WSJ - "GOP Seizes on Security as Issue"

[TomCADem]

"Vote for Republicans or you will die," is the apparent new and old campaign slogan for the Republicans despite 9/11, Katrina, the Iraq War, the Shoe Bomber, and the Antrax attacks all happening under Republican rule.

Likewise, Republicans will also capitalize on concern about the deficit despite a surpluse being turned into a deficit with Bush cheerleading the real estate market before it melted down, and brought down the entire economy with it.

Nonetheless, in 2010, the Republicans plan to campaign to victory based on National Security, lowering the deficit, opposing gay marriage, tax cuts, and impeaching President Obama. If they win, does that mean that they have a mandate?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126239113219413017.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth

WASHINGTON -- Political furor over the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 has thrust national security back to the center of American politics, with Republicans and the White House scrambling to blame each other for intelligence lapses and present themselves to voters as tougher on terrorism.

Strategists in both parties believe that terrorism and, more broadly, foreign policy could emerge in the November midterm elections and in President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign as key issues for voters who have been focused primarily on the economy.

GOP opinion leaders such as former Vice President Dick Cheney have seized on the attack to question President Barack Obama's grasp of foreign affairs. Republican Party officials have sent fund-raising appeals that take aim at Mr. Obama's response to the episode.

Republican strategists said in interviews that they saw an opportunity to regain the traditional advantages on security issues that failed them in the past two national campaigns, as the economic downturn and public opposition to President George W. Bush's policies in Iraq took primacy in voters' minds.

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1. The GOP has been winning with this formula

since the cold war. I like to see them playing this shit as that makes the eight years of failed security under shrubbo fair game for all future campaigns.