Mehlman: Democrats are weak on terror

Republican National Committee Charman Ken Mehlman gestures as he talks about the differences between state Rep. Ralph Norman and Democratic incumbent, Rep. John Spratt during an interview with the Associated Press, Thursday, July 27, 2006, in Columbia, S.C. Mehlman was in South Carolina for a breakfast fundraiser for Norman's campaign. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

Got to love the Republican spin-meister machine--I think it is now set to "Terror Agitation." This is from Yahoo News:

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - The head of the Republican Party accused Democrats of being willing to surrender the tools necessary to combat terrorism as the GOP tries to capitalize on its national security advantage in a tough election year.

Faced with President Bush's low approval ratings and diminishing support for the Iraq war, the Republican strategy is to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue and argue that Democrats hold a pre-Sept. 11 view of the world.

Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, stressed that argument in a speech Friday at the organization's two-day summer meeting, similar to points made by White House adviser Karl Rove in January.

"America faces a critical question," Mehlman said in his prepared text. "Will we elect leaders who recognize we're at war and want to use every tool to win it, or politicians who would surrender important tools we need to win?"

If Democrats win control of Congress, Mehlman claimed that their leaders will stop the National Security Agency from eavesdropping on foreign terrorists and pursue impeachment of President Bush.

Sometimes I just have to laugh at the Republicans here. It is amazing at how they claim the Democrats will surrender on the GWOT if the illegal NSA spying program is reigned in, or if President Bush is impeached. It is even more amazing at how Mehlman continues to claim that the Democrats will lose the Iraq war when Mehlman himself is blind to the fact that the war is just about lost under the Republican control. Is Ken Mehlman really that blind to his own extremist ideologies?