Palin Joining GOP Rebranding Group

Excellent post

I do NOT understand this ‘re-branding’ nonsense! My sweetie & a few of his old navy pals (most of whom are Republican & conservative) were chatting back & forth on this group. One of them came up with the following:

Economy: Cut taxes, cut spending, cut Big Government

Healthcare: Start with tort reform!

Education: Reading, Writing, & Arithmetic! End tenure! Restore the grading systems that worked!

Energy: Drill here, drill now, AND invest in alternatives.

National Security: Seal our borders, stop ACORN & the ACLU.

And now, the National Debt: Reverse the ‘stimulus’, get Government out of private business and stop the runaway spending.

Those are all pretty obvious & I’m sure will get the support of not only Conservatives & most Republicans but the vast majority of Independents, too.

"Let's "rebrand" the GOP to our liberal ways, attack Gov. Palin to help Obama and us
and then we can get married in Massachusetts at last. Now put your pants back on."

Not good. Let’s hope it was some staffer who agreed to this and not Sarah.

And what, pray tell, is it that these men are purportedly so expert in, eh?

From watching their first one hour session, it appears that Romney is playing the role of "healtcare expert" and "economy expert" while Jeb was starring as the "education expert."

In one of their announcements, the NCNA said they would be focusing on the Economy, Healthcare, Education, Energy, and National Security. So, I assume that John McCain will jump in as being a supposed "national security expert." I can see them pushing Palin in as an "energy expert." I don't know enough about Jindal and Barbour's experience to guess what role they might play.

Romney? Healthcare expert? What a joke. His only expertise is lying and possibly polygamy.

Election2008 Spoiler, GOP backstaber, Mitt Romney chortles,
as he inflicts his socialized medicine (HillaryCARE=ROmneyCARE)
upon the Massachusetts citizens without any of their votes.

"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"
"Patients were allegedly left screaming in pain and drinking from flower vases on a nightmare hospital ward.
Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over three years, a damning Healthcare Commission report said.
The watchdog's investigation found inadequately trained staff who were too few in number, junior doctors left alone in charge at night and patients left without food, drink or medication as their operations were repeatedly cancelled.
Patients were left in pain or forced to sit in soiled bedding for hours at a time and were not given their regular medication, the Commission heard.
Receptionists with no medical training were expected to assess patients coming in to A&E, some of whom needed urgent care.
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, said there had been a "gross and terrible breach" of patients' trust and a "complete failure of leadership".
The Healthcare Commission's chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said the investigation followed concerns about a higher than normal death rate at the Trust, which senior managers could not explain.
He said: "The resulting report is a shocking story. Our report tells a story of appalling standards of care and chaotic systems for looking after patients. These are words I have not previously used in any report.
"There were inadequacies in almost every stage of caring for patients. There was no doubt that patients will have suffered and some of them will have died as a result."
Julie Bailey, 47, was so concerned about the care being given to her 86-year-old mother Bella at Stafford Hospital that she and her relatives slept in a chair at her bedside for eight weeks.
She said: "We saw patients drinking out of..."

"Paramedics told: 'Let accident victims die if they want to' in new row over patient rights (UK)"
Health Service paramedics have been told not to resuscitate terminally-ill patients who register on a controversial new database to say they want to die.
It has been set up by the ambulance service in London for hundreds of people who have only a few months to live so that they may register their 'death wishes' in advance.
It is believed to be the first in the country, but other trusts around the country are expected to follow suit to comply with Government guidelines which state that patients' wishes should be taken into account, even at the point of death.
Patients' groups and doctors have welcomed the scheme, but it has met opposition from pro-life groups who say it violates the sanctity of life.
The system would come into play if a cancer patient, for example, was in serious pain and rang 999 for help to alleviate the suffering.
But if the paramedics arrived and the patient was close to death, he or she would not be resuscitated if such a request was registered on the database.
This would also be the case if a patient on the database was being transferred between hospitals, and had a heart attack.
Dominica Roberts from the Pro-Life Alliance said: 'This is very sad and very dangerous. It's another step along the slippery slope, at the bottom of which is euthanasia as we see in Holland. 'Paramedics should be there to save lives. They should not be there to let patients die. The medical profession should not agree with someone's belief that their life is worthless.'"

"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
"Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create the "universal" health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country.
It is proving to be instructive, as Mr. Romney's foresight previews what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy and Pete Stark are cooking up for everyone else.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis, Governor Deval Patrick and his Democratic colleagues are starting to move down the path that government health plans always follow when spending collides with reality -- i.e., price controls.
As costs continue to rise, the inevitable results are coverage restrictions and waiting periods. It was only a matter of time.

They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006.

