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Republicans Need to Talk
Wall Street Journal, by Peggy Noonan
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Posted By:JoniTx, 12/14/2012 9:59:27 AM
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| Viewed a certain way, the 2012 election can be seen as a gift to Republicans wrapped in ugly paper. The wrapping looked like a hostage note with a message scrawled in crayon: "We hate you." But inside was a gift, and the gift was time. The party was given the opportunity, when it is still strong, to hold the kind of fresh, open-the-windows debate it would have been forced to have in 2016 anyway, and in less favorable conditions. If Mitt Romney had won this year he would have had a very tough presidency, with the left revived and
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
steveW, 12/14/2012 10:10:37 AM (No. 9065124)
No, Peggy, Obama´s 8 year reign is a dark cloud with no silver linings whatsoever. None.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 12/14/2012 10:12:31 AM (No. 9065127)
One too often has to wade through Noonan´s critiques of a speech to find out what her point is. She bogs down into whose phrasing was bad and whose wording was muddy. The implication is that a Peggy Noonan could have written a better speech. She´s hammered us with it so frequently that it´s getting tiresome to see if, this time, she can get beyond sniping at the speechwriter to analyze the content.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 12/14/2012 10:33:00 AM (No. 9065171)
Dear, sweet Margaret means well.
Sadly, a great deal of effort is expended to make sure that Conservatives seldom get near the microphone.
As the Right has become more moderate and more willing to be flexible the left has become more strident and headstrong.
The defenders of truth and justice and real fairness are sorely disadvantaged when playing against Communist Terrorists who play very well, very dirty and play for keeps.
Surprise !
The nice people lose again.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hotrod, 12/14/2012 10:34:37 AM (No. 9065175)
Meanwhile, while we await 2016, we will grow the debt, taxes, unemployment, the government and entitlement spending. At the same time, we will reduce military capability, standard of living, freedom and available medical care.
That´s great Peggy. We will be so happy for this gift!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WAN2, 12/14/2012 10:39:14 AM (No. 9065181)
Politicians now know STUFF win elections. Further, Michelle will coast to victory in 2016 after she successfully targets profiteers as the cause of the Depression just as the Germans blamed the Jews.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dman, 12/14/2012 11:07:53 AM (No. 9065244)
Sorry, Peggy. The Pubs had their opportunity in 2012 - and blew it.
They need a whole lot more than talk. They need to clean up internal corruption. Pat Caddell nailed it on the "Political Insiders" 12/10/12 foxnews.com webcast http://video.foxnews.com/v/2026524793001/political-insiders-121012/ That show was an eye-opener for me, and explained a lot of what went wrong.
This kind of corruption is not unique to the GOP - it is a DC problem, but is relevant when pondering the 2012 defeat.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Sheepfarmer, 12/14/2012 11:11:46 AM (No. 9065255)
I haven´t really gotten past her swooning over Obama in 2008.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pizzaman, 12/14/2012 11:31:38 AM (No. 9065281)
Requires login to read?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sunsong, 12/14/2012 11:44:01 AM (No. 9065309)
Talking is good. Listening is better. I wonder if the GOP knows America anymore?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Marzon, 12/14/2012 1:09:29 PM (No. 9065524)
Republicans lost the "ground game". Zippy and his cadre of leftist activists used very sophisticated polling and data mining tools to determine exactly how many more votes they needed in each swing state as the election approached and where they could get them. And they had the resources and organization needed to contact these people and get the to vote. More traditional "Get Out Vote" techniques cannot beat the new high tech model. Unless and until the Republicans develop a similar model they will never win another election. But are they smart enough to realize this?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 12/14/2012 1:20:56 PM (No. 9065551)
Noonan, if Republicans "need to talk," you need to shut up. Just go away and shut up.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
eorsc, 12/14/2012 1:38:59 PM (No. 9065597)
Yes Peggy--just - go - a - way!
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JACKSON, Ky.-Breathitt County school officials say they are removing Ten Commandments displays from the high school, middle school and elementary schools. WYMT-TV reports the move came after the schools received a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The group´s letter says the displays have been up for years. Kentucky Board of Education officials released a statement saying that the display of religious materials in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution. It goes on to say that the Kentucky Education Department´s focus in Breathitt County "is on student achievement and college and career readiness
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Via the Get Religion blog at Patheos: The picture above, for what it’s worth, is of the reserved media seats at the Gosnell trial. It was taken by JD Mullane, a news writer and columnist for the Bucks County Courier Times, The Intel and the Burlington County (NJ) Times. He says: Sat through a full day of testimony at the Kermitt Gosnell trial today. It is beyond the most morbid Hollywood horror. It will change you. I was surprised by the picture and asked “really?” He responded “Local press was there, Inky, PhillyMag, NBC10 blogger.
