Famous Republican Pollster Frank Luntz Meets with Harper
The Globe and Mail reports that Stephen Harper recently met with Frank Luntz, Republican pollster extrodinare and co-author of the Contract with America (the platform used by the GOP in 1994 to take Congress).
This just provides more fooder for those who believe that Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are too close to Bush's GOP friends. Word of advice - George W. has an approval rating ranging from 30 to 36%. I'd stay away from any strategy that he's employed with a ten foot poll (pardon the pun).Mr. Luntz said the Prime Minister is one of the Conservative Party's assets. "You have a gentleman who may well be the smartest leader intellectually. Now, that is half the battle. The other half of the battle is to link that intelligence to the day-to-day lives of the average individual."
Voters want someone who is credible and trustworthy more than a person who shares their ideas, Mr. Luntz said. "More than anything else, they want to know that you are a straight shooter."
posted by Dave @ Monday, May 08, 2006
1 Comments:
At 11:15 AM ,
Anonymous said...
Luntz-spin and what to expect from Harper's New Tories:
The significance of the Frank Luntz advice goes beyond the comments he made at this session. Luntz is infamous for his advice to Republicans to lie and distort as part of the Republican "framing" of issues, and election tactics.
Luntz has a handbook – over 100 pages – which is available on the Internet and which each Republican candidate gets and is expected to work through. That handbook is an education in dirty politics, use of half truths, Orwellian newspeak and other tactics, which the Republicans regularly practice in the USA.
Want to bet that handbook is being distributed to New Tory candidates?
If you want to be ahead of the curve in Canadian politics during the next 12 months, read Frank Luntz, and then compare his advice to the public pronouncements of Harper et al. From "universal child care" to "corruption", you will find examples cropping up time after time over the next short while.
The only way to combat this kind of deceptive politicking, is to read Don't Think of an Elephant, an to reframe the issues immediately, before the New Tory newspeak framing takes root in public discourse.
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