Sean Hannity: Stopping Democrats "Worth Fighting And Dying For"

Complaining on Tuesday's show about how our country will fall into economic ruin and lose to terrorists if Democrats win the fall elections, Sean Hannity said "This is the moment to say that there are things in life worth fighting and dying for and one of 'em is making sure Nancy Pelosi doesn't become the speaker. I mean, look. I want to talk to you Republicans out there, both candidates and voters. Here's some unsolicited advice: Ignore the polls, ignore the media, ignore the pundits. It's 70 days to go. The end is not here yet. We still can turn this thing around. Your future is in your hands, and it's up to you to go grab it."

He added, "It's time to confront the left."

Consider this a sneak preview of what to expect as November approaches.

Reading that quote from Hannity immediately reminded me of some incredibly spot-on and prescient remarks from bloggers all the way back in March after Sen. Feingold introduced his resolution to censure President Bush. The far-right base/Bush cultists tried to use that to rally the troops too, though the Democrats' refusal to support Feingold made that a moot point. At the time blogger/lawyer Glenn Greenwald said-

There is a palpable increase in the level of extremism and desperation among Bush followers as the Commander in Chief's approval ratings fall lower and lower and as the views which Americans have of both him and his party become more hostile. This is going to be a significant dynamic -- as their power slips further and further away, Bush followers are going to resort to increasingly radical and rage-fueled measures to keep it...

...Many of them have become convinced -- or convinced themselves -- that it is literally a matter of their immediate and personal survival that the country be controlled by Republicans devoted to the neoconservative mindset. Many of them actually believe that if those who deviate from that worldview gain political power, that they will be irradiated or blown up by Al Qaeda. And then still others are just so filled with rage and contempt for "liberals" (meaning anyone who is not a Bush supporter) that those sentiments are, by themselves, sufficient to push them into extreme and irrational thought as they lose more and more power.

Of course, with many moderate Republicans (like Connecticut's Rep. Shays) turning against the President's disastrous 'stay the course' policy, this will be harder to pull off. It's hard for the RNC to run ads calling critics of the war 'defeatists' when that group now comprises over 60% of the country. The silent majority are now those who are demanding a change; the real fringe is Hannity's ilk.

Blogger Andrew Sullivan, also in March, got to the point even better than Greenwald-

But you only have to watch O'Reilly or read Powerline or listen to Sean Hannity or David Horowitz to know that the only thing that really gets them fired up any more is loathing of liberals. The only way the GOP base will be motivated to vote for an incompetent, exhausted, fiscally insane administration is if they get to vote against "libruls". Michael Moore, the Daily Kos, Paul Krugman, George Clooney, et al. are therefore the GOP's last, best hope this fall. ... My gut predicts a huge swing against the GOP this fall. So watch out for the anti-left hate and hysteria from Republicans. It's coming. It's all they've got left.

Bingo.

Buckle up the safety belt, folks. The Republicans are not gonna go down without a fight.