Posted on 10/24/2004 7:29:34 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Published on TaipeiTimes http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/10/24/2003208218
Wolves ad angers Kerry camp
POLITICS OF FEAR: The commercial attempted to frighten voters into voting for George W. Bush with images of prowling dogs, infuriating Democratic strategists
US President George W. Bush set the wolves on Democratic rival Senator John Kerry in a new TV advertisement on Friday, while Kerry stepped up efforts to woo the women's vote for the US election.
Bush's new ad infuriated the Democratic camp. Kerry's running mate John Edwards called it "despicable."
The new commercial aims to portray Kerry, who is running neck-and-neck with Bush in opinion polls ahead of the Nov. 2 election, as weak in the war on terror.
A female narrator accuses Kerry of being dangerously weak on national security, while a pack of wolves -- standing in for terrorists -- prowl menacingly onscreen.
"And weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm," the narrator says.
Bush also stepped up his attacks in campaign speeches in the battleground states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Bush seized on a comment by a senior Kerry foreign policy advisor that the war on terrorism declared after the Sept. 11, 2001, strikes was "just a metaphor."
"I've got news," Bush said. "Anyone who thinks we're fighting a metaphor does not understand the enemy we face, and has no idea how to win the war and keep America secure."
"You cannot lead our nation to decisive victory on which the security of every American family depends if you do not see the true dangers of the post-September-the-11th era," Bush said, adding attacks over Kerry's policies on taxes, healthcare, retirement funds and abortion for good measure.
Bush, meanwhile, gained on Kerry in a new Time magazine poll out on Friday.
If the Nov. 2 election were held today, 51 percent of 1,200 likely voters questioned between Oct. 19 and Oct. 21 said they would vote for Bush, 46 percent for Kerry and 2 percent for independent consumer crusader Ralph Nader.
Last week's numbers were 48 percent for Bush, 47 percent for Kerry and 3 percent for Nader.
The Kerry campaign accused Bush of using "the politics of fear."
"They have stooped so low now that they are using a pack of wolves running around a forest trying to scare you and trying to scare the American people," Edwards, a senator from North Carolina, told a rally in Florida. "The president is continuing to try to scare America in his speeches and ads in a despicable and contemptible way."
Kerry concentrated his campaign on the battleground state of Wisconsin and the key female vote.
He was joined by Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of assassinated former president John F. Kennedy, as he made the case that Bush had deserted working women and "turned back the clock" on equal pay.
"The women of America can write the future of America if they go to the polls and make their voice heard," Kerry said in a speech at the University of Wisconsin.
"No one in the White House understands the challenges they face. No matter how tough it gets, no one in the White House seems to be listening," he said.
Shoring up sluggish support among women is one of Kerry's key aims as he enters the final stretch of the campaign.
Women voted for Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 election by 54 to 43 percent but polls show Kerry struggling to match that. The Washington Post had Bush leading among women 50 to 46 percent in a recent poll.
They're upset because it's working and they know it is telling the truth.
When the other guy has a bad ad out, you don't say a word.
Kerry knows this ad might indeed be the final nail in his coffin.
Mommy their picking on me.
I see. But Neither Kerry nor Edwards had a problem with Soros' loathsome ads showing Bush as Hitler...
I also heard somewhere this morning that people are mistaking the eagle in the DNC ad for the president and the ostrich for Kerry. I find that pretty amusing.
Kerry is so friggin arrogant..."NO ONE hears, NO ON listens and on and on" ....he is always saying that....he thinks because he "speaks" we listen...one day the rest of the arrogant DNC party will learn that we are Republicans because WE WANT TO BE and because we DEPISE THEM...and their godless trashy lives.....
It's their best ad yet but still way too mild. They better take the gloves off soon.
Because it's true.
If they think that's a rough ad, check out this story on an ad against a liberal Democrat liberal Ray Jones in Kentucky...
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/10001124.htm
I would point out to democrats that bald eagles are more scavenger than hunter.
And this isn't event the best ad we've got. The most effective ads of all should start running around Tuesday of next week. I would expect a few zingers in that group, and I wouldn't be surpised if the Swift Boat Vets have one last ad ready that they have not announced yet.
"They have stooped so low now that they are using a pack of wolves running around a forest... "
Perhaps a pack of wolves is an accurate characterization of the terrorist threat that faces us and that the Dem's are afraid of the truth.
Hhhmmmmmmmm........
As well it should.......
........it's effecive AND true!
Do Kerry/Edwards really think we are so dumb that we don't have the war and terrorists on our minds without these commercials?
This is a one issue election for me...everything else can be fixed but there is no turning back from Kerrys goal of giving our Country away, he's the most dangerous wolf lurking in the background if you ask me.
Gwen Ifil on Meet the Press this morning thought it was a very effective ad.
Team Kerry countered with an eagle and ostrich ad. Another pundit on MTP said that, after that commercial, most viewers who were asked about the commercial thought the eagle represented GWB and the ostrich represented Kerry. [It backfired on Kerry.]
Sounds like some real "chin music!!!"
Has anyone called the dems on their distortion of the habits of the ostrich? Their supposed habit of burying their heads is a myth.
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