Pic Of The Moment: Republican Message For The 2014 Mid-Term Elections

[EarlG]

&quot ISIS) could infiltrate our defenseless border and attack us right here in places like Arkansas"

"We've got an Ebola outbreak ... We need to seal the border and secure it"

"Evil forces around the world want to harm Americans every day"

"Can you imagine if a whole ship full of our soldiers catch Ebola?"

"Our country is headed for national socialism"

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1. they thank goodness for fear, otherwise they'd only have greed.

ebola hype is this electoral cycle's october surprise

[Plucketeer]

2. And the big, bad elephant screams:

OMG - a MOUSE! Didn't I just see a MOUSE? Run for your liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiivvvveeess.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Well, Tom cotton's probably going to be in the Senate next year. Then

everybody can see how good Mark Pryor was.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Sadly, I think you're right.

Latest RCP polls are calling it a toss-up, but Cotton has had consistently higher poll numbers than Pryor for some time now.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/ar/arkansas_senate_cotton_vs_pryor-4049.html

[Art_from_Ark]

25. Ohhhhhh crap

I hope Pryor can pull it out of the fire. Tom Cotton is fruitier than Toucan Sam.

[Arkansas Granny]

26. If you listen to him, you'd think he was running against Obama, not Pryor.

[Art_from_Ark]

27. I was "treated" to some of his commercials a few months ago

I had to hurriedly push the mute button, they were so painful to listen to.

[Art_from_Ark]

29. By the way, it is true that Mike Ross is also trailing in the polls?

What the heck is going on in The Natural State (formerly known as the Land of Opportunity)?

[Arkansas Granny]

30. Yes, Ross is several points behind in the polls.

As far as what has happened, the fundies and the tea party have made a lot of headway in the state. If you read the LTTE in our local paper, many of them sound like hellfire and brimstone sermons. We're moving backwards.

[Art_from_Ark]

31. And to think that in 1982 we booted out Frank White after one term

because he was into the "fundie" stuff, but now it seems to be becoming more mainstream

[progressoid]

4. Hate to say it, but those messages actually are quite successful with a lot of voters.

Fear sells.

[groundloop]

5. Exactly my thoughts....

If you can't get voters to the polls based on your values and what you'll do to help them then gin up a lot of fear and get voters to the polls based on that. It's worked before and it'll probably work again.

And unfortunately Democrats don't seem to be doing a good job of countering this irrational fear.

[AlbertCat]

6. We weren't this insecure....

.... before the military budget was 3 time greater than all the other world's military budgets combined. Maybe spending more on the military makes one LESS secure!


Frankly, I feel safer when we don't have the House of Saud's best buddies and business partners in charge of our country.

[kairos12]

7. Pampered chicken hawk rethugs should be advertising Depends. However,

given the crap they spew the Depends would go on their head.

[geretogo]

8. Fear worked well for the Nazi party in Germany in the 30's . We will see how well it works for the

fascists in the GOP if they steal another election .

[MADem]

9. They've gone from TERRA TERRA TERRA to Plague!!! Pestilence!!! Socialism!!!!

Be. Very. AFRAID!!!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!

[SheilaT]

10. I wish whoever created that picture

would fix the misspelling of soliders. It's soldiers.

[Rozlee]

20. A whole ship full of them. And they all have Ebola.

Don't let them dock. By the time they do, they'll have risen from the dead and they'll be mighty hungry.

[pansypoo53219]

11. time to delete 'home of the brave'.

[alterfurz]

15. quite rightly!

[turbinetree]

12. Open Secrets

Lets all take a look at the OpenSecrets.org site and look at who is funding these hypocrites and lay it right at there feet, because these PACS and individuals want to keep power by hate and fear

[SmittynMo]

14. SOS - Fear, fear, fear..

And Rinse Penis is in front of the pack, leading them down the dark, lonesome corridor.

