Dem Ad Morphs Bush into Hitler

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[InvisibleChurch]

Sunday Jan. 4, 2004; 12:50 p.m. EST Dem Ad Morphs Bush into Hitler

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie is calling on the Democratic Party to disavow an 2004 presidential ad campaign that uses visual imagery to compare President Bush to Adolf Hitler.

Referring to the presidential ad contest currently being sponsored by the Web site MoveOn.org, Gillespie told "Fox News Sunday," "One of the ads submitted that they considered viable for airing . . . one of them morphed President Bush into Adolf Hitler."

"That's the kind of tactic we're seeing on the left today in support of these Democratic candidates," he complained.

Calling the spot "vile" and "heinous," Gillespie challenged all nine Democratic candidates to condemn any campaign commercial comparing Bush to the Third Reich dictator.

"Every Democrat at the [Iowa] debate tonight ought to repudiate that tactic," he told Fox.

A message on Moveon.org's Web site says finalists in the ad contest will be announced Monday. Included among the judges - notorious Bush haters Michael Moore and Janeane Garofalo, as well as actor Jack Black, comedian Margaret Cho and Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for Al Gore.

Over the last year Gore has developed close ties to the radical left-wing group.

In November, MoveOn.org's primary financial backer George Soros compared Bush to Hitler in an interview with the Washington Post.

Saying he believed the White House was guided by a "supremacist ideology," Soros complained:

"America, under Bush, is a danger to the world . . . When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans . . . My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me."

Before the interview, the Hungarian emigre announced that he was donating $5 million to MoveOn, the organization's single biggest contribution ever.

[InvisibleChurch]

[Support Free Republic]

Got a minute?

I'd really like you to scratch my ears,
or help out FR.

[rintense]

I say let the ad run. It will only make the Dems look foolish.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Nice. Is there any place to get some video? We'll probably see some soon on the net. I'll post a link if I hear anything.

[BlessedBeGod]

LOL, Rintense, I was going to say exactly the same thing.

[tet68]

Remember the Hitler degeneration scenario, this is the
last gasp of a dying party.

Can't come too soon to suit me.

[Ciexyz]

I'm sure it will energize their home base.

[rintense]

I'd bet the majority of Americans would be so repulsed at this ad, it would serve up more GOP votes than Dems. I swear whoever is in charge of the DNC advertising strategy is a first class putz.

[Libertina]

What I want to know is, are the Republicans going to actually do something about it or whine then let it fade away? I'm still waiting for them to get intense about Intl Memo... Yes, I know the medai isn't on our side, atleast most of it, but our elected R legislators needs to get *bad* about these attacks more than they do.

[Free Vulcan]

The Dems are still in 1996. It will reverberate with the sound of a dull tinny thud.

[J. L. Chamberlain]

Foolishness comes in all stripes and flavors.

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[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Let them run the ad.

It will backfire.......BIG TIME.

Dems are so terrified of being marginalized by a Bush landslide, they are hysterical.

Dems are using Nazi-like tactics.

Some minorities that have traditionally supported Democrats, like Jews, have been targetted by the Democrat Nazi scare tactics.

It is a pitiful last gasp of a failed ideology that will follow communism onto the ash heap of history.

[Johnny_Cipher]

I agree. Its not often when the opposition brings their own rope AND their own oak tree to the hanging.

[Qwinn]

I say let 'em try it.

I agree it will backlash massively.

Qwinn

[Cultural Jihad]

... campaign commercial comparing Bush to the Third Reich dictator.

Such hyperbole only serves to make light of such a great evil. People are supposed to look at that commercial and think either: "Gee. George Bush shoves women and children into gas chambers." or "Gee. Hitler mustn't have been such a bad guy after all since he must have been defending his nation against terrorists, too."

[Cultural Jihad]

I agree it will backlash massively.

George Soros isn't getting his money's worth out of MoveOn.org. Maybe he ought to just ... move on.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

No doubt. The Republican leadership should condemn the ad without being too loud or whiny. They shouldn't demand apologies, either. Just give a strong condemnation and leave it alone.

[PeteFromMontana]

Stupid is as stupid does.

Bring 'em on.

I love the way the dumbocratic candidates are stooping so low to energize their base supporters. You know even they don't believe the crap they are spewing. It'll be fun to watch how they try to dig themselves out of the liberal holes they are digging.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

It will make a hugh hit at DU but not turn out real series!

[Jagdgewehr]

shhhhhhhh...Let them run it.