Don't Forget to Be AFRAID...VERY AFRAID...WE MEAN IT.

Economy, bad; Iraq, Bad; International Prestige, Bad; Plame Investigation, Bad; Afghanistan, Not Good; Saying "We are Safer", Bad; Kerry's big crowds, Bad; Halliberton Investigations, Bad.

Better go to the Machiavelli Card:

(1) "Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful. "
--Chapter 9

(2) Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
--Chapter 17, Karl's Favorite

Good thing we can feed the corporate press with information like how Al Qaeda is going to strike us before election day to keep those fears up.