I just was browsing and saw the President McCain diary.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!?!
How the fuck could you even type this kind of shit? Don't you understand that diaries like that are a fucking cancer. Time should not be wasted on stupid negative shit like that. If you say anything it should be that McCain is a big fat liar.
I was just reading this article by George Lakoff on Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
As anyone here who has read anything by Lakoff knows that it's all about the use of language and the framing of arguments.
I think that the most powerful part of the piece is this one:
"Negating a frame activates that frame. If you activate the other side's frame, you just help the other side, as Nixon found out when he said, "I am not a crook," which made people think of him as a crook."
He point's out that in Obama's new add "No Maverick," he makes that mistake, calling McCain "no maverick" reinforces the tie of McCain and the word Maverick.
Liar is the best frame because it completely neuralizes every single attack ad that McCain slings our way.
Our message can only be, they are liars.
If you talk about McCain or Palin, call them liars
Let me repeat, if McCain comes up in conversation, call him a liar.
If Palin comes up, don't call her a stupid bitch. Call her a liar.
Liar is the only way to frame them. It's quick, it's simple, it works.
"They are liars." Every single day call them that.
And to all of the chicken littles, shut your fucking pie hole and save us from another "we're gonna lose" self-fulfilling prophecy. You are a cancer, you need to be slapped. Take your I'm being real and honest and shove it up your ass.
Markos, why do you allow these? Why does Skinner on DU allow that shit? Why do we allow ourselves to fall into this fucking trap every god damn time?
Get on message, if the message is "we are going to lose," we will. If the message is that "McCain is a big fat liar", we win.