What about Dick Cheney saying that "if we make the wrong choice [see: anyone but us], then the danger is that we'll get hit again -- that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States,"?
Basically, Cheney said that voting for anyone but Bush-Cheney will cause another 9/11 (yes, he never actually came out and said it, but he was trying to plant the seeds of panic in people's minds and everyone knows it).
Is that the kind of rhetoric you're attacking from Teresa Heinz Kerry?