Kerry Accuses GOP of Using Fear Tactics
Quick; what's the easiest and most effective Republican campaign technique? If you guessed manipulating the fears of the American electorate, you should go to the head of the class.
Perhaps it's just that George W. Bush recognizes that he couldn't carry John Kerry's jock when it comes to debating the issues that are important to this country today. Of course, if you can frighten people into thinking that the absolute WORST thing that they can do is change horses in the middle of the race, why would you have to worry about debating issues?
NEW YORK, Aug. 24 -- John F. Kerry returned to the political wars Tuesday, firing a preemptive shot at next week's Republican National Convention here with a warning that four days of "slogans and personal attacks" cannot cover up a four-year record of economic failure.
Speaking to a supportive audience at a campus a few blocks south of Madison Square Garden, where the GOP will renominate President Bush, the Democratic challenger argued that Republicans are responsible for "four years of lost jobs, lower wages, higher health care costs and tax cuts for the few . . . . At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans."....
....[I]n an obvious reference to the charge his campaign has made that Bush supporters are behind the veterans' attacks, Kerry said that Republicans are "misleading the American people, hiding behind front groups, saying anything and doing anything to avoid the real issues that matter like jobs, health care and the war in Iraq."
It's going to take John Kerry standing up and screaming "ENOUGH!!" for people to realize what the Bush campaign is attempting to get away with here. It's been said that you can never go broke underestimating the tastes of the American people. Let's hope that come November 2nd, the same thing won't be said about American voters.
WE DESERVE BETTER.