What really whipped along RomneyCare were claims that health care would be less expensive if everyone were covered.
But reducing costs while increasing access are irreconcilable issues.
Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."

A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
"The Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va. - 2009-03-31 "
"For folks increasingly leery of President Obama’s plan to radically overhaul America’s health-care system,
or 17 percent of the nation’s economy, all this could hardly have come at a better time —
that is, fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romney’s brainchild, Massachusetts’ “grand experiment” in “universal” health care."

"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so.
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
“RomneyCare” is threatening to bankrupt the state. Budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010 at $880 million,
or 7.3 percent more than a year ago, this plan, aimed at providing low- or no-cost health coverage to roughly 165,000 residents,
has caused Massachusetts’ overall expenditures on all health-related programs to jump an astounding 42 percent since 2006.

So what does Mr. Romney’s successor, Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, propose as a remedy for these skyrocketing costs?
Well, whaddya think? The standard litany of prescriptions (no pun intended) — price controls and spending caps, for a start, and then, again predictably, waiting periods and limitations on coverage.
As in Europe and Canada, so too in Massachusetts. And, we feel certain, everyone from Mr. Romney to Mr. Patrick said, “It would never happen here.”
But then, such things are inevitable when best-laid plans, with all their monstrous costs, run smack-dab into fiscal reality.

"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"

puke.

Can you cut the polygamy crap? Please grow up. I don’t like the guy, either. But stick to the issues.

From watching their first one hour session, it appears that Romney is playing the role of "healtcare expert" and "economy expert" while Jeb was starring as the "education expert."

In one of their announcements, the NCNA said they would be focusing on the Economy, Healthcare, Education, Energy, and National Security. So, I assume that John McCain will jump in as being a supposed "national security expert." I can see them pushing Palin in as an "energy expert." I don't know enough about Jindal and Barbour's experience to guess what role they might play.

Ah, okay ... I thought perhaps they were going to claim to be *experts* at being Republicans, sort of know-it-alls, if you will, considering the title of this show and some of the (ahem) advice being shelled out. If McCain or Romney actually had the nerve to attempt something like that ...

Thanks for the clarifying reply.

Romney? Healthcare expert? What a joke.

I understand. Note the phrase I used: "...playing the role of ..."

His only expertise is lying and possibly polygamy.

I think the "polygamy" comment works against you here. Stick with the facts about the record. Those are compelling.

Was there a mistake made by hotel staff that day, Romney was accidentally given a pair of Huckabee's pants? YIKES!!

Note that the word “possibly” was used,
and since his grandfather had multiple wives,
it is probably true.

I know of NO ONE else with such experience.

I don't know enough about Jindal and Barbour's experience to guess what role they might play.

Jindal may well be in the ‘health care’ group. That is how he started public service career in the early 90s in LA as the Secretary of Health and Hospitals which was about 40% of the LA state budget. In three years he took the LA Medicare system from a $400 million deficit to a $220 million surplus. As Gov. he's pushing other health care initiatives in LA from what I read/hear.

It is NOT true, and you know it.

Palin Joining GOP Rebranding Group

First order of business: Make sure Arlen Specter's @$$ gets branded with a big, fat "D".

She can prove she has the metal on policy and once that is completed she will be taken a lot more seriously.

Agreed, after some thought on it.

...It’s acurate. Another shill...

...What I fail to understand is the relativism that’s appearing more frequently on FR from most, not all, yea, I’ve read alot of the posts...

Note that the word “possibly” was used, and since his grandfather had multiple wives, it is probably true.

And now you have lost total credibility.

Thanks for the info on Jindal. That makes sense.

Well, grasshopper. I just checked and you are wrong.
In fact, in just researching this I am amazed.

"(Mitt Romney's) great-grandfather had five wives and at least one of his great-great-grandfathers had 12.
Polygamy was not just a historical footnote but a prominent element in the family tree of the
former Massachusetts governor now seeking to become the first LDS president.
Romney's great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, married his fifth wife in 1897.
That was more than six years after LDS church leaders banned polygamy and
more than three decades after a federal law barred the practice.
Romney's great-grandmother, Hannah Hood Hill, was the daughter of polygamists.
She wrote vividly in her autobiography about how she "used to walk the floor and
shed tears of sorrow" over her own husband's multiple marriages.
Romney's great-great-grandfather Parley P. Pratt, an apostle in the church, had 12 wives.
In an 1852 sermon, Parley P. Pratt's brother and fellow apostle, Orson Pratt,
became the first church official to publicly proclaim and defend polygamy as a direct revelation from God."

"Polygamy Prominent in GOP Presidential Hopeful Mitt Romney's Family Tree"