Vice President Cheney was not campaigning Wednesday, but his suggestion a day earlier that electing John Kerry would risk a "devastating" terrorist attack kept agitating the political arena.
Democrats denounced Cheney's statement as part of a "fear strategy" and sought to capitalize on it to attack President Bush and raise money. Republicans interpreted the remark to try to make it sound less partisan.
Cheney said Tuesday in Des Moines that if voters make the "wrong choice" Nov. 2, "the danger is that we'll get hit again, and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States."
Under a Kerry presidency, the nation could "fall back into a pre-9/11 mind-set" of viewing terrorist attacks as "just criminal acts" and the nation as "not really at war," Cheney said.
Some political analysts said Cheney went over the top in election-year rhetoric but was on established historical ground in doing so. These observers cited "vote for us or the other guy will get you killed" precedents
Sorry i thought everyone heard it as it was on all day yesterday.