Ads in Va. Governor Race Mention Hitler

[G_j]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5351671,00.html

Ads in Va. Governor Race Mention Hitler

Tuesday October 18, 2005 12:31 PM


By BOB LEWIS

Associated Press Writer

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Republican candidate for governor is drawing fire for campaign ads that suggest his Democratic opponent is so averse to the death penalty he would have spared Adolf Hitler from execution.

The radio and TV ads feature victims' relatives who tearfully recount the crimes that killed their loved ones and say they don't trust Democrat Tim Kaine to administer the state's death penalty.

Kaine, who says his moral objections to capital punishment are rooted in his Roman Catholic faith, responded with an ad pledging to carry out death sentences ``because it's the law.''

One of the ads supporting Jerry Kilgore, Virginia's attorney general, cites a Richmond Times-Dispatch column that said Kaine had ``suggested he would not favor sending even Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin or Idi Amin to the gallows.''

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[rodeodance]

1. Once again-it is the Brits that we learn this from.

[MaineDem]

9. Actually it was LBN last week

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1843985

[acmavm]

2. That's pretty lame, even for a republican.

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[Wetzelbill]

8. no kidding nt

[Talismom]

3. With any intelligence on the part of the VA voters, it will backfire on

the repuke!

[MaineDem]

4. New poll shows Kaine, the Dem, up by 2

As of yesterday.

[JuniorPlankton]

5. With all due respect to SOME Virginia voters,

I wouldn't count on their intelligence as a group. After all, look at the track record... :(

[Jersey Devil]

6. It is backfiring - from Kos

VA-Gov: Kaine with the late mo'
by kos
Mon Oct 17, 2005 at 06:06:28 PM PDT

SurveyUSA. 10/14-16. Likely votes. MoE 3.7%. (9/16-18 results)

Kaine (D) 47 (43)
Kilgore (R) 45 (46)

Kaine today leads by 12 points among women, up 10 points in the past 4 weeks, up 17 points from SurveyUSA's first tracking poll in June. Kaine support strongest among most educated voters, pro-choice voters, and voters in urban areas and D.C. suburbs. Kilgore leads by 61 points among conservatives, but trails by 34 points among moderates.

Looks like the swiftboating effort against Kaine is backfiring. But never underestimate the Republicans ability to close the last few days of an election.

[Judi Lynn]

14. I read a recent poll shows Virginians reading him as too negative

I agree it's too important to take this for granted, as they are ALWAYS inclined through desperation and smallness to do anything to win, things beneath normal people.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

7. Does Godwin's Law

apply? Does that mean all political advertising in the Va Governor's race is now meaningless and finished?

I wonder if Kaine knows that the answer to this charge is "And I wouldn't re-execute Christ, either. But if Kilgore had him on death row, he'd have him killed, Son of God or not. Because Kilgore's pro-Death. Now see how silly this all is?"

[Ian David]

13. Raise your hand if you're against the death penalty...

Raise your hand if you're against the death penalty...



Raise your hand if you're in favor of the death penalty...



Any questions?

[Kellanved]

10. Reading that hurt.

:banghead:

[no_hypocrisy]

11. So illogical, so fallacious, so Madison Avenue, so Rove.

Who would put the two political figures together in the concept of "A vote for Kaine is a vote for Hitler."

Someone desperate and counting on uninformed voters to decide on emotionalism and ignorance.

[noahmijo]

12. "Oh yea? well the Repuke would've been on Hitlers's side!!"

Of all the issues to attack on this punk chose the death penalty? I'd say someone's got a bit of a case of bloodlust.

[maddezmom]

15. locking Not Latest Breaking News

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