Enemy Combatant
Monday, April 11, 2005
Three Easy "Frames" For The Dems -- Let's Go Bowling!
Why oh why can't the Democrats wise up, and start using the following tactics?
1. Get yourself in front of a camera, and ask: Why don't the Republicans think Terri Schiavo should have been able to choose for herself how much medical intervention she wanted? After all, that's exactly what the state courts in Florida -- duly established to determine those matters -- decided. Repeatedly.
It's still mind-boggling to me that -- just because it's such a hugely inconvenient fact (indeed, devastating to their argument) that Terri Schiavo herself wanted to have her feeding tube disconnected -- the Republicans not only choose to ignore that fact entirely, but -- more unforgivably -- self-styled "Democrats" appear on TV and "politely" go entire debates without mentioning that fact, either.
2. Democrats need to start using the following phraseology: "Bush treats this country like a rental. He treats all of us like a rental."
Not only do you pull in the college crowd who recognize the Jane's Addiction lyric, it's instinctively understandable, particularly by the upper middle class (who can still afford to go on "rental" vacations).
3. Western Democrats (do you hear me, Ken Salazar? Gov. Schweitzer?) need to start using the following phraseology: "This country feels like it's been rode hard and put up wet" by Bush. In fact, even better: Get photographed astride a horse when you use these words.
Besides the sexual double entendre that everyone will get, anyone who works around animals will get the image of a poor beast mistreated by an emotionally-retarded dipshit who ought himself to be horsewhipped in the street.
And, of course, it will get in the minds of the public that, hey, we've never actually seen Bush anywhere near a horse, have we?
