Posted on 11/23/2003 11:03:50 AM PST by areafiftyone
Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle is demanding that Republicans stop showing their first television ad of the 2004 presidential race, which he called "repulsive and outrageous."
The 30-second ad, featuring clips of Bush during his State of the Union address last January, portrays the president as a fighter of terrorism as Democrats retreat from the fight.
"It's wrong. It's erroneous, and I think that they ought to pull the ad," Daschle told NBC's "Meet the Press" program on Sunday.
"We all want to defeat terrorism," the South Dakota senator said. But "to chastise and to question the patriotism of those who are in opposition to some of the president's plans I think is wrong."
The Republican National Committee has no plans to honor Daschle's wishes.
"We have no doubt that Sen. Daschle and others in his party who oppose the president's policy of pre-emptive self-defense believe that their national security approach is in the best interests of the country," RNC spokeswoman Christine Iverson said. "But we also have no doubt that they are wrong about that, and we will continue to highlight this critical policy difference as well as others."
Other Democrats on the Sunday talk shows joined Daschle in his criticism.
Presidential candidate Wesley Clark said the ad is wrong and ought to be pulled. It violates "the pledge the president made to not exploit 9-11 for political purposes," Clark said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy called it an "attempt to stifle dissent." On ABC's "This Week," Kennedy said "dissent is a basic part of what our whole society is about."
Speaking on CNN's "Late Edition," presidential candidate and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman said the ad was misleading, nothing more than an attempt "to get the public's mind off the joblessness in America, the bad prescription Medicare drug bill ... the energy bill, which sells out to lobbyists."
Republicans countered that there was nothing wrong with the ad, which was airing Sunday in Iowa, the day before the Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines.
"It's portraying the president's leadership that he's displayed since Sept. 11, which I support," Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said on ABC. "I think it's a very legitimate statement to be made in the coming presidential election."
The ad will air through Tuesday in Iowa, and then may run again in New Hampshire during the next Democratic debate in December, said the RNC's Iverson. She said the party plans to run ads in conjunction with the Democratic debates, but the decision hasn't been made whether to simply run the current ad or new ones supporting the president.
Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle is demanding that Republicans stop showing their first television ad of the 2004 presidential race, which he called "repulsive and outrageous."
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Actually, he's right: It is "repulsive and outrageous" and....hey, wait a minute... |
What a joke. What have the dems been doing since 9-11. That is all we hear, all day every day.
Shine the light on the cockroaches, watch them scurry.
Remember that one well. My first election, and I'm embarrassed to say prompted me to waste my vote on LBJ.
The one and only time I've voted dem for the presidency.
That about sums it up. Howard Dean has been carried to the brink of the Rat nomination with one and only one message: "I hate Bush and you should, too.". I have yet to hear a Rat articulate any kind of coherent and reasonable alternative to Bush's approach to the WOT.
The last reasonable voice I heard in the Rat party was Robert Casey, and up to the day he died the Rats ostracized him for his principled stand against abortion. Rats are the true party of intolerance and suppression of dissent. It speaks either to the ignorance of the sheeple or effectiveness of the Rats' lies (maybe both) that the perception among the electorate is 180 degrees opposite of this.
Bwhahahahahahahahaha. Yeah, their ads bashing the president are so much classier. Truth, on the other hand, is offensive. "Truth? they can't handle the truth!"
You seen this, Mo?
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Indeed they did.
During the '64 election LBJ v. Goldwater, the dems portrayed AuH2O as a loose cannon.
They ran an ad with a little girl picking flowers in a field with mushroom clouds in the background.
I don't know if it won it for LBJ, probably not as LBJ was way ahead, but it swayed me.
They didn't fool me a second time.
Yes, it was important to clear that up. We all know that what a democRAT means when he says certain words are not at all the same thing regular people mean using the same words..
LOL.. so true.
Good one IJ
What??? You mean they're not going allow little Tom to dictate to them how they can run their campaign? Hehehehe....'bout time.
That's different. Rules of fair play don't apply to them. Neither does truth nor do moral absolutes. Speaking the truth in ads, well, it's just plain unfair to their side. Hope I cleared that up. 
No.
I don't think we have that much bandwidth.
Too bad we don't have the option of pulling THEIR feeding tube.
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