Extreme Mortman
The Washington Post makes it clear:
MoveOn.org provided Republicans a life raft when it ran a full-page newspaper advertisement Monday taunting Petraeus as "General Betray Us."
Life raft indeed.
As we wait for the first big-name Democrat to denounce the MoveOn ad, it's worth remembering for a moment the hot summer of 2004 and the pitched battle over ads.
MoveOn ran an ad questioning President Bush's Vietnam-era service in the Air National Guard. In August 2004 John Kerry denounced it. Kerry: "The ad is inappropriate. This should be a campaign of issues, not insults."
Three years later and the military-related insults haven't stopped. Who would have thought John Kerry would remain the sole marquee Democrat with the courage to denounce MoveOn? |