Refudiate Liberalism Now!
Bill Kristol responds deliciously to the crowing on the fringe left about Sarah Palin’s “refudiate” tweet.
The case for linguistic innovation is this: We need a word that captures and conjoins the meanings of refutation and repudiation. And we need it now. To save the country from the ravages of contemporary liberalism, we have to refute liberal arguments and see liberal politicians repudiated at the polls.
So the conservative agenda is, in a word, refudiation. Indeed, given the dramatic moment at which we have arrived, one might say that we now have the prospect of a grand refudiation of liberalism.
This is exactly how you do battle with progressives: on their own turf. And better than they do.
backyardconservative 12:46 PM on 07/26/2010 Permalink |
Yes, well done!
And consider the contrast to The One. Remember his “on the precipice” of health care reform. At least Sarah’s word had the meaning she intended:)
backyardconservative 1:31 PM on 07/26/2010 Permalink |
Apropos: http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-is-palin-so-popular-blame-her.html
fuzislippers 5:25 PM on 07/26/2010 Permalink |
LOL, yes, I remember that one. And remember how Daniel Pearl’s violent and brutal beheading “captured the world’s imagination”? And how he had been to 57 states and had only one more to go to see them all? No one will ever convince me that he knows anything, anything at all, about what it means to be an American. One with a solid grasp of the English language. Heh.
Nickie Goomba 4:07 PM on 09/06/2010 Permalink |
Fuzzy, please email me at americangoomba ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com
richard mcenroe 7:30 PM on 07/26/2010 Permalink |
Refudiate This.