Bush Web Backers Not All on the Same Page

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- The word came down from the GOP's polling experts: The proper phrase is "personal accounts," never "private accounts," when talking about President Bush's plan for Social Security.

Evidentially, some of the president's supporters didn't get the memo. Both terms are widely used on a Web site sponsored by the Republican National Committee that invites supporters to post their views.

"Social Security must be changed to have private accounts," wrote a man from Arkansas.

"I'm all for private accounts," wrote a California woman.

"Privatization is a great idea," said an Ohio doctor.
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Republican strategists told their allies on the Social Security issue to avoid the words "privatization" and "private accounts" in describing Bush's proposal after polls showed those terms bother people. Instead, the strategists advised, use "personal accounts," a term that makes them feel they have control.

"I am in favor of privatizing a portion of Social Security, with the eventual goal of discontinuing it altogether," Minna Andriulli of Kingston, Tenn., wrote on the Republican National Committee's Web site.
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RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt suggested that supporters who use the term "privatize" are listening to the wrong people.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-social-security-web-site,0,4227018.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[Career Prole]

1. "Instead, the strategists advised, use 'personal accounts',

"a term that makes them feel they have control."

Hey repuke strategerizers! Wanna know what will make us feel like we have control?

TELL YOUR MONKEY-MUGGED PRESIDENT TO QUIT PICKIN' OUR FRIGGIN' POCKETS!!

Frankly, that will probably work better than your idea.
:rant:

[ixion]

2. In Vonnegut's 'Sirens of Titan'

they had to put an 'off' button in the space craft to make people feel like they were in control. This is precisely the same thing.

[central scrutinizer]

3. DU contest!!

Who can post on the RNC site a message with the most repetitions of the word privatize. I'll go first: "I am writing about privatizing private accounts. Privately, you will be surprised at the depth of my private feeling about this. When I was a private in the army, I shared my most private thoughts about privatizing private accounts with other privates. In privacy, they confided that they were privately very concerned about this."

[maddezmom]

4. LOL

did you post it? :D

[central scrutinizer]

5. yes, but

I assume it didn't make it through the filter and I don't have the stomach to scroll through that fawning drivel to check.