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Opposite of "Cut and Run"?

Tue Oct 17, 2006 at 05:10:29 AM PDT

What the hell is the rhetorical opposite of "Cut and Run"? It's such a mindless but effective phrase.  Stay and Kill? As in, are you one of those Stay and Kill Republicans (or Democrats)? Leave and Let Live?
   I'm late for work but I heard Scott Ritter speak last night with Sy Hersch about all the action that the US and Israel have going down in Iran, and it made me ill.  Incredibly articulate. Then this morning I heard one of those mornoic NPR Steve Inskeep (?) interviews with an exhausted Rahm Emmanuel and I realized that I heard 2 hours of intense subtance at the Ethical Culture Society in NY last night and 5 minutes of leff/right/ooh those angry bloggers fluff this morning, and substance is NOT getting out into the mainstream.
 
  So we need PHRASES.  I'm really not joking.
   A major tax cut to the one who comes up with the best phrase. Stay and Die Republicans.  Let 'em Die Chickenhawks? Or, you're one of those "Let someone else's kid die" Republicans? Or, "You're one of those They're only brown people so who cares if over 600,000 are dead Stay-the-coursers?"
   Most of us are ridiculously overeducated.  Let's put that bullshit to some use, dammit.  

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