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Reuters, by Jason Lange
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WASHINGTON- Retail sales contracted in March for the second time in three months, a sign the American economy may have stumbled at the end of the first quarter. Retail sales fell 0.4 percent during the month, the Commerce Department said on Friday. That was below analysts´ expectations that sales would be flat. Readings for retail sales have been volatile so far this year, making it difficult to know whether the weakness in March was due to a tax hike that went into effect at the start of the year or to temporary factors related to the weather.
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Joseph A. Slobodzian
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At the time, it must have seemed like the ultimate work-study program. Ashley Baldwin, a 15-year-old sophomore at University City High School who was thinking of becoming a doctor, got a job at one of the busiest clinics in West Philadelphia.(Snip) Now 22 and the mother of a 2-year-old son, Baldwin on Thursday told a Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury hearing Gosnell´s murder trial of her unusual hands-on medical apprenticeship. Baldwin also told the jury about seeing at least five aborted babies moving, breathing, and, in one case, "screeching"
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Senate Democrats are hesitating to honor the former prime minister of Great Britain who, along with President Reagan and Pope John Paul II, tackled communism. This is particularly galling in light of the fact that 16 Republicans crossed the aisle to vote for cloture on the Democrats´ gun control bill, today. Heritage Action reports: A Senate resolution to honor Lady Thatcher was supposed to pass last night. However, per well placed sources on the Hill, Democrats have a hold on the resolution. To refuse to honor a woman of such great historical and political significance,
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Daily Mail (UK), by Nina Golgowski
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Hours after First Lady Michelle Obama tearfully mourned the death of a 15-year-old girl who was shot in her Chicago hometown a second girl of the same age and in the same city has been critically wounded by gunfire. The unidentified girl was shot near her stomach around 1pm on the South Side of the city´s Grand Crossing neighborhood, roughly four miles south of where Hadiya Pendleton was killed on January 29. Just about 20 minutes later a 27-year-old man was shot in the leg in the same neighborhood, the Chicago Tribune reports.
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Mock Cemetery Installed on
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NBC 4 [Washington DC], by Staff
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More than 3,300 crosses, Stars of David and Islamic symbols were installed on the National Mall Thursday as peace activists created a mock cemetery to honor victims of gun violence. Organizers said the number of markers was chosen to honor the victims of gun violence who have died since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. At 11:30 a.m., religious leaders from across the country -- including some from Newtown -- began a 24-hour vigil among the grave markers, a protest aimed at lawmakers as they began to vote on a set of new gun restrictions.
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Joseph A. Slobodzian
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Like a lot of high school sophomores, 15-year-old Ashley Baldwin found a job. Baldwin, however, wasn´t working retail or fast-food. She was doing ultrasounds, administering intravenous medicine and, ultimately, assisting in abortions performed by West Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell. Baldwin, now 22, and the mother of a two-year-old, today told a Philadelphia jury hearing Gosnell´s murder trial of her unusual hands-on medical apprenticeship. She also told of seeing at least five aborted babies moving, breathing and, in one case, "screeching," after procedures at Gosnells´ Women´s Medical Society clinic at 3801 Lancaster Ave.
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Sex abuse charges dropped
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Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after complaints from students about controversial comments concerning same-sex marriage. The withdrawal came less than a week after medical school Dean Paul B. Rothman chastised Carson for his comments and met with graduating students concerned that the famed physician was an inappropriate commencement speaker.
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Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the skin of the wholesome college students he craved: He relishes being Mayor Weiner. Please, shut up this clown. These days, the genitally obsessed Weiner has nothing much to do, except sit in his lavish Manhattan apartment and — the inhumanity! — change the poopy diapers of his 16-month-old son, Jordan. Worse, Weiner is living under a kind of house arrest, sentenced to take extreme grief
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Irish Examiner USA, by Alicia Colon
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Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven´t heard about these sickening accusations? It´s not your fault. Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page. The revolting revelations of Gosnell´s former staff, who have been testifying to what they
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