How lame is this? House Democrats are actually taking a training course on how to talk tough on terrorism. They want overcome the advantage Republicans have on national security by changing the words they use sound tougher.
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.”
Democrats and liberals always think it’s just perception about them as opposed to substance that’s the problem. If they can only put new clothes on the pig it won’t be seen as a pig anymore.
The fact that Democrats have to be taught how to talk about terrorism is all the more reason they’re not fit to lead.
Republicans and Conservatives don’t consider every word they use and carefully choose words for effect. When we see a radical Muslim attempt to blow up an airliner we say exactly what we saw.
Hey America, a radical Muslim just tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit!
Democrats on the other hand are a bunch of phonies who are weighed down by the ugly scourge of political correctness. They can’t be honest about the threat and have to talk in PC language.
Hey America, an isolated extremist tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit!
When Republicans see radical Muslims blow shit up around the world we call it terrorism. When liberals see the exact same thing they call it “man caused disasters” or “extremist acts.”
None of this has anything to do with learning to talk the right way. It’s simply a matter of being real and being phony.
