Confirmed: Palin to keynote first national tea-party convention
posted at 7:35 pm on January 7, 2010 by Allahpundit
I thought we already knew this, but CSM’s story about it yesterday got a lot of play, so maybe we only thought we knew it. Or maybe we knew she was speaking but not necessarily keynoting.
Now it can be told: She is.
On its face, the gig would seem a step down for Ms. Palin, one of conservative America’s most popular and polarizing figures (not to mention major thorn in the side of the Obama White House).
But with an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll ranking a generic “Tea Party” as more popular than either Democrats or Republicans, and Palin herself rivaling the charming Mr. Obama in poll popularity, many experts see the Tea Party event as a potential milestone for a mounting, even transformational, force in US politics…
But courting what many call a fringe and inchoate movement carries huge risks, argues Alan Abramowitz, a political scientist at Emory University, in Atlanta.
He says a Republican shift toward the Reaganesque Tea Party ideal could lead to a sort of pogrom for moderate Republicans, forcing out those (think Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe) who don’t hew precisely to rock-hard conservative principles around economic freedom and limited government interference…
Solidly behind that assessment, Democrats are aiming to vilify the rising Tea Party movement as woefully old-school and out of touch.
Here’s the convention homepage; if you’re planning on going, I … assume you’re wealthier than I am. Choosing Sarahcuda for the keynote is in some sense an easy call — she’s the undisputed rock star of rock stars among grassroots conservatives — but it’s odd to me that a movement devoted to taking back Washington would hand its biggest spotlight to someone who’s not running for office in 2010. Isn’t there a certain would-be “tea-party senator” who’d benefit from this free publicity more than a woman who’s done O’Reilly, Limbaugh, and, oh yeah, Oprah just within the last three months? If they’re serious about electing “true conservatives” to restore small government principles next year, there’s no time like the present to start boosting actual candidates.
In fairness, Palin’s speech will be more interesting than whatever Rubio would say just because she’ll be under pressure to extol the independent, nonpartisan nature of the tea parties — after having agreed with Rush two months ago that no, of course America’s not ready for a third party. No biggie if she does, though: She’s leveraged her tea-party appearance with another speaking engagement at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Exit question: So, who’s going to Nashville?
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One, I don’t see that I’ve ridiculed you.
Two, You haven’t been very conservative lately.
MarkTheGreat on January 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM
LOL I love this stuff. Quitter Fans can’t distinguish between “freaked out” and “annoyed.”
Too funny.
voxpopuli on January 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM
He’s gotten offended when I called him a liberal.
MarkTheGreat on January 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM
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lovingmyUSA on January 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Why not use the money to pay down some of that 12 trill…you have just been out righted my friend.
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Isn’t having politicians in charge of healthcare just a wonderful thing?
donh525 on January 8, 2010 at 11:59 AM
Trying again…
Thank you, you took the words out of my mind–nothing needs to be added!
lovingmyUSA on January 8, 2010 at 11:59 AM
I hate to break my personal ban on you, but you are wrong. All the transcripts and medical records pertaining to Palin were released to the press sometime in October.
Not that you would care about what is actually true.
Brian1972 on January 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Now you are getting really pathetic.
Are you honestly trying to claim that taking stimulus money is the equivalent of lobbying for passage of the stimulus package?
MarkTheGreat on January 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM
LOL never a difficult task
voxpopuli on January 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM
I made a valid comparison.
Over and over, in MANY religions, this theme gets repeated. Not infrequently it results in persecution with the mentality that ‘they’ aren’t REALLY followers of the faith because ‘they’ don’t agree with a certain person or system.
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM
Then why not advocate getting govt out of the health care business altogether, instead of finding new and improved excuses to defend the hole digging efforts?
MarkTheGreat on January 8, 2010 at 12:02 PM
Yawn. If you’re going to just blatantly fabricate “facts,” you might as WELL remain silent while adults talks.
And sorry, Sparky, but her college transcripts remain just as hidden as Osamas.
Got a link that shows them?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Sorry Palinbot.
voxpopuli on January 8, 2010 at 12:03 PM
LOL everyone is stupid but me! Are you saying I’m gay? Let’s talk about that for 300 comments of nonsense.
Whatever.
Brian1972 on January 8, 2010 at 12:03 PM
This would be funny, if he weren’t so self blind.
MarkTheGreat on January 8, 2010 at 12:03 PM
And with you, we can’t distinguish between inane and insane.
donh525 on January 8, 2010 at 12:03 PM
I’m neither ‘liberal’ nor ‘conservative’. Quite frankly, both metrics are rather outdated, and I merely use them out of convenience and habit.
