Ted Kennedy's son has written a letter to Linda McMahon's campaign asking her to pull an ad featuring the likeness of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.
"Your ad is dishonest because it distorts the legacy of President Kennedy in order to mislead voters into thinking that President Kennedy would support your position on tax policy,'' writes Edward M. Kennedy Jr., a Connecticut resident. "In addition, using President Kennedy's image in your ad gives your tax position false legitimacy.''
McMahon's ad -- deftly deconstructed by Ted Mann of The Day -- takes remarks made by Kennedy in 1963 and implies that the Democratic icon would have supported McMahon and other Republicans who are calling for an extension of the Bush tax cuts for wealthy taxpayers (not just so-called middle income earners, as most Democrats would like.)
Ted Kennedy Jr. says that's twisting the late president's position because the U.S. economy is in an entirely different place than it was in the early 1960s.
He also takes McMahon to task for refusing to support tax cuts for the middle class unless the richest taxpayers also get a piece of the pie.
And that, Kennedy writes, is more in line with the legacy of George W. Bush than John F. Kennedy.