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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! February 12, 2002 Bush Featured in G.O.P. Ads Criticizing 5 Senators By B. DRUMMOND AYRES Jr. fter months of largely avoiding head-on partisan attacks on individual Democrats, President Bush has taken a starring role in a new, decidedly critical advertisement that is running in the states of five Democratic senators who voted against his economic stimulus package. The advertisement is directed at Max Baucus of Montana, Jean Carnahan of Missouri, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Tim Johnson of South Dakota and Paul Wellstone of Minnesota. It accuses them of putting partisan interests ahead of those of the nation. The advertisment is another indication that Mr. Bush, who campaigned on a promise of moderating the partisan tone in Washington and who has tried to cultivate bipartisan support after Sept. 11, is embracing the rough-and-tumble of politics. In recent weeks, Mr. Bush has begun attending political fund-raisers and has committed himself to dozens of political events for Republicans running in the 2002 elections. The five senators, each of them involved in a close re-election contest, say it is Mr. Bush and the Republican Party who are being partisan. Several pointed out that the president personally recruited their Republican challengers in an effort to assure that the one-seat Democratic hold on the Senate would be overturned in November. In the advertisement, sponsored by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and running on both television and radio in slightly differing versions, an announcer asserts that "partisan Democrats put their interests ahead of national interests" in scuttling the stimulus measure, even though "moderate Democrats" had worked with the White House to draw up a compromise bill. Then, dropping in the name of the Democratic senator from the particular state in which the advertisement is running, the announcer says that "sadly" that senator was among the those who refused to compromise. At that point, President Bush speaks, his image suddenly visible in the television version: "There's something more important than politics and that's to do our jobs," he declares. The advertisement closes with the announcer urging viewers (listeners in the radio version) to call the "partisan" senator and "tell him to support the nation's interests, not partisan interests." Democrats contend that the advertisement is an egregious example of a president going back on his word. "Up until now, the president has mostly avoided this kind of thing," said James M. Jordan, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "But these ads, coming in the middle of a war and aimed at people who have given the president total support in that war, people who really have tried to work things out with him on Capitol Hill ‹ well, such ads just give the lie to his promise to change the partisan tone in Washington. They are as extraordinary as they are despicable." Senator Carnahan issued a statement in which she said she was disappointed that Republicans had resorted to what she called attack ads and called for "a fair and honest discussion of the issues." Senator Baucus said it was "undeniable" that he had tried to work with the president. The Johnson campaign said it appeared that Republicans had concluded that the only way to win back the Senate was "to run a negative, distorted campaign." A spokesman for the Republican Senatorial Committee, Dan Allen, denied that the new advertisement was an unfair partisan attack. "The president has been calling on Democratic senators for cooperation ever since last October," Mr. Allen said. "He was able to work with moderate Democrats. But other Democrats said, `Nothing doing.' Those are the people the ad is addressed to in the interest of the national good." As for the president's appearance in the advertisements, Mr. Allen said that no special filming or recording was done. "The president has addressed this issue many times," he said. "We had plenty of stock footage to fall back on." Mr. Allen would not disclose how much money his committee intended to spend on the advertising campaign. "We're not addressing that," he said. "What we can say is that it is a substantial buy and we're getting som e help from state parties and that the campaign will last at least a week, maybe more." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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