NRA ad campaign portrays Kerry as poodle

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Kerry is portrayed as a sweater-wearing poodle with a pink bow in an upcoming advertising campaign by the National Rifle Association, mocking his attempts to portray himself as friendly to gun sports and saying, "That dog don't hunt."

"John Kerry says he supports sportsmen's rights. But his record says something else," the ads say.

Billboards and newspaper ads will run this week, followed by TV commercials, Chris W. Cox, the group's chief lobbyist, said Wednesday. The NRA also plans to emblazon the slogan and the poodle on mailings, hats and T-shirts.

The ad campaign, which the group says will cost several million dollars, is a play on the old saying that means something is so outrageous that it can't be true.