Posted on 10/27/2014 1:40:08 AM PDT by jalisco555
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Not all is entirely well in the Commonwealth, though. In cities and towns far removed from the shiny new towers of Cambridge’s Kendall Square or Boston’s Seaport District, the economic picture looks much dimmer. Meanwhile, cracks are showing in the edifice of state government itself. The Department of Children and Families, the Probation Department, the state crime lab, the board that regulates compounding pharmacies, the state Labor Department’s unemployment system, the Health Connector website — voters have come to know all these terms as shorthand for the kind of bureaucratic failures that make them doubt state government’s ability to help Massachusetts move forward.
Effective activist government isn’t built on good intentions. To provide consistently good results, especially for the state’s most vulnerable and troubled residents, agencies need to focus on outcomes, learn from their errors, and preserve and replicate approaches that succeed. Baker, a former health care executive, has made a career of doing just that. During this campaign, he has focused principally on making state government work better. The emphasis is warranted. And in that spirit, the Globe endorses Charlie Baker for governor.
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Yeah, Google Translate’s a bit off.
Don’t be so negative; watch Finnish news.
Sto cucinando una zuppa per cena, è diventato molto freddo qui.
Your thinking is one-dimensional. Voting Republican regardless of the candidate’s character and views is as mindless as voting Democrat regardless of theirs.
Conservatives will save the republic, not Communist Democrats nor Socialist Republicans.
geesh, some of you Freepers have lost critical thinking.....you've just kept the "CRITICAL" part!!
If you think you have any sway over a big government RINO, you’re fooling yourself. They’re worse than Democrats. Non-Conservatives don’t give a damn about you or I. They care only about power. Nothing else matters.
Of COURSE you hold sway over someone you voted FOR!!! Good freaking grief....don't waste my time.
Oddly, that is when America first began shipping American jobs to China.
Not sure whether anyone sees any connection with that.
I sure do.
Ameria never shipped any jobs to China...... they migrated to subcontractors that could make the corporate employers profitable
The MA ballot has many Democrats running unopposed. I know someone who is writing in the name of Thomas Duncan for all those races. LOL
I think you might be interested in yet another commercial attack from China.
See my post #9 for a true example
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3219667/posts?page=9#9
Dear heavens, that may be the most ignorant thing I've ever heard anyone say. You CANNOT be that naïve.
I told you not to write to me....your’re not enough of a thinker and problem solver for me to mess with anymore. You are a problem maker.
I’m sorry, Annie. I’m trying to help you to think. You claim you care about abortion. Tell me what all the leftist RINOs like Charlie Baker are going to do to end abortion ? Blindly voting Republican is stupid. You’re being played like a sucker, and the reason the party establishment gets away with the crap that it does is because of people like you.
That you sincerely believe you have sway with these RINOs reach depths of ignorance I rarely see, except from hardcore R-bots. Wake up ! You’ve been had !
I have no doubt that Ann Archy is strongly pro-life as are you and I. She has a long and honorable track record on FR as a pro-lifer.
That having been said, she is not the only pro-lifer still going with the idea that our (GOP) idiots and baby-killers can more easily be pressured than their (Demonrat) idiots and baby-killers. On that fantasy, you and I and a rising number of FReepers and of conservatives generally dissent from the spineless mushball GOP $$$$$ overlords. WE are estimated to have reached 4 million voters strong by 2012 and have had enough of two-faced, duplicitous trash like Romney and McCain BUYING the nominations of the GOP with Wall Street and K Street backing.
Political victory consists of someone with whom we have substantial on most issues and on ALL the important ones receives a plurality or majority of the vote (or for POTUS, a majority of the electoral vote). Two examples were the massive Reagan victories of 1980 and 1984 in which he won 44 states and 49 states respectively. To review the nonsensical notion that only "moderates" have a chance and that the Northeast is inevitably lost, we recall that in BOTH of those elections, Reagan carried California, but also New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and, needing 270 Electoral votes to win in 1980, Reagan received 489 and liberal incumbent whackjob Jimmuh Peanut got 49. In that election, Reagan nearly carried New York City and came closer (lost NYC by only about 30,000 votes) than any GOP POTUS candidate since Coolidge in 1924.
