Some commentators are surprised that the Bush campaign is overtly "going negative" so soon.
But what choice do they have? They can hardly run on two unresolved wars, phony intelligence, and the job-loss recovery. Republican conduct is under serious legal scrutiny on several fronts, from the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame to the stolen Democratic computer files in Congress. Remember Watergate, the breaking-and-entering of Democratic headquarters to steal party files? The cyber-age version of that file-stealing scandal is going on right now, and it's not the most serious of the Republican scandals.
So I'm not really surprised the Bush-Cheney campaign is going negative. The new attack ad is known as 100 Days, and features a sinister dark-skinned terrorist against whom it is said that John Kerry would fail to protect us. Terror, terror, 9/11, be very afraid, A-rab terrorists, 9/11.
The New Republic's blog calls it the first campaign ad "to use the image of a dark-skinned man who is obviously meant to be a terrorist."
Billmon, Daily Kos and Steve Soto weigh in on the ad.
The Poor Man elaborates the obvious subtext of the current attack ad (via Atrios).
The campaign is still in its early stages. Expect much worse from the Bush camp.
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It's one thing to have a group like Citizens United do an ad like this for you, quite another to do it yourself with the now-required tagline, "I'm George W. Bush and I approved this ad."
The other ad is even better. We have a choice. We can do things Kerry's way or "we can continue to work to create jobs, reform education and lower the cost of healthcare."
Wha???
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