I can appreciate that Democrats at the grassroots level can sometimes get upset with the Bush administration and its agenda, but there’s no excuse for this kind of insanity.
Florida Republicans cried foul over a newspaper ad by a local Democratic club that said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be “put up against a wall” and someone should “pull the trigger.”
The ad by the St. Petersburg Democratic Club in a weekly paper in nearby Gulfport criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war before singling out Rumsfeld.
“And then there’s Rumsfeld who said of Iraq ‘We have our good days and our bad days.’ We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say ‘This is one of our bad days,’ and pull the trigger,” the full-page ad said.
The ad continued: “Do you want to salvage our country? Be a savior of our country? Then vote for John Kerry and get rid of the whole Bush Bunch!”
For these guys to even think such nonsense is troubling, to publish it in a full-page ad is inexcusable.
Of course, the Kerry campaign had nothing to do with this stupidity and has condemned the ad.
Mark Kornblau, a Kerry campaign spokesman, said the club was not working for the campaign and called for an apology.
“It is outrageous and does not in any way reflect the position of our campaign. We hope that those responsible will retract the statement,” Kornblau said.
Even the county chairman of the party denounced the ad and explained that it was sponsored by a local Dem club, which is not formally tied of the official party apparatus.
Pinellas County Democratic Party Chairman Kevin Jensen told CNN that he, too, was outraged by the ad, and said party officials “don’t condone this type of stupidity.”
The club, listed on the Pinellas County Democratic Party’s Web site as one of its “officially chartered” clubs, does not speak for the county party, he said.
If the ad’s text wasn’t enough to show you how dumb these activists are, consider this tidbit:
The ad listed phone numbers for the club’s president and vice president. Both lines were busy during repeated attempts by The Associated Press to reach them for comment.
What a bunch of idiots.