[tirednvirginia]

Even CNN has noticed.

[Samwise]

When the Democrats attack, it's campaigning.

When the Republicans campaign, it's attacking.

It's a doublespeak kind of thing.

[Duckdog]

Well, when you talk about people lying the dems are the experts!

[prion]

Wow! Something right-leaning on CNN! Is Mercurio always like that?

[EllaMinnow]

Apparently the Democrats' argument goes something like this: Sure, Kerry ran those ads. But that was waaaay back in the Democratic primary, so those ads were only intended to appeal to Democratic primary voters. If Republicans or independents happened to view the ads and take away a negative impression of Bush, well, we can't control that. Now, we're in the general-election campaign. It's a whole new ball game. The clock starts over.

Please. No clocks, no ball games. Kerry ran the first negative ads of the '04 presidential campaign. Period.

Mercurio gets it.

[cwb]

The Democrats and their media lapdogs have been presenting Kerry as a victim of Bush's negative ads for weeks, now. What the media doesn't say is that the entire Democratic primary was a charade...as it was used exclusively to bash Bush for weeks on-end, essentially giving the DNC free air-time.

I don't know if this was by design, but these Democrats hardly went after each other as they each launched tirades against the incumbent president on a daily basis. The media likes to present Bush's ads as the "first" attack ads of the campaign season, while they ignore these primary ads that both Kerry and Dean ran attacking Bush. What's funny is that Bush hasn't even laid into Kerry with the same vigor that Dean did...and he's already whining.

[DoctorMichael]

Let's just face it: Democrats Suck!

[dead]

Two days on John Kerry's e-mail list, and I've already received two fundraising requests "From the desk of John Kerry", with both whining about the evil "Republican attack machine". Shockingly, only one of the two alluded to his service in Vietnam:

3/10 - A Message from John Kerry: We're United

Before us stretch long months of effort and challenge. We have no illusions about the Republican attack machine and what our opponents will try to do. But in this campaign, I've been reminded of something I first learned as a young man on a Navy boat on the other side of the world…

3/11 – My Meeting with Howard Dean:

Winning this election will be a challenge like no other. If the past few weeks are any indication, the Republican attack machine will pull out every trick in the book to distract from the issues at stake.

[cyncooper]

I did go read the whole article. Very good.

[rintense]

CNN posted this?!?!?!? I'm am truly shocked.

[arichtaxpayer]

[Darlin']

"Please. No clocks, no ball games. Kerry ran the first negative ads of the '04 presidential campaign. Period"

My eyes must be lying to me... Surely, this Mercurio person isn't a real CNN reporter.