Reply #34: Gee, I thought I was saying "here's a frame that's broadly accepted"

[Land Shark]

We sure can't stop the other side from counter-framing or twisting words. So, I'm not sure there's any point in bemoaning anything. I'm trying to hand out a tool and way to handle an issue, it's not a meaningful response to say "but the other side will fight back." They always do.

I also don't think any side that doesn't have something to crow about ever wins a political debate because they don't have the energy or motivation to communicate with undecideds or even reinforce their own, so here again I have trouble understanding what possible utility to transparency there could be in advice to "not crow about it."

Actually, aquart, I figure you're probably very smart and hopeful and just protecting yourself against future disappointment because the final numbers after the war is over probably wouldn't be 92% any more. i grant you that after they kick in their MSM distortion machine. But you still gotta fight from a position of strength, not from a point of "better not crow yet". My view is, let's crow, and make them fight us on the plains of transparency and anti-secret vote counting.