KERRY CAMP COMPARES BUSHCO TO COCKROACHES

[powergirl]

From the Dallas Morning News, page 10A, Thursday, May 20, 2004

Campaign Roundup

A republican Web video compares John Kerry to shell-shedding cicdas: “Senator Kerry would like to shed his Senate career and morph into a fiscal conservative . . . But he leaves his record behind."

Democrats reply: “With all the scurrying the Republicans are going to do once we shine a light on Bush’s record of failure … they’ll rue the day the introduced insect analogies.”

The Democrats need to continue to respond like this. This is great!! The Republicans need to leave word play to the intellectuals (which is not Republican)



:freak:

[thebigidea]

1. Cheney: Crawlin' With Cockroaches

ooo, time to warm up photoshop.

[benburch]

5. Excellent idea.

Make sure you have some entering/leaving various facial orifices.

[thebigidea]

8. and each roach has a tiny G.W. Bush head with mandibles

[amish_enforcer]

2. LOL n/t

[NMDemDist2]

3. ROFL eom

[neuvocat]

4. That's how Clinton did it.

Example-

Bush I : Clinton is the governor of a failed state.

Clinton: Bush is the failed president of a large nation.

[Paradise]

6. nice post, powergirl. thanks.

“With all the scurrying the Republicans are going to do once we shine a light on Bush’s record of failure … they’ll rue the day they introduced insect analogies.”

I J U S T L O V E I T !:bounce:

[treepig]

7. "The Republicans need to leave word play to the intellectuals"

actually, they are masters at the manipulation of language - something that our side is lagging far behind at, see

How US Conservatives Use Language to Dominate Politics


"The first thing to know about language is that it expresses ideas and thoughts. Every word is defined with respect to what cognitive scientists call a frame. A frame is a conceptual structure of a certain form. Let me give you an example. Suppose I say the word "relief." The word "relief" has a conceptual frame associated with it. Here's the frame: In order to give someone relief, there has to be an affliction and an afflicted party – somebody who's harmed by this affliction – and a reliever, somebody who gives relief to the afflicted party or takes away the harm or pain. That reliever is a hero. And if someone tries to stop the person giving relief from doing so, they're a bad guy. They're a villain. They want to keep the affliction ongoing. So when you use only one word, "relief," all of that information is called up. That is a simple conceptual frame.

Then there's metaphorical thought. We all think metaphorically. When you add "tax" to "relief" to give you the term "tax relief," it says that taxation is an affliction. That's a new metaphor. Then, using the metaphor, anyone who gets rid of the taxation – the affliction – is a hero, and anybody who tries to stop him is a bad guy."

more . . .

http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/content/2004/03/15/00.19.19/index.php

[RebelOne]

9. Get out the Raid and exterminate them.

[dave29]

10. Wasn't Dean slammed

around these parts for saying the same thing. Oh right, he didn't just confine it to Republicans

[MercutioATC]

12. I was wondering the same thing. Looks like Howard leant Kerry more

than just the bat...

[NYCGirl]

17. Kerry ought to play cards with Howard more often... (eom)

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

11. That's making cockroaches look bad

[CityZen-X]

14. Maggots Would Be Apropos!

[VolcanoJen]

13. Oh, Christ. CICADA ADS? Are they serious????

Desperate... grasping at straws, they are...

[rumguy]

15. I personally prefer calling them human trash, garbage, or pigs...

but cockroaches works too....

[kentuck]

16. Where's mopaul's blackFlag when you need it ?

:)