Conservative Campaign Ad Features Reagan

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040616/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_ad_reagan_4

Days after Ronald Reagan was laid to rest, a conservative interest group on Tuesday unveiled a campaign ad that aligns him with President Bush and criticizes Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

The Club for Growth's ad, which is to begin airing Wednesday, portrays both Republican presidents as leaders — Reagan on communism and Bush on terrorism, while claiming Kerry was "wrong then, wrong now" on national security.

The ad shows Kerry, a Vietnam veteran, testifying to Congress in 1971 that "we cannot fight communism all over the world and I think we should have learned that lesson by now."

Former President Reagan is then seen at the Berlin Wall in 1987, saying "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." That's followed by Bush telling rescue workers at the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks: "I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon."

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These people really have no shame. :puke: This is the same group that put out the ad attacking Howard Dean, telling him to take his "left-wing freak show" back to Vermont.

[mia]

1. Let's hope the Reagan family withholds permission to use image...

http://www.clubforgrowth.com/

The Reagan family's spokeswoman said Tuesday that permission is needed for anyone to use Reagan's likeness in an ad because doing so implies that he endorsed one candidate over another.


"No one has requested the permission to use his image in an ad, nor would we feel it appropriate to give such permission at this juncture," Joanne Drake said. "We protect his image very carefully, particularly as it relates to politics."

[w4rma]

2. Withholding Reagan's image from use may be the only way any progress

on Stem Cell research is achieved.

[Blue_Roses]

3. This won't go over well with Reagan's family

at all! They won't approve such crap

[Mithras61]

4. Say What?

The Club for Growth's ad, which is to begin airing Wednesday, portrays both Republican presidents as leaders — Reagan on communism and Bush on terrorism, while claiming Kerry was "wrong then, wrong now" on national security.

Bush is a leader on terrorism, for sure, but not to eliminate it. He personally has done more to help terrorist recruiting efforts than any of the last 10 presidents before him, he has failed to secure Afghanistan (although parts of Kabul are pretty secure - like Karzai's palace) because he started a new war before the old war was finished, he has alienated the Islamic peoples of the world by declaring a "crusade," and has alienated the huge majority of nations around the world during a time when he had the opportunity to build an international coalition to eliminate both the cause of terrorism and the terrorists themselves.

Any more leadership like this, and we'll be in some seriously deep doo-doo...

[wellst0nev0ter]

5. And They Complained About US Politicking Wellstone's Death

At long last, have these people any shame?

[UpInArms]

6. wish someone would understand that

the Pied Piper also led - right off the cliff - "leader" doesn't always imply that one has no other agenda and "leads" in a manner that serves the public good.

[Moderator]

7. Duplicate, please discuss here, thanks

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=624855