The 77-second video on the Bush-Cheney re-election site splices footage of Kerry, the presumptive nominee, and his 2004 rival Dean along with 2000 nominee Gore and film director Michael Moore. The spot calls them Kerry's "Coalition of the Wild-eyed." Clips of Hitler's image are seen throughout the spot.

"The use of Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong," said Kerry's campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, who called on the GOP campaign to remove the Web video from its site.

"We're using the video from MoveOn.org to show our supporters the type of vitriolic rhetoric being used by the president's opponents and John Kerry's surrogates," said Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.

First, it's beyond arrogant that the GOP wants to hold MoveOn responsible for the ad submitted in the MoveOn contest when the organization rejected, removed, and condemned the submission. Over at Pandagon, both Jesse and Ezra have more on this topic, though, and I have little to add to that.

I, however, welcome our new extra-political overlords. If the GOP wants the standard to be that anyone who does not support John Kerry speaks is "the face of George W. Bush's Republican party," the Democrats will win that battle every time. I think that by the time you read this, the DNC should have posted an ad entitled "The Faces of George W. Bush's Republican Party" with all those wonderful quotes and video clips that deserve so much more attention:

• Michael Savage telling a gay caller to his short-lived MSNBC talker that he should "get AIDS and die" (a great message during gay pride festivities)
• Rush Limbaugh saying that US female police chiefs means "we can watch out for some naked pyramids among prisoners in these new jailhouses that these women ran," or that torture committed by US troops under administration orders were just good folks "blowing off steam"
• Rush also saying that Democrats and liberals have no souls, because "souls come from God"
• Ann Coulter saying that "all the American people that don't support" George W. Bush are "traitors"

...and so many more. Seems kind of ironic that such an ad can't include the Vice President's own words to his political opponents, words neither VPOTUS nor POTUS will disavow, because it would trigger the GOP's decency standards.

Gang, if this is the battle they want, take it to them. The only way these idiots get away with this bigotry and hatred is that only the fellow bigots and haters normally hear it. Change that and you change everything.