RNC: MoveOn.org Attacks Again

WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following letter is being issued by the Republican National Committee:

Dear Friend,

The left-wing attack machine is spewing venomous falsehoods again.

MoveOn.org is running an ad that maliciously misquotes John McCain in an attempt to smear him and distort the facts.

We've seen this type of assault from the extreme left playbook before. Last September, MoveOn.org viciously attacked the integrity of our top military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, with a full-page newspaper ad in The New York Times. And before that they compared President Bush to Hitler during the 2004 campaign.

This isn't the first gratuitously negative ad the Democrat/liberal special interest attack machine has run against Republican candidates this campaign -- and you can be sure that it won't be the last. Our Party must set the record straight about the left's distortions.

John McCain and all our candidates need your emergency online contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50, or $25 to the RNC today to help fight back against radical propaganda groups like MoveOn.org and stop their bald-faced lies.

Your support is crucial to our efforts, because the candidate of "change" won't stand up to them. Barack Obama, the first presidential candidate MoveOn.org has ever endorsed, has consistently and deliberately taken Senator McCain's words out of context on the campaign trail. While decrying the "negative tone" of politics and the involvement of outside groups, Obama continues to cave in to left-wing propaganda groups as they carry out attacks against Republicans.

We need your help to answer these attacks and get our message past the liberal mainstream media filter. Your secure online contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50, or $25 today will help us stand up to MoveOn.org and other leftist groups who think they can lie with impunity.

The Democrats and their left-wing allies' propaganda cannot go unanswered. Please help as generously as you can.

Sincerely,

Robert M. "Mike" Duncan
Chairman, Republican National Committee

P.S. This early attack ad from MoveOn.org is just the beginning of the smear-and-fear campaign Democrats and liberal special interests will air this election year. Please help the RNC respond to these outright distortions and negative ads by making a secure online contribution of $1,000, $500, $100, $50, or $25 today. Thank you.

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