Invoking Sept. 11

Republican Chairman Ed Gillespie is trying to pre-empt any criticism that the Republican National Convention is inappropriately using the Sept. 11 tragedy for political purposes.

You may remember the Bush campaign encountering criticism back in March when the president’s re-election team used actors dressed as firefighters to reenact post-attack efforts at the World Trade Center site.

Gillespie tells reporters that Democrats at their convention in Boston in July mentioned Sept. 11 “more than a hundred times.”