Right Voices

Battle Escalates Over Vietnam Ads

John Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission on Friday to force Republican critics to withdraw ads challenging his military service and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping coordinate the attacks as the presidential race took a decidedly bitter turn.

Bush’s campaign advisers denied any involvement in advertisements by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and the White House, in a new line of attack, criticized Kerry for “losing his cool” over the accusations.

The Kerry campaign alleged the Swift Boat group violated “the law with inaccurate ads that are illegally coordinated with the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign and Republican National Committee.”

The Kerry campaign said there is “overwhelming evidence” that the group is coordinating its spending on advertising and other activities with the Bush campaign.

Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel denied any coordination with the Swift Boat group, calling it “a frivolous complaint.”

What’s this? Camp Kerry wants to silence a groups right to freedom of speech? Isn’t that the First Amendment? Of course it is and it isn’t surprising one bit that Kerry and his people have taken this extreme step of action.

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have stated clearly, several times, they create the ads on their own. They continued with a statement of their intentions to continue with the ads no matter if the President approved or not, that it didn’t matter to them what he wanted because they want to spread the truth about John Kerry. They also said that if Kerry were a Republican they would be doing the same ads because Kerry is lying.

Kerry is complaining and trying to blame George W. Bush, again, for something he has absolutely nothing to do with. Kerry would prefer we all sit around with dumb looks on our faces and swallow his lies whole and then thank him afterward.

The White House has contacted Kerry and his camp on several occasions to go along with putting an end to ads paid for by soft money that organizations are creating. Kerry and his people have declined the offer. Why would they do this and then turn around and file suit? Because they like the attacks against President Bush that were the center of MoveOn ads and the movie F-9/11. Let alone the countless celebrity endorsements and cracks they’ve taken at our nation’s leader.

The heat is on and Kerry doesn’t like it. Does the United States of America want a President who silences our voices? Do we need someone in the Oval Office who will file lawsuits if we say something he doesn’t like? What kind of regime thinking is that? This is a democracy and he needs to remember that.

How will the liberals react? They will congratulate him on his smart and swift move to battle against the ads. Then when asked about him stomping on the First Amendment they’ll all just clear their throats and say, “But he only did it because all those other people are lying and he had to make them stop”.