Scare Tactics...
Our Vice President Dick Cheney stated this today, "It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States..."
So if you vote for John Kerry, America will suffer a devastating attack....???
This is repulisive...
"2 MORE MONTHS!!! 2 MORE MONTHS!!!! 2 MORE MONTHS!!!!"
-Wheeler
posted by ian @ 11:11 PM
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Yeah, it's repulsive how fast John Kerry will screw things up. (Repulsive is something that Republicans do, right hippieboy? John Kerry would never say anything repulsive about President Bush.)
Brilliant response here from the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page to all the Democratic whining we've seen over the Vice President's remarks:
Safety Dance
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Sep 15, 2004
Democrats went ballistic when they learned of Vice President Dick Cheney's suggestion that if the voters make the wrong choice in November, "the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that is very devastating from the standpoint of the United States," and that the U.S. will treat the attack as a criminal matter, not an act of war. Democrats said his comments went beyond the pale, and one commentator even compared him to Joseph McCarthy.
Well, here's a paper bag to hyperventilate into.
John Kerry repeatedly has said President Bush has "driven people away from us and made us less safe." Less safe from whom? Liechtenstein? Of course not. Less safe from terrorist attacks is Kerry's clear implication. Running-mate John Edwards has echoed the "less safe" sentiment, adding, "I know that we have to do more to fight terrorism." Or else what?
Democrat after Democrat has accused the President of diverting resources from the War on Terror to the Iraq War, which - they say - was unnecessary. As one delegate to the Democratic National Convention put it, "I don't like Saddam Hussein any better than anybody else, but we are wasting our money to get rid of one dictator when our needs are in the War on Terrorism."
In a late-August interview in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe said President Bush "has made our nation less safe, not more safe." From . . . ?
And in attempting to respond to Cheney's comments, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi actually echoed them. "It is completely inappropriate and dangerous for the Vice President to in effect threaten the American people, to be part of instilling fear into our country," she said. "If the United States is attacked by terrorists before the next President is inaugurated, it will be because this President was so focused on Iraq that he was distracted from getting the job done in dealing with the clear and present danger that al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden pose to our country."
In short, Democrats have been saying for months that the terrorist threat would be lower if Kerry beats Bush. Cheney said just the opposite. If his comments went beyond the pale, then so did everyone else's.
-BB
Man, I love me a good bitch-slapping in the morning. Attaboy, BB.
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