You know they’re getting desperate when they try pulling this shit again :

Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday evoked the possibility of terrorists bombing U.S. cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Sen. John Kerry could combat such a threat, which the vice president called a concept “you’ve got to get your mind around.”

“The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us ? biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Cheney said.

“That’s the ultimate threat. For us to have a strategy that’s capable of defeating that threat, you’ve got to get your mind around that concept,” Cheney said.

Cheney, speaking to an invitation-only crowd as he began a bus tour through Republican strongholds in Ohio, said Kerry is trying to convince voters he would be the same type of “tough, aggressive” leader as President Bush in the fight against terrorism.

“I don’t believe it,” the vice president said. “I don’t think there’s any evidence to support the proposition that he would, in fact, do it.”

I don’t want the “same type” of tough aggressive leader as we have in Bush. I’d rather have the smart type instead.

I would love to see John McCain pull a “Have you no shame?” on Bush and Cheney for this relentless fear-mongering, but that would require a level of integrity that probably isn’t found in someone willing to be the moderate face of a corrupt, extremist administration. Still, it would be nice if someone with national name recognition and near-universal support would step in and call foul here.