Crying

The new Republican add: Wolves.

Bush's message is consistent: "Kill 'em all"

Just when gray wolves are beginning to recover out West, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed stripping federal protection to make it easier to kill them. The agency's proposal would downgrade the animals' protected status from "endangered" to "threatened," a shift that would let ranchers kill wolves that attack their livestock. Wildlife advocates believe this is the first step in the Bush administration's effort to eventually de-list wolves from the Endangered Species Act, perhaps by the end of the year -- putting them under the control of states where politicians favor eradicating the species."

And furthermore, here's a truth about wolves:

Wolves can live close to people without causing problems. Their tolerance is surprising, even when people harm their cubs or take their kills. This is not to say that a healthy (that is non-rabid) wolf will never kill anyone. Sooner or later this may happen. But wolves are large wild predators and humans are ubiquitous worldwide. We should therefore expect the occasional unfavorable wolf-human encounter and not be overly shocked when it happens.

I understand the need to be heated in our political rhetoric, but why does he need to drag wolves into this?