"Repub Candidates Are Barely Mentioning Iraq On The Campaign Trail"..

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"Republican Candidates Are Barely Mentioning Iraq On The Campaign Trail"...

The New York Times | ADAM NAGOURNEY and JIM RUTENBERG | October 18, 2006 at 10:47 PM
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Four months ago, the White House offered a set of clear political directions to Republicans heading into the midterm elections: embrace the war in Iraq as critical to the antiterrorism fight and belittle Democrats as advocates of a "cut and run" policy of weakness.

With three weeks until Election Day, Republican candidates are barely mentioning Iraq on the campaign trail and in their television advertisements.

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1. umm..Out of sight-out of Mind mentality? (they hope)

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2. ...It is the Democrats who have seized on Iraq as a central issue.

......It is the Democrats who have seized on Iraq as a central issue. In debates and in speeches, candidates are pummeling Republicans with accusations of a failed war.

Rather than avoiding confrontation on Iraq as they did in 2002 and 2004, they are spotlighting their opposition in new television advertisements that feature mayhem and violence in Iraq, denounce Republicans for supporting Mr. Bush and, in at least one case, demand the ouster of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

“I support our troops and I voted for the war, but we shouldn’t stay the course, as Mr. Corker wants,” Representative Harold E. Ford Jr., the Democratic candidate for Senate in Tennessee, says in one advertisement.

Mr. Ford’s Republican opponent, Bob Corker, is shown against a backdrop of wartime scenes, saying, “We should stay the course,” a phrase that Republicans once described as a rallying cry for the campaign.

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3. They are not even mentioning that they

are republican.

zalinda