10% unemployment, trillions in debt and a horrific trade deficit – who’d want to ‘conserve’ things as they are now?
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 12:03 PM
We all know you have intimate knowledge of that position…What happened, did you run out of KY Jell?
lovingmyUSA on January 8, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Being not into Sarah doesn’t bother me.
Constantly insulting anyone who is, does.
MarkTheGreat on January 8, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Wow, when you piss off Ray Stevens the party’s almost over!!
E9RET on January 8, 2010 at 12:04 PM
“Gay?” Why is it the Palinbots who always bring up homosexuality?
voxpopuli on January 8, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Eh, look at your recent holiday photos. I’m sure you’ll get the drift.
voxpopuli on January 8, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Translation: I’m liberal, but I want to pretend otherwise in hopes that people will take me seriously.
MarkTheGreat on January 8, 2010 at 12:06 PM
No it isn’t. There’s actually a word for someone who is not affiliated to any political prty, but I’m not going to tell you or donh525 what it is.
However, the first one who figures it out will get a nice, tasty food pellet!
chumpThreads on January 8, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Trollapalooza.
kingsjester on January 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM
LOL Better whine to the mods, squealer.
voxpopuli on January 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM
He seems to be a loonitarian, and there’s a few on this thread already.
alliebobbitt on January 8, 2010 at 12:10 PM
Thanks. :-)
mizflame98 on January 8, 2010 at 12:10 PM
You aren’t bitter because you keep yourself drunk on the koolaide…Oh, and by the way, you have something on your chin…(have you been able to stand up yet, after being bent over for so long…?)
lovingmyUSA on January 8, 2010 at 12:10 PM
I’d accuse you of projecting, but since you’re not a liberal it must be that you’re just spewing bile.
I’ve been villified as much if not more on liberal forums for disagreeing on the position of government-as-saviour…being torpedoed for not toing the line is nothing new.
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 12:11 PM
Sir I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Seriously dude is it just me or did this site used to have a lot more people like us willing to have a serious intellectual policy discussion about serious issues without calling people Nazis. I think its crazy that the most left wing comments are coming from people who beilieve themselves to be righties. This is why I think the whole Tea Party thing is sort of a joke. When I expressed the opinion that INCREASING FEDERAL FUNDING FOR SPEC ED was not a good idea I am attacked as Himmler’s protoge. What spending cuts will this movement ever accomplish if refusing to increase federal education money is a total non-starter?
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 12:11 PM
I’ll go with inane. Getting your drift is an exercise in futility. But drift is accurate.
donh525 on January 8, 2010 at 12:11 PM
LOL Better whine to the mods, squealer.
voxpopuli on January 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM
Bring it, Roger Waters/The Wall/The Final Cut/Voxpopuli/Pee Wee Herman, or whoever you are.
But you had better pack a lunch and rent a brain.
kingsjester on January 8, 2010 at 12:12 PM
You’ll go off the rails one day. It happens to them all, especially when it seems nobody is paying attention to you anymore. You’re already abusing bold.
alliebobbitt on January 8, 2010 at 12:12 PM
Norwegian on January 8, 2010 at 11:09 AM
OK, your lust for Sarah Palin has gone too far if you think a John Thune candidacy would result in “Revenge of the Good-Old Boys.”
Really, there are other Republicans who are as good (if not better) on the issues as Sarah is.
BradSchwartze on January 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM
That’s him? Hahahaha!
alliebobbitt on January 8, 2010 at 12:14 PM
Conserving money vs. spending it uselessly would be a step in the right direction. The only thing we don’t want to conserve are the corruptocrats currently in office.
alliebobbitt on January 8, 2010 at 12:16 PM
…I’m flattered, I really am.
I don’t have a blog or newsletter yet, simply because I haven’t the time to make a good one, and I wouldn’t want to settle for publishing slapdash junk.
Somewhere we can exchange email addresses that’s off the Google radar?
I’m not the oldest member here by far, but I do think you’re right.
IMHO, this is what’s happening: the age-old case of more spending being a bad thing until it comes to something you and/or your political party likes. The exact program(s) will vary according to individual opinons and political stances, but neither side is immune to the behaviour. I’m certainly guilty of doing it sometimes, though I’m trying to improve.
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Only in your dreams…which must be quite vivid, considering how many times your mother has to change your sheets…
lovingmyUSA on January 8, 2010 at 12:18 PM
As do we all. Thus the back and forth banter here on Hot Air. Some opinions are worth respect, others ridicule. You find out pretty quickly, here, which you have put forth.
