Originally Posted By: whomod

and at least the Dems don't spend every waking moment trying to conjure up the idea that the boogeyman will kill you if you don't vote for them


What. The. Hell. Are. You. Talking. About?

Right or wrong, a good portion of the political debate on both sides of the aisle consists of elected officials, or people seeking elected office, trying to scare the voters into supporting them.

Maybe democrats don't try to scare us with the threat of terrorism (except when, you know, they're arguing that Bush's actions only encourage the terrorists and make us less safe). However, not a day goes by where the democrats don't try to conjure up the image of sick children, starving senior citizens, abused minorities and other nightmares that will occur (or are occuring) if we don't throw money at whatever problem they've decided requires government intervention.

For example, look at the fact that Bush didn't want to expand the SChip program as broadly as the Democrats did (see Ray's "Bush is Just Evil" thread). The entire Democrat message was "Children--sob--THE CHILDREN--will get sick and die if we don't have this." (NOTE: This is not an invitation to turn this thread into yet another discussion of that topic. I am simply using this as an example, given its' recent prominence on these boards and elsewhere). If that--the invocation of something that will endanger a bunch of kids--isn't the invocation of a "boogeyman," I don't know what is.

Now, if the liberals here want to downplay the idea of a suicidal Muslim crazy man who hates feminists, jews and homosexuals getting a nuke, I suppose that's their right. But it just seems weird that a group that spends so much time attacking "the Christian right" for being "intolerant" towards those same groups would be so unconconcerned about the threat posed by this guy.