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A couple months ago, Moveon.org sponsored an ad contest in which every day American's submitted amateur ads, the winner of which would receive air time on national television. The response was overwhelming, Moveon.org received over 1,500 ads within a week and in a poor decision they posted all of these ads before screening their content. Some buffoon spliced images of Hitler and George Bush in an effort to compare the two leaders. Contrary to what many conservatives believe, THE AD DID NOT WIN THE CONTEST NOR WAS IT SPONSORED BY MOVEON.ORG!!!!!! In actuality, when Moveon.org was informed of the ad’s nefarious nature they removed it and denounced its message.

THE AD WAS IN NO WAY ENDORSED OR SUPPORTED BY ANY MEMBER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY…

Now to present day, the Bush Campaign has just released an ad titled, "Kerry's Coalition of the Wild-eyed.

The always astute writers at Slate take this ad to task,

“The Bush campaign, outraged by the mixture of Nazi images with images of an American politician, has decided that the best response to this offense is to repeat it.

The Bush video's opening white-on-black graphic says, "The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party. The Coalition of the Wild-eyed. " Next comes a parade of angry speakers: Al Gore, Hitler, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, Dick Gephardt, Hitler, Gore, and Kerry…

How does the Bush camp identify the Hitler footage? "Sponsored by Moveon.Org" says a label on the first Hitler clip, evidently put there by the miscreants who submitted the ad. "Images from Moveon.Org ad" says the Bush campaign's label on the second Hitler clip. The only organization that doesn't identify the clips as a "Moveon.org ad" is MoveOn.org, which denounced the ad and never "sponsored" it. But never mind. Instead of apologizing for this implicit misrepresentation of sponsorship, the Bush campaign has made the misrepresentation explicit. "The following video contains remarks made by and images from ads sponsored by Kerry Supporters," says a graphic appended to the beginning of the video.

The Bush campaign's claim that the amateur Hitler ads represent "John Kerry's Democratic Party" is laughable. Kerry didn't control MoveOn.org, and MoveOn.org didn't make the ads. When the ads were submitted, the membership of MoveOn.org largely supported Dean, the candidate who had nearly wiped Kerry off the map. Kerry had just mortgaged his house to get the cash Democrats were refusing to give him. The suggestion that he controlled the party is preposterous—but only slightly more preposterous than the suggestion that Kerry is responsible what Dean and Gephardt said while running against him, or what Gore and Moore said while supporting candidates who were running against him…

…Developing its argument that Nazism was basically a failure to relax, the ad attempts to tie its grotesque libel to the Bush campaign's theme of the month, which is that the incumbent's "optimism" is better than Kerry's "pessimism." "This is not a time for pessimism and rage," the screen text says, over an image of a not at all enraged John Kerry telling his camel joke. The noise and chaos and grainy footage of the Democrats jarringly dissolves into sunny music, accompanied by a clear, color photograph of a confident President Bush strutting around the White House. "It's a time for optimism, steady leadership and progress," the text continues.
This language pushes the facile notion that "optimism" is the most important of presidential qualities deep into the realm of the absurd. The implicit argument is a parody of syllogistic illogic: According to the premise of the ad, Hitler = rage and pessimism; Democrats = rage and pessimism; ergo, Kerry = Hitler. Is there any danger of any person in the United States taking this stuff seriously?
Comparing one's opponent to Hitler is not, in fact, the sign of a confident or optimistic candidate. To the contrary, it's the act of a fearful and cynical candidate who is willing to use any tactic to avoid defeat.
But in reaching so far down so early in, Bush has not improved his prospects. Aimed as it is at the surviving members of various John Birch splinter organizations, this ad will win over no one, while alienating and offending many potential Bush supporters. Republicans will spend much time on the defensive trying to explain why their ad is not as revolting and preposterous as it obviously is. This sets Bush back.
He's going to need better gutter tactics than this to stop Hitler in Ohio.”

I seriously hope that Republican leaders will denounce this ad the same way Democratic leaders denounced the ad placed on the Moveon.org website. I won’t hold my breath……

This is one of the sleaziest political ads I have ever seen, in fact its right up there with the Hitler ad Moveon.org removed from its contest. The difference is that ad was made by a rogue democrat resorting to absurdity in order to get his ad on the national television. In no way did the ad represent the democratic party or Moveon.org. This ad was made by, produced by, and approved by the Bush Campaign. Scary isn’t it.

See it for yourself here.