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Using imagery of wolves, Bush ad suggests terrorists would seize on Kerry presidency
AP ^ | 10/21/4 | LIZ SIDOTI

Posted on 10/21/2004 9:46:09 PM PDT by SmithL

WASHINGTON -- Wolves prowl through a forest in a new television ad that says "weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm," a suggestion by President Bush's campaign that terrorists would seize on a John Kerry presidency.

"In an increasingly dangerous world, even after the first terrorist attack on America, John Kerry and the liberals in Congress voted to slash America's intelligence budget by $6 billion," an ominous voice in the ad claims. "Cuts so deep they would have weakened America's defenses. And weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm."

Using powerful imagery, the ad suggests that the country would be vulnerable with Kerry at the helm and seeks to make the case that Bush's opponent doesn't understand the threat terrorists pose to the United States. It also attempts to undermine Kerry's credibility by portraying him as someone who shouldn't be trusted with keeping the country safe.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kerry; packofwolves; wolves
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1 posted on 10/21/2004 9:46:09 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

I hope they run it in heavy rotation in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan and-- to really scare them-- Oregon and Wisconsin.


2 posted on 10/21/2004 9:48:17 PM PDT by GeronL (FREE KERRY'S SCARY bumper sticker .......... http://www.kerrysscary.com/bumper_sticker.php)
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To: SmithL
It also attempts to undermine Kerry's credibility by portraying him as someone who shouldn't be trusted with keeping the country safe.

WHAT credibility???

3 posted on 10/21/2004 9:49:23 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma
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To: SmithL

Outstanding. I hope it is as effective as its description.


4 posted on 10/21/2004 9:50:06 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: SmithL

we should have a pool on exactly what time the first dem denouncement of this ad takes place.


5 posted on 10/21/2004 9:50:59 PM PDT by flashbunny
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To: SmithL
Bottom line.....it wouldn't be a suggestion...if sinister kerry made it into the white house...we would all be vulnerable. And he would bow are sovereignty as a nation to the UN........NO Thanx......
6 posted on 10/21/2004 9:51:07 PM PDT by marmar (Faith is a beautiful thing.....)
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To: flashbunny

Read the article. They already did.


7 posted on 10/21/2004 9:52:20 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: SmithL

Sounds like a great ad!


8 posted on 10/21/2004 9:52:40 PM PDT by RWR8189 (Its Morning in America Again!)
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This must be the ad Rich Lowry was referring to over at NRO...very "Bear"-like from the 80's.


9 posted on 10/21/2004 9:54:05 PM PDT by WoodstockCat (DNC and John Kerry: Forgers R' Us)
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To: SmithL
IMHO the terrorists are not wolves...they are mad, rabid dogs that need to be put down, killed.

Kerry wants us to believe that he can reason with and be more sensitive to the rabid animals. Ask any Marine who was on Tarawa Island or Iwo Jima or Okinawa or any number of other similar places how you reason with such mad animals.

10 posted on 10/21/2004 9:54:12 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: SmithL

Duran Duran is doing the Soundtrack...

"Hungry Like the Wolf."


11 posted on 10/21/2004 9:54:49 PM PDT by Bandaneira (The Third Temple/House for All Nations/World Peace Centre...Coming Soon...)
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To: SmithL

Sounds almost like the excellent "There is a Bear in the Woods" ad that Reagan ran before he was first elected.
I remember it sent a chill up my spine when I was a kid.


12 posted on 10/21/2004 9:56:25 PM PDT by crop circles
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To: Rokke

yep - I figured that after I posted based on the excerpt - that there would already be one weenie quoted in the story.


13 posted on 10/21/2004 9:56:30 PM PDT by flashbunny
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To: SmithL
Halfway down this Associated Press piece they start vigorously rebutting the ad. Hope they do that with Kerry campaign ads, too! (but not holding my breath).
14 posted on 10/21/2004 9:58:17 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: flashbunny

The Dems are so clueless they don't realize people "get it" when they object to something. That something, obviously, is effective. How they reportedly have half the country in the Kerry-Edwards "thrall" is completely beyond me.


15 posted on 10/21/2004 9:58:17 PM PDT by JennysCool (Terrorism: Not a global test, John, but a pop quiz.)
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To: SmithL

Nice! I like the imagery very much, and I also remember seeing the Reagan bear commercial.

Just reading the excerpt tells me I don't want to click on the rest of the article - a "suggestion"? Puh-leeze!


16 posted on 10/21/2004 9:59:18 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (Kerry says "Vote for me I have a plan" - I'm voting for Bush, 'cause he's da MAN!)
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To: JennysCool

I really don't think half the country is. My wife, who is as apolitical as they come, routinely mocks kerry.

I think a lot of the polling going on is designed to make news rather than report it. Or to gin up the numbers to make the planned vote fraud more believable.


17 posted on 10/21/2004 9:59:55 PM PDT by flashbunny
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To: SmithL

Sounds great.


18 posted on 10/21/2004 10:05:42 PM PDT by Bellflower (A new day is coming!)
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To: flashbunny
10-4, on the "planned vote fraud"!
19 posted on 10/21/2004 10:06:26 PM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill)
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To: SmithL

There's a bear in the woods....


20 posted on 10/21/2004 10:08:26 PM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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