It’s a good thing, don’t you think?
donh525 on January 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM
Uh, pervboy isn’t into any females. So it’s quite unlikely that he’ll be coming around (as you put it) anytime soon.
As far as his opinion goes, I always thought that opinions were like a**h0les – everybody has at least one. Now if we were to talk about principled positions, we might have a reasonable discussion.
Personally, I think most Palin critics are insanely jealous of her looks, Todd’s looks, their joint financial success, or some combination of the three.
But that’s just my opinion. If it’s true, I’ll just smile quietly.
platypus on January 8, 2010 at 12:26 PM
[feeding the idiot du jour voxpopuli, without him and the likes any thread would be under 3 pages...]
Please shut up, the stench coming from your mouth is unbearable…
Rookie on January 8, 2010 at 12:28 PM
I agree, I sometimes get annoyed, but he is NOT a troll…
lovingmyUSA on January 8, 2010 at 12:29 PM
Your hateful judgement of Jetboy and who he’s ‘into’ says more about You than it does about him.
Go Sarah!
bridgetown on January 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM
voxpopuli on January 8, 2010 at 11:51 AM
Do you mean Romney or Huckabee?
lonestar1 on January 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM
That is so wrong…
lovingmyUSA on January 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM
Like you have any room to talk.
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Be patient, he is quite far along on that path. Actually, he’d be better off if he was a troll because we don’t have very high expectations of trolls around here. We sort of ‘cluck-cluck’ at them while shaking our heads sadly.
platypus on January 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM
Hateful judgment? What the heck does that mean? He is the one who disregarded the rather large numbers of people who find deviant sex to be spiritually offensive and declared himself to be a devotee of that philosophy. If anybody is judging, it’s pervboy judging those of us who are traditionalists and conservatives.
And what is wrong with pervboy? It is what he is, or are you denying that homosexual behavior is deviant? Camille Paglia says pretty much the same thing and she’s a to-the-death deviant herself.
Grow up, please. Both of you. Perversion is a fact, not an opinion.
platypus on January 8, 2010 at 12:42 PM
When the shoe fits…
lovingmyUSA on January 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM
He strikes me as more a a populists.
Populists want govt to be as small as possible, except for the parts that benefit them.
Populists want govt to leave them alone, but still be big enough to force others to live up to their standards.
MarkTheGreat on January 8, 2010 at 12:47 PM
Boy, I wondered why this thread has grown to 400+ comments. Troll infestation to the max…. now back to more important things…
davek70 on January 8, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Look who is suddenly looking for pity!
**sniff**
Now seriously, you can start with Planned Parenthood, ACORN, UN, AGW, EPA, and the IRS as the tip of the iceberg.
rukiddingme on January 8, 2010 at 12:49 PM
While I would dearly love to see her as POTUS I do not think this is the proper time. The nation just had a glass ceiling breaker presume to the position and make a damnable hash of it in only his first year.
Is the American psyche ready to take a similar flier on another glass ceiling breaker? I fear not. She’ll be fighting Obama’s failure “first ever” image with her own “first ever” image.
She’s quite capable of the job. But will Americans take two fliers in a row? Seriously?
I don’t think so. But I can dream about it, can’t I?
(If the Republicans are smart they’d coopt the entire Tea Party and clean house of their own rubbish. But, Republicans are the stupid party and continuously show it.)
{o.o}
herself on January 8, 2010 at 12:57 PM
You lose a large portion of us when you start preaching…and passing “Christian” judgement. Guess you never went to these sites:
http://www.gaypatriot.net/
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/01/05/governor-palin-the-resistance-is-ready-for-you-to-stand-up-and-lead-us-to-defeat-obama-in-2012/
lovingmyUSA on January 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM
Yikes that does not include airfare, hotel and possible car rental. Now I can see the “delegate” assertion. I can get to Puerto Rico (int’l flight) for that price! It’s unfair.
The best way would be to broadcast to main cities that are formally organized. Of course if it was cheaper and in my driving range I’d go. I wanna see her again! I absolute love her, her beliefs and conservatism that will benefit all of us in the Lower 48. In fact, I want her to take over the RNC. Things would turn 360 degrees if she does. But that’d be something that is up to her, face time in the MSM, etc.
I still believe her speech will be broadcasted on FOX, just like Rush’s was on CPAC. Crossing fingers here!
