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.
” Jeb, first and foremost, is that he comes from a family has had active contempt for the last real conservative to hold the office. I see no reason to believe that Jeb will be any better than the poison tree from which he springs.”
Two terms as a more conservative Governor than his brother or father give plenty of reasons. They all are class acts, and despite deviations from conservative orthodoxy,. GHWB and GWB never had ‘contempt’ for Reagan and in many respects followed Reagan’s lead. eg GWB was a genuinely prolife President, as recent reversals can attest, and his SCOTUS picks support.
Nevertheless, let this effort play out before you condemn it. Dont pre-judge it.
Who is neglected? The Palin kids?
Here is my unsolicited opinion/observations:
Conservative households are not immune to the vagaries of a difficult life. I know of plenty of good people whose kids turned out to be screwed up; Ronald Reagan and Francis Schaeffer and my grandparents are ones who come to mind immediately.
For whatever reason, the connection between son and parent wasn’t made or strong enough to keep the child from not staying on the straight and narrow. Sarah and her husband apparently still loves her daughter despite her mistakes/failures and is working with her as best she knows how.
Of course there are consequences to bad choices and those should not be circumvented.
OTOH, I can’t help but think about the story of Jesus writing in the sand while the woman accused of adultery awaited to see what he thought her fate should be. She likely had been caught in the act and dragged nude before the rabbi. The crowd around her wanted a stoning, but Christ found another way. A way that called her to repent (”go and sin NO MORE”), but also did not require her to die.
He acknowledged her sin by telling her not to do it any more—and she certainly carried the shame of her actions and embarassment of that predicament for the rest of her life.
I agree with your statement:
“he was not totally innocent in the tabloid arena—IIRC he was all over the place selling his version of what happened as well.” He’s shown he’s a punk, imo. I’m glad they aren’t married right now.
Don't know your age, but if you're "young" you've wisdom beyond the years of the young. IF you've some miles, you've learned just as I, the hard way.
Bottom line, we learned.
On that thought, learning et al?
Our side is not taking into account the near demonic opposition's driven by the aid of those armed with state-of-the-art knowledge in Psychology, and marketing.
A deadly combo in the hands of fools, the only antidote equal knowledge.
"It goes for me too, but I will say that I have had freepers make me come out and say: 'I was wrong on that issue' and it took a lot of stump pulling until I had to face the fact that...I simply did not have the right perspective."
Nor I, at times; however, humility is one cost of acquiring character. Right?
Now I don't wait for them to tell me, I go to them. ;^)
"The most notable one for me was a Jazz Critic for the Village Voice for the last 45 years who got laid off. My impression was...if he worked for the Village Voice for that long, then he must have been steeped in liberalism, and good riddance to him."
And you were wrong?
If so it'd surprise even moi, I mean, reputations proceeding us and all that?
"I had a few people call me out on it, and after much tractor pulling, I examined the life of the man and concluded he just didn’t fit that round hole I put him into. I might have been right 98.5% of the time, but...I was simply wrong. It was humbling, and I have tried to keep it as an object lesson."
Wow.
Either an Epiphany, or, you were slickly mugged by some awfully devote jazz fans. {g}
I've a great story, quite similar, but better left for another time.
"And this was something that didn’t really mean anything, just some guy I didn’t know and jumped to conclusions on. On an issue of substance, it might have taken nuclear weapons to dislodge me, and I don’t suspect I am all that that different from a lot of people."
I'm not so sure about that.
Be that as it may...
The truth these days, to me, is infinitely more important than being correct.
My patient bride has waited a long time for my miraculous transformation, I might add. ;^)
I've found without truth, defending the indefensible a fool's task.
In any event now to find people to represent us & our beloved Republic possessed of a similar POV and we'll all be just fine.
I'm fresh out.
You know any? :^)
” “(Mitt Romney’s) great-grandfather had ...
Romney’s great-great-grandfather Parley P. Pratt ... “
It was bad enough getting thread-jacked over Bristol Palin. Now this. I hope all those defending Palin wrt Bristol slam down this silly Romney-attack-spam. Last I checked, none of us are responsible for what our great-grandparents did, and this has nothing to do with the thread topic.
There’s far too many adult single women having children.
I agree.
Who better to be our voice? I have no doubt whatsoever that she will stand her ground and NOT allow them to silence her.
She is a force, and they know that. They are hoping to capture her crowds and ride on her charisma, but they are forgetting that she also has THE MESSAGE, not they.
She knows exactly what she is doing.
I know he is not a polygamist. Quit implying that he is. Grow up.
Who cares what Romney does? I don’t. He’s irrelevant.
Hey, my great-great-great grandpappy might have been a horse thief. I guess that makes me one!
Wow. You sure have a knack for concocting strawman arguments and misrepresenting how people really think.
Your frustration is due to the fact that my statement was actually true. If you dont think 100X worse things than what mr farmer’s been dishing out wont be said by liberals come the full campaign season, you are deluding yourself; conservatives values will take a hit from those who think married gay couples are more moral than this young teenager’s mistake - and WILL rub it in.
Nevertheless, we cant expect perfection either out of politicians or teenagers. When I have my lunch with a pro-life leader later this week, we’ll be talking about better ways to handle such things and what we can do to build a culture of life in our state.
You kiss your mama (or your wife) with that mouth? You spout Scriptures, but yet engage in some pretty harsh condemnation of someone who either has already been forgiven for the sin you are still holding against her or who is in need of forgiveness. Just as sweet and bitter water do not come from the same well, blessing and cursing should not come from the same mouth.
I read your link.
To me, there is one thing the whole group seems to have in common. They are more populist driven than ideological.
For me, that’s a problem as I see that the unpopularity of the GOP is largely due to the absence of any guiding principle.
I suggest you read this and ponder:
As for earned distrust and where we need to go ... ponder this:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/05/howl-of-rinos-and-rebuilding-gop.html
Oh, you know who is neglected. You just don’t care.
You'll find I'm full of surprises, bub.
If you want to apply Scripture to her situation, it is her father who should decide whether or not she and the boy who impregnated her should get married (according to OT law anyway). The father of the child has shown himself to be a vindictive little publicity hound, and Todd and Sarah would be very wise to counsel Bristol not to marry the boy. Under our laws he will be entitled to a relationship with the child, and they will obviously accommodate that, but they should do everything they can to minimize his influence on the child until he demonstrates a tremendous improvement in maturity and character.
LOL! Guess you’d rather not answer or have a discussion. I won’t waste your time then, or mine.
You don’t know anything about what he actually does.
Quit implying you do.
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