"Every 17 years, cicadas emerge, morph out of their shell, and change their appearance," the narrator says in an Internet-only campaign video e-mailed Friday to 700,000 Bush supporters across the country.
As time-lapse photography captures a cicada breaking out of its shell and developing adult wings, the ad continues:
"Like a cicada, Senator Kerry would like to shed his Senate career and morph into a fiscal conservative, a centrist Democrat opposed to taxes, strong on defense. But, he leaves his record behind."
