The Politics of Fear

Exactly!!!!!!


And you're absolutely right that it started in 2006.

The GOP always used to scorn the Dems for using Chicken Little scare tactics... until they started to resort to them themselves.

Great essay, Flag!

I guess you were posting here about the time I was posting at the Island!

.....I don't have a problem with "Lift ev'ry voice" being sung at a public event but I think that Rene Marie should have announced her intention to the mayor ahead of time and maybe followed with the traditional anthem ...

....The message she sent to the audience is that blacks reject the National Anthem and have a seperate Black Anthem ...I don't think that this is the best way to unite Americans in a common cause ...it smacks of "seperate but equal" and I think it was inspired by Obama's candidacy ...

.....If this trend continues I see civil strife far into the future as the "The melting pot" melts down into a tangled blob of multi-cultural conflicts and the eventual collapse of the Republic ...perhaps this is the inevitable, logical result of how the end will come .....COLOSSUS

I got the email alert (ding!), saw your post at my place, and hustled on over.

I take it you saw my post at the main TH page! Let me quickly respond to what you're saying:

i agree that Ms. Marie should have informed the mayor of her plans, but I don't see where this one person and her actions can be seen as representative of 12-13% of the American populace. That makes no more sense than if people said that Raplh Ellison or I were the representative of black thought in America; individuals can only represent themselves unless some group authorizes them to speak for them.

As for the "Black National Anthem", that is just what many call the song and is not indicative of any desire to have any "separate but equal" feelings. It is simply a song that embodied the strggles and emotions of blacks in America at the time it was written.

As for the "melting pot", that has been gone for a while now. We have been long encouraged to become a stir-fry. But I don't think that mutliculturalism is going to be the thing that brings down the Republic; it may be major factor, but not the only one.

with the current candidate we have, the only way to get conservatives to vote GOP is to keep up those tactics.

What has Congress done about gas prices since Red Nanny took over?

Obama's Blueprint, Part 14, now posted at The Swamp.

The thing is that conservatives aren't falling for it! They didn't fall for it in '06 and they're not buying it now. It doesn't work, but the GOP keeps trying it!

The ONLY fear the GOP brass has would be those HORRID conservatives. The last couple of GOP fundraiser calls I've taken,I just tell them I am a conservative FIRST and if you DON'T WANT me in your party,you GET NO MONEY. I asked the guy on the phone WHY should conservatives vote for McCain, apparently he decided the time was up,all I could hear was BZZZZZZZZ. Scruem.

Fortunately I don't have to deal with the calls, I just get the occassional letter. If it's from the state Party they are mre likely to get a positive response, but the national Party isn't getting that from me. Coming around begging money from a person whose ideology your candidate trashes at a moments notice isn't a way to get that person to pony up any cash!

I must agree, although we didn't need Dem majorities to block Bush's judicial appointments, McCain and his gang did that just fine.

And ain't that just the point? The GOP is spending all this time trying to scare us about what the Democrats would do, yet they foist a presidential nominee on us that does the EXACT things they accuse the Democrats of doing. It was McCain who co-authored the incumbent protection act known as McCain-Fiengold, who co-authored McCain-Kennedy, and who just yesterday was talking down the economy. Why should I be afraid of the Democrats when McCain is doing the same thing...and worse since he is a member of the so-called "conservative" GOP?