To: TomGuy
Therein lies the problem, however. And it has been an ongoing problem for the Bush 2 Presidency. Team Clinton got out in front of every issue. Team Bush has had to be dragged into defending his policies and decisions again and again; but by then, the perceptions have been cemented in the public's mind.
I used to think so to but have come to the conclusion that it wouldn't have mattered. The story would have simply shifted from Bush's failed policies to Bush's attempt to convince the public that his failed policies aren't failures.
My bigger problem with Bush and Conservatives in general is how they allow the Moderate Pubbies and Libs to use terms like "the rich", "the middle class", "working families", "torture", and the list goes on and on, without demanding a definition.
The biggest problem the Pubbies have is allowing Dems to frame the debate with incorrect assumptions (the rich will hold on to their "tax cut", Muslim crazy a$$ fundamentalists would never work with secularists, etc, etc) and undefined terms like the ones listed above.
The Conservatives must today begin to reestablish the parameters and retake the language. Challenge the assumptions, their "fact" and seriously questions the analysis, which is usually just about as shallow as standing water after a summer shower.
139 posted on 08/20/2006 7:17:30 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Helen Thomas on anticipating and handling a crisis: "I'll live under that bridge when I get to it.") [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 111 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
Hammer, meet nail head.
Pubbies are constantly allowing the Liberals (aka the media wing of the democrat party) to set which field the political debate will play out on.
It's time we made them play on our turf...