Reply #48: I don't think that pointing out that BUSH'S LIES COST LIVES [View All]

[DemBones DemBones]

is ineffective. BUSH BETRAYED US is a good meme, as Jack Rabbit said in the OP, but most people think in simpler words. The Republicans knew that when they used "It's not about the sex, it's about the lying" as their meme.

Their meme got people to focus on Clinton having LIED to them so that, even if they happened to be people who thought the president's sexual peccadilloes were a private matter, they'd be pissed that he LIED to them. I had too many arguments with Clinton supporters who were pissed that "he LIED to us" to think lying is considered unimportant by Americans.

"BUSH LIED, SOLDIERS DIED" is about as concise as it gets and focuses on WHY the lying is important, why lying IS betrayal.

But it's a BIG scandal; there's room for more than one meme