(NY Times) Cry of G.O.P. in Campaign: All Is Dismal
WASHINGTON — Darkness is enveloping American politics.
With four weeks to go before the midterm elections, Republicans have made questions of how safe we are — from disease, terrorism or something unspoken and perhaps more ominous — central in their attacks against Democrats. Their message is decidedly grim: President Obama and the Democratic Party run a government that is so fundamentally broken it cannot offer its people the most basic protection from harm.
Hear it on cable television and talk radio, where pundits and politicians play scientists speculating on whether Ebola will mutate into an airborne virus that kills millions. See it in the black-hooded, machine-gun-brandishing Islamic extremists appearing in campaign ads. Read about it in the unnerving accounts of the Secret Service leaving Mr. Obama and his family exposed.
Republicans believe they have found the sentiment that will tie congressional races together with a single national theme.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/us/politics/republican-strategy-midterm-elections.html
"An ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee running against Senator Mark Udall of Colorado plays a clip of the senator saying the Islamic State does not pose an imminent threat."
I know that crazy talk like this unfortunately gets lots of right wingers to get out & vote...this kind of advertising defeated Max Cleland in Georgia in 2002. But I do NOT wish for Dem leadership to sink to this level, even though being the "nice guys" in the political room is. not. working.
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