GOP's risky ploy: 'Scary' Democrats

[sabra]

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/14576353.htm

GOP's risky ploy: 'Scary' Democrats

Be very afraid.

That's the gist of the pitch that top Republicans are making these days to their dissatisfied followers, six months before the congressional elections. With their leader in the White House tanking in the polls - President Bush's approval rating fell to 29 percent in a Harris survey released Friday - and with approval of the GOP Congress now registering at 18 percent, the Republicans are currently short on affirmatives for their own side.

So they're seeking to motivate their base by focusing on fear of the opposition - fear of a Democratic Congress, thirsting for revenge against Bush and peppering his people with subpoenas; fear of a Democratic House leader, Nancy Pelosi, who appears in a Republican e-mail looking like a zombie from Night of the Living Dead; fear of House Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers, the chairman-in-waiting, whose Web site cites "grounds for possible impeachment."

It would not be a surprise, in the months ahead, if we hear more from the GOP about Conyers than about Osama bin Laden. That brand of hardball is already discomfiting many Democrats who, citing recent election results, have come to dread the GOP's demonization of their party. Yet many others want the Republicans to bring it on; they believe that Bush deserves to be investigated by a Democratic majority, and they want to say it out loud.

As for the Republicans, there are no guarantees that this fear message will click with conservative voters; many are telling the pollsters that they are underwhelmed at the prospect of voting in November because they're fed up with the GOP's big spending, the failures of execution in Iraq, the crisis of competence during Katrina, and the failure to enact border enforcement. The other day, conservative analysts Kate O'Beirne and Rich Lowry said that even though Republicans want to stoke turnout by "raising the specter of Democratic control," they are "giving their supporters every reason to wonder: How much worse could that be?"

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Ok, everyone!

We must run up to every repuke we can find and screem "BoogaBooga!" in their faces. :crazy: :silly:

[rodeodance]

2. te he. this is funny--first laugh in a long time:

...So they're seeking to motivate their base by focusing on fear of the opposition - fear of a Democratic Congress, thirsting for revenge against Bush and peppering his people with subpoenas; fear of a Democratic House leader, Nancy Pelosi, who appears in a Republican e-mail looking like a zombie from Night of the Living Dead; fear of House Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers, the chairman-in-waiting, whose Web site cites "grounds for possible impeachment."

[rodeodance]

3. nominate

[rodeodance]

4. I wrote him a thank you-----here is his e-mail.

Contact staff writer Dick Polman at 215-854-4430 or [e-mail]. Read his daily blog at http://go.philly.com/polman

[Democrats_win]

5. I'm afraid bush will ignore warnings about OBL attacking us...oh, wait.

[C_U_L8R]

6. We're sooooo scary

we may require that the law actually be respected...
by the president no less....ooooooooooooo
how mean and horrible and absolutely scaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrry

...to a numbskulled freeper that is.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Oh I am SO SCARED

I will run and vote Republican... so we can continue to keep them damn liberals ... oh never mind...

The thinking processs will for once involve the I, ME and my personal interets, since they have horribly been affected.

You watch.

[54anickel]

8. HA-HA! "How much worse could that be?" That's pretty much what

I've been hearing from some of my family and friends that were once die-hard Bush/Republican supporters.

[UpInArms]

9. "Scary"?? I'll show you "scary":

[C_U_L8R]

11. Gee thanks

now i'm gonna have awful nightmares...
wait a minute... hey.... this is no dream....
we're living this nightmare
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhh

[sakabatou]

10. Never mind that the GOP controls all 3 branches

And fucked up pretty much the whole govt, the people, and the world... -_-

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. My biggest fear is that that they won't be scary enough

Ooooo - Congressional Oversight - sounds like witchcraft to them.

[truthisfreedom]

13. meh...

i don't think so, thugs.