Kerry strikes back at Bush on ads: Campaign representatives take to the airwaves
Once again, George Bush is misleading America. John Kerry has never called for a $900 billion dollar tax increase. He wants to cut taxes for the middle class. Doesn't America deserve more from its president than misleading negative ads? John Kerry will crack down on the export of American jobs, get health care costs under control, and cut the deficit.
- one of John Kerry's new campaign ads
So what do you do when your opponent discovers that it's easier to engage in unfounded and pointless personal attacks than to debate on his record? Oh, wait...that's probably because not even George W. Bush is silly enough to debate his record. Yeah, I'd be embarrassed as well.
So what do we get? How about this trash:
One of Bush's two ads rolled out Thursday, called "100 Days," is his first TV commercial directly attacking Kerry.
It says Kerry plans to "raise taxes by at least $900 billion" and weaken the Patriot Act "used to arrest terrorists and protect America."
The ad also says Kerry "wanted to delay defending America until the United Nations approved."
So what's next? Ads accusing Kerry of frequenting San Francisco's gay bathhouses in the early 80s? Alleging that Kerry bayonetted babies during his service in Vietnam? Disclosing that Kerry collected panties from his female interns and keeps them in a trophy case in his office? Or perhaps intimating that Kerry secretly smokes marijuana laced with PCP during Senate committee hearings?
It would be nice to think that a sitting President could rise above the mudslinging and the negative advertising. Sadly, this President conducts business in a decidedly un-Presidential, borderline undignified manner. Seven-plus more months of this crap? Can't we just vote him out of office now? It's not like he got there legitimately to begin with.
