Rethugs to use terra again in '06

[mrgorth]

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/13703872.htm

As Yogi Berra once said, it's déjÀ vu all over again.
In January 2002, presidential strategist Karl Rove said the GOP would use the war on terror against Democrats in that year's congressional elections. In his words, "We can go to the country confidently on this issue because Americans trust the Republican Party to do a better job of keeping our communities and families safe."

And in January 2006, Rove says the GOP will use the war on terror against Democrats in this year's congressional elections. In his words last week: "Republicans have a post-9/11 worldview, and many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. That doesn't make them unpatriotic. Not at all. But it does make them wrong, deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong."

Painting the Democrats as national security wimps worked well in 2002; even Max Cleland, the triple-amputee war hero from Georgia, was depicted as a threat to the homeland and voted out of his Senate seat. The Republicans regained control of the Senate, expanded their majority in the House, and have ruled Capitol Hill ever since.