Bush team's pitch: Vote for us or die

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By Jay Bookman
Cox News Service
Thursday, September 09, 2004

ATLANTA — Fear.

If the Bush campaign has its way, the 2004 presidential election will be decided by fear.

Strategically speaking, the approach is brilliant. Fear blinds people. It can cause intelligent, thoughtful individuals to turn off their brains and revert to instinct, and that instinct tells them to seek a strong leader who can protect them. When no such leader exists, sufficiently frightened people will even invent one, projecting an imaginary strength onto figures who are in reality mediocre.

And unfortunately, this administration is all too adept at provoking fear. Two years ago, by warning that mushroom clouds might soon rise over American cities and that Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicles might spread smallpox over our neighborhoods, they frightened this nation into a misbegotten and mismanaged invasion of Iraq that has so far cost the lives of more than 1,000 of our finest men and women, and in the process has made us significantly less secure.

Now they're at it again. As Vice President Dick Cheney put it Tuesday, "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."

Vote for us or die.

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1. Tricky Dick Cheney is my Backside Of The Bell Curve Winner...

this week on my blog.

I usually wait until Friday to post the weekly winner, but his statement was so outrageous that I couldn't wait.

My Cheney photo caption: Vote for us or you'll die a horrible, fiery death!

http://tinyurl.com/4e6yr

[Catfight]

2. I fear anothe four years of Cheney/Bush's fear tactics. n/t