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Playing The Fear Card
Be afraid. It’s not just a warning - it’s a campaign slogan. For Republicans, fear is a cudgel with which they’ve bludgeoned their way to victory since the Reagan era, and it’s acquired an extra emotional wallop since 9/11. Will it work again?
Even though Barack Obama has a lead of as much as 15 points in the national polls, don’t be too sure that it won’t. After all, Michael Dukakis led the first George Bush by 17 points in the summer of 1988. That fall, Dukakis collapsed under a vicious assault on his patriotism, his toughness, even his mental stability.
Come September, we can expect the fear-mongering will be at a fever pitch. Recent comments by Charlie Black, the adviser to John McCain who’s been admonished for claiming his man would be helped by a terrorist attack on American soil, will barely warrant an asterisk once the White House machine gets cranked up on McCain’s behalf.
– By Dan Kennedy
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2 Responses to “Playing The Fear Card”
Posted on 02 Jul 2008 at 7:28 pm by Cordley Coit
After years of conditioning we ought to be rat fearful. Cop shows and the news from our cities and of course the bloodbath we call the Middle East.
Day to day life is inreality a dullards struggle to stay eating but get home for the evening news and there is nothing but fear there. There’s a John Prine song about “She could have been raped by a minority.” The electorate ought to hiding under it’s collective bed teeth chattering. Never mind no one could be scairier than McCain with his new Hundred Years War
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Posted on 03 Jul 2008 at 5:25 pm by gary snider
how stupid are people ? if we are attacted before the elections it will only because they let it happen and all reps will be booted out and crimal charges will be brough the neocons are going out no matter what
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