GOP's down in the 4th - send in the scare play

Above is the latest GOP attempt to scare the living shit out of Americans who, according to the latest polls, are just about fed up with Bush and Karl Rove's version of leadership in America. Or, should I say, fear mongering.

This ad is a disgrace on so many levels, it's pretty tough to overstate how disgusted I am by it. Not as a Democrat, but as an American.

The Republicans have turned America in so many wrong directions and made so many poor decisions, they really have so little to run on. So, in this desperate hour, they are reverting to the one tactic that has helped them win two elections since 9-11 - scare the American people into believing they are the only party that can keep America safe. It's so pathetic, it's rather funny, but what brings me back to Earth is that there are sheep out there who will buy into this line of bullshit, OR who will vote Republican because of a few certain issues, no matter what - religion and pro-life being two of them.

Anyway, both parties are guilty of running negative ads, but the Republicans seem to be taking it to a whole new level. Will it pay off? I doubt it this time around, but if I were in Karl Rove's and Bush's shoes, I'd probably be doing the same thing - it's worked before, and they really have no options left.

BUT WAIT! Of course they do - after years of screwing up Iraq, even the president has signified that it's time to change the course in Iraq. How profoundly said that the deaths of nearly 3,000 American soldiers didn't move him to that, or tens of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians - it's the possibility of losing control of one or both Houses of Congress.

Well, enough on this ad. I'll leave the rest to a sage political commentator that you've come to know quite well on this blog - Keith Olbermann.