Kerry on Defensive With New Anti-Bush Ad

The John Kerry for President campaign says it's mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

George W. Bush's newest TV ad tells voters that Sen. Kerry wants to raise taxes by $900 billion and weaken the Patriot Act (Kerry wants a new health-care plan that will cost $900B, and wants to go back to fighting terror through the criminal justice system).

To counter, Sen. Kerry is fighting back with a new advertisement calling the Bush ad "misleading" and "negative," a strategy that Kerry will reportedly use against all Bush advertising.

Kerry plans to repeatedly portray the president as a 'Prevaricator in Chief' who is continually misleading the country.

The latest ad from the Kerry camp is the first volley lobbed in that vein. The Massachusetts senator's newest slogan is "A New Direction for America."

The 30-second spot doesn't say what that direction is or how it differs from President Bush's.

In fact, the spot claims Kerry intends to cut taxes for the middle class, which Bush has already done, "get the deficit under control," which the new Bush budget also plans to do, and "crack down on the export of American jobs," an issue the president is addressing by looking for a new "manufacturing czar" for his administration.

So, how is John Kerry's "direction" new? No one is sure. He still seems to be running on a platform of "I'm not Bush," which certainly gets him the Democratic vote, but not much else at this point.

Editor's note:
"I Like Bush" – get the T-shirt – click here now

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
2004 Elections
104George W. Bush
Sen. John Kerry