Guide to dispelling Repuke buzzwords and talking points

[mvd]

Feel free to add your own. Ten to start:

"small government" - they don't want to help the middle class/poor and give them a fair share of the pie
"they'll raise your taxes" - what this really means is that they don't want higher taxes on the rich
"the American taxpayer" - the rich tax-payer
"pork" - every project - even helpful ones like keeping national historic parks healthy
"legislating from the bench" - really just someone disagreeing with them
"pro-life" - only pro-life until birth
"family values" - they want to be in your private life; also see definition of hypocrites
"liberal" - anyone to the left of Reagan
"liberal media" - a fair media
"entitlements" - they want to privatize everything

[Clio the Leo]

1. lol @ "only pro-life until birth" .... love that one! NT

[tridim]

2. "Liberal media" - GOP controlled media

If we actually had a fair media, Bush would never have been selected President and we wouldn't be in Iraq.

[mvd]

4. Indeed it is GOP-controlled

They make anything that isn't geared toward them into the "liberal media" - that's what I meant by fair media.

[EVDebs]

3. Newt Gingrich's 1996 GOPAC memo

Language: A Key Mechanism of Control
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm

[mvd]

5. Good info - thanks

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