GOP's debate vocabulary has shrunk (Watson / Buffalo News)

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Rod Watson
Updated: 09/25/08 7:43 AM

Finally, it’ll be a pleasure to listen to the presidential debates that start Friday — or whenever John McCain stops posturing — just for all of the things we won’t have to hear anymore ...

The folks who went apoplectic demonizing the pregnancy of a fictional single woman — TV’s Murphy Brown — have suddenly been silenced by the pregnancy of a real-life unmarried teen. The Revs. Dobson, Robertson, et al, have been rendered mute, as if struck by lightning, in the wake of Sarah Palin’s revelation about her daughter ...

Likewise for those other GOP cliches, “unfettered free market,” “trust the marketplace” and the ever-popular “get government off our backs” ...

Ditto for “flip-flop.” This is a ticket that will be remembered for logic such as “I was for the ‘bridge to nowhere’ before I was against it” and “I was against regulation before I was for it.” The Republican duo makes John Kerry look like a model of consistency.

And with the Palins ignoring subpoenas in Alaska’s “troopergate” controversy, you can scratch “law and order” from this year’s talking points, too ...

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