Posted on 02/06/2009 1:54:43 PM PST by Zakeet
Picture the scene: a dignified Ted Kennedy stands beside President Barack Obama on a brisk, late winter day in the Rose Garden.
Mr. Obama laments the events that caused him to withdraw the nomination of his anointed healthcare-reform czar, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, as Health and Human Services Secretary. Reaching back to the lofty rhetoric of his campaign, he implores his audience to look past his own lapse in judgment and seize the opportunity to implement sweeping national reform that puts health insurance within reach for the millions already uninsured – and the millions more whose coverage is jeopardized by the nation's economic crisis.
Then Senator Kennedy ambles to the microphone. He thanks Obama for his attention to what has been a more than 40-year personal crusade. He reemphasizes that now is the time to rise above partisan politics and address this central policy issue of our time.
"I've seen such an approach work," Kennedy declares, "in my own home state, where in just two years we've seen 500,000 people who were uninsured gain access to quality healthcare as a result of an agreement among Republicans, Democrats, hospitals, insurers, and the voters. They came together because they understood this issue was too important to remain bogged down in politics any longer. Now I am here to introduce my partner in that process; a man whose life experience spans the heights of the public, private and nonprofit sectors; a man whose commitment to the goal of seeing every American receive quality, affordable healthcare is every bit as strong as my own; the man who I believe can work with the president, the Congress and the entire healthcare system to reach this goal; my friend, my former governor, Mitt Romney."
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Romney can go hide under a rock as far as i’m concerned!
” He’s marginally better than McCain but I’d vote against him in the primnary.”
I wou;dn’t vote for him in the general!!!
Amen.
“you will be branded a hater if you don’t bow down and worship Mitt the liberal.”
Get out your branding iron!
Rudy Giuliani, I wouldn’t even consider a Republican, not even close!
You’ll get a kick out of this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2179870/posts?page=190#190
He should make me health care czar. There’d be some changes y’all could believe in!
You should research and reconsider.
Go to jell lib!!!
Just taxes, right to life (through judicial appointments), national security, the list goes on and on. But pseudo-cons contributed to giving us BHO; thank God we don’t have that liberal Giuliani!
That’s HELL!
Jell? What does that mean?
And I’m probably more conservative than you. Certainly, I’m a strategic thinking conservative who wouldn’t shoot our best candidate in the foot and give us BHO.
Ah, I see—the dalereed version of the Fairness Doctrine. It’s fun watching the pseudo-cons who gave us BHO get violent in their self-defense.
You should.
Rudy originally ran as a Republican for Mayor, because the field was thick with his Dem buddies.
It was just easier to run as a Repub in NYC. Less competition in the primaries.
Do some research and you will see so for yourself.
Rudy is a Donkey in a RINO suit.
Under no circumstance should any Republican accept any offer from this dope. No Republican should help him do anything but fail.He’s doing a great job of failing without our help.
I have. He was a Republican in DoJ long before he ran a mayor, so your statement is simply false. He would have been (and still may be!) a great conservative president. But pseudo-cons gave us BHO...
Buck, you and I had this discussion in another thread. I’ve seen no particular evidence of his being a “Conservative” on taxes (you can’t be a Social liberal and a tax cutter, because high taxes are required to fund liberal policies), although as Mayor, he could only deal with local taxation, far different than a Governor.
Right to life is absurd, he’s militantly pro-abort (and a Catholic pro-abort to add insult to injury !) and pro gay rights. You were making a really ridiculous leap of faith expecting him to appoint judges that are 180 degrees in opposition to his expressely stated beliefs... that makes no sense, Buck.
Like I said, he’s about the equivalent of Joe Lieberman. Right on law & order, some on national defense, but he’s got another problem of being an illegals squish, and that gravely negates his national defense credentials because they ARE our biggest national security risk. But, Buck, you can’t claim he’s a Conservative, because he isn’t one. Being right on one issue and wrong on everything else isn’t Conservative. You’d be hard pressed to find many liberal Democrats in Texas as liberal as Rudy (but to his credit, at least he didn’t shamelessly LIE his ass off as Slick Willard did in claiming to come around on all this Conservative policy, but the judicial pledges were hard to swallow).
Sorry, Buck.
Who is the dope to whom you refer?
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