Just thought of that phrase, the “Reasonable Right”. Is it catchy? I like it. That’s one meme I’d like to spread. I knew there was a better phrase than the condescending “Raging RINOs – Republicans / Independents Not Overdosed (on the Party Kool Aid)”.

Hm… as if calling those who disagree with me unreasonable is not condescending. Well, at least it’s less snarky.

Oh, and one point I’d like to make. “Reasonable Right” is not meant to be a club name. It’s kind of a catch-all different people can use to refer to themselves when they think people they normally agree with are overreacting.

Lloyd told me about a piece of news he’d found out about via Sullivan, and then, I chanced upon this entry, which refers to this great piece, The Framing Wars.

In it, I found this to be quite funny:

“I can describe, and I’ve always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values,” Dorgan, who runs the Democratic Policy Committee in the Senate, told me recently. “We Democrats, if you ask us about one piece of that, we can meander for 5 or 10 minutes in order to describe who we are and what we stand for. And frankly, it just doesn’t compete very well. I’m not talking about the policies. I’m talking about the language.”

Maybe there’s something wrong besides language, perhaps.

Well, the author of the article sums it up better than I ever could, in the concluding paragraph:

“What all these middling generalities suggest, perhaps, is that Democrats are still unwilling to put their more concrete convictions about the country into words, either because they don’t know what those convictions are or because they lack confidence in the notion that voters can be persuaded to embrace them. Either way, this is where the power of language meets its outer limit. The right words can frame an argument, but they will never stand in its place.”