Posted on 08/21/2004 11:14:55 AM PDT by kattracks
WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign released a video Saturday comparing the controversy over Kerry's Vietnam service to attacks on John McCain during the 2000 Republican primaries.The video, sent via e-mail to supporters, says, "George Bush is up to his old tricks" and shows then-Texas Gov. Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) at a debate in February 2000.
McCain, sitting next to Bush, says that when "fringe veterans groups" attacked him at a Bush campaign function, Bush stood by and didn't say a word. McCain says a group of senators wrote Bush a letter that said: "Apologize. You should be ashamed."
McCain, also a Vietnam veteran, says Bush "really went over the line."
"I don't know how you can understand this, George, but that really hurts," McCain says.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group funded in part by a top GOP donor in Texas, has been running ads featuring veterans who served in Vietnam at the same time as Kerry and question his wartime record.
In Roanoke, Va., on Saturday, Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) called on Bush to end the ads.
"This is a moment of truth for George W. Bush," Edwards said at a Democratic rally. "We're going to see what kind of man he is and what kind of leader he is. ... We want to hear three words: Stop these ads."
Edwards said the commercials were from "people who financed the same kind of attacks against John McCain in the 2000 presidential campaign."
The Kerry campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (news - web sites), alleging the Swift Boat Veterans group is coordinating its ads with the Bush campaign. The Bush campaign has denied the claim.
You are full of shiite!
Too bad the Swiftees couldn't have used McCain's quote without giving the appearance of some kind of collusion. But then again, since they are honorable and truthful men, UNLIKE Kerry, they wouldn't drag him into their beef without his express permission. Kerry's camp falls all over themselves to throw McCain into everything. They exploit his image shamelessly.
I've never seen her more rude either. What a twat!
The same McCain that's going to give one of the lead speeches at the Republican convention? The ad won't mean anything to most people.
It smacks of desparation. If that's the best they can do the percentage of veterans left in Kerry's corner will be dropping further.
Was I sleeping 4 years ago ? I could swear McCain bit the dust for attacking Christians in the South in a foolhardy attempt to look "moderate". The press ate it up and told EVERYONE which was precisely what Komrade McCain did NOT need.
Is my memory off ?
Granted there was lots of other stuff but from the day he did this he started to drop like a rock and never quit.
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