Group targets GOP with anti-war ads
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Using images of children in combat camouflage, a coalition of anti-war groups is airing about $500,000 in ads against Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and three GOP colleagues facing re-election next year, urging them to "bring our troops home."
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Two key GOP dissenters from President Bush's war strategy are working to shift its emphasis away from the so-called "surge" in the wake of an upcoming progress report on Iraqi benchmarks.
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Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an organization that says it has more than 300 members, created controversy three weeks ago with a TV ad charging that Sen. John Kerry has lied about his military record. The group begins airing a second ad Tuesday in three states. The new ad, called "Sellout," mixes photos and audio from an appearance Kerry, then 27, made before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971, with comments from Vietnam War veterans who object to the anti-war efforts Kerry made following his return from service in Vietnam.
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National security and the war in Iraq will be the centerpieces of the White HouseÂs strategy for helping Republicans in this yearÂs election.
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A new television ad sponsored by U.S. veterans strongly questions President Bush's case for war in Iraq, but the group behind it said on Wednesday the spot was not meant to benefit either presidential candidate.
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MoveOn PAC, which says it supports "moderate to progressive" candidates and has paid for TV ads opposing President Bush's re-election, starts airing another ad today. Called "Swift Response," the 30-second ad attempts to link Bush to an ad released two weeks ago by an organization called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. That earlier ad accused Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee and a decorated Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, of lying about his military record.
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Republicans on Thursday tried to turn a controversial anti-war newspaper ad against Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama after neither voted to condemn it.
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Three campaign finance watchdog groups filed a complaint Tuesday accusing a group of Vietnam veterans of violating the campaign finance law by airing an ad that challenges Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's military record.
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Underdog Ron Paul is airing the first TV ads of his presidential campaign, hoping to capitalize on a fundraising surge and promote his blend of anti-war, anti-spending libertarianism in New Hampshire.
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President Bush says he wants to join Republican Senator John McCain in the fight against political ads by outside groups. The announcement comes just weeks after McCain called for Bush to condemn an anti-John
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A group funded in part by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that plans to run ads criticizing Democratic ties to trial lawyers is the target of a complaint filed with election officials Wednesday.
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Wolves prowl through a forest in a new television ad that says "weakness attracts those who are waiting to do America harm," a suggestion by President Bush's campaign that terrorists would seize on a John Kerry presidency.
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The Kerry-Edwards campaign released a television ad Thursday that rebuts charges made by an independent group that has questioned Kerry&#39;s record from his Navy service during the Vietnam War. The ad focuses on Jim Rassmann, a former Special Forces ...
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A liberal advocacy group's print ad attacking Gen. David Petraeus drew a firestorm of criticism from both sides of the aisle on Monday.
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Sen. George Allen attempted to steer his campaign away from accusations of racial insensitivity Monday night with a two-minute, statewide television ad touting the need to focus on "the real issues," such as support for U.S. troops in Iraq.
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NEW YORK The debate over John Kerry&#39;s Vietnam War record showed no sign of abating Sunday as a member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group running advertisements attacking Kerry&#39;s record, denied involvement with the Republican Party.
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A group running ads accusing John Kerry of exaggerating his decorated Vietnam War service record is nearing &#36;7 million in contributions, thanks in part to several Republican donors.