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March 8, 2010
Dems to teach their candidates how to sound tough on national defense
Topics: Political News and commentariesAnd the emphasis is on "sounding" tough. Democrats clearly believe that words matter over substance!For Dems it's always message over substance. They just don't seem to get it, and this failure extends from such diverse matters as health care to now - national security. They don't understand that if you have to hold classes to learn the right words to say so you actually sound like people who know what they are talking about and really do want to defend America, it means you're still thinking that its the message that matters - and to hell with the substance. Hence, the Dems now plan on holding training sessions to teach eachother how to talk so they sound as though they are tough on national security, and know how to defend America:
[...] To combat the problem, House Democrats have asked Third Way, the centrist Democratic think tank, and California Rep. Jane Harman, a leader on intelligence issues in the House, to help lead training sessions on the issue.The problem for the Dems lies in the fact that they are inherently weak on national security, because their base is comprised predominantly of far-left anti-military, liberal-progressives, and globalists. And as Ken Spain, communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee aptly points out in the above-linked piece, the fact that Democrats have to train their own candidates on how to talk about defending America is an indictment not just of their candidates but of their policies, as well. The GOP candidates' message is simple: "Stop treating terrorists like common criminals, don't import terrorists into our communities and listen to our military and intelligence officials instead of attacking them.""The Democratic approach on security -- or at least my approach -- is that we know how to be tough and smart, not tough and reckless," said Harman, a Blue Dog whose district is home to an enormous Air Force base and a number of intelligence contractors. "For some Democrats, this is difficult."
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) attended one of Harman's sessions when he was running for office in 2008. Now the president of the Democratic freshman class, he helped lead a session for other Democrats late last month. He said his party has to "avoid the trap of looking soft and weak" and that "there are strong adverbs, adjectives and verbs as opposed to weak."
One example he offered: "I'm going to fight for American interests abroad" as opposed to "I'm going to defend American values."
"Not that one is better than the other, but in language, one is more assertive and one's stronger, and that's where we need to be. Words matter," he said. "The other side has paid a lot of attention to which words do you want to use. Democrats don't always take this seriously."
Just like a leopard can't change its spots, the Democratic Party can't change what they are - weak on national defense, simply by changing the message.
Posted by Abdul at March 8, 2010 9:03 AM
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