I think I have it all figured out--the reason the Democrats and White House Press Corps. are focusing so much attention on the precise number of buckshot pellets in Whittington's heart--it's all part of their Grand Master Plan to regain power!
Hear me out, it makes perfect sense when you consider the following undeniable FACT:
THEY HAVE NO PLANS OR IDEAS OF THEIR OWN, NO AGENDA, NOTHING POSITIVE TO CONTRIBUTE
In fact, when you ask them what their plan is for this or that (doing better in Iraq, securing our borders, saving Social Security, etc...), they say "Well, we'll consult with the experts once we're back in power and they'll tell us what to do."
No. I am not exaggerating. This exact quote came out of the mouth of the human Chihuaha himself, James Carville on the O'Reilly Factor last night. If I didn't hear it with my own ears, I wouldn't believe it either. How can someone be so clueless as to think that the (voting) American public is gonna buy that as a "plan?"
Anyway, back to my point...
The reason we're hearing SO much more about something as un-scary as Dick Cheney hunting quail is that they have no plan to save us from something as truly scary as a terrorist with a BOMB. In fact, they know that if they allow us to become aware of the truly scary problems we face (Iran with nukes, for example), we'll probably re-elect Republicans. That's because--love 'em or hate 'em domestically--the Republicans at least consider things like Iranians with nuclear weapons and terrorists with access to them "terrifying" and not merely "concerning" or "challenging" as I've heard some Democrats describe them.
This is why we've heard folks like Hillary Clinton already quoting FDR's famous line "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." I'm quite sure she's dusted off the footage already for her own campaign commercials. Her plan, and the plan of her party, is to convince us that they will un-scare us. They will downplay everything--burying the scary stuff underneath mountains of crap like the Cheney hunting story--so that we can remain blissfully ignorant to the dangers we face from abroad so they can get back to harping on the problems we face here at home.
It matters not that their solution to those is more and higher taxes for us. All that matters are the chiiiiiiiiiiiiiildren, right? Never mind that their real solution to the problems facing our chiiiiiiildren (like lousy public education, lack of healthcare, obesity and an insolvent Social Security Administration) is to abort our kids before they are born. We're not supposed to pay attention to anything but the mean and nasty way the Bush administration has "scared" us into voting for Republicans.
But check out the mixed messages they send. On the one hand, they say we shouldn't fall for the scare tactics used by the Bush administration to terrify us into voting for GOP candidates. On the other they tell us we should toss out the Bushies because they haven't done enough to protect us. From what? I thought we weren't at war? I thought we were supposed to be "suspicious" of such a "secretive" administration that just wants to "scare" us into the voting booth?
Ask them why we haven't been attacked at home in almost 5 years: "Luck." (i.e., be afraid, be very very afraid because luck will run out)
Ask them why it is that UBL hasn't been caught: "Incompetence on the part of the administration." (So the guys with the night vision goggles on are incompetent too? I'm sure they'll be thrilled to hear that news and to be led by people who so obviously think so).
Ask them why it is that Islamomaniacs are rioting and killing and destroying property all over the world: "Insensitivity to their faith." (But the lack of such violent responses by Christians and Jews to even more heinous "insensitivity" to their faiths and to the very fact that they live and breathe at all is what exactly? Luck again??)
No mixed messages there!
But that's how they work. The Democrats try messages on for size, then take a poll. Today they are working with the "be UN-afraid" angle. If we get attacked, or if something bad happens in the war that makes front page news it will switch to: "be very afraid of the incompetence of the Republicans!"
And what they're expecting (because they think they know what's best for us, being that they are soooo much smarter than we are and all) is that we're so dumb we'll forget what they said the day before, or the week before or whenever it was that they were talking out of the other side of their mouths.
The really sick thing isn't that the party is doing this, it's that they are helped along (perhaps even LED along) by the MSM. It's not a conspiracy "theory" of mine, it's reality. The press is keeping this Cheney story alive, not Joe and Jane Average. Practically every person I know is saying "ENOUGH ALREADY!"
But the media keeps on churning this shit out, even as Iran continues to arm itself, Hamas continues to make outlandish demands and the UN continues to ignore all of it.
The irony of course is that by continuing to shriek at us from the podium and the news desk that the GOP is too "secretive" they are themselves TRYING TO SCARE US! It's just that they're hoping we'll be more afraid of being lied to than being blow to bits. Kinda funny coming from the party that told us it was "no big deal really" that Clinton lied UNDER OATH, never mind to the people he was elected to serve!
I dunno about you all, but I'm more "scared" of people who want to keep the REAL news "secret" than I am of a VP who delays the release of a story that has NO BEARING ON MY FRIGGIN' LIFE WHATSOEVER.
Or as some wise (and clever) person said: "I'd rather hunt with Cheney than ride with Kennedy".
Posted by insomnomaniac at February 17, 2006 3:21 PM | TrackBack