New GOP Attempt at 'Fear-Mongering' Derided (Congress, spokeswoman, accuse, health care system)

[Manigault]

What will the GOP claim next? The Democrats will kick your kids and poison your dog?

"WASHINGTON - The national Republican Party has mailed a fundraising appeal suggesting Democrats might use an overhaul of the health care system to deny medical treatment to Republicans.

A questionnaire accompanying the appeal says the government could check voting registration records, "prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system."

It asks, "Does this possibility concern you?"

Katie Wright, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said the question was "inartfully worded."

But she said people should worry because government officials would have access to personal financial and medical data.

"The RNC doesn't try to scare people," said Wright. "We're just trying to get the facts out on health care. And that's what we do every day."

Jon Vogel, executive director of the Democratic House campaign organization, called the GOP letter "shameless fear-mongering." In a fundraising e-mail of his own seeking to raise $100,000 by Aug. 31, Vogel wrote the Republican accusation was "just a preview of the falsehoods, fabrications and outright lies Republicans will be pushing when Congress returns in September."

GOP accused of health ‘fear-mongering’ - Health care reform- msnbc.com

[Dockside]

The GOP should've saved their money...Obama is doing a good enough job scaring the hell out of most American's as it is.

[Jill61]

Here's the question as it appeared in the mailing:

It has been suggested that the government could use voter registration to determine a person's political affiliation, prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system. Does this possibility concern you?

It's been suggested? By whom? Prompting fears? In whom? In a healthcare rationing system? WHAT rationing system? There IS NO RATIONING SYSTEM!

But you don't plant fears. Oh no! You're pure as the driven snow.

[SLCPUNK]

It's the same old trick akin to "Some people say". That way you don't have to verify a source or trace it back to a lie, it's just "something out there" that was "heard."