Dems Respond to RNC Ad With Video of Senators Tying McCain to Bush

Democrats are hitting back at a Republican National Committee Web ad that highlights Democratic praise for John McCain with a Web video of their own.

In the Democratic National Committee ad, Sens. Joe Biden (D-Del.), John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) blast McCain as a candidate who hopes to continue the policies of President Bush.

Read the script and watch the ad below.

TEXT: John McCain …Maverick No More.

Senator Joe Biden: “But stylistically and substantively, there is no daylight between George Bush and John McCain. They are joined at the hip.”

Senator John Kerry: “John McCain has changed in profound and fundamental ways that I find personally really surprising, and frankly upsetting. He is not the John McCain as a senator who defined himself quote as a ‘maverick’ though questionable. This is a different John McCain.”

Senator Tom Daschle: “On Iraq, on the economy, on tax policy, on domestic policy, across the board. He is espousing the Bush policies. He’s changed a lot since 2001.”

Senator Hillary Clinton: “But in the end, after eight devastating years under President Bush, Senator McCain is simply offering four years more.”

DNC Chairman Howard Dean: “You know, the John McCain of 2000 wouldn’t’ vote for this John McCain. We don’t need another four years of George Bush. What he’s proposing is four more years of George Bush’s economic policy and its ridiculous and its unfair the American people.”

TEXT: Let’s Let President Bush Have the Final Say
President Bush: “Its been my honor to welcome my friend John McCain as the nominee of the Republican Party