AP: "Bush Unveils Negative Ads Against Kerry"

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50390-2004Mar11.html

By RON FOURNIER
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 11, 2004; 2:59 PM

WASHINGTON - President Bush will unleash his first negative ads against John Kerry on Thursday, accusing the Democrat of seeking to raise taxes by $900 billion and wanting to "delay defending America," the Associated Press has learned.

"John Kerry: Wrong on taxes. Wrong on defense," says a female announcer in a new 30-second ad that will begin airing in battleground states. A second ad, also premiering Thursday, tells voters they face choices on the economy, health care and the war on terrorism.

"We can go forward with confidence, resolve and hope. Or we can turn back to the dangerous illusions that terrorists are not plotting and outlaw regimes are no threat," Bush says in the second ad, without mentioning Kerry by name.

The scripts were provided to The Associated Press hours before the ads were previewed for Bush backers in Congress and readied for airing in some 18 states. In addition, Bush will begin running his first radio spot, and it will make the same high-taxes, soft-on-terorrism argument against Kerry, the officials said on condition of anonymity.

Meeting with congressional Democrats on Capitol Hill, Kerry dismissed the ads, saying they "have nothing to do with health care for Americans, nothing to do with jobs for Americans, nothing to do with education for our kids, nothing to do with cleaner air or cleaner water, nothing to do with making America safer in this world. They can't talk about those things because George Bush doesn't have a record to run on, he has a record to run away from, and that's what they're trying to do."

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GIVE 'EM HELL, JOHN!

[MrBenchley]

1. Amazing isn't it?

"Republicans said they welcomed the debate over Sept. 11"

THIS is "welcoming the debate?" I'd hate to see what the party of goons and loons considers "stonewalling."

" President Bush will answer privately all questions raised by a federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the White House said Tuesday, softening its insistence that Bush's testimony be limited to an hour.
"Nobody's watching the clock," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
Still, he said an hour was "a reasonable period of time to set aside for a sitting president of the United States." The White House and the commission are working on a date for the meeting with Bush. The commission urged Bush to meet with all of its members, not just the chairman and vice chairman. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040310/ap_on_re_us/sept_11_commission_6

[flpoljunkie]

2. Kick!

Give 'em hell, John!

[curse10]

3. And they get mad when Kerry tells the truth?

They are really shitting their pants, aren't they?

[CatWoman]

4. hah

[flpoljunkie]

7. Catwoman, your button say it all--trading on the tragedy of 9/11...

using fear, in a desperate effort to avoid talking about the Bush/Cheney failed record of the past three years!

[dolstein]

5. Sorry, but Kerry's going to have to do better than that

Personally, I remain very pessimistic about Kerry's chances. And his remarks in this article only reinforce that pessimism.

Sorry, but you can't simply respond to charges of being weak on defense by trying to change the subject to health care or the economy. Why isn't Kerry being more agressive on defense? If he had any sense, he'd be outflanking Bush on homeland security, where Bush has many vulnerabilities. Let's not forget that Bush has nickle and dimed first responders and port security. If Kerry can't figure this one out, then he probably deserves to lose.

[flpoljunkie]

6. Dolstein, your guy lost.Get over it! Kerry knows exactly what he is doing.

Although, there is nothing he could do to please you, of that we can be assured.

John Kerry criticized Bush for not funding our first responders last week and for failing to provide the funds to secure the homeland.