Republicans’ biggest sin

What will really cost Republicans the most votes this election. It’s not pedophiles or campaign bribes. It’s not because soccer moms don’t like wars or that soccer dads don’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?

The worst part – no one believes it. The White House has listed terror attacks 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.  Michael 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?

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 and bust recruiting rings for al-Qe’ada. Italian police bust terrorist cells just last month – but nothing sets off bells in the American public’s collective mind.

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 lose 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.

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 that processes and packs all of the sociopaths from throughout the world).

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.

Just because there’s no real proof that this Republican Administration has kept us safe. And because it’d be uncomfortable to think otherwise.

Category: Politics, Terror War