Pretty dumb to protest an image first used by your own side and then repeated in context as an illustration of how wild eyed you are.
Dumb and dumber and dumberest.
All well and good, except if you're someone like my mom, who is not interested in politics, and knows nothing about MoveOn.org. All she's going to see is the ad itself. Then, she'll read the Cleveland Plain Dealer's version of how horrible it is that Bush used images of Hitler in his ad, and decide that yes, it was horrible that he did that, and go dutifully vote for John Kerry.
Most people are not as politically aware as Freepers, and are easily swayed by the MSM. And, they vote.
The Dems are counting on media outlets to only carry Kerry's side of this matter --his outrage at Bush campaign -- not the facts that his side of the aisle has been doing exactly this for overlong.
"Pretty dumb to protest an image first used by your own side..."
Not when the media repeats Kerry's criticism and omits or is opaque as to the origin of the Hitler clips. The public usually only reads the headline or first paragraph of "news" stories.