re: What Is Your Opinion On Sarah Palin?

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It's all good darling, I figured you were busy. I was thinking something with either Vols and Shaft or V&S in Orange and White, and of course TED.

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Sounds good. I'll work on a couple of things & post them on the Help Board.


Sorry for the interruption, OP & whomever else is still discussing.

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hey're in a somewhat rural area and were pissed our state didn't expand Medicaid

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So they could increase their patient base and spend even less time per patient.

But we could all be dead in a few years so there's that.

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Wrong. They're already treating a lot of them for free, or at drastically reduced rates.

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Drastically reduced versus their cash price? Or drastically reduced versus their billable rate? And by "a lot" do you mean 1% of their patient load or 40%?

This thread is gold for showing just how clueless about what is going on around them some people are.

In this case gold=sadness.

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Neocon describes a foreign policy view. Any other usage is not part of the original meaning of the word. It's commonly used now to describe hates Republicans but that's not an accurate usage.

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Not true.

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moderate political conservatism espoused or advocated by former liberals or socialists.

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an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s)

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An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s: "The neo-conservatism of the 1980s is a replay of the New Conservatism of the 1950s, which was itself a replay of the New Era philosophy of the 1920s" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)

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ne·o·con (ne'o-kon')
n. Informal
A neoconservative: "The neocons and hard-liners have long felt that no Soviet leader could be trusted" (New York Times).

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She's a neocon, which has little to do with being conservative. In fact, the roots of neoconservatism is in liberalism. Neocons are not advocates of free market capitalism.

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Exactly.

I laugh at people who want small and limited gov't saying they would vote for Condi. She does not believe in small and limited gov't. They are obviously not doing their homework on potential candidates. She would be exactly like bush which is pretty much a horrible president.

Agreed 100%

Hmmm... odd. I see a whole lot of opinion that "Palin is stupid" but I see little to back it up.

Why? Why is she stupid? Seems to me that the vast majority of "stupid stuff" people think that Palin has said should really be attributed to someone else. The most famous example is that she never once said that she could see Russia from her back yard (that was Fey on SNL). And so forth. She DID say that the location of Alaska with relation to Russia provides her with some insight to the Russian ethos and views that perhaps other politicians in the lower 48 do not have - this seems like a perfectly reasonable and intelligent remark to make.

Contrast and compare this with Biden... who has a video gaffe library that could play for hours and hours. Biden is legendary for his examples of misspoken euphemisms.

Candidly, while I have some political stance disagreements with Palin, I really have seen no empirical evidence at all to suggest that she is stupid. If you disagree with her politically, morally, socially, whatever... fine. But if you are going to call someone an idiot, tell us your reasoning and logic.