I agree, and this reminds me, there was a good political cartoon in the Houston Chronicle sometime back that I wish somebody would spin into a TV ad; I'd love to see somebody rip George & the Rove machine on their "stay the course" / "George Bush offers consistent leadership" line...the Chronicle cartoon showed Bush behind the wheel of an 18 wheeler, muttering "stay the course", while his passenger, a cartoon animal, kept interjecting comments like "aren't we going the wrong way on a one-way street"..."isn't that an oncoming truck off in the distance?"..."aren't you going just a little to fast?"..."are you going to slow down or turn around?", etc, eyes getting wider all the time, while George just stares into the distance and keeps saying "stay the course"...
If done on television I think it would make very effective advertising...George at the helm of a rig, or a bus, or hell, even cut in some "Thelma and Louise" final chase scene footage---anything showing him barreling headlong into obvious disaster, "never wavering"...and at the end of the commericial show the camera jar violently from some big crash just off camera and have a voiceover in Texas twang say "Yep, George Bush IS consistent alright. Consistently awful. America can do better. Vote Kerry for President."
I don't know if this would be a succesful example of attempting to "re-frame" the debate, or just taking the lemons that are out there and making damn fine lemonade.
Then again, there's always that George Carlin-esque voice in my head that says:
"I got a lot of good ideas---trouble is, most of them suck." ;-)
John J. Ronald, graduate student
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University of North Texas
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