Sometimes, it doesn’t pay to object too loudly to a crazy accusation, because it only gets the accusation more press.
I hope so too. But you never know what surprises lie ahead. Capturing Osama might pump up the Pubs, as might the Hussein verdict (not coincidentally, timed just days before the election). I can’t blame them for playing the card until it loses because there just might be another win in them yet.
I think what we’re seeing is the last ditch barbs of a party that realizes it has nothing to lose, so it’s shedding all pretense of decorum. They don’t quite have the mentality of suicide bombers who hate their opponents more than they love their own life, but they are probably only a scandal or two away from that.
What they’re doing is appealing to the ditto head quadrant of voters. That’s the only group that would not only unfailingly forgive them for every offense they’ve committed–from Foley to the war to Abramov to the wire tapping, on infinitum–but it’s also the only group who actually believes that the Democrats are terrorists allies. So the RNC is speaking to these fools, hoping to rouse them and put some fire in their bellies.
Rush, I’m sure, has his talking points all ready to go to.
Well, you know, when you press the elevator button, and it doesn’t show up, the first thing you do is press it again and again, harder and faster.
By the way, Fear, congratulations on your guest starring role in the current Doonesbury. Very appropriate to this thread too.
That was my agent’s idea.
Because this is the political equivalent of “water is wet” – “Republican political leader says outlandishly inflammatory bullshit about opponent.” Hell, just the other day we’ve got Ohio gubernatorial candidate (and Diebold voting machine fan) Ken Blackwell accussing his opponent of supporting NAMBLA during a televised debate.
That could be it. It seems that many of the voters the Pubbies could rely on in the past are just too turned off by the various scandals to vote.
Funny think is, it might actually be a good idea let some of those terrorists go free. I’m not talking about the KSM types, and I’m not talking about the poor schmoes who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but some of the guys who might be low level al Qaeda types. The longer we hold so many foks in Gitmo, the more it can be used as a recruiting tool. Call them alleged terrorists or whatever, but release them back to their home countries and let them deal with them.
Yes, and thanks.
Like the guy in the link…they thought the fingerprints matched, he wasn’t just a random person they chose.
Well, in that case, I have to go with Spiny Norman’s assessment of your optimism.
“The Dems are gonna free the terrorists!” rates four tinfoil hats on the WTC* scale.
“They’re tapping Nana’s phone!” gets two, two-and-a-half, tops.
*Wacky Theoretical Conspiracies
The thing about warrantless wiretapping is that you can be almost certain that innocent people will have their phones tapped. That’s the whole point of a warrant in the first place, and that isn’t even foolproof. The real question is, do you trust the gov’t to destroy anything they collect when they inevitably do tap innocent folks’ phones? I most certainly do not.
Of course we’re going to let the terrorists go. Matter of fact, being the party of coddling criminals, there will be no need for a justice system at all! Or an Armed Forces, though we may keep the Coast Guard, just in case terrorists coming in overload their boats with explosives and need to be rescued.
You’d think that these policies would save money, but we’ll still require that you pay increased taxes. We need it for hookers and blow.
They thought the fingerprints matched because of shoddy and abysmally incompetent agents, whose only goal was to arrest someone, anyone. This is the government you trust not to go after innocent people?
Well now that the cat is out of the bag, we may as well unveil our new plan to fight terrorism: Taxes! We’re going to tax them because taxes drive down entrepreneurship. We’ll hit them with a death tax. Who wants to blow themselves up when they know their estate is going to be double-taxed at 50%? And, we’ll hit them with a dramatic increase in the minimum wage, maybe as high as $8.00 an hour. Everyone knows that you can’t bring new workers into a small business or small cell when you have to pay them $8.00 an hour.
(Listening to Bush et al.'s proclaimations that the Democrats, and Pelosi in particular are going to raise taxes was just a sad reminder of how little the Republicans have to offer. Bush even referred to the claim that Democrats would only increase taxes on the wealthy a “code word,” which actually means taxes on everyone. Fear Terrorism and Taxes!)
I’ve got an idea. It’s so obvious, I can’t believe no one has thought of it before: Virgin Tax. 72 virgins per suicide bomber. That’s a lot of virgins. Look, we tax booze, we tax smokes, we tax virtually everything people really want, in accordance with the Nefarious Scheme to Forcibly Redistribute Wealth, right? Why in Heaven’s name should we allow these fellows to waltz into the Afterlife and jump all that sweet virgin booty scott free? 72 virgins, for crying out loud. I mean, heck, lots of people would be happy with just four or five. The whole arrangement is screaming for a luxury tax, plain and simple. I say fifty bucks a virgin once you get over ten, a hundred per over fifty.
Clever notion, but how are we going to collect the taxes? Remember, our devotion to godless humanism forbids us to involve the government in any way with any religious concepts such as God or heaven. I’m not sure imposing taxes on residents of the Afterlife would pass the Lemon test for government non-entanglement with religion. (And sending IRS auditors into the Afterlife to tackle the tax cheats is bound to create legal problems of its own.)
And where would anyone in Heaven get a lawyer?
Oops, that should have been “our Devotion to Godless Humanism”—I always forget to properly capitalize the subheadings in the Official Democrat Dogma. Please don’t report me to our glorious Committee for Politically Correct Orthography!
Shit! That’s a good point. 
OK, OK, lemme think…I’ve GOT IT! Get them to endorse Hillary Clinton (who we all know would get down on her knees and blow them anyway, if only they would call), and the Republicans will revoke their tax-exempt status! Simply collect before they detonate, and blame Bush for the Islamist outcry! Our agnosticism is unchallenged, and the Despicable Budget Surplus grows and grows!
I hope the Dems are learning to fight back, and fight back hard, when they accused of being “soft on terror”. Don’t dismiss it as a silly assertion (even though it is), but attack the accuser head on and vigorously defend their positions. Many people are begining to realize that Bush’s policies have probably made us less safe, and that includes even some life long Republicans. A lot of bad shit has happened and is happening on Bush’s watch, and even though I’m not sure they’re all his fault, them’s the breaks in politics.