Huh?? 
Posted on 01/22/2010 6:06:18 PM PST by restornu
As The Wall Street Journal points out in an opinion this morning, this is a good day not only for Scott Brown, the new senator from Massachusetts, but for Mitt Romney as well. Glenn Beck doesn’t trust Brown, he says. But with Brown toting friends like the popular former governor of Massachusetts, William Weld, John McCain and Romney around on his bus, it might not be such a good day for Glenn Beck.
The WSJ’s Kim Strassel pointed out that Romney’s closest aides flooded to Mr. Brown, bringing with them the savvy of his national operation.
“From a perch atop his Free and Strong America PAC, Mr. Romney has been raising money, nurturing his team, keeping himself in the national spotlight. With the Massachusetts Senate race, he sensed an unexpected opportunity to step to the front of the GOP presidential ranks,” she writes.
I doubt that the Tea Party’s tent will fold with the election of Brown, but something else has happened: The river that runs between traditional Republicans and insurgent conservative populists now has a bridge in Scott Brown. In fact, it has another bridge in Virginia with the new governor, Bob McDonnell, who will give the Republicans’ response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday. The insurgents have built a new base for organization and now, with the election of Brown and McDonnell, it is being absorbed into the mainstream.
But when the very first thinking about regional identity started to surface here in New England as a militant defense against federal overreach, Romney was the governor of Massachusetts and he was already incorporating the same elements of thinking, not as revolutionary polemic, but as practical and effective management strategies here in Massachusetts.
Thus the phrase, “One size does not fit all,” which he began to use as governor, used throughout his presidential campaign and used again this last week in a Fox Business interview. It is his theme song. Texas Gov. Rick Perry now uses the phrase as well, and so does Sarah Palin.
Republican pundits report that Romney’s stock has been down because of RomneyCare, the healthcare program that Romney instituted in Massachusetts. Some of the features suggest ObamaCare, and as large numbers oppose ObamaCare’s vast federal spending, the thinking goes, they would therefore oppose RomneyCare. But that misses the point.
“The bill that was being pushed in Washington was not good for Massachusetts,” Brown said after his election. “It may have been good for other states, but we already had everything and a lot of what was being proposed.”
That is just the point in Romney’s thinking about healthcare: What is good for one state and region is not necessarily good for others. Romney is in fact in the avant garde with this thinking, which has become the base camp of the states’-sovereignty movement.
Romney was unique in the history of Massachusetts governors in that he came to us from the west. He had personal experience in the Western states, in Michigan and in Massachusetts, where he went to college.
My observation here when he was governor was that he had that rare quality which Zen Buddhists call “beginner’s mind.” He does not rebel from new ideas and new people but continually incorporates aspects of new thinking in his own ideas to make a better fit. And he is aware that the country has changed since 1776, when the west was forest and later when it was frontier, and even the 1930s, when the vast majority of Americans worked in one of two places, the floor of the factory or the field.
One-size-fits-all-federalism might have been the perfect system then. But today for a country as full and rich and varied and alive as ours, the old system is a disaster. Romney was the first to catch on.
I thought you posted that you've been afflicted since you were 18?
I am SO confused!
I’m guessimigating illiteracy.
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHICHAPTER 224 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Or even HERE:
1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSSECTION 13251–57, Emma Smith is counseled (commanded) to be faithful and true; 58–66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.51 Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to aprove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice.52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of beternal lives in the eternal worlds.
(MORMONism...)
There is no difference between RomneyCare and ObamaCare. They’re both Big Government socialist/statist force.
And Romney still brags about his socialist/abortionist brainchild today as his crowning achievement.
Romney can KMA!!
He'd mandate that you pay for a medical checkup from a government approved physician (who offers abortion services) before he'd do that.
Thank you know it all but the problem I had there was no knowledge of how to repair until this recently!
You must have a memory problem
As I have stated many times after 08 election the field is open and only time will tell who will walk the walk.
In the mean time I will not dislike a person because you do.
guess you choose to ignore my tagline
Government Welfare Violates the US Constitution & the Lord’s Way of Caring for Those in Need
You are unkind because you choose to be nasty not because you are being helpful it was your intent to be spiteful
dyslexic in vision and sound!
Huh??
Fixed it for you:
dyslexic in vision, political views and sound!
She comes on here pushing her socialist potential candidate and then when you call her on it she starts having a pity party.
From a US Constitution stand point, health care must be debated at the state level, not the Federal level. I agree with you that it isn’t the government’s place, any government to provide health care, but those are more or less fiscal and acedemic arguments, rather than a constitutional, depending on content of the individual state’s constitution.
Are you with Glen on trusting Romney as well?
Just shows you that some folks are willing to accept any amount of warts if it comes to parochial interests.
nope
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It was always a mystery sometimes I had better days than others.
That one post that Elsie yelps about that was not me I borrowed it from a friend!
One thing I am thankful for is the internet before that I would never even attempt to reply with a written thank you note because of my inability to write.
I will continue doing this course that is repairing those neural connections making it possible to even improve to the point of being coherent.
About Brain Plasticity when other areas are damage or corrupted just like the computer there are billions of options to make a new connection.
This science has help those who have learning disabilities and those who suffer from accidents or received injuries in the military the brain can make new avenues so one can improve and function in their life.
Brain fitness it is exercise in a game form they now know that the brain is not hard wired.
The continuous unfolding of new knowledge in nutrition, understanding in chiropractic of how the body and spine works plus the Brain fitness exercise program.
In the future there will be little need for medicine as we know it.
There are many doing brain fitness but "Posit Science" seems to be the best of all of the work being done out there one can see an example on Youtube.
ya you are such peach!
OTOH, do you think that we would all be better off with Martha Coakley going to Washington?
What are we supposed to do up here?
To paraphrase a former DOD Secretary, “You go to war with the Army that you have.”
This nation got a lot from the bluest state in the past week.
A very whole lot.
A lot of people have afflictions. Those with conservative values don’t use it as an excuse. Liberals do that.
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