Reply #16: Interesting POV. One way out is to wrest the *language* .... [View All]

of "toughness" way from the opposition.


>>>So fight them on the territory that's there, and identify THEIR candidates as "weak" at every opportunity. (Remember how they flipped out when Poppy was labeled a "wimp," and lost to Clinton?) I don't know if we need to take it all the way to the obnoxious "girly-man" insults, but you get the idea.>>>>>

Most of the RW agenda is based on fear and intellectual
"weakness". Giuliani ( aka Mr. Tough Guy)for example can be reasonably said to be afraid of just about *everything*: terror, illegal immigrants, GLBTs, Iran, his estranged children; you name it.He both embodies these fears and exploits them in others.

The rest of that sorry crew... i.e. their contenders ... does this to one degree or another.

DEMs should steal the terminology away and turn it back on 'em.

For example: the DEM candidate should describe the GOP plan for Iraq not so much as "insanity" ( which it certainly IS, BTW: doing the same thing over and over no matter how many times it is unsuccessful) but as *weak* intellectually and in fact. *craven*. ( But don't use that word; use 'wimpy' or whatever's currently in vogue.)

It's easy to substantiate since the fact is that the GOP lacks the *courage* to get out of Iraq.And also the intellectual *strength* to analyze the problem correctly.