boogeyman

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Obama is using Limbaugh as a boogeyman now that the left's favorite boogeyman - Dubya - has left the scene.

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  • It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson. —  Quotes - quotes4all.net!
  • Al Gore has a new argument for why carbon dioxide is the global warming boogeyman -- and it's simply out of this world. —  Lake Minnetonka Liberty
  • They have to create a boogeyman, and they did that with Rush. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • The kneejerk response of the Green / Left to people who challenge them is to say that the challenger is in the pay of "Big Oil", "Big Business", "Big Pharma", "Exxon-Mobil", "The Pioneer Fund" or some other entity that they see, in their childish way, as a boogeyman. —  Australian Politics
  • The right wing needs a boogeyman, they always have.
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