Seriously - Nancy, Harry, Hillary, Barack, John - and, for that matter, Jerry McNerney, Jim Webb, Brian Baird, and all of you other Democrats Who Know Who You Are:
Don't.
Be.
Soft.
On.
TERROR!!
Please, please, please, for the sake of all that is good and pure and right and, well, American, do not fall victim to those who would terrorize you - and all of us - into making idiotic choices based on nothing but The Boogeyman Under The Bed.
And - check this. Are you listening? Listening carefully? Okay, I'm only gonna say this once:
The Boogeyman Isn't Under The Bed.
The Boogeyman isn't wearing a turban.
The Boogeyman doesn't pray five times a day.
The Boogeyman doesn't strap on a bomb when he attacks America.
No – if you were looking for a boogeyman matching that description, you’ve been looking for the wrong boogeyman. Try this instead:
The Boogeyman lives in your time zone.
The Boogeyman's native language is English. (Butchered English, sometimes, but English nonetheless.)
The Boogeyman took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
And while it’s true that The Boogeyman does hate Americans for their freedoms, it’s only because those Americans and those freedoms are the only things standing between the real Boogeyman and the utter destruction of the highest and best of what is good about America – something The Real Boogeyman desperately would like to see come to pass.
So, see, Democratic leaders: In case you hadn’t figured it out yet, in spite of what The Real Boogeyman would like to terrorize you into believing, The Real Boogeyman isn’t some Islamofascistterroristnineelevenmushroomcloud guy cooking up enriched uranium in Tehran, no – The Real Boogeyman is the guy systematically destroying the Constitution of the United States of America.
The Real Boogeyman is the guy plundering the United States Treasury.
The Real Boogeyman is the guy taking medical insurance away from poor kids.
The Real Boogeyman is the guy raping the environment for corporate profit.
The Real Boogeyman is the guy removing safeguards from every industry, from mining to banking to food production.
The Real Boogeyman is the guy who refused to come to the aid of a great American city and its people.
The Real Boogeyman is the guy privatizing every function of government, removing accountability for the most fundamental workings of modern society.
The Real Boogeyman is the guy that has said it’s OK to torture in the name of America.
The Real Boogeyman is the guy who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about sending someone else’s kid to get blown up by someone else’s kid to continue an illegal occupation of a foreign country that only serves to enrich big, fat corporations and isolate America from the rest of the world.
The Real Boogeyman - let’s be absolutely clear about this - is the guy who has made America and Americans LESS SAFE TODAY THAN AT ANY TIME IN MODERN HISTORY.
And you know what, Democratic leaders? Okay, I’ll tell you what:
The American public is smart enough to know who The Real Boogeyman is.
And they expect you to be smart enough to know it, too.
And it’s not just one person: The Real Boogeyman is anyone - anyone - who enables the destruction of America and the American way of life, by either speaking or voting in support of its destruction.
And You Know Who You Are.
And so do America’s voters.
So, please: Do the Right Thing. Please?
Don’t let the terrorists win. Stand up to The Real Boogeyman.
You’ll be doing America – and yourself, trust me – a huge favor.
(h/t Grand Moff Texan, whose excellent diary set me off on this rant. – o.h.)
(Oh, and h/t to Rep. Ellen Tauscher, who looks like she’s come on over to the Reality side of the street – or maybe it’s just the "political survival" side of the street, but whatever – I’ll take it. – o.h.)