Four years before that, Feckless Gerald Wimpy Ford (a major pro-abort and married to Betty who was an even more serious pro-abort) was beaten by the same Jimmuh Peanut who carried each and every Confederate state other than Virginia and enough Northeastern EV rich states including New York and Pennsylvania and a few other states to make 297 Electoral votes. The GOP-Establishment Ruling Class Republicans held onto the 1976 nomination for Ford by warning conservatives that ONLY a "moderate" like Ford could be elected and that Reagan would surely be viewed as sooooooo extreme would take a beating approximating the one suffered by Goldwater.
And yet the myth of "moderate" electoral strength in the GOP continues even in the era of Myth Romney. No conservative has ever influenced Myth and none ever will and yet the myth continues. Myth just HAS to listen to US if we elect him. No, he doesn't and no, he won't. Every Taxachusetts governor since Ed King left office has been a rampaging pro-abort and, in Romney's case, a militant purveyor of the anal sex agenda of the lavender queens.
Some pro-lifers, some pro-gun folks, some pro-normal marriage folks, some constitutionalists, some believers in an aggressive foreign policy as military as necessary, some opponents of environmental whackoism, some enemies of Common Core, some other actual conservatives (feel free to fill in other worthy causes that I may have forgotten) will be slower than others to recognize that the GOP is not OUR party but a bought and paid for special interest group (and NOT our interests) that throws up inferior POTUS candidates every four years committed to absolutely no part of the platform other than those parts that line their corrupt pockets.
The looming divorce of principled conservatives from the GOP has reached the point of the inevitable. No longer a question of whether but of how soon. The money-grubbing tycoons who control the GOP care only for their $$$$$ agenda. They will, at best, give dishonest lip service to the rich and varied tapestry of conservative causes on non-money issues. They feel embarrassed by actual conservatives whom they regard as an all too numerous bunch of rubes (bitter clingers to their guns and bibles as their elitist Demonrat ally and alter ego likes to say).
Some of us are the vanguard. Some lag behind in the forlorn hope that the GOP can be salvaged. Year by year our numbers increase and theirs fade. Eventually, we shall be united again as a movement. Hopefully that will not be in an American gulag. The GOP-Elitists would gladly help establish that gulag to shut us up.
If it is possible at this late date for this nation to be re-established as a constitutional republic envisioned by our Founding Fathers, it will be because God stayed His Hand and gave us enough time, time for which we pray. We have not earned that time in any way. Over just the last four decades, we have sat idly by while our nation fostered the murder by dismemberment of nearly 60 million utterly innocent pre-born babies.
BRAVO. Well said.
I forced myself to sit through a couple of the taped Massachusetts gubernatorial debates. Out of the five candidates on stage, one Democrat, one Republican, and three Independents, four of the five sounded exactly like they were Democrats debating in a Democrat primary.
And then there was Scott Lively.
His answers were a breath of fresh air. His world view is perfectly in keeping with what the first Pilgrim and Puritan fathers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts believed.
The other four candidates, and the media sponsors/questioners, looked at Scott like he was an alien from outer space.
I could NOT be more conservative....but I do have a BRAIN and we can ONLY TRY to SALVAGE this country from LEFTISTS is to vote for REPUBLICANS, so at least we can tell GOD we TRIED!!!
THERE ARE NO GOOD DEMOCRATS OR INDEPENDENTS OR LIBERTARIANS!!!!! NONE!!!!
WOE to the people that stay at home or vote THIRD PARTY, LEFTIST LIGHT or LIBERTARIAN....KILLINGBABIES LIGHT......we have ONE MORE CHANCE....take it or leave it .....and PRAY your kids don't SUFFER from your VOTES for DEMOCRATS!!!
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