Reply #46: You have it.

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"Some knuckleheads tried to have the 'Mom In Tennis Shoes' arrested for war crimes? That nice lady, a little mousy, a little pedestrian, who's that Democratic Senator from Washington?" - that's what most people would think, that's what I think too to be honest, not following Patty Murray that closely at all.

This kind of stunt does nothing good for the anti-war cause. Lakoff could write about things like this: not the usual skillful "framing" of the other side, but instead slipping under the unwieldly bulk of a frame you're intending to place around something - and having it crash back on you, breaking into pieces, you flat on your back.

What a way for them to try to send a message!