The repugicans are campaigning on fear-mongering about terrorism again,
because they can't run on anything else.
Josh Schwerin, a spokesman for the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee, blasted repugicans for using Karl
Rove scare tactics to distract from their epic, Do-Nothing fail.
“With their own anti-middle class agenda leading to
record low approval ratings, House Republicans are resorting to Karl
Rove’s scare tactics. It’s a shame that at a time when our nation is
facing real threats abroad and economic challenges at home, the NRCC
would stoop to these lows just to try to win seats,” Schwerin said,
according to Igor Bobic in an article entitled “repugican Campaign Ads
Fear-Mongering Over ISIS Threat” at Huffington Post.
Yes, repugicans are campaigning on fear-mongering
about terrorism again (because they can’t run on anything else). It
worked so well during the shrub junta.
The shrub was a great employer of Rovian fear-mongering, stooping so low
in the lead up to the 2006 midterms as to accuse Democratic members of
Congress of being pro-terrorists because they did not agree with his
“strategy” in Iraq. “The Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this:
The terrorists win and America loses.”
So subtle! Vote Democratic and the terrorists win!
(Never mind that later the Democrats actually got Bin Laden, reality was
not invited to this party.) Don’t think, y’all. Just FEAR. FEAR your
vote, because if there’s one thing Republicans know, it’s fear.
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said that in the days before the 2004 election, he was pressured by shrub aides to raise the nation’s terror alert level.
“We certainly didn’t believe the tape alone warranted action, and we weren’t seeing any additional intelligence that justified it. In fact, we were incredulous,” Ridge said of the push. “… I wondered, ‘Is this about security or politics?'”
Ridge resigned shortly after that incident.
So here’s the deal. The party that lied about
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and later said that finding Bin
Laden was not high on the priority list greedily used that war and the
horrific memory of 9/11 to fear the vote. This is the same party whose
President ignored the intel about an impending attack. But somehow they
managed to sell themselves as the cabal that would keep us all safe. Big
Daddy was in the House and he might be sort of a fool but he was not
afraid to kill first so we should all rest easy.
Only it turned out that bumbling around in foreign
policy wasn’t the safest bet after all. It turned out that by invading
Iraq, a power vacuum was created. It turned out that by demonizing
terrorism as an idea instead of going after specific leaders of
terrorism like Bin Laden, terrorism was elevated. It didn’t need any
help in that department, either, but this is a relationship of mutual
benefit.
That party left it to the Democratic President to actually get Bin Laden.
The repugicans were also busy using fear to sell their
tax cuts for the rich at the same time, because nothing says winning and
I understand the basics of accounting like two wars left off of the
books and drastically lowering revenue. They left that mess to Barack
Obama to clean up as well, so you can understand why they can’t afford
to debate actual issues.
Fear is used to distract, to invoke immediate chaos
via flight or fight instincts. Fear is used by the candidate who does
not want or cannot afford to discuss the issues. Both sides of the aisle
have used fear, but only the repugican cabal has mastered it, honing
it into an election tool of destruction.
The great irony is that were people to stop fearing
and start thinking, they would realize that Republicans did not keep us
safe. We were attacked on our soil under the repugican pretender, and
he never did get Bin Laden. His invasion of Iraq was a disaster with no
end.
The repugicans using terrorism as a get out the vote
tactic have no record to do so, and no shame. Why won’t they run on
their record and debate their opponent?
Why is the repugican campaign always jumping around from demonized
issue/person/group to newly demonized issue/person/group, as issues wear
out? What happened to their plan to run against affordable healthcare
for everyone?
The cabal (repugicans) that could not get the votes together on their own to arm the Syrian rebels is now running as the only thing that will save us all from the threat of ISIS.
MUSHROOM CLOUDS! THEY’RE COMING TO KILL US ALL! DON’T LOOK AT OUR RECORD! MUSHROOM CLOUDS!
The repugicans said they had deep reservations about
the plan, but offered no alternative save for boots on the ground. Of
course, they would never discuss a draft so close to election time,
because some fears are real and must be denied in order for the
terrorism fear-mongering to work.
Vote repugican because they really hate terrorists.
Never, ever ask yourself what that actually means, lest you be caught
thinking. Karl Rove would not approve.
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