Larry Beinhart declares war on the lie that Republicans are actually "good" at protecting anything other than their own asses or the financial power of their chief contributors. The indictment he draws up is damning:
1. 9/11 happened on their watch.
2. George Bush and the Republicans failed to get Osama bin Laden.
3. George Bush and the Republicans gave Osama bin Laden what he wanted. He wanted our troops tied down in an Islamic country so that an insurgency could do to them what the Afghanis did to the Russians and to the British before them.
4. George Bush and the Republicans squandered America's power and prestige.
5. The Bush administration empowered Hezbollah.The 'insurgency' in Iraq was Hezbollah's textbook and their inspiration.
6. The Bush administration radicalized Hamas.
7. Bush and the Republicans tied down our forces in Iraq while Iran and North Korea invested in nuclear technology.
8. By the way, every major European nation has had successful arrests and real trials of real, dangerous terrorists. People on the level of this group that the British just took down.
9. We have trashed the bill of rights. We have trashed the Geneva conventions. We have a president and a vice president willing to go the mat to fight for the right to torture people. We have spent a fortune on illegal wiretaps. We have spent a fortune on collecting everyone's telephone data.
Beinhart has additional arguments attached to every point, so as we say in Blog Biz, read the whole thing.
The Republicans are going to run on fear and paranoia this year. It's all they've got. The Democrats have to use Karl Rove's jujitsu in reverse. Rove always attacks his opponent's greatest perceived strength. Well, that's how we need to smash the Republican effort this year. We've just got to keep making our case. Remember, over and over and over, the message must be:
REPUBLICANS ARE BAD ON NATIONAL SECURITY
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