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Palin Joining GOP Rebranding Group
Roll Call ^ | May 4, 2009 | Jackie Kucinich

Posted on 05/04/2009 10:27:57 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), the 2008 vice presidential nominee, will join a new Republican policy group aimed at reshaping and promoting the party brand.

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.)announced Palin’s decision to join the National Council for a New America on Monday night. The group launched late last week and held its first town hall-style forum on Saturday in Virginia.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the 2008 presidential nominee, indicated during a conference call last week that his former running mate had been invited to join the policy panel. The group, which is made up of prominent Republican leaders, plans to hold town hall meetings across the country over the next few months.

Palin’s absence from the group had prompted questions about whether she was snubbing it or being left out.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
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To: farmer18th

We are now delving into the murky area of the politics of sinful and often faltering and unbelieving men. Abraham Lincoln, the father of the GOP, had some ambivalence in his policy concerning chattel racial slavery, which we today universally recognize as a grave evil. He told the Southern slaves they could go free, but refrained from a similar declaration for the Northern slaves, in what was more a calculated military policy than a moral one. What is a “real Republican”? Any we have today would top Lincoln on that moral issue. I’m sure you want excellence in carrying out a political calling more than hewing to some sinners’ standard which never was cast in finely machined steel. And God can bring about that excellence in solitary or in the presence of worthy or unworthy men, assuming we have enough data to even judge who is unworthy.


121 posted on 05/05/2009 12:17:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: farmer18th
No one is more non-machine than Palin

A real Republican would not be on a stage next to anyone from the Bush family, especially when they can't get it out of their fool heads that Reagan was somehow a liability.

Bwahaha! You need to check who Reagan's VEEP was, buddy!


122 posted on 05/05/2009 12:19:25 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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To: farmer18th

It seems to be a matter of degree. Carrying on with a prostitute, here today and gone tomorrow, is not much more virtuous than carrying on with a family member related by marriage.


123 posted on 05/05/2009 12:21:13 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: farmer18th
Hmmm. Interesting exegisis. You are saying that Paul's new testament injunction against knowing fornication was somehow controverted by an old testament instance of unknowing fornication?

I call BS right there.

How can you possibly call that unknowing fornication? The black words on the white page in my text make it very clear that Judah believed he was lying with a prostitute. The price (a young goat) was agreed before the act took place. When he went back to look for her he was clearly looking for not only a prostitute, but a "shrine prostitute", possibly a "temple prostitute" in your translation.

The only thing in doubt was her identity and relationship to him.

124 posted on 05/05/2009 12:22:12 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: farmer18th

Where did ol’ Woody boost Jeb Bush?


125 posted on 05/05/2009 12:23:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
We are now delving into the murky area of the politics of sinful and often faltering and unbelieving men. Abraham Lincoln, the father of the GOP

Again, you are mentioning "sin" and Solidwood doesn't want that. He wants to talk about the strategy of Sarah appearing on a stage with Romney and Bush. I think it's a formula for eeking out a lot of milky, mushy "compassionate conservative" goo. No one on such a stage will really be free to debate at this stage--and it just makes them look anemic. They should go out and define themselves as conservative individuals. They should put a little poetry and sting to their rhetoric, instead of depressing Republicans even further with Jeb's ideas of "forward-think." Remember what his Dad did? He called Reagan's economic ideas "vodoo economics" while Ronald was out calling for a massive reduction in taxes.
126 posted on 05/05/2009 12:23:26 AM PDT by farmer18th (If you preach "too big to let fail," you're also preaching "too small to let succeed.")
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To: SolidWood

Reagan’s appearance came PRE— David Souter, “Read My Lips,” “Die for an Islamic Republic in Iraq” and “spend our way into the grave from 2001-2008. Reagan could not have known how truly EVIL the Bush family really was.


127 posted on 05/05/2009 12:24:54 AM PDT by farmer18th (If you preach "too big to let fail," you're also preaching "too small to let succeed.")
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To: farmer18th

The words different, the apparently intended effect identical. Shoo and let a squirrel put you in its cheek.


