GOP's Telivised Scaring Contest: BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!

[kpete]

GOP to voters: Be afraid, be very afraid
The Republican presidential contenders are engaged in a televised scaring contest, complete with explosions and sound effects, on the issue of national security. Check under your bed.

By Mike Madden

Jan. 7, 2008 | MANCHESTER, N.H. -- First, an enormous orange fireball booms onto the screen. The camera shakes and a crowd runs for cover. Next, sirens wail, as an abandoned car explodes. Paramedics tote bodies away from another blast. Militants raise their AK-47s and parade across the desert, their faces masked.

What's the next image that fills the screen, in a Web commercial by John McCain that really puts the "attack" in "attack ad"? Mitt Romney's face, above a quote from a Hannity & Colmes appearance where Romney said "a president is not a foreign policy expert."

The closer the New Hampshire primary gets, it seems, the more terrified the Republican presidential candidates want you to be. That way, you'll vote for the guy who scared you the worst, and not that guy who's going to preside over your death at the hands of jihadists. McCain, who wants to shift the conversation away from immigration and onto foreign policy and security issues, has Web ads like "Experience." Rudy Giuliani -- who never misses a chance to remind voters about 9/11 -- is airing a TV commercial in New Hampshire called "Ready" that is even more alarming than McCain's "Experience." Released just days after Bhutto's murder, it features footage of the late Pakistani leader, accompanied by a soundtrack of Middle Eastern music. "Hate without boundaries," intones a narrator. "A people perverted ... A nuclear power in chaos." Mike Huckabee -- no foreign policy maven -- answered a press conference question about immigration by invoking the specter of Pakistanis with "shoulder-fired missiles" sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico border. Fred Thompson got into the act at Saturday night's ABC News/Facebook/WMUR debate, proving that even campaigns that don't have the money to scare people with ads can still try other methods. "We could be attacked with a biological weapon and not even know it for a long period of time," Thompson told viewers matter-of-factly. (Now enjoy your late local news.)

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more at:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/07/terror/?source=whitelist

[Alter Ego]

1. I think the Republicans oughta just drop all pretense

and do every public appearance wearing fright masks.

[maddiejoan]

2. wait --those aren't fright masks?

[Alter Ego]

6. Well, Fred Thompson's already doing it.

He's going as Cabbage Face.

[maddiejoan]

7. I thought it was

Creature of the black lagoon

Here he is with his trophy wife

[Kansas Wyatt]

4. Or they could go ahead and put on the two-bit dictator uniforms.

So they can show the people they are a Commander.

[Alter Ego]

8. Or "Commander Guys".

[TomInTib]

3. I love the "Pakistanis with "shoulder-fired missiles" part.

Those coyotes would steal those things so quick.

Just kidding.

The joke here is that these campaigns recognize what a dumb fucking bunch that the Average Americans make up.

[Rex]

5. Hey dickholes, check into the anthrax attacks on our Congress

you know, when George and Dick got caught taking Cipro 2 months before the attacks. No better yet - just runabout and act like lemurs, I guess you all have the hots for death and war. Typical.

Oh look, a cliff!