ProudPalinFan on January 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM
Palin is clearly polarizing, but the “moderate” suck big time. 3rd party would be a disaster.
What if Palin uses the TeaParty wing not to get elected, but to influence a move towards conservative principles within the Republican party? It doesn’t have to be “us vs them” or “big tent” – just “core principles” of liberty that our nation was founded on.
peski on January 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM
I wasn’t fishing for pity, just lamenting aloud the laziness of the posters here. People like you.
where exactly did I beg for pity?
.
What the hell are you even talking about, my whole arguement was that we should not increase federal funding for spec ed, because there is no real benefit to society or to the children. Trig’s education won’t get 10% better because you spend 10% more. Haven’t conservatives long argued that the correlation between money spent and education is tenuous at best and possibly non-existant? The 3 highest spending districts in Texas on per pupil expenditures are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Guess which are the 3 lowest performing districts in Texas? If you get rid of the IRS federal funding of education is gone altogether, and I support that idea (eliminating Dept of ED).
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM
I agree. These conditions will not be fixed for a long time.
PrezHussein on January 8, 2010 at 1:05 PM
And guess which are three liberal districts in Texas…
mizflame98 on January 8, 2010 at 1:08 PM
So much for getting what we paid for, huh?
(fyi – if you sign up to customerssuck.com you can find me there under the same username. Also a great site for the humor value.)
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 1:09 PM
You would fit in great there. They do the most for the least just like all you good liberals. They spend more on education than my hateful Nazi eugenics loving a$$ ever would. Are you from there?
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:11 PM
(fyi – if you sign up to customerssuck.com you can find me there under the same username. Also a great site for the humor value.)
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 1:09 PM
awsome dude will do. Ill setup an account there so I can post, anywhere else you would recommend?
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:12 PM
Thank You. :)
JetBoy on January 8, 2010 at 1:13 PM
It would be grand — quite grand — if she turned out to be that selfless. But is there ANY evidence of that? All signs point to her as nothing more than a shallow, petty narcissist — the right-wing version of Barack Hussein Obama.
Time will tell but if you’re betting on this babe’s ability to put the party before herself, I would not hold my breath.
voxpopuli on January 8, 2010 at 1:14 PM
sean duffy is is a young conservative up and comer who i know s. palin would love – a 38-year-old district attorney in Wisconsin who’s taking on decrepit corrupt Democrat incumbent Rep. David Obey
http://www.duffyforcongress.com
these are the guys we need to help out
sidewinder22 on January 8, 2010 at 1:14 PM
reddit.com – same username, and plenty of humor watching the libtards. Sometimes I even get intelligent responses.
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 1:16 PM
This was your response to me when I said spending more on Spec ed is a bad idea.
The 3 highest spending districts in Texas on per pupil expenditures are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Guess which are the 3 lowest performing districts in Texas? If you get rid of the IRS federal funding of education is gone altogether, and I support that idea (eliminating Dept of ED).
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM
And guess which are three liberal districts in Texas…
mizflame98 on January 8, 2010 at 1:08 PM
This was your response when I said that spending more money on education doesn’t translate into more education. Ican’t figure out what you even believe at this point. Am I still eugenics boy for not loving wishy-washy liberal education spending, because you don’t seem to love it either.
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM
I do the same thing on Digg. It’s fun getting buried by the liberals.
(username = jetboyterp on digg)
JetBoy on January 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM
“Bring it, Roger Waters/The Wall/The Final Cut/Voxpopuli/Pee Wee Herman, or whoever you are.
kingsjester on January 8, 2010 at 12:12 PM”
I miss “The Wall”.
He was sooo f’n easy.
LtE126 on January 8, 2010 at 1:20 PM
reddit.com – same username, and plenty of humor watching the libtards. Sometimes I even get intelligent responses.
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 1:16 PM
Intelligent reponses are what I am looking for. I don’t even mind when people think my ideas are crazy/radical/stupid whatever, but this place is getting to be like the right wing KOS. All pissed off passion, very little substance.
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:22 PM
Have you folks at HA noticed that since the release of Going Rogue, you do not see the one appellation applied to Palin that diminishes her credentials in the extreme-UNELECTABLE. Could the reason be that even her most vocal opponents are now giving Palin her just due and now recognizing that we better get serious about opposing her and not attempt to trivialize her any longer.
Palin is not about to disappear and we have to learn to deal with that reality. And for Palin supporters that is a significant step for Palin on her road to total LEGITIMACY.
technopeasant on January 8, 2010 at 1:29 PM
pox populi, Dork Star and Wet Boy:
all of ap’s pet trolls have finally descended on the thread,hoping to strech it to 6600 or 700.
james23 on January 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM
Actually, I proudly live in the more conservative area near Ft. Hood. To call me a liberal is quite laughable since it was the early 20th Century liberals, i.e. the Progressives that were really into Eugenics.
mizflame98 on January 8, 2010 at 1:39 PM
You really need to brush up on some Jonah Goldberg before you start calling someone a liberal.
mizflame98 on January 8, 2010 at 1:42 PM
Yes you were.
You were seeking Dark-Star’s shoulder for comfort as evidenced by this:
because you apparently think someone has called you a Nazi, yet I find that no where in the comments. I have found where others disagree with you. Guess in your world that makes them a Nazi.
Your initial argument was to decrease federal funding for special education because special needs people are, in your opinion, not worth the return on investment. How intellectual of you.
You then asked this in you your comments to Dark-Star:
And I responded with a brief list. I am not opposed to reducing federal funding of regular education, just federal funding of special needs education. There is a difference. After all, you are normal and above those with special needs, thus you would have no need for federal education funds.
Lazy, how so? Is it because I do not look at a special needs person with disgust?
rukiddingme on January 8, 2010 at 1:42 PM
I ain’t no friinge.
Hey, Dr. EmoryProfessorEducatorman, maybe they will change their minds when they see what conservatism can do. heh.
bloggless on January 8, 2010 at 1:43 PM
I do believe Governor Palin is here to stay.
bloggless on January 8, 2010 at 1:44 PM
I hate to break my personal ban on you, but you are wrong. All the transcripts and medical records pertaining to Palin were released to the press sometime in October.
Not that you would care about what is actually true.
Brian1972 on January 8, 2010 at 12:00 PM
——
Palin’s transcripts are out there in the public somewhere?
ha ha ha that is total bullsh*t.
Because if they had been released her awesome 6 colleges in 6 years performance would be permanently enshrined on a thousand websites.
It would have been front page news for days and days.
Dave Rywall on January 8, 2010 at 1:44 PM
Well you got pretty miffed when I suggested that we spend too much on special ed. But seem to support me on the idea that we spend too much on education with nothing to show for it. Which was my original position on spec ed.
Your position that to the least should go the most is uber liberal Rawlsian thought. Conservatives realize that more money doesn’t equal more education, but you argued against me when I made that claim with respect to special ed. And I was only argueing against INCREASING federal funds and that in your eyes is apparently eugenics.
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM
I repeat: Trollapalooza!
kingsjester on January 8, 2010 at 1:48 PM
You are, once again, correct.
I will leave snoopy alone so he can hang out with Dark Star in the hotel room :-)
rukiddingme on January 8, 2010 at 1:50 PM
Let me break it down for you. I hate waste. Any kind of waste. Unfortunately Carter formed the Dept. of Education and now we have a whole lot of waste in schools thanks to government bureaucracies, liberal agendas instead of our children learning how to read, write, and our nation’s history. With that said; until the Dept of education is abolished it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to deny people an education based on what you consider their mental worth. To do so is the type of crap the 19th century and 20th century progressives practiced with eugenics. They also put a value on people who they felt were inferior. That is why I take issue with what you say. Unless you have a special needs child you have no idea how school districts help said children.
mizflame98 on January 8, 2010 at 1:51 PM
=
Is pathetic sexual innuendo the new standard in right-wing hackery?
Dark-Star on January 8, 2010 at 1:54 PM
Well we spend more on spec ed per puipl than gen ed. Does that mean we value spec ed students more than gen ed? My point was never to “deny” education, but argue against Palin’s desire to increase federal funding for spec ed. Why is that so hard to wrap your mind around?
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:56 PM
mizflame 98 page 3 reposnse click the highlighted salute. It links to a picture of Hitler. This is why I called you lazy. You are.
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:58 PM
Is cutting funds for special needs children libertarian? Glenn Beck will be very surprised.
kingsjester on January 8, 2010 at 1:58 PM
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 1:59 PM
GB is a generic republican that calls himself libertarian. Thats all
snoopicus on January 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Regarding the suggestion that the keynote slot should be reserved for an “actual candidate”…..
Who says Sarah Palin’s not a candidate?
Looks like a candidate, walks like a candidate, talks like a candidate (actually better than that)….
Sure seems like a candidate to me.
And even if she isn’t (as normally defined), are you suggesting that, if it were his time and he were around, that Ronald Regan would have been a poor choice as a speaker because he was a past-President and wasn’t actually running for anything? Or Bill Clinton on the Democrat side?
