@katiecouric: Frank Luntz

With the release of his new book, "What Americans Really Want...Really," Pollster and Consultant Frank Luntz talks about parental relationships with children, nonpartisanship and his Playboy playmate focus group.

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[RealTime88]

What do you think of Katie Couric?

[HopeForPeaceNow]

"Progressives, liberals, and elitists keep running things... into the ground"

Was a progressive CEO of America for the Global Economic Meltdown?

Or were we just there to save our country from the desimation caused by your very [polices?

Tell me how deregulation was beneficial to our financial system? Tell me how it was beneficial to burn $3 trillion invading the wrong country?

Tell me how Conservative policies have changed since Bush?

[HopeForPeaceNow]

"It wasn't the Republicans that shoved the American public into programs it never wanted!"

NO? How about Global Economic Meltdown? Did the country want that [program? Caused by the very deregulation the "right" still clings to and lies about day after day.

How about doubling the debt during growth years? Was that a program we needed?

How about invading the wrong country for #3 trillion, 500,000 dead? That's a program from hell.

[HopeForPeaceNow]

No. Give me an example. Ever hear of Lakoff? He's the Frank Luntz of the left. A proff at Berkeley, he does NOT lie.

Funny, the phrase "climate change" was adopted during the early Bush years by Frank Luntz. It is easier for people to be comfortable with "climate change" over Global Warming.

Healthcare is another great example of Franks work. "Government run healthcare" came from his talking points memo. HOW would we GET decent legislation is one side simply KILLS with lies??

[beingstill]

Hey, Katie: The incivility you see as vitriol expressed in the comments section like this one online by the "average Joe" is because liberals marginalize people like me, suggesting WE'RE the ones that are off-based! It is people like YOU who are off-base! 53% of the voting public voted for Obama, it's ironic that it's virtually the same percentage that want to repeal the health care bill! NOW!!! Progressives, liberals, and elitists keep running things... into the ground!

[beingstill]

Does it bother liberals that YOUR side of the aisle tries to find the buzz words that will help them sell their ideological nonsense!?  Global Warming didn't work... so how 'bout Global Climate Change? Now we're saying it's "Global Disturbance!" Oy! Not to mention the health care bill 53% of the voting public wants repealed... NOW! So, your point, while "compelling," is ill-founded. It wasn't the Republicans that shoved the American public into programs it never wanted!

[HopeForPeaceNow]

Does it bother any Conservatives that Frank makes up the buzz words to kill the bill...

before the bill is even written?

Or that they sell you your public policy the same way they sell you your pepsi?

Or that we are 37th in level of healthcare in the world and pay the second highest price?

Or that "permanent bailouts" are 100% lie?

[Nathaniel Matychuk]

Fair enough, but the declaration of independence disagrees. Government rises out of values, values do not rise out of governments. Rights come from values, rights limit government. I would also say that both rights and values come from God, as if they did not, they would be subjective based on differing opinion. A right cannot be universal if it came from mankind. Laws made by a government are deemed good or evil based upon whether or not they adhere to a set of standards which are objective.

[Nathaniel Matychuk]

I am glad you raise this point. There is no significant difference between a black person and a white person, while the difference between a man and a woman is significant. The difference between a couple mixed ethnicity is not really any different than a couple of the same ethnicity; however a polygamous marriage and a same sex marriage are both very different. That is not to say that the people involved are good or bad, it is only saying that the relationships are different.

[Nathaniel Matychuk]

If you want to understand a conservative like me, reading Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics will give you all the tools you need. No one explains conservative economics better. You may not agree, but at least you will see were someone on the right is coming from.