If someone with a Conservative/Far Right bent wanted to run an ad criticizing Edwards on healthcare

Phoebe Loosinhouse

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Wed Sep-12-07 06:43 PM
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If someone with a Conservative/Far Right bent wanted to run an ad criticizing Edwards on healthcare

Edited on Wed Sep-12-07 06:48 PM by Phoebe Loosinhouse

And they titled it

Breck Girl' s position on Health Care

would you read it?

I wouldn't.

And I wouldn't give a shit how thoughtful the analysis was about his positions on healthcare. Because at that particular point they don't deserve to be read.

Sorry to state the obvious, but I am drawing an analogy to the MoveOn ad. Freepers will chortle and read the thing the whole way through. Anyone else would just roll their eyes and sigh in disgust that our political discourse has come to this.

(edited for clarification)

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valerief

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Wed Sep-12-07 06:46 PM
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1. Sounds like a Faux Nooz banner. nt

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rocktivity

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Wed Sep-12-07 06:47 PM
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2. Hair care has no bearing on health care

But a military general lying to please his commander in chief rather than telling him and the people he's supposed to be protecting the truth IS a form of betrayal.

:headbang:
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Phoebe Loosinhouse

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Wed Sep-12-07 06:56 PM
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3. But can/should all discussion be distilled in this fashion?

General Petreaus = General Betray Us
John Edwards - Breck Girl

Rush Limbaugh calls Harry Reid "Dingy Harry" - he WON'T use the man's name in any discussion about him.

If I thought hard enough I could come up with many others.

This is the path to madness - these "nicknames" that are shorthand for incohernet political prejudice.

I hate to sound like your mother, but because they jump off a cliff, do we have to as well?

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2rth2pwr

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Wed Sep-12-07 07:00 PM
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4. How about an ad with John Edwards in large

quotes along the top-

"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care"
" You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK."

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Phoebe Loosinhouse

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Wed Sep-12-07 07:03 PM
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5. It's called an "analogy" .

A hint - I wasn't really posting a thread about Edward's healthcare position.

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2rth2pwr

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Wed Sep-12-07 11:19 PM
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8. I wasn't really talking to you. nt

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Hieronymus

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Wed Sep-12-07 07:30 PM
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6. Any hairdresser who goes to someone's house to give a haircut, and

charges less than $400. is a damn fool. :eyes:

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Telly Savalas

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Wed Sep-12-07 08:15 PM
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7. But didn't you read the chapter in Gore's "Assault on Reason"

about the merits of 3rd grade style name calling?

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Kelly Rupert

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Wed Sep-12-07 11:22 PM
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9. Apparently many DUers believe

that namecalling and accusations of treason are sound political strategy when it's done against Republicans.

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