[maggiecleveland]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

You must keep the money flowing from the gullible.

[veronica]

That sounds like the stuff one reads at Huff Post and Daily Kos. The Bush “regime” tries to scare us with talk of 9-11, blah blah.

[Liz]

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

Yup---Rino Rooty's nutty strategy. Rooty's a bigtime troublemaker----like waving a red cape in front of a rampaging bull. This RINO is the lapdog of the Endless War Hopefuls. He echos whatever will appease his handlers and campaign donors.