What’s the GOP Without bin Laden?

[babylonsister]

What’s the GOP Without bin Laden?
Posted on May 10, 2011

AP / Charles Dharapak

Catch him if you can: President Barack Obama greets military personnel before addressing troops last Friday at Fort Campbell, Ky.

By Robert Scheer


Pity Bill O’Reilly and the rest of the Republican right wing led by the forlorn slate of candidates gearing up to challenge Barack Obama in the next presidential election. They lost their cherished patriotism card as a means of deflecting attention from an economy that exploded on their watch. Beating up on Medicare won’t cut it as a platform when you don’t have the specter of Osama bin Laden to scare voters.

Unfortunately Obama, too, was quite willing to rush off to escalate unnecessary wars, as in the ramped-up conflict with the Taliban in Afghanistan, while bin Laden was being protected by our ally Pakistan. But for the moment there is joy in witnessing the more zealous Republican hard-liners humbled by the success of a president they continuously derided as weak on defense.

There is no sane way for them to explain away how the brainy Democrat with the questioned citizenship and the oddball, Muslim-sounding name, who had dared originally to doubt the wisdom of invading Iraq, ended up succeeding where a warmongering, patriotism-on-my-lapel, Republican president had failed so miserably.

The death of bin Laden in Pakistan renders ever more ludicrous that iconic image of then-President George W. Bush strutting aboard an aircraft carrier under a banner proclaiming “Mission accomplished.” What mission had this Wrong Way Corrigan accomplished except irrationally invading Iraq, a country that had banned al-Qaida, while he cozied up to a Pakistan that had long provided bin Laden and his Taliban sponsors with critical support?

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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/whats_the_gop_without_bin_laden_20110510/

[rfranklin]

1. Don't worry, they still have abortion and....

gay marriage and illegal aliens and no new taxes and a variety of other favorites.

[icnorth]

2. True but these issues

don't quite measure up to the"fear factor" .

[Kolesar]

3. The scary thing is that the same Islamic militants in the Pakistani military who protected bin Laden

Great article. The article is not all about President Obama. It describes America's history with Pakistan.

[Snedder]

4. They'll come up with another bogeyman

They always do.

[harun]

5. It isn't hard to scare GOP'rs. They've got a long list of bogeyman they

can use.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Well, at least they still have NPR and Planned Parenhood

to use as bait.

Watch for more stories on how America is becoming a majority minority country....
that usually does the trick.