Just a "Little Bit Desperate"

Last week Bush’s public mouthpiece, Tony Snow, defended a racist ad by a GOP challenger as “a little bit cute”. Let’s be frank. There is nothing cute about the ugly face of bigotry and nothing cute about trying to win elections by pitting Americans against each other. But there is something “a little bit desperate” about the behavior of the GOP.

You can smell their fear in their decision to end the campaign season with a media blitz of negative ads that wouldn’t convince a preschooler.
Most of what is being said about Democrats is little more than the paranoid projections of the power drunk incumbents and the vicious but limited mind of the damaged darling of the GOP, Karl Rove.

Democrats have accused by the GOP of killing black babies, dating white women while black, handing out morning after pills to junior high students and using taxpayer dollars to pay for sex. Well really taxpayer dollar; $1.35 for misdialing an emergency number.

All this from the party that can’t keep their pants zipped even if there are children in the House, who have killed more black babies by the stubborn insistence on funding abstinence only education in Africa and denying low income people access to health care. This is the party who entertained themselves at Duke Cunningham’s limo, sex, poker parties and proposition service employees.

This is all stuff and nonsense. They are hauling the big guns to try and terrify Americans into voting for them. They are telling us that terrorists want the Democrats to win. Dick Cheney who has never been right about anything at anytime insists that Al Qaida and the Iraqi resistance (90% of the country) are trying to manipulate US elections.

Well, the US manipulated their elections so I guess turnabout is fair play.
But would someone please tell me how a country 11,000 miles away with electricity 3 hours a day and no air force, no military (we’ll stand down when the Iraqis stand up) and so immersed in internecine violence that it is no longer safe for paramilitary groups to be there is going to accomplish that?

An Al Qaida memo was intercepted recently that stated the leadership feared a change of policy and early withdrawal of US troops. They are afraid that if the troops leave, the Iraqis will show them the door. The longer we stay, the longer they will have to build a lasting presence. As we now know and the press should have told us, Iraqis are not ordinarily hospitable to terrorists or foreign fighters.
Bush and Cheney are not entitled to their own facts, even during campaign season.

We have report after report that demonstrates that Bush’s policies have been a boon for terrorism. Recruiting and support have gone through the roof. The task force that is charged with catching Al Qaida has been disbanded. From not guarding old nukes in the USSR to forgetting about weapon caches in Iraq, this GOP have made every day Christmas for angry Middle Easterners and oppressed Asians.

The Bushies have even supplied them with easy targets.  There are more than 150,000 Americans within easy reach stationed in Iraq. With a little more effort they can access most of the populations of the US because the GOP think it’s too expensive to inspect incoming cargo, secure our ports, harden our chemical and nuclear plants or continue placing security people on board commercial aircraft.

The Democrats have finally started to support withdrawal from Iraq. They have repeatedly tried to harden US security at home and been rebuffed by the Bush administration and their acolytes in Congress. They advocate spending a few billion to help Russia dismantle their nukes. Which party do you think Al Qaida would like to see in power?

The wilder the rhetoric gets, the more comfortable I feel. It means that Rove and Co. isn’t feeling comfortable.
It means they don’t think their friends at Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia are capable of pulling off another rigged election.  They don’t have confidence that the SOS’s that they have bought and paid for can get away with massive disenfranchisement that were the deciding vote in the ’04 election.
They aren’t entirely sure that the $10 a name “election volunteers” they unleashed can destroy enough Democratic registration forms or trick enough people into signing their fake petitions that switch parties on registered voters and trick others into registering GOP. The point spread is too impressive to wave away as exit poll errors. They are not even sure about jamming phone lines will do the trick and they have temporarily shut up about Iran.

Good, isn’t it.
Carol DW