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11-01-2009, 08:33 AM
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On Strike!
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Frank Luntz: Republicans, it's now safe to criticize Obama!
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There's a lot of buzz on Capitol Hill about a new health care memo, by strategist/communicator Frank Luntz, which is filled with advice for opponents of the Democrats' reform legislation. The memo analyzes the public's concerns that national health care will result in lower quality care at higher cost, with an out-of-control deficit to boot, and Luntz recommends language to help critics make the case against the legislation more effectively. For example, he suggests opponents would be better off avoiding the phrase public option; calling it the government option is better.
The new memo updates a similar analysis Luntz wrote last May. Some of the advice is familiar. But one striking difference between the two documents is in the treatment of Barack Obama. Last May, Luntz advised politicians to stay away -- far away -- from criticizing the president. "Your political opponents are the Democrats in Congress and the bureaucrats in Washington, not President Obama," Luntz wrote. "Every time we test language that criticized the president by name, the response was negative -- even among Republicans." He continued: "If you make this debate about Republicans vs. Obama, you lose. But if you make it about Americans vs. politicians, you win." Therefore, the advice was to go after Washington bureaucrats and government health care, but never Obama.
That was then. Now, things are different. "In the spring, we counseled strongly that you should avoid direct confirmation with President Obama," Luntz writes in the new memo. "That has changed." The "thrill is gone" from Obama's relationship with the American people, Luntz writes, and it's now OK to go after the president's proposals with the president's name attached. "There is no change in support for the plan if it is called 'Barack Obama's plan' instead of the plan of 'Democrats in Congress,'" Luntz says. "So long as the attack is grounded in policy and NOT personage, you can talk about opposing 'President Obama's plan.'"
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11-01-2009, 08:56 AM
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The honeymoon for Obama has been exceptionally long. I agree with Luntz in that it's finally over.
Now perhaps,,,, just perhaps,,,, we can get down to some serious work.
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11-01-2009, 08:58 AM
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We?
The Democrats control the government and they don't seem to be serious about anything but spend and control.
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11-01-2009, 09:03 AM
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Yes WE,,, You'll notice I said some serious work.
It's not going to be easy but,, this abortion of a bill on healthcare,, needs to be terminated.
After that will be the fun of killing Cap & Trade.
And after that,,, it will be time for the 2010 Nationals.
Sure hope the "Home" team wins.
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11-01-2009, 09:26 AM
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The Democrats control the government
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11-01-2009, 09:34 AM
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Literotica Guru
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I am a big Frank Luntz fan, he is brilliant.
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11-01-2009, 09:43 AM
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Full Frontal Nerdity
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Fitting that his missive is posted on hotair.com
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Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on… as long as the women and children are saved. But if you fail to save the women and children, you've had it, you're done, you're through! You join Tyrannosaurus Rex, one more breed that bilged its final test. - Robert Heinlein, "The Pragmatics of Patriotism"
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11-01-2009, 09:55 AM
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Shoot da' puck
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Originally Posted by Frisco_Slug_Esq
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The Democrats control the government and they don't seem to be serious about anything but spend and control.
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The Democrats are government. |
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11-01-2009, 10:31 AM
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Conservatism Czar
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I don't need some "strategist" to tell me when I can criticize Obama.
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Democrat mantra: "The Government is my shepherd, I shall not want."
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11-01-2009, 11:36 AM
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mild mannered citizen
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Fitting that his missive is posted on hotair.com
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oh hahaha
how's things over at TheDailyKaos?
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11-02-2009, 07:15 AM
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On Strike!
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Again, I can't coherently rebut or address the remarks, so KILL THE MESSENGER!!!
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Contemporary leftists, on the other hand, view their opponents as people you send off to the Gulag, unworthy of any respect, deserving of any kind of low blow, no matter how foul. So you accuse Goldwater of insanity, slander Justice Thomas as a sexual monster, casually publish plays, books, and films calling for the assassination of President Bush, and assault the first serious Republican female candidate at her weakest point -- her family. And of course, you scream to high heaven if any form of turnabout occurs in your direction, as in the case of the Obama family, which was declared "off limits" early in the presidential campaign, at the same time that Palin's family was being stretched on the media rack.
This style of political loathing has become effectively innate. It has been systemized to such a degree as to become integral. Modern liberalism cannot do without it. An entire structure has been erected on the basis of political hatred, and from that structure a whole new strategy has arisen.
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