128 posted on 05/05/2009 12:25:18 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: CurlyDave

Unkowning incest then. Your “point” is still pointless. Judah’s act was not endorsed by God, simply because Jesus was among his progeny, any more than David’s act of adultery was endorsed by God because Jesus was a son of David. You’re going to have to work very hard to turn fornication into a biblical virtue. Now, as Wood says, let’s get back to the thread.


129 posted on 05/05/2009 12:27:09 AM PDT by farmer18th (If you preach "too big to let fail," you're also preaching "too small to let succeed.")
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To: farmer18th

Please deign to pardon Wood for failing to wear the bible on his sleeve all the time like you do.


130 posted on 05/05/2009 12:27:46 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: farmer18th
It's not really about party. It's about being perceived as not part of the machine.

When "the machine" is belching black smoke, leaking water from every gasket, backfiring, knocking, and quaking like a chihuahua trying to pass a peach pit...

...I'd say it's about a whole lot more than just being PERCEIVED as not being part of the machine; it's about really NOT being part of the machine.

And, since Jeb Bush missed the memo, "the machine" is NOT Reagan Conservatism; it is this neo-Rockefellerian fat cat GOP country clubbism that never has said -- and never will say -- anything meaningful to the DNC except "Oh, us too."

Reagan's Machine has been mothballed in a handicapped stall in an unused washroom in the back basement of RNC Headquarters since January 19th, 1989. It's just WAITING for some Conservative to show up who has stones enough to fire it up, twist that throttle all the way open and let it really air out.

131 posted on 05/05/2009 12:28:20 AM PDT by HKMk23 (The Truth isn't something; it's someone.)
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To: farmer18th

Shoo. Scat.


132 posted on 05/05/2009 12:28:36 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: HKMk23

We agree.


133 posted on 05/05/2009 12:30:16 AM PDT by farmer18th (If you preach "too big to let fail," you're also preaching "too small to let succeed.")
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To: HKMk23

And Sarah seems to be just the right size to ride that bad boy forth. Wipe off the cosmoline, add some fresh fuel, change the oil, and let’s go!


134 posted on 05/05/2009 12:31:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: farmer18th
Excuses... bad excuses. Reagan ran with Bush, because Bush was the "moderate". It's a fine example of how in order to win you have too cooperate with characters you don't fully agree with. You bashed Palin for "palling around" with the RNC and said that NO conservative would be seen with Bush...

Here for you... Reagan on a stage with a happy Rockefeller...


135 posted on 05/05/2009 12:31:57 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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To: SolidWood
AFTER he won, and AFTER he refused Ford a co-presidency. You want them to all glad-hand each other and play party-pals before they even take to the campaign trail. That's a formula anemic group-think. The Republican party needs a cowboy--not a member of the student council.
136 posted on 05/05/2009 12:34:31 AM PDT by farmer18th (If you preach "too big to let fail," you're also preaching "too small to let succeed.")
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To: HiTech RedNeck
...add some fresh fuel, change the oil, and let’s go!

EXACTLY! OH, and get some pipes on it. LOUD ones!

137 posted on 05/05/2009 12:34:53 AM PDT by HKMk23 (The Truth isn't something; it's someone.)
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To: farmer18th

hey there little buddy.

I am 23 years old.

in the past...

1. I have smoked some weed
2. I had a lot of premarital sex

Does that make me less of a Christian ?

90% or more of people posting on Free Republic are just as guilty as I am.


138 posted on 05/05/2009 12:35:14 AM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (AMERICA WILL SURVIVE !)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

It makes you a sinner. You shouldn’t be in fellowship with other Christians if you’re still in that state—unless you don’t believe in the New Testament.


139 posted on 05/05/2009 12:36:33 AM PDT by farmer18th (If you preach "too big to let fail," you're also preaching "too small to let succeed.")
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative
90% or more of people posting on Free Republic are just as guilty as I am.

Roger that.

140 posted on 05/05/2009 12:36:33 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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