see these sort of ads run against that lying sack of shit usurper occupying the White House. I think we have more ammo than they do here.

[mindem]

7. What a joke.

A major case of the pot calling the kettle black. You don't raise $200,000,000 without being in the pockets of special interests. Just more * lies.

[Old and In the Way]

8. Please enlighten us on your statement.

I have no interest in visiting a pro-Bush website, but I'd appreciate more illumination on the basis of your post.

[MoonRiver]

11. Professor Hoo?, I think you may be best thing that's happened to

John Kerry on this board! :toast:

[girl gone mad]

12. LOL.

It would be a great coup, but for the fact that pretty much everyone knows bush is beholden to the same special interests and many more.

[progressiverealist]

13. nice try, Freeper

your ad sucks too!

[ronnykmarshall]

17. No kiddin'

Less than 50 posts and both I've seen today are attacks on Kerry. Including some real neato photoshop crap he/she created.

[dionysus]

It's against the rules to call a DUer a freeper

alerted

So everyone that doesn't like Kerry is a freeper?
Damn, I missed the memo.

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[59millionmorons]

16. This ad will never go farther than the internet

This ad was made for the converted, it will never be paid for in a real commercial. As Bill Schneider said, Bush's record is ten times worse than Kerry's.

[Toucano]

19. I'm laughing my ass off!

To think Bush/Cheney are going to be stupid enough to try to attack anyone over influence peddling.

"Bring It On!"

The google "miserable failure" thing must have really pissed them off.

If you could hear my giggles!

[Moderator]

21. Locking

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