Matt Welch writes about the GOP’s needless fear, and silly response, to the Occupy movement:
Did you need a little Monday morning reminder of why GOP politics and libertarian ideals so rarely mix when Republicans hold power? Well check out this piece from last week by Yahoo News Chris Moody, who went inside a recent Republican Governors Association plenary session to watch spinmeister Frank Luntz give a bizarre list of 10 GOP-messaging do’s and dont’s in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement….
Luntz’s desire to get the word capitalism “removed” from political discourse speaks for itself. My capitalism- and bad metaphor-loving heart reckons that the best way to make a urine-soaked rose smell better is to stop pissing on it, rather than try to banish the word “flower” from your vocabulary.