Posted on 11/22/2003 1:28:49 AM PST by kattracks
WASHINGTON - The 2004 battle for the White House was joined yesterday when the GOP opened fire on Democrats with an ad calling them terrorist lovers. After months of Democratic attacks on President Bush's decision to attack Iraq, the Republican National Committee decided to fight back."Some are now attacking the President for attacking the terrorists," the GOP ad says over pictures of Bush speaking soberly about global threats at his last State of the Union address.
The ad - a taste of the national security battle that will help decide the election - made the Democratic candidates crazy.
"We're not concerned because he's attacking terrorists - we're concerned that he's not!" retired Gen. Wesley Clark told reporters. "He promised us Osama Bin Laden dead or alive. We have neither." Like most of the Democratic candidates, Clark argued Al Qaeda should have been the key target, not Iraq.
"The party that stole the election in 2000 now wants to steal patriotism from us," he added.
Polls show strong support for Bush's battle against terrorism but growing doubts about the Iraq war.
The 30-second GOP ad, set to air briefly in politically important Iowa and New Hampshire, simply equates the two.
Campaign aides of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, noting that every time their candidate is attacked his supporters send more money, turned it into a fund-raising tool.
"Our goal is to raise $360,000 by Tuesday - $5,000 for every hour they are going to lie to the American people with their ad," Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi said.
"The war with Iraq had nothing to do with the terrorists who attacked the United States on 9/11. We can't let them get away with this," he said.
Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt said, "Debating national security is fair game, but questioning others' patriotism is beneath this President." Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman called it "a cynical attempt to rescue the President's sinking poll numbers by using fear and politicizing our national security."
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said, "We don't need another commercial, we need a commander-in-chief."
"If George Bush and his Republican cronies think that spending their millions on phony PR campaigns is going to distract Americans from the mounting death toll in Iraq ... [and] our dangerously underfunded homeland security needs, they better think again," he said.
Originally published on November 22, 2003
Traitors hate to be outed.
I want to see the quote. I must have missed it when I saw the ad.
Most of this NY Daily News article is just another opportunity to get anti-Republican soundbites, like the so called debates we have been hearing from for the past year.
...the GOP opened fire on Democrats with an ad calling them terrorist lovers.
Boy, if that's the way they want to interpret it (guilty consciense?), that's fine with me. What egoes.
Yet another bald-faced lie.
Um...Osama the Undead?
This man shows his ignorance about terrorism and Iraq’s role in aiding and abetting 9/11, making him far less attractive as a candidate. If he and Clark can’t get this right, they have no business telling the American people they are fit to lead the country. Petty politics like Clark’s comment ” "The party that stole the election in 2000 now wants to steal patriotism from us," is the mark of a little minded man who must know that well founded statistics show that the Democratic Party in Florida, used every means available legal and illegal to upset that election and President Bush was always ahead. Was the little General a Republican in those days?
The ad is good and tells some facts that the left press/media will not tell. Encourage the GOP to use both MemoGates, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the documents from the Judiciary Committee, (read memos here) .Kennedy and Rockefeller need to retire, especially Kennedy, special interest has him by his bloated neck. What a disgrace he is to America and the Senate.
We've got one ours is George W. Bush.
Yours is Ummmm errr Bwabwa Streisand?
The Collusion Memos
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (Memogate)
i can't believe Clark is harping on the stolen election -- what a crock from the party that used the son of the most crooked politician of all time, Richard Daley to try to manufacture a win in 2000 for the lightweight socialist Al Gore...
the truth isn't that the Republicans stole the election in 2000, but that the Demoncrats almost succeeded in doing just that...
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