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State, National etc, Bush is doing fairly crappy given his attack ads on Kerry. Kerry is brilliantly applying Newt Gingrich's philosophy of "He who controls the language, controls the campaign"
Kerry is very cleverly rewriting liberal progressive taxation ideas using terms that sound almost conservative, defining fiscal conservatism as giving tax cuts to the poor, the middle class, and small businesses, while raising taxes on the wealthiest two percent of the population and 1 percent of the corporations, which if one were to use old liberal-speak would would be to say that he will institute a progressive tax code, in which the rich pay their fair share. He has very cleverly pointed out that he wants to stop any company that avoids taxation in the United States by setting up offsore corporations or keeping their income offshore from being able to bid for any federal government contract. Very soon we can expect Kerry to name some of those corporations, like Haliburton and Bechtel, who are getting the lions share of the contracts in Iraq, who will not pay a dime of taxes on the money that they are earning from those sealed contracts. All in good time, never tell the whole story all at once, but bit by bit. He is stripping his campaign speeches of all of the terminology used by democrats in the past, which neo-conservatives have re-defined in extremely negative ways.
Unrelated to taxation, does anyone remember before the term "Pro-Life" cane into existance. It was anti- abortion back then. By redefining the political position, making those who wish to overturn abortion laws become "PRO" something. In this case "Pro Life" Which makes their opponents ANTI something. IN this case Anti Life. Or pro Death. Even the inevitable reaction to the Term Pro Life whjich is "Pro Choice" becomes tainted by the fact that the covervatives defined their term as pro before liberal did. Because you can ask of choice, what is being chosen, and the "Pro Lifers" can then turn the choice into choosing death and choosing to "kill unborn children". SO by controlling the language and winning defining the political positions first, conservatives have been able to greatly advace their agenda. Kerry is stripping every bit of liberal terminology out of his campaign and redefining progressive economics in terms of fiscal responsibility, while redefining all conservative terminology in terms of fiscal irresponsibility, borrow and spend conservatives, sending an enormous budget to Congress without providing any idea where the money is going to come from for all of those massive programs, and then showing that the corpoprations that will be getting the government contracts for all of those programs will not pay a dime in income taxes due to Bush's tax cuts and tax programs that favor corporations that go overseas and outsource.
We are witnessing Kerry reinventing the political language in such a way that conservatives become the group who are spending the government into deficit, and making sure that the U.S> sends all of the money spent on its programs outside of the United States.
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