How do you communicate the underlying meaning and values of a political party with a single word or phrase? Republicans have boiled it down to "national security, tax relief, and family values." And now Democratic strategists think they have figured out the catchphrase that strategically conveys the complexity of what they believe.
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A lot of attention lately has been paid to Lakoff, a fairly obscure Berkeley linguistics professor, for a book he wrote suggesting that Democrats learn to use language to frame the debate as well as the Republican
I mentioned in a recent post that I thought a writer on an Alan Keyes-related website must be using a refrigerator magnet game with a bunch of conservative catchphrases just jumbled together randomly. A commenter thinks that would make a fun game and I think so too.
In the face of criticism from the left and right, President Bush insisted Tuesday that Harriet Miers is the nation's best-qualified candidate for the Supreme Court and assured skeptical conservatives that his lawyer-turned-nominee shares his judicial philosophy -- and always will.
For a nation just recovering from the mass stupidity of the "War on Christmas", now we've got the War on Easter.
I've been calling the GOP "the party of torture, treason and pseudoscience."
BTW, how does this "Republicans' radical individualism" square with their approval of widespread spying on US citizens and their opposition to gay marriage?
Here's a catchy phrase for the Dems: "We're not the GOP."