Lakoff On The RNC
George W. Bush yet again used the crutches of "liberty" and "freedom" to frame his candidacy.
George Lakoff on the Republican convention.
The president responded to Democratic charges – that he has lost over a million jobs, done nothing about the 45 million people without health care, hurt education by refusing to fund the No Child Left Behind program and had badly injured Medicare by not allowing it to compete on drug costs with private HMOs. He began by simply saying the opposite, listing "accomplishments:" tax cuts working to produce jobs, No Child Left Behind passed, Medicare "reform" passed.He then went on with his opportunity society program, based on strict father conservative values. Just as good children must learn discipline both to be moral and to be prosperous, so good citizens – the ones with discipline – can become prosperous by seeking their self-interest if the opportunity is there. For conservatives this means getting government out of the way – providing "pathways" and not programs.
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