Shock And Dismay

clipped from liberalfascism.nationalreview.com As a liberal Democrat I hate to say this.  I do, however, find something unsettling about the way the left finds it perfectly appropriate to use fear-mongering about global warming to scare up votes, but then reacts in shock and dismay when Republicans use fear of terrorism to scare up votes. I'm not sure why "if you vote for Republicans temperatures will rise and Florida will sink into the ocean" is any better than "if you vote for Democrats terrorists will win and a nuclear bomb will go off in New York City."  To be sure, I find the later much more distasteful, but I'm not sure I can think of an intellectually satisfying reason why.