Reply #13: Then you don't understand what I'm saying. [View All]

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I definitely do not think ANWAR is a good idea economically or environmentally.

But I see how it can work really well politically speaking for Republicans unless Democrats do a better job explaining why it wasn't a good idea.

This all comes back to Lakoff. Democrats need to put ANWAR into a framework that doesn't help Republicans.

The Republicans would love to have voters think Democrats care more about caribou than about people or about creating wealth. If the Democrats' retort is, "yes, we do care more about caribou in this case" then Democrats lose.

Then need to explain why caring about creating wealth and caring about people would lead one to conclude that ANWAR is a bad idea. I don't see that in the way that DU'ers are talking about this.