“These are the stakes…”
The other day, I was trying to assemble a set of terms of Bushit Bingo, where you have Bingo cards with different Bush common statements on them, and you pass them out before a speech to see who can Bingo on the terms in the speech. Bush was trying to get through an hour-long press conference without really saying anything aside of ’stay the course’ and I noticed that ‘the stakes’ kept coming up over and over.
The GOP is about to run one last scare-the-crap commercial on TV that basically suggests that Osama has suitcase nukes, and if you don’t vote for us, he’ll use them. On you. And boy, did it ever remind me of the infamous Daisy commercial that LBJ used.
This link gives you both the GOP on from 2006 and the Daisy from 1964.
If I’d have been of age in 1964, I probably would have voted for Goldwater then, and I remember seeing this commercial then. I have since been disgusted beyond measure with the Johnson campaign for that election, and again with the Republicans this time.
Both are witless fearmongering. If Osama had suitcase nukes, he would have used them by now - smuggled in over our porous borders, thanks to the people who don’t want to tighten them up because it would upset business tycoons. And I, unlike Bush, don’t believe anything bin Laden says for public consumption. Ever.