GOP Strategist Frank Luntz: \u2018Conservatives Should Not Be Defending Capitalism\u2019<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLast year, Mitt Romney told a Tea Party gathering, \u201cI believe in free enterprise, I believe in capitalism.\u201d Now, Romney\u2019s practice of \u201cvulture capitalism,\u201d in Rick Perry\u2019s words, is coming under attac…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Of course, Luntz isn't suggesting changing what the GOP stands for: "Conservatives should not be defending capitalism. They should be defending economic freedom. … We\u2019ve always talked about the free enterprise system or economic freedom. Suddenly, they\u2019re trying to defend something that has only 18 percent support." Maybe they should call capital "freedom funds", too. … Continue reading “The economic system that dare not speak its name”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77,99,108],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","category-elections-2012","category-history","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24159,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/words-mean-things-so-lets-change-them.html","url_meta":{"origin":25283,"position":0},"title":"Words mean things … so let's change them!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Dec-11 1:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that I expect Frank Luntz to offer any substantive economic policy suggestions, but his recommendations for the GOP in dealing with the Occupy movement and its growing effect on the political \/ economic debate in the US is ... change the language you use. 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