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They've got nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zip. Absolutely nothing.
Except fear. That's their calling card, their sole weapon, their only tactic: flaming our fears.
"It's absolutely essential," Dick Cheney insisted yesterday, "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 don't come crying to Dick Cheney if the terrorists attack again; you can't say he didn't warn you. Vote for Kerry, and you deserve you get.
But Cheney's not alone in the fear-mongering. As Josh Marshall of TalkingPointsMemo.com pointed out yesterday, just thirteen minutes after it was announced that the casualty rate among American servicemen and women in Iraq had reached the one thousand mark, Tom Ridge was paraded out to announce once again that we're all in grave danger.
Mind you, his warning was not based on new evidence; there was no uptick in "chatter" among terrorist groups. No,as he so often does when news that reflects badly on Bush, Inc. (is there any news that doesn't?) is issued, he just wanted to distract us by citing the ever-present danger of another terrorist attack.
If it weren't so appalling, it'd be almost laughable at this point.
They have nothing else to campaign on. Smearing John Kerry and ratcheting up our collective fear -- that's the full extent of their campaign strategy.
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