We need a new lexicon to counter the repugs

[randr]

I keep reading where the repugs are so good at "framing" the argument by inserting key phrases and buzz words into any discussion.
I think we need to do a bit of reframing of the dialogue ourselves.
My suggestions:
The right wing becomes the "Fright Wing".
Compassionate Conseveratism becomes "Counter Conservatism".
Bush supporters are "The Preditor Class".
Any Bush plan is refered to as "Downsizing America".
I am sure we can think of many more.

[mazzarro]

1. I agree with your suggestions except I will prefer to refer to

Bush supporters as "bushwackers"

[blondeatlast]

2. 1. Cheap Labor Conservatives (answer to tax and spend liberals)

2. Corporate Kissers (Bleeding Hearts)

3. Crude Worshippers (Tree-Huggers)

I'm certain there will be more.

Number 1 has been used on DU for quite some time; I can't remember which DUer came up with it, but he has an entire lexicon on his site; a very good one, too.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

12. Oil huggers? Oil Eaters?

Certainly cheap labor conservatives, or simply cheap labor cons, or just Cons and NeoCons. It's the Corporate Media. Anti-environmentalists should just be called polluters, led by the Polluters Lobby.

Republicans are Publicans or Repubs.

[FreeperSlayer]

3. "(don't) TAX and SPEND (anyway)...

...Republicans"
Or, "Borrow and Spend" Republicans

[Timefortruth]

4. Red ink Republicans.

I didn't make it up but I like it anyway.

[blondeatlast]

5. I like it, I like it!

[lastknowngood]

6. Downsizing America is his jobs program

the Religious = wrong
corporate contributions = Bribes
Bush = Draft dodging, cocaine sniffing, alcoholic, moron

[DBoon]

7. We need to reintroduce some old forgotten words

words whose meaning have been long forgotten:

Liberty
Equality
Democracy
Peace
Justice
Human Rights

Try using them in your next conversation with a Con. They will shrink like a vampire from garlic.

[blondeatlast]

10. That'll work! Good ones all.

[hamerfan]

8. Excellent idea!

Remember when Gingrich did this back in '94-'95? Now all the repubs use those same buzzwords and I hate to say it but it seems to work. Perhaps we could do something similar.

[randr]

9. Your right on the mark

The biggest problem I have is not using words that are too big for the opposition of comprehend, such as:
Factually Challenged Misanthropes

[blondeatlast]

17. I remember and it did work. I didn';t think the masses were that

unaware, but . . .

Welcome to DU!

[cryofan]

11. Social Darwinist/Corporatist/Race-to-the-bottom-Globalist Republicans

[NewJeffCT]

13. We need to make it easy

We need quick, short words to use that can sink in, like how Rush and the Reich repeated Feminazis, Hitlery, etc. over and over.

Fright Wing and Downsizing America are good, a few more

-RepubliCONs

-Borrow & Spend

-Clinic Bombers

[BeFree]

14. "We are a Republic"

Yeah, a Democratic Republic

"Frightful Right" sticks, eh?

As we progress through what will turn out to be the biggest Grassroots campaign in the history of the United States, these terms will become the leading edge of the spear through the heart of regressive politics.

[MissMarple]

15. The Constitution is a liberal document.

As we were so thoughtfully reminded by another lady DUer some time back. Also:

The Republican party has become a radical party and is making war on democracy and promoting corporate welfare to exploitive, predatory international capitalism.

If you can call Democrats socialists then Republicans are fascists.
(Actually we aren't and they aren't either, at least most of them.)

The Republicans are frustrated pseudo-aristocrats who cannot escape their middle class, liberal roots.

Middle class and working class Republicans are trapped in a Horatio Alger myth that promises everything and delivers... an increasing number of cake crumbs instead of loaves of bread.

As you can see, I've been doing a little reading. :evilgrin:

[spindoctor]

16. Nice try, but thats Limbaugh material

Framing the argument is not so much about coming up with buzzwords or hatefull twists of words, as it is about "setting the tone".

As opposed to calling it operation "Bomb the Crap Out of Those Sandniggers" you call it operation "Iraqi Freedom", and you say it with a smile. Even though the first name is probably more appropriate, the second one has a much more acceptable ring to it.
Simple minds go: Freedom is good -> anti-freedom is bad -> Bush = Iraqi freedom = good -> Dixy Chicks = anti-Bush = anti-freedom = bad!

So framing an issue like for instance gay marriage would mean that you take the word gay (=negative) and turn it into something positive like "lover". Then marriage has associations with ex-wives, allimoney, honeydos, etc. So that needs to be changed into "union".
Finally you wrap it all up into something that rolls of the tongue nicely and you bend it into "legal lover's union".
Then you conduct a poll asking people about whether they prefer gay marriage or a legal lover's union and I think I can predict the results with a fair amount of certainty.

So on the examples that you give, don't rename the right wing. Instead rename the Democratic Party (officially) to the Patriotic Freedom Party. Anybody opposing that is anti-patrotic, anti-freedom and anti-partying and ergo a most evil person.

edit: typo
edit 2: additions

[EV1Ltimm]

18. Hateniks maybe?

Colin Polyps would be a good one... but i don't think people would get it's reference to colin powell...

[maggrwaggr]

19. fearmongers. Leading through fear. Scaremongers.

everything they do is based on fear.

You better be afraid you're gonna lose your job, so let corporations run unregulated. Result: You lose your job when it goes to India.

Better be afraid we're gonna be attacked: Result? Corporate welfare for oil and military big-wigs.

Better be afraid you might be a terrorist victim: Result? We take away your civil rights.

What will the new fear tactics be in the SOTU?