Bush Administration Seeks To Move From "Stay The Course" Rhetoric

[JABBS]

Check out Tony Snow's fight with David Gregory yesterday, the latest in a month-long campaign to try to change American linguistics in time for the November election.

[RedStateShame]

1. Isn't the new rhetoric, "Agree with us or you love Hitler"?

[Jawja]

3. Seems to be.

funny how they are now running away from "stay the course" after it has been crammed down our throats for 4 years.

[JABBS]

13. funnier how bush said "stay the course" on aug. 30

... but the GOP will probably say he didn't mean it the same way, an easy out on the flip/flop.

we mean "stay the course" instead of "cut and run."

but as we "stay the course," we're "adapting to win."


Easy and Luntzian, ain't it?

[Skidmore]

14. Yup, with "stay the course" implied.

The rhetoric change doesn't mean the policy has changed.

[JABBS]

15. that's the point of the JABBS article

changing the rhetoric is one thing; winning the war is another

and one doesn't lead to the other -- personal accounts vs. private accounts, it didn't make a difference with the American people. they thought the idea was a stinker.

[savemefromdumbya]

2. BUSH = FLIP-FLOPPER!

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. You beat me too it

If the White House IN ANY WAY backs down from their absurd "stay the course" rhetoric, I suggest we start sending shower togs and boxes of frozen waffles to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. :hi:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

[savemefromdumbya]

12. Harry Reid should pull Bush up on this (flipflopflipflop)

[bdamomma]

5. new saying just mentioned on Stephanie Miller

Repigs new saying should be "we have nothing to sell but fear itself"

[JABBS]

7. LOL

that's a good one.

[Secular Agent Man]

6. Maybe "Adapting To Win" means the GOP is going to convert

to Islam. What will their mantra be, "There is no Bush but Bush"?

[ComerPerro]

8. They are more likely to convert to Islam than liberals are

jerks like Michael Savage are always saying that if liberals had their way, this would be a Muslim nation by now.

Well, I call bullshit, for obvious reasons.

Liberals don't even want this to be a Christian nation, and we have been pretty successful in stopping it from becoming a fascist Christian Theocracy, despite being outnumbered heavily (with anywhere from 70 to 80 percent of the population claiming to be Christian).

Seems to me that conservatives, who already blindly follow radical versions of religion, would be more likely to convert than liberals.

[gratuitous]

9. Well, I'm sure the major media won't comply

Being all independent and everything, I'm sure they won't just let the Bush administration force another transparent attempt to shift responsibility away from themselves for the massive fuck-up they foisted on the American people.

I have no basis for this assertion, of course; the media's track record in calling the Bushistas on their bullshit isn't encouraging.

[JABBS]

11. i also have little faith in the media

specifically television

the order of how the phrase will be turned ...

-- Hannity will use "adapt to win," and Colmes will have a glass of milk.
-- Neil Cavuto will suggest the Democrats don't want to "adapt to win."
-- John Gibson will suggest the Democrats don't understand how to "adapt to win."
-- Brit Hume and his "all-stars" will praise Bush for having the courage to "adapt to win."
-- Tucker Carlson will whine about how no one cares if he says "adapt to win."
-- Chris Matthews will mention but not adopt "adapt ton win," but he'll interview 46 Republicans about how they support Bush's "adapt to win" strategy.
-- Joe Scarborough will do a segment on how people in Scarborough Country approve of Bush trying to "adapt to win."
-- Wolf Blitzer will highlight how Americans are increasingly accepting "adapt to win" as a strategy.
-- Lou Dobbs will suggest that Bush will try to "adapt to win" his battle on border security.
-- Tim Russert will ask his panel whether people believe in the "adapt to win" strategy.
-- Chris Matthews will do the same on his Sunday morning show.
-- Katie Couric will interview Ken Mehlman, who will use "adapt to win" 107 times in 90 seconds.
-- The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will have two months of material.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Okay, let's go from "staying the course," to, "Bush has a Hamburger Hill

mentality?"

[porphyrian]

16. Wafflers! Flip-floppers!

Hypocritical fucking piece of shit traitors, really.

[hatrack]

17. Too late - they fucking OWN "stay the course"

It and they are one and the same, and with two months to go, it's just too fucking late.

[JABBS]

19. you'd think that was true

... but we'll see.

[Cleita]

18. Since they probably believe the earth is flat (goes with

intelligent design), the "stay the course" talking point means that they will eventually fall of the edge. Duh! Pointy heads figured something out.