[Darkwolf]

I love how the Dems get all flat-footed when they try to frame their message.

If you can't just SAY your message, you know your message is one people don't want to hear. Shouldn't that tell you something? Dopes.

[Ron in Acreage]

Lakoff in a nutshell, "How can we fool them into voting democrat?"

[Reactionary]

"And this bit of -- well, framing -- cast as an enunciation of core Democratic principles, jumped out at me: "We want to protect life all the way from birth up until the edge of death."

Well now. After decades of deconstructing the language to further a political agenda, liberals have now found themselves face-to-face with a linguistic "construct" they can't quite dig themselves out of. Indeed, it appears that most human beings believe that the word "life" doesn't really have much to do with starving disabled people in public and lopping the heads off the unborn.

What to do?

[68skylark]

This is very funny and well-written. I'll have to pay attention to this writer in the future.

[spinestein]

How many times can they keep repackaging Marxism until NOBODY takes it seriously anymore.

[Tall_Texan]

With Howard Dean at the helm, the Dems appear to use insults as means of trying to win voters.

I actually like the "Mommycrats" and "Daddycans" analogy.

[King Prout]

it seems to me that if a message MUST be deliviered in some kind of slick packaging, one can assume the orator believes there is either something wrong with the message or something wrong with the intended audience.

either way, by taking up with "framing" the Democrats have delivered themselves up, bound and gagged and helpless, for evisceration in the next election cycle.

Idiots.

[goldstategop]

The Democrats are the Party Of Death. No amount of Lackoff-inspired "framing" can conceal the fact the party is pushing for euthanasia measures in a number of states, including California. Its not how the Democrats say it that explains why they're in trouble; its WHAT they say that's made them a minority party today. DUH.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)