Terror, fear, terror, fear, terror... < yawn >

it's the very routinizing of fear that leads me to think we can expect a major incident to up the fear quotient prior to the elections...

Even as both parties sound alarm, 1,800 days and two federal elections after one of the most terrifying days in the nation's history, many voters have come to accept fear-laced campaign rhetoric as routine.

"They've seen this movie before, and more of them know they are getting their chain yanked," said Garry South, a Democratic consultant in California, who pointed to the White House as the worst offender.

"If Karl Rove believes all he has to do is dust off the old game plan and accuse Democrats of being soft on terror, of coddling terrorists, I don't think that's going to work this year," South said.

so, why does the following continue to be the case...?

Yet both parties appear intent on using terrorism as an election issue.

Rove, the president's chief political aide, made that much plain in a speech to the Republican National Committee early this year when he declared that "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," Rove said.

[...]

Some Democrats used the politics of fear themselves when they blasted the White House this winter for agreeing to allow a firm headquartered in Dubai to manage several East Coast ports.

it'll be interesting to see what kind of fallout there is from tonight's broadcast of PT9/11... if it's a rove-orchestrated political move (as i believe it is), there's the possibility it may backfire... well, i suppose i should say, i HOPE there's the possibility it will backfire...

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