Greg Gutfeild, posts one I wish I’d thought of.
You say that the Republicans are fear mongers, what with their inconvenient reminders that terrorism is rampant in the world. But it seems to me that the real fear mongers are on the left, as amply demonstrated here with this list I made after reading a week’s worth of Huffposts, all while sitting in my underwear under a sun lamp:
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Fear of a loss of individual liberty in response to the war on terror.
Fear that the paranoia over terrorism will erode everything this country was founded on.
Fear that liberals haven’t degraded the education system enough so most people still know that Abraham Lincoln and FDR suspended many liberties to deal with similar crises…
Fear of George Bu$H
Fear that Bu$h is to blame for everything
Fear that Bu$h isn’t to blame for everything
Fear that if you continue to blame everything on Bu$h, you won’t actually figure out who really is to blame for your problems
Fear that your spelling of Bu$h reflects your intellectual prowess, in a nutshell.
And for that, you still blame Bu$h
And your parent$Fear of Walmart
Fear of people who shop at Walmart
Fear that you might actually save money if you shopped at Walmart
Fear that Walmart has done more to help the poor than any social program ever created by our government.
Addendum: (David L) The ‘rats simply are the party of fear. We have LBJ’s Daisy ad. Senator Oldmobile’s Robert Bork’s America and the New York Times September 14, 2002 editorial:
On Sept. 14, 2002, The New York Times’ Frank Rich warned of another al-Qaida attack in the U.S. if we invaded Iraq, noting that since “major al-Qaida attacks are planned well in advance and have historically been separated by intervals of 12 to 24 months, we will find out how much we’ve been distracted soon enough.”
While Johnson infered that Barry Goldwater was the war monger, it was Johnson who gave us a phoney Gulf of Tonkin and escalated a war in Vietnam that he refused to win. All the ‘rats know is fear.
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