mitt romney ended his campaign in the most fear mongeringly asinine way possible today:"I must now stand aside, for our party and our country, If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," Romney, speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. (full story here).
need I say again, there are real dangers facing us, terrorism is not one of them. an article appeared today stating that Tobacco Could Kill 1 Billion by 2100 - that beats the shit out of terrorism as far as threats to us go, but you don't see it having much of an impact on policy do you? and while we're at it, I also read today that;
The CDC (that's the centers for disease control) reports that from 1999 to 2004, unintentional poisoning death from prescription drugs sleeping pills, antidepressants and tranquilizers grew 84 percent to 20,950 deaths, overtaking cocaine and heroin combined as the leading cause of lethal overdose.please note two things about the above quote - 20,950 deaths in five years! once again kicks terrorism's ass. and two, it even outnumbers deaths from heroin and cocaine - but we're not likely to declare war on the pharmaceutical companies are we? yet we still use the "war on drugs" slogan when it suits us... remember the war on drugs? that was the other make believe war we waged until the newer sexier war on terrorism distracted us. but never fear, even though we've forgotten the war on drugs, it's still marching on as plenty of south (and central) americans could tell you... were they ever given a voice with which to do so.
so anyway. mitt romney wins the fear monger of the day award.
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