The Politics of Fear

Pay attention, because this is probably only the tip of the iceberg: how the Bush campaign manipulated fear of terrorism to return the Bushwhackers to office.

From the Associated Press:
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge met privately with Republican pollsters twice in a 10-day span last spring as he embarked on more than a dozen trips to presidential battleground states.

Ridge's get-togethers with Republican strategists Frank Luntz and Bill McInturff during a period the secretary was saying his agency was playing no role in Bush's re-election campaign were revealed in daily appointment calendars obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.

ABC News: Ridge, Pollsters Met During Bush Campaign