New Bush ad takes aim at Kerry on abortion, 'conservative values'

[Kadie]

New Bush ad takes aim at Kerry on abortion, 'conservative values'

The Associated Press
Thursday, July 15, 2004

SCRIPT:
Bush: "I'm George W. Bush and I approve this message."

Announcer: "When it comes to issues that affect our families, are John Kerry's priorities the same as yours? Kerry voted against parental notification for teenage abortions. Kerry even voted to allow schools to hand out the morning-after pill without parents' knowledge. He voted to take control away from parents by taking away their right to know. John Kerry has his priorities. The question is, are they yours?"


KEY IMAGES:
A young girl pours milk in the kitchen; her mother strokes her hair as their family prepares breakfast. Kerry speaks at a lectern as the words "Are John Kerry's priorities yours?" flash on the screen. A girl boards a school bus. A father climbs into his car and watches his children -- a boy and a girl -- leave the house.


ANALYSIS:
Abortion is the topic of this ad, yet the star is an innocent-looking girl who appears to be a preteen. With its images of children venturing out of the house, the spot is meant to tap into parents' concern about the safety of their children. More broadly, it is intended to stoke questions among voters about Kerry's claim that he represents "conservative values."

more... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/15/politics1628EDT0696.DTL

[bemildred]

1. More Republican money thrown in the toilet. nt

[oostevo]

2. Woah ...

Wait a second ... when did Kerry say that he "represents 'conservative values'"?

[lovedems]

3. DU called it.

Now that FMA is toast, abortion is next. What will it be after abortion? Guns?

[bleowheels]

5. Don't forget flag burning.

[radwriter0555]

14. WAG THE UTERUS! The gop is really quite pathetic....

poor things. They know they're history.

[classof56]

4. It's hard to know what to say about this

Of all the myriad of incredibly horrible (words are failing me lately) messes this country is in because of Dubya and crowd, they land on this as a topic for one of their zillion-dollar ads? Guess they really are getting desperate.

Bush must go!

Tired Old Cynic

[fdr_hst_fan]

7. Bush is talking out of BOTH sides

of his SMIRK: first he says that "parent's rights are threatened", but out of the other side of his smirk, he calls for an anti-abortion law! Which George Bush do YOU believe? I don't believe EITHER ONE!
:wtf:

[flordehinojos]

6. Kerry's vote on the right to choose seem to provide a continuum of care

Kerry's vote seems to me to be a continuum of care which provides individuals with the right to choose; a continuum which, seems to me, reduces (diminishes) the anguish of a young woman in the throes of desperation as a result of a non-intended pregnancy.

I believe that God's compassion understands that. I believe that God, the giver of life, takes into account the mind and heart of a young woman who might, for whatever reason or situation, chose to terminate her pregnancy and, as a priest that I heard years ago said from the pulpit, "my problems with pro-lifers is that I never hear them offering food, or shelter, or schooling, or housing or solace for those babies that they demand be carried to full-term pregnancies for".

I am with Kerry.

Opening it up, politically, for the individual to make a choice between herself, her God, her conscience, her emotional life seems to me to be a much healthier road than forcing anyone to carry a pregnancy to full term and then abandoning her, and her baby into policies that support neither.

:hippie:

[AspenRose]

8. More rope to hang himself with

I have YET to see a Bush ad that doesn't attack Kerry, and instead focuses on anything positive he's done (and we know the truth about that).

He's in trouble, and he knows it. Otherwise he wouldn't be putting out these pit-bull-attack-dog ads.

[DaveSZ]

9. Give me a break

This truly makes me sick. I'm all for empowering young people to make their own decisions about their reproductive health.


Moveon or the Kerry camp could simply run an ad about child torture ordered by the BUsh administration to rebut this.

Or, they could talk about how the morning after pill, if made legal, could cut abortions in half.

[Turanga Leela]

17. I think we need to clarify here re: "Morning After Pill"

Dave, you said:

"Or, they could talk about how the morning after pill, if made legal, could cut abortions in half."

The morning-after pill we are dicussing here is simply a high dose of birth-control hormones in a two-pill packet. There are two brands, one progesterone-only and one estrogen-progesterone. Both are completely legal and available. (Did you perhaps mean "available over-the-counter", rather than "legal"?)

Getting caregivers to discuss them and provide prescriptions, however, is an uphill battle--as is pharmacies having them easily available.

I know all this because I used the morning-after pill two months ago. (Happily married, 2 small children, tight finances, broken condom--hope that's not TMI for y'all.) My Dr. was great about getting me the prescription right away...but my usual pharmacy (CVS) just happened to "not carry it in stock...but we can order it for you, it will be here in four days." Nice little end-run around the whole issue there, considering you have to take it within THREE days...Grr.

