Why are self-respecting conservatives allowing the McCain campaign to further debase the Republican Party's credibility by using transparent scare-tactics about Obama in the all-too-similar same way the Bush Administration did, with WMD and the flimsy Iraq-9/11 connection? The Intelligence Community reports all credible threats about real terrorists, like Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside The United States
and people remember how that memo was dismissed by the Bush Administration. These smears are not helping Republicans. Americans now associate McCain/Palin constantly repeating Obama/Terrorists with Bush repeating WMD/Iraq and Saddam/9.11, and what people take away from it is the memory of feeling betrayed when no WMD was found. These McCain/Palin tactics are basically spitting in the face of the true patriots in our intelligence community who are keeping us safe from the real terrorists 24 hours a day. Misleading Americans on matters of national security to scare-up votes is just plain wrong and people will remember. And the chant that is really resonating is Bush/McCain: more of the same. Sorry about the rhyming.- 17
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