Hey Luntz! Welcome to the party, pal!!
Posted on 10/31/2009 11:24:39 AM PDT by opentalk
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
And it only took eleven months of unconstitutional czars, worldly bashing of the states and running our country into unprecedented debt to do it!
Right . The constant bitching about Fox ended badly for the WH as well . Another retreat by the bullies when hit back .This health care fiasco will only add to the problem. An almost 2000 page mess filled with pork and taxes . Man you talk about being out of touch.
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.
Utter silliness, since there was never any difference between the man and the policies.
Sort of like we've been doing here at FR all along. We speak the truth to power.
I never needed a memo Oking anything..
"..will mean something for the more cautious and timid Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill. It will assure them that not only can they go after the worst Democratic policy proposals, but they can tie them to Obama without fear of backlash from their own voters."
Evidently the politicians do.
That whole “racist” thing is gone. It’s dead, Obama and the liberals killed it and it will never work the same way again. Jesse and Al need to look for another job.
Kan we kall it KenyanKare ?
LOL! Sure
Hey Luntz! Welcome to the party, pal!!
Sort of like we've been doing here at FR all along. We speak the truth to power.
White House (and Homeland Security) enemies list notwithstanding.
That “enemies list” thing kind of backfired on Obama. He was too arrogant to know it’s supposed to be a secret.
I can sort of respect what Luntz tries to do. But on the other hand, there’s something sort of weasely about being so concerned with how certain words effect the great unwashed.
I agree, trying to manipulate the masses.
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