July 3, 2004 6:33 AM

So much for upgrading the level of political discourse

Der Furor: Bush plays the Nazi card

"Kerry's Coalition of the Wild-eyed" was produced for the Bush campaign by Maverick Media. To watch the video on the Bush campaign Web site, click here. For a script, click here.

Just when some of us had begun to hold out hope that the Bush Administration just might be willing to debate the issues, they come out with this load of crap. This is easily the most offensive and insulting piece of $&!% put out by any political campaign- ever..."I'm George W. Bush, and I approved this message."

Where to begin with this despicable video?

Six months ago, MoveOn.org held a contest to find the best amateur ad against President Bush. The group invited people to make ads and submit them to its Web site. Some idiot spliced images of Bush together with images of Adolf Hitler, evidently trying to make Bush look like a warmonger. His submissions, which arrived with 1,500 others—too many to be screened quickly—were posted on the contest Web site. As soon as MoveOn.org leaders realized what was in the ad, they removed and denounced it.

The Bush campaign, outraged by the mixture of Nazi images with images of an American politician, has decided that the best response to this offense is to repeat it.

The Bush video's opening white-on-black graphic says, "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party. The Coalition of the Wild-eyed." Next comes a parade of angry speakers: Al Gore, Hitler, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, Dick Gephardt, Hitler, Gore, and Kerry....

....[T]he Bush campaign shows the Hitler images at full size, in an unexplained sequence with Gore, Dean, Gephardt, and Kerry. Draw your own conclusions.

Indeed. And Bush claims to be the right man at the right time. Is THIS the sort of leadership we want in a President? The sort of man who is willing to do whatever it takes to win, even if it means connecting his opponent to a man responsible for the extermination of 6 millions European Jews.

WE DESERVE BETTER.

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