What will really cost Republicans the most votes this election. It’s not pedophiles or campaign bribes. It’s not because\u00c2\u00a0soccer moms\u00c2\u00a0don’t like wars or that\u00c2\u00a0soccer dads\u00c2\u00a0don’t like immigrants. It’s because Republians have been successful keeping Americans reasonably safe in the War Against Terror. Who would have thought that we’d have gone this long since September 11th, 2001 without a major attack on our civilian population on our soil?<\/p>\n
The worst part – no one believes it. The White House has listed terror attacks<\/a> it has foiled, but because there’s no blood, because there are no terrifying pictures, it just doesn’t resonate with the media, and so it doesn’t resonate with the public. \u00c2\u00a0Michael Moore’s “There is no terrorist threat” statement is much easier and comforting to believe. Who wants to believe that there are people out there who want to kill us?<\/p>\n We can watch “French youths” burn buses and cars in Paris and wipe our brows while sighing “at least that isn’t happening here”. Not yet. Bombs go off in London’s underground, Spanish police corner terrorists in their bomb factories<\/a> and bust recruiting rings for al-Qe’ada<\/a>. Italian police\u00c2\u00a0bust terrorist cells<\/a> just last month – but nothing sets off bells in the American public’s collective mind.<\/p>\n This Republican President has done the best with what he was given, and he kept his promise to keep us safe and because of that, his party will\u00c2\u00a0lose votes in their elections this Fall. Of course, if there had been attacks with all of the blood and gore that the media craves, he’d probably lose votes, too.<\/p>\n Democrats want to keep us safe, too, they say. They also want to strip away the PATRIOT Act (which they all voted for), they want to release the terrorists in Guantanamo, they want to stop tracking phone calls from terrorists to people inside the United States, they want to stop killing terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq (which really has become a meatgrinder\u00c2\u00a0that processes and packs\u00c2\u00a0all of the sociopaths from throughout the world).<\/p>\n They want us to keep funding Hamas and they want to keep paying off Kim Jung Il, they’re scared of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s bluster so they’ll start paying him protection money soon enough. They will cave into Hugo Chavez (because he’s really no different than they are) and just to keep Communism alive, they’ll prop up Raul Castro. And, oh, how happy they’ll be if Daniel Ortega wins in Nicaragua again<\/a>.<\/p>\n Just because there’s no real proof that this Republican Administration\u00c2\u00a0has kept us safe. And because it’d be uncomfortable to think otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"