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.
“1 Cor 5:11 “...if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.”
Sounds to me like you covet Mr. Palin’s wife and his daughter. Perhaps we should not ‘eat’ with you. (figuratively speaking of course about our FR relationship).
Next story will be about how jealous the republicans are of the attention Governor Palin is getting.
This is one of the things that I fear has most adversely affected by the politics of hate as practiced by the leftists...nobody with any good sense will go into government. One of the people I admire in public life today is Thomas Sowell...the man has a mixture of common sense and wisdom that would serve our country well, but he would never run for office, and as a thinking person, who could blame him?
Instead, we get people like this hideous Barack Obama who is:
1.) A disciple of an astoundingly and incredibly amoral and immoral author like Saul Alinsky who dedicated the pinnacle of his life’s work (Rules for Radicals) to, amongst other thngs, Satan.
2.) A close personal friend with a Black Theologian racist “Reverend” Wright who thinks the white people in this country invented AIDS to kill black people, donated thousands of dollars to this man’s “church” as he sat in the pews nodding with agreement all those years before the light of the public shined for a fleeting instant on that rathole.
3.) A is a close associate of a terrorist like Bill Ayers and his like in the Weathermen who thought a reasonable price to pay would be to kill millions of Americans who wouldn’t buy into their radical plans once they took power, not to mention Bernadine Dohrn who thought the sticking of a fork by murderers into the slain body of a pregnant woman was a fabulous thing. Do any of YOU out there have friends like this? Do you even KNOW anyone like this? THESE people are close friends and associates of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Think about that for a minute.
4.) Has vowed on recorded film to gut our military
THIS is what we have running for office, and winning. For a man like Thomas Sowell to throw his hat in the ring...well, it won't happen. Who will?
Not to be melodramatic, but I think I now know how the passengers in the life rafts felt when they saw the lights of The Titanic slip under the water.
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.
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Very nice response. May I add that Christ also said “Don’t remove the speck from your brother’s eye until you remove the log from you own.”
you have a link for those Bikini Calendars?
: )
I don’t care who joins. I just wish they’d stop the hand wringing and stop telegraphing all their plans. Republicans like this bunch have this horrible habit of talking about what they need to do and then just talking some more. I’ve heard Eric Cantor, he can give a great speech and he is at his heart conservative but the guy has just went all soft lately. What we want is a rallying cry, not a let’s get together with the Democrats and Obama for a sing a long. A huge majority of people are available to Republicans if they communicate like conservatives. Try talking to the heart of people who by overwhelming margins are disastisfied with their government. They don’t like the way the country is going. They aren’t interested in hearing about global warming or how tolerant you are to gays or how you will protect a women’s right to choose. The Reagan coalition which is just as real today as it was then the only difference is that the Republican party sold off its principles. It spent like a drunken sailor, it set by while the troops were assailed by the left and often went out of its way to call the deranged traitors patriots, it offers mealy mouthed lipservice to smaller government and then grew government at a rate only to be eclisped by Obama in his first 100 days. People want a voice that isn’t ashamed to stand up for the principles this nation was founded on, that isn’t ashamed to defend the morals and family from the assault of the left, they want someone who talks to the heart of their personal freedom not to receive handouts but to be treated like the sovereign citizen they should be.
I am so disappointed with what I see. Words mean things and this country is worth fighting for. They shouldn’t be going on a listening tour they should be going to a bootcamp on Patriotism and America. They should be beefing up on our history and crafting clear precise unashamed positions on energy, on rolling back the tax code, on moving government back to the states and localities taking away the federal yoke. They should be talking about solutions not to offer universal health insurance which will not reduce cost or improve delivery but instead offer real free-market reforms.
We are Americans not socialists and certainly better than the slaves we have become to power.
Just call 1-800-YOU-WISH.
Cheers!
No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. You know, people have got to follow the rules. They've got to follow the bar, and we have got to make sure that there is equal opportunity and those who are here legally should be first in line for services being provided and those opportunities that this great country provides.
To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country
Thanks for responding. It takes guts - and a tremendous amount of arrogance - to admit you told a whopper and expect that everyone around you will ignore that you selectively parsed her words to broadcast a message of your own making.
Good luck with that (No, not really)
Where is Michael Steele in all of this?
This thing is a big dog and pony show for all those looking at 2010 and 2012. These moderates, these anti-tax cutting, Reagan is dead blow hards, have forced Palin to appear. Jindal will have to come on as well.
I just hope that Palin and Jindal expose the others for what they are and will not hold back ANYTHING! Please Palin, Jindal, DO NOT PANDER!
“Does Sarah idolatry pay benefits? Is this the sort of thing you dream about?”
I honestly can’t understand this post. I have read it about 4 times.
Could you please explain it.
I don’t to see Sarah any where near that bunch of Skunks, if Mitt and John McCain are in the mix that is enough to kill the idea right there. You might change the name but the stench will still be the same.
I hope you are right.
True-true.
My bride told me the exact same thing, verbatim.
FWIW she's nowhere near informed as we here, and that fact alone has to tell us something.
"One of the people I admire in public life today is Thomas Sowell...the man has a mixture of common sense and wisdom that would serve our country well, but he would never run for office, and as a thinking person, who could blame him?"
Certainly not I.
"Instead, we get people like this hideous Barack Obama who is: 1...2...3...4..."
Back during Clintigula's reign of terror an oft used quote --though I can no longer recall who to attribute it to-- was bandied about around here: We get the government we deserve.
While I cringed at the word, "we"?
I knew what it meant, just the same.
"THIS is what we have running for office, and winning."
THAT is all we *see*.
There's so very much more going on here, infinitly more than meets the eye.
In any event always try to remember how much we've become a visually oriented society these days. The result of the mass communications "revolution", I guess.
Form without substance has been made an art form, and at the root of the new age ideological creations made entirely of whole-cloth.
The clowns are a mile wide and an inch deep which explains the pathetic nature of the Republic's problems being are what they are. Not that knowing these things matters, it merely aids relaxing the unease of having such soulless people controlling all our futures.
"For a man like Thomas Sowell to throw his hat in the ring...well, it won't happen. Who will?"
Just had an offline conversation. Same question was asked. Told the individual whoever it is we await has yet to be born. Moreover, when s/he finally does arrive? Will it be what we wanted? Or will it be something the direct result of having been twisted & distorted by the forces of the left?
No one knows, certainly not I.
Anyway he called me a, "cynic". LOL
Maybe I am, but he couldn't say I was wrong either. :o)
We agreed the only thing that'll get us past these dark times right now is *faith*. I'm suggesting the same, to you. And it's a good deal tougher request then it appears at first glance, too. Just try it and you'll see exactly what I mean. ;^)
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