Dick Morris tips the hand: "[Bush] needs to elevate the sense of threat"..

[VOX]

Dick Morris is being his usual supreme jerk-wad self, declaring that Kerry cannot win, is too liberal, etc. I expect this kind of bilge from the Clinton-obsessed Morris. But he tips the whole right-wing hand of cards by saying that * needs "to elevate the sense of threat so that his advantage as a war president begins to count..."

Question is, just how far will * elevate that sense of threat?

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http://www.hillnews.com/morris/030404.aspx
The Hill
March 4, 2004

How Bush can destroy Kerry fast
The Democratic Party chose a nominee Tuesday who probably cannot win the White House in November.

In opting for Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and turning down Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, Democrats have broken from the pragmatism and moderation that dominated their party’s profile under Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the 1990s.

Their party has now moved back to the liberal extremism of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis that characterized the 1980s — with the same predictable result.
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But now, Kerry is a fair and inviting target. Bush has to zero in on him and push him to the left right now. Whether Kerry ever consorted with Jane Fonda is beside the point, but Kerry’s voting record is not.

Second, while his anti-Kerry ads are running, the president himself needs to make Americans understand that the war on terror is still atop our national agenda. He needs to elevate the sense of threat so that his advantage as a war president begins to count.
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[arcane1]

1. "elevate the sense of threat" = scaring us into voting for him

does this sound familiar to anyone?

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.

...

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

[rwheeler31]

2. Hmm

Govern through fear and repression. No news there move on.

[Disturbed]

3. Backfire

This obvious tactic will splash right back at the Repukes with most except the dumbass freepers. Bring it on!!!

[Skittles]

9. I agree with Disturbed

Americans are sick of being terrorized; they want ANSWERS and it is quite obvious to them when the fear tactics are activated that Bush Inc has none.

[KissMyAsscroft]

4. Kerry needs to hammer the point of Bush leading through fear.

MoveOn needs to point this out right now, that Bush is going to try to exploit the deaths of AMericans for cheap olitical gain.

And the focus needs to be on Cheney, his secretiveness and Bush's ineptitude.

There needs to be a clip that shows Bush as the lying doofus that he is. Something that will really take the air out of any confidence that they might have in Bush.

Fuck taking the high road, we need to hit with some serious mockery of Bush right now. Make him the laughingstock of the world.

When the Repukes talk about patriotism...laugh and show them the "Fool me once,,,uhh...shame on you....ugggg,...cant get fooled again!" clip.

When they attack Kerry for rumour mill garbage...scream about them taking the low road and insinuate Cheney is behind it.

Im telling you, the focus should be on Cheney.

[DemoTex]

5. Advice from a whore-monger.

Yawn. Next? Bill Bennett? Newt Gingrich? Please! Does the opposition have an honorable man (or woman)?

[jimshoes]

6. Even if I were surrounded by Al Quaida

terrorists each holding a loaded rifle to my head, I would still not vote for *.

[Crachet2004]

7. Gee Dick Morris sure is a smart man...

Advising Bush to to do everything he is already trying to do!

One thing however...has anyone noticed how bad the GOP wants to run against Edwards? Or is it just me?

[Blue-Jay]

8. I'm starting to wonder....

Based on Dicky's recent performances on RW hate-shows; I wonder if HE wasn't the one who helped make Monica-gate an issue to be pursued?

Think about it. He was an "insider", who has proved himself to be a RW piece of shit. Linda Tripp is (face it) too goddamn dumb to have done it herself. It's not outside the realm of possibility, and I'm the type that usually scoffs at the tinfoil-hatters.

Ya think?

[Skip Intro]

10. What advantage is he talking about

"his advantage of a war president"

What, exatctly, is that advantage?

He failed to prevent 9*11.

The bombing of Afghanistan failed to capture Osama or Omar.

The bloody, murderous folly in Iraq has made the US less safe - allies shunned, regional hatred for the US fueled.

A CIA agent outed by the White House.

The military used as a backdrop for a flop of a "mission accomplished" photo-op.

"Ground Zero" used YESTERDAY as a campaign prop for slimy tv campaign.

How, exactly does the man, who hid for hours as the attacks on the US occurred, have an "adavantage" as a "war" president?

[Zookeeper]

20. I agree..

It's hard to imagine that anyone with half a brain really believes that Bush is keeping us safe.

I think he is in a no-win situation on that issue.

[Jax]

11. Dick needs to stick a pin in himself

and go away. Slime.

Jax

[Stephanie]

12. Can we send this quote out to the Dem leadership and the press?

Seriously, I think we should do it. That might neutralize this heinous ploy. As a NYC resident I fell for this trick over and over again in 2002. It was hard on my health. I am IRATE that anyone would suggest such a thing out loud, and I think we should make sure it's common knowledge.

[Stephanie]

17. I just sent to Conason & MWO

And I posted it on the Kerry forum. Who else should see this?

[Minstrel Boy]

13. Can some indulgent American please explain Dick Morris to me?

Is he still considered a Democratic insider?

If he is, could you please also explain the Democratic Party?

[Auntie Bush]

14. That's why we need Clark as VP. n/t

[Poiuyt]

15. Kerry is too liberal?

I suppose he should be more moderate, like bush is.

[David Zephyr]

16. You Are So On the Mark, Rezmutt

Fear, gay bashing, immigrant bashing and more fear.

[Chomskyite]

18. How Kerry Can Destroy Bush fast

He can unleash his surrogates to go after Bush on his conduct immediately before and after 9/11, from his sitting for 20 minues in that classroom to his cutting counterterror funding to all the reports of other terror cells not being intervened against, to the FBI agent who derailed Coleen Rowley's investigation.

If Kerry brings out these big guns, we'll know then he's playing for keeps.

[kaitykaity]

19. Morris said this on Hannity's radio program a couple

of weeks ago. I couldn't effing believe they had the stones to actually say it out loud. "Bush has been too successful in the war on terror because now people don't care about terror. We need more terror to remind folks why they need Bush." (Paraphrase, of course.)

I know how amoral these people are, but still, the depravity is astonishing. :puke: