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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
KEYWORDS: 111th; biblethumping; cantor; gop; goplite; hijackedthread; mccain; nc4na; ncna; nowaysarah; palin; palinisfinished; proamnesty; rebranding; rebuilding; rino; rinos; romney; romneyantipalin; romneyhitsquad; sarahpalin; toobad
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To: farmer18th; All
I tried to turn my comments back to the Jeb Bush “listening tour,” but too many people were busy defending Bristol’s life path. Hence the direction of this thread.

Sure you did. That's why I kept seeing all those posts from you pleading with everyone to get back on topic.

If this thread got hi-jacked, you are in large part - responsible.

And I'm not here to defend Bristol's life path. That's her cross to bear. She made a mistake. All people do, and young teenagers more so. She's dealing with the consequences as best she can. Why don't we let her and turn our attention to more pressing matters.

Such as the topic of this thread and whether it is a good thing for Gov. Palin to be associated with this GOP re-branding initiative.

Personally, I think it's important for her to be a part of it. Otherwise the voices of the more conservative base will be drowned out by the RINO groups.

281 posted on 05/05/2009 7:13:05 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Choose Ye This Day

I had hoped that her absence was by design, rather than schedule or oversight. Sarah does not need these losers to be the leader.


282 posted on 05/05/2009 7:14:55 AM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: farmer18th
I wonder if anyone is worthy of public office in your eyes?

No wonder we can't get good leadership on the Republican side. There are wing-nuts all over the place ready to pounce on their “sins “ or the “sins” of their children. I wouldn't run for dogcatcher in this environment.

283 posted on 05/05/2009 7:20:08 AM PDT by Neverforget01 (Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.)
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To: AFreeBird
Sure you did. That's why I kept seeing all those posts from you pleading with everyone to get back on topic.

You haven't read the thread and my exchange with SolidWood, but, yes, I took the course of topic by bringing in Bristol. I tried to get it back on course as well. If you want to talk about the great listening tour featuring those solid conservatives from the Bush family, then do it.
284 posted on 05/05/2009 7:20:15 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: All

Can I report Farmer as a post abuser. His idiocy ruined a pretty good thread. I know I am new but Farmer is a just astroturfing this thread add it sucks.


285 posted on 05/05/2009 7:20:16 AM PDT by Clyde5445 (Kroft to Obama: Are you Punch-Drunk.)
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To: SolidWood
Thanks for posting this, SolidWood.

Sarah - please always have this in the back of your mind: America wanted John Wayne and we got "Bat Boy" - be a female John Wayne!

286 posted on 05/05/2009 7:20:19 AM PDT by NordP (CONSERVATIVE AGAIN IN 2010 ..... Now, is it 2012 yet ???)
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To: farmer18th
People’s sex lives bother me when I have to pay for it. In Bristol’s case, she gets to collect the $300,000 People Magazine baby-picture bonus, but what example is she setting for our daughters?

Unless she is collecting welfare, we are not paying for it. And I never voted for the daughter, only for the mother. Anyone who has kids knows that they have self-will and chose their own paths, no matter what they are taught. (Unless they are in a very controlling household, and then they have scores of other emotional problems).
287 posted on 05/05/2009 7:20:20 AM PDT by CottonBall
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To: Clyde5445
Can I report Farmer as a post abuser. His idiocy ruined a pretty good thread.

Probably not. If his comments were ignored, the thread would've continued on as normal. Everyone, including myself, share a little of the responsibility. We are conservatives, after all!
288 posted on 05/05/2009 7:22:17 AM PDT by CottonBall
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To: Neverforget01

It’s not too difficult: if you get pregnant, and if it is even remotely possible, get married. If your daughter refuses to do that, or her low-life boyfriend stands in the way of the right course, some sort of public reproof might be in order. That’s all. If that represents an extraordinarily HIGH standard of behavior, then Conservatives have become the Hugh Heffner generation.


289 posted on 05/05/2009 7:23:36 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
"...Even the Devil can quote Scripture for his own purposes." (Psalm 91:11-12)

CA....

290 posted on 05/05/2009 7:25:39 AM PDT by Chances Are (Whew! It seems I've at last found that silly grin!)
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To: farmer18th; All
You admonish the rest of us for not going back on topic, and then a couple of posts later, there you are again - off topic. Sure others are going to see this thread, and come across your posts and respond. STOP feeding the fire!

You've said your piece.

You want to keep talking about it, fine; start your own thread and direct everyone who wants to keep "discussing" it with you there.

291 posted on 05/05/2009 7:28:40 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: farmer18th

are you alright? lots of anger in that statement. chill out, take a walk, oyu need some rest.


292 posted on 05/05/2009 7:30:52 AM PDT by bubman
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To: AFreeBird

Fair enough. Let’s talk about the virtues of Sarah throwing in with the Romney Bush crowd. Talk, people. I’ll respond by Freepmail to anyone else on the forbidden topic.


293 posted on 05/05/2009 7:31:04 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: Dubya's fan

ping


294 posted on 05/05/2009 7:31:05 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Owl_Eagle

McShame should follow Specter.


295 posted on 05/05/2009 7:33:49 AM PDT by jrolfedrev
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To: Pelham

Hope she prayed about this...


296 posted on 05/05/2009 7:36:34 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: CottonBall
Probably not. If his comments were ignored, the thread would've continued on as normal. Everyone, including myself, share a little of the responsibility. We are conservatives, after all!

Not at all. Publicly reproving trolls and reporting them to the mods are both appropriate and mutually reinforcing responses.

297 posted on 05/05/2009 7:42:02 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: farmer18th
I don't see her as "throwing in" with the Romney/Bush crowd. She has a voice, a conservative voice. WE GAVE IT TO HER!

Let's let her use it.

Or do you think the GOP is just going to come to its senses all on its own and become more conservative?

To keep it simple I've used a football metaphor.

We are, politically, in the division title round getting ready to head into the playoffs. The playoffs are where the contenders for the conference (GOP) battle it out to win the right to take on the opposition in the Super Bowl.

You can't be a part of the game, the battle, if you're not on the field. Sarah HAS TO BE on the field. I don't see that as throwing in with the Romney Bush crowd.

And she can't influence the direction of the GOP by sitting on the sidelines. Unless of course you want the Romney Bush crowd to be the sole voices in the direction of the party.

298 posted on 05/05/2009 7:42:04 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Choose Ye This Day
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.

All this says is that she was invited, doesn't say she actually joined. I think it is another hit job by the left trying to turn conservatives against her.

299 posted on 05/05/2009 7:42:07 AM PDT by calex59
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To: farmer18th

LOL! You are quoting mad Debbie? Debbie Schlussel is just like the rest of the MSM when it comes to Palin. Her rants are seething with contempt and hatred for Palin’s rural, middle-class background.

Below a few gems of Schlussel’s hateful vitriol against the Palin family, calling them pretentious, stupid, white trash:

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/09/those_palin_kid.html

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2009/01/black_single_mo.html

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2009/03/told_ya_baby_ma.html

Keep it coming farmer!


300 posted on 05/05/2009 7:42:23 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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