Anti-Kerry flier sees kids in gas masks

[AnIndependentTexan]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apelection_story.asp?category=1131&slug=Anti%20Kerry%20Mailings

Anti-Kerry flier sees kids in gas masks

By JACKIE HALLIFAX

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A new campaign flier warns South Florida voters that the consequences of a John Kerry presidency "are too frightening ... to imagine" and backs up its message with an image of school kids in gas masks.

The attack ad is one of five fliers sent this week by Republican activists who style themselves the Florida Leadership Council. The group's leaders include Cory Tilley, a former top aide to Gov. Jeb Bush, and David Johnson, former state Republican Party executive.

The gas-mask flier includes a fragment of a fake news story datelined from "FLORIDA RED ZONE" and dated Aug. 14, 2007. In the story, President Kerry warns parents and children that they'll have to wear radiation and chemical protective gear "for the foreseeable future" because of a dirty bomb terrorist attack.

Tilley defended the ad as having raised a legitimate issue and is meant also to counter liberal groups such as MoveOn.org that have aired ads attacking President Bush.

[tjdee]

1. As opposed to DUCT TAPE?

Republicans get on my last fucking nerve with this.

I'm kind of glad this thing is over on Tuesday (hopefully) because all these cute voter suppression/other tactics by Republicans make me quite :grr: