Polimom Says

One night light, gently used

If Dick Morris is right that this is the best hope for the GOP, then things are even worse than the polls are indicating. I’m getting visions of blood dripping from sharp, pointy teeth… (From the NY Post):

BEST GOP HOPE: SCARE ‘EM SILLY
October 23, 2006 — WITH only two weeks left ’til Election Day, Republicans won’t save themselves with phony optimism – pathetic claims that, somehow, they’re mounting a comeback. They need to sound a note of alarm and fill the airwaves with specifics of exactly what will happen if the Democrats triumph.
But inside-baseball talk about a Nancy Pelosi speakership won’t do the job. The GOP needs to focus on the concrete ways in which a Democratic victory would threaten our safety.
[snipping out a suggested ad similar to the RNC’s scary-monsters-are-gonna-get-you campaign]
Republicans are doomed unless they can get their base back. But the GOP base is the best informed group of voters in the nation, with educational levels consistently higher than their Democratic counterparts’. They follow politics closely and are the easiest voters to reach via the news media, cable TV and talk radio.

That’s funny, actually. I’d have said that the “best informed” folks with high “education levels” were smart enough to know that their childhood monsters weren’t actually… you know… real.
Silly me. But then again, I don’t need my night light to keep nightmares away any more. Perhaps Mr. Morris would like to borrow it?
More here from Joe Gandelman.