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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (5566)	3/7/2004 9:22:29 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Good! Bush's 72 hour "positive" ad campaign failed because folks hated his using 9/11 victims as a springboard to election. So now Bush managers' tack is to go after Kerry in what looks to be "the nastiest campaign" ever. cnn.com McCain predicts 'nastiest campaign we've ever seen' Sunday, March 7, 2004 Posted: 7:54 PM EST (0054 GMT) Sen. John Kerry claps during a rally Sunday at Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On the first weekend since the presidential race whittled down to a matchup between President Bush and presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry, the Bush campaign took aim at Kerry, making clear its chief lines of attack. Speaking on the Sunday talk shows, Bush supporters depicted the senator from Massachusetts as an extreme liberal who flip-flops on issues, is weak on security and would raise taxes if elected. Kerry supporters painted Bush as stubbornly sticking to failed economic and foreign policies, failing to deliver on promises and -- citing his controversial new television ads as examples -- being "a divider and not a uniter." The wrangling on all those fronts could last the next eight months. "I think this is going to be probably the nastiest campaign we've ever seen from both sides because of the polarization that exists in politics today," Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona said on ABC's "This Week." The efforts against Kerry follow what Bush spokespeople call months of anti-Bush campaigning by the Democratic presidential hopefuls. "We're just going to talk about his record," Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot said on "Fox News Sunday." "He's headed in the wrong direction. He has been for 19 years, and he would lead this country in the wrong direction." Racicot said Kerry would raise taxes if elected and complained about several of Kerry's Senate votes. He also said that though Kerry voted in 2002 to support military action as an option against Iraq, he voted against an $87 billion supplemental spending bill late last year.