Politics of Fear

Disturbing new video from the Rick Santorum campaign. Once again Republicans have decided to double-down on fear. Republicans are trying to scare voters to the voting booth with lies and deceit. While President Obama talks about progress and recovery; the Republican candidates conger up images of the apocalypse. You'll even notice around the 0:39 mark that there is a quick juxtaposition of President Obama with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that surely wasn't an accident. Watching this video, you would of thought it was still late 2008, when the economy was hemorrhaging 500,000 jobs a month. This is far disconnected from the reality that we have experienced 24 consecutive months of job growth for a grand total of 3.7 million jobs. No mention of the fact that President Obama saved the Detroit Auto Industry from the brink of oblivion. No mention of the fact that President Obama has lowered taxes even more than Ronald Reagan ever did. Instead we get the same old lies and fear that we've heard about the President for the past four years. It smacks of desperation. The closer we get to November, the less I become concerned about Barack Obama's reelection. Santorum's campaign is finally running out of steam and this is one last desperate hail mary before the clock runs out.