I wish that every time a Democrat, any Democrat opens their mouth

[Toots]

They always say several times Bush* has a Credibility Problem Every single person and every single time they speak..Bush* has a Credibility Problem..If every single Democrat and Liberal journalist repeats this phrase often enough the public just might understand eventually

[Rambis]

1. They have to say BUSH IS A LIAR!

over and over- I will start president bush who is a liar said today...

[Southsideirish]

6. Agreed. "Credibility" is a weasel word.

[Toots]

7. Yes but if you say LIE or LIAR you immediately turn people off and they

classify you as extreme I agree that is what they do. they LIE but America is not ready for such provocative speech. Credibility Gap or Lacks Credibility has more appeal to the masses and that is who we want to reach. The ones you will reach by extremely inflammatory language are here at DU..

[trotsky]

2. That's where the Repukes have us beat.

They march lockstep with words. Democrats "have no ideas," "can't win elections," etc., etc. None of it true, but with every public appearance of a Republican further hammering home the words, it "becomes" true. Much like "cutting taxes increases tax revenues". :eyes:

[Salviati]

3. Actually, I'd prefer it if they left bush out of it...

and just tarred all republicans with the crap they've been pulling. Bush is on his way out. He'll never run in another election again. Why waste our efforts on him specificly, hang his extremest agenda around the necks of all republicans, is what I think they should do.

[Toots]

5. Yes I agree and stand corrected. Republicans have a Credibility Problem.

We should always address the party and not any individual...

[fob]

4. First just get them to stop using "We" when they are talking about

bush*s fuckups! Randi Rhodes, Franken, Springer do that all effing day long and it drives me insane. They'll say "We really messed up going into Iraq...", and I scream "DON'T SAY WE, SAY BUSH*!!", lather rinse repeat.

Once they're broken of that, move on to bush* has a crediblity problem/is a liar.

[tavalon]

8. Yeah, that is really true

"We" didn't do this. Most of us on this list fought against it.

[Justitia]

9. I like to frame it as a rhetorical question: "Why would we believe

anything the Republicans say?"

or

"How can we trust anything Republicans say?"

This is a nifty conversational tactic - rhetorical questions always make the receiver reflexively prompt an answer.

The usual response from the listener: "True.", or if they are pro-Repub, it puts them in a defensive posture making them examine their position on the question.

It also reinforces the (truthful) meme that Republicans are liars.

I would also add, in posing the question above, you have automatically grouped your listener to your side by saying "we", as in "How can WE believe..." - thus separating them from the objective group of Republicans.

If they are Repubs, making an objective stmt like "Repubs are liars" will be an attack against their self-identified group. If you ask the question above, you make them part of YOUR group, and not the group of liars in gov't.