McCain Condemns Anti-Kerry Ad
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So, it has finally come to pass that a Republican has helped defend a Democrat from a political attack in an election year - better check the the trees, folks, 'cause this might be the year pigs fly...
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 5) - Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service ''dishonest and dishonorable'' and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well.
The White House declined.
''It was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me,'' McCain said in an interview with The Associated Press, comparing the anti-Kerry ad to tactics in his bitter Republican primary fight with President Bush.
The 60-second ad features Vietnam veterans who accuse the Democratic presidential nominee of lying about his decorated Vietnam War record and betraying his fellow veterans by later opposing the conflict.
''When the chips were down, you could not count on John Kerry,'' one of the veterans, Larry Thurlow, says in the ad. Thurlow didn't serve on Kerry's swiftboat, but says he witnessed the events that led to Kerry winning a Bronze Star and the last of his three Purple Hearts. Kerry's crewmates support the candidate and call him a hero.
The ad, scheduled to air in a few markets in Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin, was produced by Stevens, Reed, Curcio and Potham, the same team that produced McCain's ads in 2000.
''I wish they hadn't done it,'' McCain said of his former advisers. ''I don't know if they knew all the facts.''
Asked if the White House knew about the ad or helped find financing for it, McCain said, ''I hope not, but I don't know. But I think the Bush campaign should specifically condemn the ad.''
McCain, chairman of Bush's campaign in Arizona, later said the Bush campaign has denied any involvement and added, ''I can't believe the president would pull such a cheap stunt.''
White House spokesman Scott McClellan declined to condemn the ad.
''The president thought he got rid of this unregulated soft money when he signed the bipartisan campaign finance reform into law,'' McClellan said. A chief sponsor of that bill, which Bush initially opposed, was McCain.
McCain said that's all in the past to him, but he's speaking out against the anti-Kerry ad because ''it reopens all the old wounds of the Vietnam War, which I spent the last 35 years trying to heal.''
''I deplore this kind of politics,'' McCain said. ''I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded. Many of his crew have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam. I think George Bush served honorably in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.''
The Kerry campaign has denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, saying none of the men in the ad served on the boat that Kerry commanded. Three veterans on Kerry's boat that day - Jim Rassmann, who says Kerry saved his life, Gene Thorson and Del Sandusky, the driver on Kerry's boat, said the group was lying.

Just when you thought Republican attack ads cudn't get any slimier... heck, they figure the average Joe Sixpack in America is stupid enough that even an obvious attempt to muddy the waters surrounding Kerry will be enough to dissuade some. And ultimately, this is why the Republicns will win yet again: they have far moore stupid people on their side. Heck, moost of America is nothing but a bunch of stupid, greedy, apathetic, self-absorbed nose-pickers, lacking even the moost basic grasp of cowmunity spirit, public advocacy, and interest in perserving the future. This is ripe stuff for the Conservative scythe to harvest.

The Democrats need to put aside the arty-intellectual-minority vote block and go after the Dumb-Ass Walmart & SUV Gas-Guzzlin' vote, which has far moore vote potential and moore economic power. It is, after al, all about the money, isn't it?

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- posted by The MooCow @ 4:00 PM