Frank Luntz shares thoughts on how to increase recruiting

[Cocoa]

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]

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?

[Cocoa]

3. the Army needs pollsters

send Luntz to Ramadi to do some focus groups.

[mitchum]

13. ROFLMAO!!!

well done :)

[movonne]

2. That will do it !!!!

[noamnety]

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.

[RamboLiberal]

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.

[AlCzervik]

4. Shaddap Frank, i'd rather hear from the roadkill that you wear on your

huge head than from you.

[Kurovski]

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?

[salinen]

6. Suck on a handgranade Frank

Our friend Frank using his head meat to deceive babies into joining the killing machine.

[RAF]

7. shared thoughts to Luntz.....

try a new hair piece!

[wakeme2008]

11. or

[democrat in Tallahassee]

8. he meant throughout your "short life" if you join up

[kenny blankenship]

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.

[Cocoa]

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.

[mitchum]

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

[fishnfla]

16. Parade them thru the terminal, but hide the coffins in the hanger.

Right Frankie?

[HockeyMom]

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."

[bloom]

18. unfortunately... he might be right.

That might work very well.

[tabasco]

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.

[FreedomAngel82]

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.