Posted by
Sanity 102 on Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:41:36 PM
I have two major reasons for writing articles for this blog. The first is simple: there are times when I need to rant and unlike most people on TH, I am in the wrong time zone as the talk show hosts and cannot call in nor do I have the time to wander the blogs and write hundreds of comments.
I do not expect to "change minds" nor do I expect someone who disagrees with me, to read my blog and say..."Oh, I get it!" This blog is selfishly for me...for MY sanity.
The second reason is to keep from repeating my points...a reader who genuinely wants to know where I'm coming from is free to read my blog. This is where I will answer questions that require (in my mind) longer responses than what would/should be allowed in good manners on other blogs.
Then there is a third reason to write an article--and it is for this purpose this particular article is written.
One of the most frustrating excercises in blog commenting is the use of--and the apparent need to define--words that have been spun until all ability to converse, much less debate is near impossible.
I have actually tried in one or two articles to do this but the fact that months, years later, I am STILL repeating myself left me with the opinion that such an endeavor would be a waste of time.
Only...the "spin" appears to have affected that 60% Independents that will decide who gets to occupy the WH in 2009...and so many of the normally "sane" people on the Right is having difficulty explaining such simple words like "amnesty", "loyalty", "support".
Thus for them, I have decided to write a post about the words being used in the political game that the Right is losing so amazingly fast. They will be divided into two groups:
REAL: What the word actually means...according to most people.
SPIN: What the word has been spun to mean.
AMNESTY:
Real: Forgiveness of a crime with little or no penalty.
Spin: Any bill or document that doesn't push for the deportation of 12 million illegals.
LOYALTY:
Real: Finding and focusing on the positive but staying thru the negative.
Spin: Find the negative to excuse the desire to abandon
SUPPORT:
Real: Given AFTER judgment and questioning.
Spin: Given on an issue to issue basis and withdrawn as see fit.
PRINCIPLE:
Real: Rules upon which each person is allowed to live and die by
Spin: Rules upon which the "mob" decide what EVERYONE must live and die by. (May not include "loyalty" and "support".
FREEDOM TO DISAGREE:
Real: Each side is allowed to have an opinion and to disagree.
Spin: Only one side is allowed to have an opinion and expressing that opinion should have no consequences.
CONSERVATIVE:
Real: Reasonable, realistic, pragmatic.
Spin: Reganism rewrite, Buchanan and Newt (never won), and Fred Thompson wannabes.
WINNING ISSUE:
Real: War on Terror
Spin: Illegal Immigration
BUSH BASHING:
Real: Blaming and criticizing Bush for everything.
Spin: Something only LIberals do.