Fortunately, there is a Walgreen's nearby, and they were lovely about the whole thing. And yes, they get all my business now. Screw CVS.

And just FYI, ladies, the morning after pill is not meant for everyday contraception: I barfed for 2 days straight.:puke: It is a NASTY dose of hormones, and throws your system all to hell for quite a while. It took a full week to feel better.

Anyway, I just wanted to make sure everyone realized that the morning-after pill is absolutely legal. There's enough to get pissed off about without mucking up the facts.

(BTW, Dave, if you were referring to RU486, the abortion pill, I believe that is also legal as well now, but I'm not entirely certain of my facts on that one, so I will defer to someone more knowledgable.)

[JPace]

10. What ever happened to Larry Flynt?

I heard he was going to come out with proof this summer
that when AWOL was young he helped his pregnant girlfriend
get an abortion.
That little piece of information would be very interesting
to his religious right supporters.
Now the incorrigible Larry Flynt says he plans to market a Bush abortion story as genuine - in a book to be published this summer by Kensington Press.
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"This story has got to come out," the wheelchair-bound Hustler magazine honcho told the Daily News' Corky Siemaszko. "There's a lot of hypocrisy in the White House about this whole abortion issue."

Flynt claimed that Bush arranged for the procedure in the early '70s.

"I've talked to the woman's friends," Flynt said. "I've tracked down the doctor who did the abortion, I tracked down the Bush people who arranged for the abortion," Flynt said. "I got the story nailed."

Flynt wouldn't disclose whether he plans to name the woman.

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie - who in a speech last week accused "Kerry campaign supporters," not just Moby, of hatching the Internet chat room scheme - was unavailable for comment on Flynt's charges.
More.....
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/165111p-144622c.html

[muchacho]

11. try those same words...

with a mother and father watching their child go off to war....

[Democat]

12. If Kerry ran 1/2 the negative ads as Bush, the media would crucify him

But they just cheer Bush along, not matter how much he lies or turn the country negative.

The U.S. media is disgusting in their refusal to challenge Bush.

[Gman]

13. The Bush/Cheney campaign has written off the undecideds and

moderates. They are laying everything on a gamble of turning out their base. That's an awfully risky strategy, but then its probably all they have at this point.

It kinda makes sense if you understand that they really feel they are in the majority as far as issues go. Therefore, no matter the undecideds and moderates, they think there are enough RW thinking people that, if they will go vote, the RW can control every election and therefore all parts of government. That's what you do with a provisional revolutionary government like we have in the US. Saddam did the same thing. He turned out his votes and got 100% the last time. That's the ultimate goal of the RW.

I think its more a delusion.

[GaryL]

16. Looks to be true.

I've come to this conclusion too in the last few days. But more so with the belief they HAVE to bolter their nutcase base because they're loosing them. Expect them to run to the center post convention but too late to woo moderates and undecided who (you heard it hear folks) will break, at least, two to one for Kerry.

[Gman]

21. Historically

the undecideds break 85 - 15 for the challenger in any race. With only 8 - 10% of everyone undecided, and knowing this history, they're laying everything on GOTV.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

15. Sign of desperation

it sounds like the Bush campaign is preoccupied with trying to hold onto it's base and is nowhere near the point of trying to convince undecideds.

[dethl]

18. Conservative my A$$

Didn't Bush force some girlfriend of his into getting an abortion?

And if Bush is so worried about our the children of the country, maybe he'd return all of the troops he sent off to get killed in Iraq for some Halliburton contracts.

[newyawker99]

23. Hi dethl!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

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[Enraged_Ape]

19. Bush is doing a better job selling Kerry than Kerry is

Seriously, almost everything this dumbass has done or said over the last few weeks has had "VOTE FOR KERRY" written all over it. I honestly think this boy doesn't really want to get elected.

[TaleWgnDg]

20. . . . here's the url for that GWBush anti-Kerry advertisement

http://real.streamtoyou.com/gwb/FamilyPriorities_small.mov
(as last visited July 15, 2004)

[KDLarsen]

22. Geez..

.. when are they going to run on Dubya's merits? Oh, right, forgot, he haven't got any!

Huge deficit!
Losing the war in Iraq!
Never finding OBL!
Massive job losses!

Seriously, the DNC or Kerry's team should point this out more often - especially OBL. And ask Dubya why there are more than 10 times as many troops in Iraq than there is in Afghanistan - especially since OBL is in the latter area.