Brown warns GOP will use scare tactics
2006-11-02
Source: Dayton Daily News
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rss feedU.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown, leading in late polls over Republican Sen. Mike DeWine, warned Democrats on Wednesday against GOP scare tactics and deflected the controversy surrounding a comment about Iraq by 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
"Of course, they (Republicans) are using it as a rallying call because they want to change the subject. John Kerry stumbled on a joke, it didn't come out right," Brown said in an interview. "The people who should apologize are George Bush and Mike DeWine for sending our troops into battle without body armor and without examining the cooked intelligence."
DeWine, meanwhile, said Brown should denounce Kerry and noted in a news release that Kerry, D-Mass., has supported Brown's campaign.
"With hundreds of Ohio's best serving in Iraq and around the world, where is Sherrod Brown's outrage and embarrassment at Kerry's remarks?" DeWine said.
Kerry says he botched a joke meant to be about Bush when he told a student audience that when you don't study hard and learn, "you get stuck in Iraq."
DeWine urged Democrats, including his opponent, to denounce Kerry's comments.
"Our troops are highly motivated and well educated. They represent our best. This was really insulting to them," DeWine said.
Brown spokesman Ben LaBolt called this a distraction from the real issue in the campaign, which he said is DeWine's willingness to lead us into the war based on faulty intelligence.
Brown, gubernatorial nominee Ted Strickland, and other Democratic candidates rallied at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Four years ago, President Bush came to the historic Union Terminal site to lay out his case for war, saying Saddam Hussein could be plotting to attack the United States with biological and chemical weapons while developing a nuclear weapon.
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