Tonight on \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d there\u2019s a short interview with GOP messaging guru Frank Luntz and George Lakoff, a Democratic consultant best know for his book Don\u2019t Think of an Elephant.<\/p>\n
Luntz of course thinks cut-and-run is quite snappy and effective. Lakoff says Dems should say we accomplished the mission of defeating Iraq in May 2003 but are bogged down in an occupation. <\/p>\n
But then Luntz says something to the effect of \u201cGeorge keeps hoping if you say occupation over and over again, people will believe it.\u201d The ATC host, to her credit, says, to the effect, \u201cIsn\u2019t that what the Republicans do all the time with cut-and-run?\u201d Luntz essentially says, \u201cYes but that\u2019s what the Dem want.\u201d He\u2019s clueless to the hypocrisy.<\/p>\n
The interview should be up by 7:30. Here\u2019s the link<\/a> to the story. It should get you to the audio.<\/p>\n In sum, I\u2019m not sure if Lakoff has the right idea, but it\u2019s worth a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tonight on \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d there\u2019s a short interview with GOP messaging guru Frank Luntz and George Lakoff, a Democratic consultant best know for his book Don\u2019t Think of an Elephant. Luntz of course thinks cut-and-run is quite snappy and effective. Lakoff says Dems should say we accomplished the mission of defeating Iraq in May… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}