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Posted at 12:05am on Jan. 29, 2008 Healthcare - Individual Mandates
By David Ribeirao
Time and time again the subject of individual mandates in healthcare reform has come up as we've discussed healthcare reform proposals. Many of you know that I have worked in hospital and health system administration throughout my career and continue to do so. My opinion, from years of experience is that individual mandates are not a bad thing and are essential to any healthcare reform that protects private payors.
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Posted at 11:54pm on Jan. 28, 2008 McCain - Loose Cannon
By David Ribeirao
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/presidential_briefing/?p=161
Romney depicts loose cannon McCain - updated
Less than 48 hours after proclaiming he would never get personal with another Republican, Mitt Romney’s latest campaign missive focuses on the temper of Arizona Sen. John McCain.
The Romney camp frames the memo as a top-10 list of McCain’s “attacks” on Republicans. It could also be called “10 instances over the last eight years when McCain got angry or lost his cool.”
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Posted at 11:47pm on Jan. 27, 2008 President Gordon B. HInckley of the LDS Church Has Died
By David Ribeirao
http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/253064/17/
The story is now on Drudge, here is the link http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UELGG00&show_article=1
I'm posting this for it's relevance to the political debate, as this may make Mormonism a hot topic again. I'm pleading for respect in this thread and that you don't bring up anti-Mormon type comments both out of respect and because that's not what this blog is about.
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Posted at 7:06pm on Jan. 24, 2008 RedState - An Endorsement That Means Something to You
By David Ribeirao
or should...
"Romney lands movement conservative figure"
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0108/Romney_lands_movement_...
"Mitt Romney has picked up the support of Morton Blackwell, a veteran conservative warrior who previously backed Fred Thompson.
Blackwell is the GOP's national committeeman from Virginia, but he's better known to conservatives as chief of the Leadership Institute, a training center for ambitious young Republicans.
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Posted at 12:45pm on Jan. 18, 2008 Rush Limbaugh's Support for Romney
By David Ribeirao
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/18/limbaughs_praise_f...
The link above is to an article from the Boston Globe (which I personally detest) about Rush Limbaugh's support for Romney.
On this site I have frequently posted my opinion that from what I've heard of Rush, his support and praise of Romney has been equal to that of Fred Thompson. That struck a chord with many pro-Thompson folks who blasted me repeatedly that my education was clearly sub par if I could have somehow come to that conclusion.
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Posted at 7:51pm on Jan. 17, 2008 Mike Huckabee - The flippiest of the floppers
By David Ribeirao
Really, what will it finally take for the flip-flopper meme to stick to Huckabee? Here is just a small list off the top of my head of well-known Huckabee flip-flops:
- Federal smoking ban
- School vouchers
- Birthright citizenship
- Amnesty for illegals
- Cuba Embargo
- Negative ads
- Federal ban on abortion
- Being fat (it's okay, I'm only kidding)
Go ahead, he's earned it.
Flip-Flop Huck...Flippity-Flop Mike...Flippity-Floppity Huckabee?
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Posted at 10:12pm on Jan. 15, 2008 SCOREBOARD
By David Ribeirao
To all the Romney haters and especially the authors of the numerous anti-Romney blogs of late; I have only one thing to say...
SCOREBOARD!
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Posted at 1:28pm on Jan. 9, 2008 "No Matter What"
By David Ribeirao
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Posted at 11:42pm on Jan. 8, 2008 Do I need therapy?
By David Ribeirao
Yes, I know I am setting myself up with this blog title but here is my question.
How can I be happy that Hillary won tonight?
How can I possibly cheer for Hillary Clinton?
I was so happy Barry beat her the other night?
Why am I so interested in the Democratic race?
I hate liberals...feel conflicted...need medication...razor blades...politics of hope...barf...Hillary crying...laughi
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Posted at 11:35pm on Jan. 8, 2008 Bad night for Conservatives
By David Ribeirao
Mitt Romney loses
Fred Thompson gets 1%
There are many giddy posts tonight about Mitt Romney coming in second tonight. Many of these comments are from well-known FredHeads but should FredHeads really be happy about this?
Many on this site don't like Mitt and I understand why - they don't believe him but whether you believe him or not, his policies are conservative and the only other GOP candidate who is similarly conservative is Fred. The true conservative platform lost tonight and lost bad.