Repug 2008 Talking points; The Three Ts Taxes, Terror, and Tacos

[Botany]

Guaranteed these will be the points pushed.

Taxes) Democrats will raise taxes which will stifle business and personal savings.

Terror) Republicans will keep us safe from that great big "Islamo Fascist" threat.

Tacos) Illegal immigrants are coming and they are not white.

Our democratic candidates should be ready to answer this crap w/ my opponent is
a "bush Cheney republican," who has no real ideas so he/she only can repeat empty
headed ideas instead of trying to work on our common problems.

[rasputin1952]

1. It's all they have...Fear, constant fear...

What they can't see is that citizens are for more resilient than what they are perceived as.



Terror has never been a reliable "weapon", sure people get scared and can act irrationally, even to the point where they accept something as nasty as the "Patriot Act". But in the long run, people just get down to business and carry on to diminish the threat. The Brits during the Blitz, the Germans during the mass bombings, the Japanese during the firebombing of it's cities, and the Chinese during the Japanese occupation all knew terror on a huge scale. In each case, the people got on with the business of daily life.

Even today, bombings in the Middle East, in Africa, Asia and Europe initiate a powerful response on the terror meter, but those that do the bombing are reviled, and people have turned against them in massive #'s. Sure, they are hard to find, but as time goes by, they will be found before they can accomplish their sick and cowardly missions.

Fear...the GOP platform: Fear of taxation, fear of gays, fear of those who don't think like they do, fear of terrorism, fear of immigration, fear of everything but what people should be afraid of, the fear that all of our Rights and Privileges are going by the wayside w/each day that we, the American people, the real essence of this nation allow such things to happen.

Fear is a double edged sword however...and the GOP is facing the very real fear that it has taken itself into a situation where, for perhaps a generation, it will be a non-entity in politics after the next election.