Fear Factor: The Four Ways Republicans Say Obama Will Kill You Now

The laundry list of pants-pissing rightwing cowards.

Good thing none of these gutless wonders were around during The Revolution or we'd still be a British colony.

This list is woefully incomplete, in that it only tackles the war-on-terror sublist of fears the Right has attempted to gin up.

Remember, global warming is a hoax designed to turn America into a socialist nightmare, the Homosexual Agenda is designed to destroy the basic structure of American society, socialized medicine will turn America into Soviet Russia, people who allow abortion will allow any atrocity, public education is unacceptable liberal indoctrination, stimulus spending will bankrupt the nation, and the swine flu epidemic is merely a pretext for the national prison complex unveiling and Muslim uprising.

There isn't a single issue that Republican politicians and/or mouthpieces *haven't* turned into a piss-your-pants, this-is-a-moral-issue-and-what-a-coincidence-we're-on-the-righteous-godly-side-of-it frothfest, no matter how dishonest their assertions or illogical their conclusions or how much their attacks are based entirely on baselessly impugning the character of their opponents.

(In response, Democratic politicians generally roll over, fall asleep or apologize without knowing what they're apologizing for.)

As long as Democratic politicians refuse to call the Republicans out for the Atwater/Rove/Luntz BS, the Republicans will continue to use them. What could be simpler than that? If the Villagers keep come a-runnin', why would they ever stop crying "Wolf!"?

OBAMA KILLED ME ALREADY! TWICE!

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...I got better...

I think it's high time that somebody resurrects the early 1990s cartoon of a baby-sized Newt Gingrich wearing a diaper and balling his little Republican eyes out.

Instead of Newt, this time we need twins -- maybe Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. With them balling in the foreground, the background would show adults (Democrats) dealing with the actual business of defending the country.

They were around during the Revolution. Where do you think the tories came from? That we used "tory" for "British loyalist" and the British use "tory" for "conservative" isn't a coincidence.

A study I read about a few years ago correlated the occurrence of nightmares with the dreamer's political inclination. It turns out that conservatives have nightmares several times more frequently than liberals do, and that the content and quality of conservatives' nightmares is significantly more frightening than those that liberals experience. Liberals' nightmares usually tend to be of the situational social embarrassment kind – like arriving at work without pants or that sort of thing. Humiliation in the eyes of friends and family, rather than physical danger or stark fear, is the main theme the researchers said liberals reported about their bad dreams. Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to have bad dreams about (unsurprisingly) being chased and/or brutally attacked or killed by strangers. So if you wonder why conservatives are such “experts” on fear of nameless, faceless attackers, it’s simple. They experience it regularly in their dreams.

Anyone see "Terror in Mumbai" last night? While these wingnuts are yammering about the "terrists" running around loose in the US, the Pakistani military, intelligence services, government and general population is acting as a safe harbor for actual real scary guys trying to get their hands on Paki Nukes. Hey Wingnuts: Get your priorities straight, will ya?

Thank God the conservatives kept us safe during the past administration when they ignored the memo in August, 2001, "Bin Laden determined to attack U.S. using passenger airplanes." Reading "The Pet Goat" really taught Bin Laden a lesson.

Gee was it only 2004 when conservatives were strong on America types and liberals claimed the sky was falling. What a difference a couple of elections make.

These Repugs need to realize that these statements will live forever as YouTube clips that can me manipulated and played endlessly at election time.

Alie, maybe you could "raise the bar" by refusing to make excuses for Right Wingers by claiming "everyone does it" when your side is caught lying or fear-mongering.

It looks to me like some conservatives want a terrorist attack. For good measure, a few have offered advice to terrorists just in case they run out of ideas. Mark Kirk suggested the Sears building as a prominent target. John Shadegg reminded dimwitted Al Queda operatives that kidnapping and ransom of NYC officials and their families might be effective. I'm sure there are more instances because it seems to be the party line. Run out of ideas? Ask the RNC@mayhem.com

This president is perhaps the weakest president ever in regards to foreign policy and it is the Republicans who are cowards? Only somebody with a "Yes We Can" bumper sticker on his car and a shrine to Obama at his house believes such crap. The rest of the US ain't buying it anymore, and the "president's" terrible approval ratings prove that.

The Obama Record: Record unemployment, record deficits, no legislative accomplishments, foreign policy weakness that makes Jimmy Carter look like Curtis LeMay.

Obama knew they were going to make him into a scary guy. If anyone saw the HBO special By The People, there is a candid moment when he is talking to Richard Wolff and he said those exact words. "They are going to try to make me into a scary guy"

Obama knew he would meet with lots of opposition, but I don't think he even knew it would be this bad. He needs to call these mfrs on their shit.

If you were a politician who was a member of a party made up of obviously uninformed, uneducated, irrational people, wouldn't you use this fear technique? Surely no one believes any of those Repub politicians, other than Sarah, actually believe what they are saying. They have a group of voters who can only be enticed to vote for them by spouting this nonsense at every opportunity.

Way back in the American Dark Ages, people in the South had to demonstrate their ability to read and memorize stuff before they could vote. Maybe the time has come to require voters to demonstrate their ability to think rationally by asking them to certify that they are not Repubs.

Democrats are lucky that their True Believers are so amazingly easy to fool. They'll wont believe anything bad about Obama and Democrats no matter how resonable. They never check the facts. They listen only to the propaganda on MSNBC and the left-wing radio blowhards. No other viewpoints are allowed.

With a gang of simpletons like this on your side, demagoguery is so easy it's laughable! Beck debunks ( http://tinyurl.com/yaumkeb )that there are concentration camps for conservative imprisonment. It's as if the people involved don't have minds of their own, like they were empty vessels eager to receive whatever crap some fool pours into them.

I thank the gods every day that I am not a Liberal/progressive. What lost, wasted lives so many of them lead.

Not to completely defend Beck here but you seem to be the ranting about exactly what you are doing here.