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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:23 PM
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Frank Luntz shares thoughts on how to increase recruiting
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/11787172.htm

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Frank Luntz, corporate communications consultant, political pollster and Republican campaign adviser, says the Army needs something like the Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ad in which a group of troops walking through an airport are applauded by other airline passengers.

"I would make my focus and my message be one of respect and appreciation. There are no other jobs that Americans would appreciate as much as this one, and that appreciation would follow you throughout your whole life."

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11cents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:26 PM
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1. Recruitments could be increased by one
...if Frank Luntz would volunteer his fat ass. I don't think he's too old. Not too old for the Guard, is he?
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:28 PM
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3. the Army needs pollsters
send Luntz to Ramadi to do some focus groups.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:46 PM
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13. ROFLMAO!!!
well done :)
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:26 PM
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2. That will do it !!!!
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:45 PM
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12. Yep, I'd reenlist in a heartbeat
Someone will clap for me in an airport? Where do I sign?!

and will they be clapping before or after I've just been felt up by a security guard?

I remember wearing my dress uniform when I got out of basic training and was in the bus station on the way home. People kept asking me about the bus schedule (because I looked like I worked there). Maybe they could make that into a commercial, too.
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:50 PM
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15. Oh yeah - and if you come back to an airport named Dover
There will be no one there to photograph your flag draped coffin. And if you fly back to Andrews gravely wounded - they'll sneak in in the middle of the night.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:28 PM
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4. Shaddap Frank, i'd rather hear from the roadkill that you wear on your
huge head than from you.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:33 PM
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5. Talk about being out of touch
with the mainstream.

Why is it that Luntz, the steaming bowl of Cream-of-Wheat puke, reminds me of Jared the sandwich queen?

Are those two little shits related?
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:33 PM
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6. Suck on a handgranade Frank
Our friend Frank using his head meat to deceive babies into joining the killing machine.
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RAF Donating Member (231 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:33 PM
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7. shared thoughts to Luntz.....
Edited on Thu Jun-02-05 07:07 PM by RAF
try a new hair piece!
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:43 PM
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11. or
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democrat in Tallahassee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:34 PM
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8. he meant throughout your "short life" if you join up
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:34 PM
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9. yeah that warm enveloping appreciation
that you'll feel as you die all alone unattended and untreated in metal chair in some drafty VA Hospital corridor... Fuckin' lovely.
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:37 PM
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10. they could use Pete Damon in a commercial
talk about being appreciated, this lucky guy got to throw out the first pitch at a real major-league baseball game!

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2005/06/02/ap/sports/d8afoaog0.txt

<snip>

Notes:@ Pete Damon, a retired Army sergeant who lost both arms in an explosion in Iraq, threw out the first pitch using a prosthetic left arm.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:49 PM
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14. But...but...but....what about all of those "crazed liberals who will...
spit on you at the airport?"
gotta keep that baseless suburban legend alive
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:52 PM
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16. Parade them thru the terminal, but hide the coffins in the hanger.
Right Frankie?
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HockeyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:54 PM
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17. Newsday interviewed
groups of teenagers from around Long Island. One kid they interviewed was from a poor, minority neighborhood. His quote summed up what they all said in the interview. "I would rather flip burgers for minimum wage, than die in a war I don't agree with."
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 06:57 PM
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18. unfortunately... he might be right.
That might work very well.

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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 07:01 PM
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19. What a stupid douchebag.
No ad campaign is going to convince young people that we are fighting for freedom in Iraq. Frank Luntz should sign his dumbass up but he is obviously too chickenshit.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 07:02 PM
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20. I don't think that would help much sir
with all due respect. People don't join the military now because they know they're going to die. Doy.
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