Posted on 08/23/2006 2:37:31 PM PDT by johnny7
You can imagine White House senior strategist Karl Rove smiling when he saw the front page of USA Today on Tuesday. The headline read "Poll: GOP Up After Terror Arrests" and detailed a rise in President Bush's job approval numbers and a narrowing of the Democratic advantage in the generic ballot since the foiled terrorist plot in Britain.
Rove as well as other administration officials have made clear that they are hoping to turn this election into a referdendum on the question of which party is better able to protect Americans from terrorist threats. Rove first elucidated that dynamic in a speech to the Republican National Committee winter meeting way back in January. "At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views on national security," Rove said. "Republicans have a post-9/11 worldview and many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. That doesn't make them unpatriotic -- not at all. But it does make them wrong -- deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong."
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Yes, fear is exactly what is dripping from every tortured phrase which seeks to explain away the Republican edge in the eyes of the voters, when it comes to national security.
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