Conservative Campaign Ad Features Reagan

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040616/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_ad_reagan_4

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The Club for Growth's ad, which is to begin airing Wednesday, portrays both Republican presidents as leaders — Reagan on communism and Bush on terrorism, while claiming Kerry was "wrong then, wrong now" on national security.


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The Reagan family's spokeswoman said Tuesday that permission is needed for anyone to use Reagan's likeness in an ad because doing so implies that he endorsed one candidate over another.


"No one has requested the permission to use his image in an ad, nor would we feel it appropriate to give such permission at this juncture," Joanne Drake said. "We protect his image very carefully, particularly as it relates to politics."

The Club for Growth will spend $500,000 over a week, a moderate amount, to run the ad on national cable networks and in media markets in the contested states of Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. <snip>

I sure hope Nancy, Ron Jr., and Patti go after these sicko people.

[bluestateguy]

1. Really dumb

All it would take is a denunciation from one of the two reasonable Reagan children or Nancy and the add would be sheepishly taken off the air. Furthermore, after watching the ad I find it incoherent. What does the fight against Al Qaeda--which Kerry has always supported--have to do with fighting Soviet communism in the 1980's? Osama bin Laden is very anti-communist and is himself a big capitalist. What incoherent crap.

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=624855