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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (40724)	8/5/2004 7:42:43 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 81568

Bush Dirty Tricks Vs. McCain in 2000 #1 While campaigning earlier in the day, Bush slammed McCain for purportedly painting him as having anti-Catholic leanings. In turn, the Arizona senator complained about what he said were phone calls made on The Texas governor's behalf that labeled McCain's national campaign chairman as a "vicious bigot" toward Christian conservatives. Automated phone calls to voters were fingered by both presidential hopefuls as the source of the allegedly inflammatory religious remarks. Bush said his opponent was behind calls that accuse him of being an "anti-Catholic bigot" for his appearance earlier this month at Bob Jones University, a conservative Christian college in South Carolina. The school, and its founder Bob Jones, have often been criticized for sharp anti-Catholic rhetoric. In Michigan, where more than one-fourth of the population is Catholic, Bush blasted the phone calls and noted that his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is Catholic, as is Michigan Gov. Engler. Engler on Tuesday threw his considerable support behind Bush's get-out-the-vote effort and appeared with him at Jimi's Restaurant in Royal Oak. "Mr. McCain's making phone calls in this state accusing me of being an anti-Catholic bigot, and I don't appreciate it," Bush said. "It's as low as it gets." The Bush campaign released a tape of the phone call, in which a male voice criticizes Bush for appearing at Bob Jones University and says a past president of the school called the Catholic Church "a satanic cult." McCain spokesman Howard Opinsky said the campaign "is not making any such calls." Earlier this week, however, a senior adviser to McCain -- speaking on condition of anonymity -- said the campaign did plan to use phone banks to let Michigan Catholics know about Bush's visit to the university. As he leveled his charges against McCain, Bush sought to distance himself from pre-recorded calls by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson that described former Sen. Warren Rudman (R-New Hampshire), McCain's national campaign chairman, as "a vicious bigot." "We have nothing to do with that. Mr. Robertson made these calls on his own," Bush said. Rudman angered leaders of the religious right in 1995 by defending retired Gen. Colin Powell against criticism of Powell's pro-choice stance. He subsequently wrote about the controversy in a book, saying there were many "bigots" in the religious right movement. Opinsky said the Robertson calls were an example of the Bush campaign using outside groups to make "totally false allegations against John McCain. It's the same tactics they used in South Carolina."