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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (14132)	3/7/2003 4:33:13 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

thanks, I really appreciate the BCA articles, well done / jw

To: stockman_scott who wrote (14132)	3/7/2003 4:42:13 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

thenation.com Compassionate conservativism. Clear skies. "No child left behind." Healthy forests. "Made in the U.S.A." "Help is on the way!" The sheer chutzpah in naming programs and ideologies for their exact opposite is, for some, a full-time job. Enter the new 16-page memo (click here to see it as a PDF file) by Republican strategist Frank Luntz -- best-known as the lead author of Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America". Luntz says George Bush and the Republicans are vulnerable on environmental issues -- i.e., they're out-of-step with Americans -- and so have to start muddying the waters, lest the voters notice. This means using the less-threatening term "climate change" instead of the ominous "global warming," and trying to create the impression that the scientific jury is still out (it's not) on whether this process is being driven by human activiity. It means describing Republicans as "conservationist" instead of "environmentalist" (a label to be derided as radical), and on describing the party as "a champion of national parks." As The New York Times reports, the Bush Administration has already begun following Luntz's advice.