Do any of us recall her speech to the R convention, how she roused the crowd for John McCain more than the man himself?
Still amazed how HA can bend itself into a pretzel to find something negative about Palin. Pretty transparent.
And, tactically speaking, I think a “shout out” from Palin to this crowd for Rubio can do him more good (with less downside potential) than if he spoke himself. But, of course, there’s no way to test that theory. And, of course, you sort of miss the point. It’s the Tea Party. It’s not the Republican Party. That sort of is the point, after all.
IndieDogg on January 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM
We spend more money on special ed children because depending on their issues, they have special needs in order to learn and thus it costs more to teach said children. The way I see it is every child has a right to get an education and if they need help to do so, so be it. The way you see it, every child has a right to an education if they prove that they can be productive to society in the future. That sounds a lot more progressive that anything I’ve come up with my friend.
mizflame98 on January 8, 2010 at 2:02 PM
That’s why families are important. That’s why the govt shouldn’t make it so easy to cut your family ties:i.e. w/ no-fault divorce.
If you know that you are going to have to depend upon your family for help in your old age, it might behoove you to be a better person to them.
The govt should be compassionate when it can, but the reality is that the rationing you talk about will really happen, as it does now.
Snoop has a point, but is pretty inhuman about it.
I think there should be some programs in place for the desparate who have no one or have lost everything through no fault of their own.
Badger40 on January 8, 2010 at 2:08 PM
Public schools have been forced by the fed govt to do things with special ed students that are unfunded.
Like NCLB & all other brillian federal unfunded mandates.
If you get the feds out of education, it would be a lot cheaper & better.
Local control would come back & people would deal with their problems in more practical ways.
I.e. if a community has special needs kids, then they can find a way to fund their education.
But if they have all these federal rules they have to go by, this makes the cost sky rocket bcs of beaurocracy (i don’t care how you spell it :P).
Honestly-I do not think that Americans need to have the feds provide them with an education.
That should be left up to the states.
Badger40 on January 8, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Of course. That really should be obvious.
DarkCurrent on January 8, 2010 at 2:13 PM
Well lets see we have seen some prominent Democrats drop out of the race for next November because their funding- campaign contributions have dropped.
How can “populism = fringe” I don’t get that by the nature of the populist definition: appealing to the interests or prejudices of ordinary people.
Hmmm ordinary people, there are a lot of those in America so where’s the fringe? Fringe: That would be limited number of people with extreme view points.
If I am fringe, I have NO interest in donating to the campaign of a Republican or Democrat Party candidate – who’s Party Platform, I don’t agree with. I am an Independent, next November, I will Vote Fiscal Conservative. IF any candidate wants my vote, that’s got to be Their Personal Political Platform. The Republican Party watered it’s self down till it’s so diluted, it might as well be the Democrat Party. IF that is what Republicans think “Ordinary Americans” are, than they deserve to lose to the Tea Party Candidates.
Dr Evil on January 8, 2010 at 2:14 PM
Hotels rooms exist so you can get intellectual with each other. What other purpose is there? After all, it is so intellectual and courageous to speak of the special needs human beings as being less than human. Why not do that in a hotel room?
For an intellectual, you sure are easily offended. My statement was that no one called you a Nazi in the comments, and no one has. There is a link to a picture of Hitler in the comments, but did the picture say “Snoopy is a Nazi” when you clicked on it?
Now I am leaving, going to be lazy and do some work.
rukiddingme on January 8, 2010 at 2:21 PM
I agree. but until the Dept. Of Education is abolished and the control is given back to the states, it’s deplorable to say that some kids shouldn’t receive the funds they need for their education because they might not be a productive member of society when they are adults.
mizflame98 on January 8, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Allah\’s post is a clever lie. The fee is not just for Palin\’s speech and as others have noted it\’s damn cheap. You\’d have to believe AP is an ignoramous to consider his post an honest mistake. I think we know otherwise. He\’s spinning to gin up anger because it boosts his clicks & sticks. God only knows what he actually believes.
rcl on January 8, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Hmmm. I posted the last post on an iMac running Leopard and it’s sticking a “\” before every apostrophe!
It shows fine in Preview.
rcl on January 8, 2010 at 2:24 PM
I use to be a medical officer at a county jail and I can tell you I came across some brilliant minds that just pi$$ed away their lives. I guess we should cut off funding for all children since they have the potential to grow up and become a blight on society.
mizflame98 on January 8, 2010 at 2:24 PM
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