Uhhh…. What?!?

Back when someone contributed an ad comparing Bush and Hitler to a political ad contest being run by liberal site MoveOn.org it was a big ordeal. From a FOX News article covering reaction to the event:

Republican groups and Jewish organizations expressed outrage over the ad, which has been removed from the MoveOn.org Web site. The Republican National Committee (search) called on all nine Democratic candidates to condemn the ads.

RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie called the ad, “the worst and most vile form of political hate speech.”

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“We agree that the two ads in question were in poor taste and deeply regret that they slipped through our screening process,” the statement [from MoveOn.org] said. “In the future, if we publish or broadcast raw material, we will create a more effective filtering system.”

It is with much confusion that I noticed the new ad being featured on The Official Re-election Site for President George W. Bush. The ad recycles bits from the above mentioned MoveOn.org ad and shows Kerry, Gore, Moore giving passionate speeches with views that polls show over 50% of the country (and over 50% of “likely voters”) agree side by side with Hitler shouting hateful speech. They show Hitler and have his voice in the ad. Are they comparing Democrats to Nazis and telling voters if they are “anti-war” they are fascists? If you don’t believe the Republican party line you are crazy and potentially a Hitler lover? What exactly is their attempted angle with this ad?

One random person contributing a hateful ad to a contest is a big ordeal but an official presidential campaign representing the current President of the country taking the hateful trash and making it worse and reusing it as their own ad is even better?

Have they lost their fucking minds? Excuse me while I make a local copy of it as I can’t imagine it will be around for long… What focus group did they run it by where the ad actually helped their cause? I’m praying that they show this ad on TV just to make it more noticable to the average person as something labeled with “I’m George Bush and I approved this message.” I wonder what dear old Ed Gillespie has to say.