[Dont call me Shirley]

24. Rinse P.

[Docross]

16. The media is still messing with our polls

Will media acknowledge they were too credulous in touting Rove's pre-election optimism?
(2006)…Saying Republicans will take both the house and the senate.) Mediamatters

The MEDIA is still messing with our polls, but it will backlash.

November 2006: The Senate elections were part of the Democratic sweep of the 2006 elections, in which Democrats made numerous gains and no Congressional or gubernatorial seat held by a Democrat was won by a Republican
How did Karl Rove (and the media) get everything so wrong?

Because they still use the same old tactics: that Democrats are 'weak'; that Democrats will use that 'weak' story, and eat their own; That POLLS say they're going to win big, so don't bother to vote.......that the terrorists will 'get us' if they're in charge. Throw in some anti-abortion, gay fear, latinos are taking your jobs and 'taxes'.

OLD white guys with money-brainwashed and stuffed so tightly into their little cubicles of opinion...they can't see that they're going extinct........

[onecent]

17. Shit they forgot climate change, and bread lines due to NO JOBS and

social security going dry,....and on and on and on..

[SoapBox]

18. Benghazi!

Right in your own home!!!

...just helping them think up some more messages that the lemmings will believe.

Get a fucking spine Dems and counter this bullshit.

[world wide wally]

19. Yu forgot the best one by Southern Belle, Lindsay Graham "We're all gonna die!"

[hibbing]

33. He's recovering from a case of the vapors

[Archae]

21. What's a "solider?"

Whoops!

[Thor_MN]

22. Perhaps we could quarantine them?

They are always worked up and a bit feverish - and the way they are crapping their pants... That's ebola symptoms...

[santamargarita]

23. It's always the same old shit with this bunch.

[Initech]

28. Translation:

[niyad]

32. hate to tell you this, pukes, but. . .I gave up being afraid when I was about 12.

[LeftishBrit]

34. Fear fear fear fear, be very afraid

[Major Hogwash]

35. You missed one . . .

During their first public debate, and I am guessing their only public debate, Senator James Risch used an old, tired, worn out attack on Democrats for the reason why he hasn't worked to protect a very pristine area in North Idaho from development, called the White Clouds area.

He told the public that it was the "environmental extremists" in the Democratic party that kept him from writing any legislation to protect that area from being turned into another upscale, ritzy, housing development for the wealthy located high in the mountains.

His Democratic opponent quickly responded by saying that Risch has been in the Senate for almost 6 years now, yet NOT once has he even talked publicly about protecting the White Clouds area from development.

Of course the reason is obvious, Risch owns a lot of land in Idaho.
He is one of the most wealthy members of Congress, and is listed as the #14 wealthiest member in the current Congress.
It is estimated that he owns somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 to $70 million dollars of property in Idaho.

So, naturally Risch wants to see the White Clouds area developed.
Hell, he may even own property in that area, or land that is adjacent to it!!

But, I have to admit, I haven't heard the term "environmental extremists" applied to Democrats for several years now.

Not since those halcyon days when the batshit crazy Republicans were blaming the poor economy in Idaho on the spotted owl, which was simply total bullshit.
The Republicans claimed that protecting that owl supposedly cost the state most of our timber jobs.
Completely ignoring the fact that cheaper lumber was being imported in to America from vast forests located just to the north of us, in Canada.

[Cha]

36. FEARGATE! #FEARTHEFAN, too!

mahalo, EarlG~

[Cha]

37. "The Republican Agenda"..

http://theobamadiary.com/2014/10/20/a-tweet-or-two-147/

[PatrickforO]

38. Ironically, our country IS headed down the path toward national socialism.

All we need is a tea party majority and a tea party dictator. We already have the oligarchy. The ironic part, of course, is that it is the right-wing crazy wing of the Republican party that has taken us to this precipice.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

39. Pat Roberts isn't lying about our country being headed for National Socialism

Just about which party is actively working to bring it about.