I have seen as much as felt for the last 6 years that the politics of fear and slander were wearing thin from their inception. Fear propagated by the war-mongers desperately seeking to justify a war in Iraq built on falsehoods and "tax-fear" bred by the mega-wealthyin order to keep the middle/lower classes divided and voting against their own self interest.
W and co. used this tactic successfully in 2004 to frighten the public into supporting Bush for a 2nd term, and it worked - barely.
There was/is one fatal flaw with that strategy - it only works for a short time politically. Folks consciously or otherwise grow weary with being pulled along by the nose-ring of fear and dread.
Eventually the rhetoric questioned patriotism, false claims of democrat surrender to terrorism, usurping the Constitution in the name of fear, and the fallacy of republican fiscal conservatism showed their true colors and bore their empty, hollow fruits.
The people demanded an end to this philosophy - and they got it.
Carl Rove orchestrated these subversive tactics beautifully on an unsuspecting public from 9-11 onward. The eventual backlash as the public woke from these darkly woven dreams was severe, and McCain bore the full brunt of it.
McCain did not employ Rove to any great extent, but Rove, and the supporters of his seeds of division and rancor, can be given a large measure of credit for McCain's defeat.
These insidious strategies demanded a sacrifice once the People were aware - and that sacrifice was the candidacy of John McCain
Mr. Rove, you spoke, and the People listened - eventually.
Now they hear your words as they were truly meant andconsequences have been dire for the Republican Party.
May we as a people never againembrace such subversive, divisive and unpatriotic tactics to wrest power from the People of the Greatest Nation on Earth.
The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.
The Politics of fear.
