Bush: I Screwed Things Up So Badly That You Have To Vote Republican

Bush and Cheney said this the other day:

"However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses," Bush told a raucous crowd of about 5,000 GOP partisans packed in an arena at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, one of his stops Monday. "That's what's at stake in this election. The Democrat goal is to get out of Iraq. The Republican goal is to win in Iraq." ***

Cheney, meanwhile, said in an interview with Fox News that he thinks insurgents in Iraq are timing their attacks to influence the U.S. elections.

"It's my belief that they're very sensitive of the fact that we've got an election scheduled," he said. Cheney said the insurgents believe "they can break the will of the American people," and "that's what they're trying to do."

So, according to BushCo, if you vote for the Democrats next week, you vote for the terrorists. I think this response to that particular line of bullshit is right on the money (via TMP Cafe):

"After botching the Iraq War about as thoroughly as possible, and refusing to admit errors, change strategies or hold anyone responsible for their incompetence, the Bush administration is now arguing that the American people don't have the right to hold them responsible, either, since a Democratic victory would cheer terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere. In effect, Bush and Cheney are trying to hold America hostage to their own mistakes.

"This breathtaking line of 'reasoning' is all the more deplorable because it expresses a sense of complete U.S. helplessness in the struggle against jihadist terrorists. We can't change direction because that would be a victory for our enemies. So they effectively control us. Given the administration's obsession with denying there are any practical restraints on U.S. freedom of action in Iraq or anywhere else, that's an especially ironic point of view."

Think about it -- Bush's basic position during the run-up to the mid-term elections is that he's screwed things up so badly that a political course change would mean the terrorist control the U.S. electoral process.

Heckuva job, Georgie.

And by the way, I watched the HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" last night. They should have aired it on Halloween, because it was pretty scary stuff.

If it wasn't for electronic voting, I'd be pretty confident that the Dems would at least take control of the House in the upcoming election. But after watching the documentary, I'm pretty sure that won't happen. My only hope now is that the vote tampering will be so obvious that public outcry will force a real investigation, but I doubt that will happen.