Another LIE from the LYING Bush Campaign LIARS

[DrFunkenstein]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's re-election campaign sought to portray Democrat John Kerry as out of step with mainstream American values on Thursday with a new television ad pointing out Kerry's Senate vote against a law making it a crime to harm a pregnant woman's fetus.

"John Kerry began this process as the duckling of the far left and hopes to emerge at his convention as the swan of the heartland. Only the truth about his record will prevent this phony make-over of the nation's most out-of-the-mainstream senator," said Bush campaign communications director Nicolle Devenish.

Duckling?

The ad points out that Kerry voted against the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act" that passed the U.S. Senate last March by a vote of 61-38. It is known informally as the Laci Peterson law. Peterson's husband is charged with her death and that of her unborn child in a high-profile murder case in California.

Kerry voted against the bill but supported an alternative proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, that would have punished violence against pregnant women without treating an unborn child as a separate person. It was defeated 50-49.



In response, the Kerry campaign said the Bush ad "illustrates the kind of negative, misleading and pessimistic campaign the Bush-Cheney team is running."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/campaign_bush_dc

[Claire Beth]

1. Dubya doesn't have a clue....

because it is Bush/Cheney who is OUT OF STEP with the American people. Not only are they out of step....They're not even faking it well.

[displacedtexan]

2. They know most people are too stupid to see through the lies.

Sad, isn't it?

Just like they know that the math skills of average Americans are so weak that they (BushCo) can get away with lying about the benefits of their tax cuts, Medicare costs, etc.

[DrFunkenstein]

3. But This Can Easily Backfire

This is a much more clear-cut example of what they did with Kerry's supposed desire to slash our defense budget into nothingness. Personally, I wish he would, but the fact is that they repeatedly used measures that had alternatives up for vote without mentioning the alternatives.

This is a pretty easy-to-follow example for Americans to pick up on.

(And the fact that the GOP chose abortion - where Americans are evenly split - as a "mainstream" issue ends up suggesting their own extremism.