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Old 03-20-2010, 08:01 AM
 
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The Republican Governors Association published this video during the week, a slick production of a think piece and philosophical declaration rather than a specific policy statement. Instead of looking to Washington for all of the answers, we need to look to ourselves and our communities, the RGA believes, and delivers that message in a dramatic presentation. A bit long, but then they have a lot of ground to cover:

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: “America’s Comeback”
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Old 03-20-2010, 08:10 AM
 
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Good video.. Making one wonder what their motivation is. Planning to group together to fight the federal government?
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Old 03-20-2010, 08:20 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Good to see state governments will assert their Constitutional rights.
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Old 03-20-2010, 08:39 AM
 
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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Good to see state governments will assert their Constitutional rights.
Is the GOP becoming the National States Rights Party?

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Old 03-20-2010, 08:56 AM
 
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Is the GOP becoming the National States Rights Party?
More and more states are merely asserting their Constitutional rights.

Have a problem with that?
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Old 03-20-2010, 08:58 AM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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More and more states are merely asserting their Constitutional rights.

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boompa has equated asserted states rights with people being able to neutralize gravity, so his mind cannot comprehend a nation that respects states' rights. It is a mind that can only be offered by 12 years of public education and blind obedience to the State, perhaps taking their military or federal gov't indoctrination a little too seriously. The race baiting picture is merely trying to discredit the movement by projecting an isolated incident on a legitimate position.
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Old 03-21-2010, 10:48 AM
 
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Good video.. Making one wonder what their motivation is. Planning to group together to fight the federal government?
They will fight a government that will become too big!
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Old 03-21-2010, 10:55 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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boompa has equated asserted states rights with people being able to neutralize gravity, so his mind cannot comprehend a nation that respects states' rights. It is a mind that can only be offered by 12 years of public education and blind obedience to the State, perhaps taking their military or federal gov't indoctrination a little too seriously. The race baiting picture is merely trying to discredit the movement by projecting an isolated incident on a legitimate position.

Spot on, and reps to you!
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Old 03-21-2010, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Pretty video but it's maniplative as hell. I don't know if America can recapture it's greatness, but I KNOW Republicans can't do it any more than Democrats can. They are two sides of the same coin, two heads attached to the same monster.
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Old 03-21-2010, 11:08 AM
 
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The Republican Governors Association published this video during the week, a slick production of a think piece and philosophical declaration rather than a specific policy statement. Instead of looking to Washington for all of the answers, we need to look to ourselves and our communities, the RGA believes, and delivers that message in a dramatic presentation. A bit long, but then they have a lot of ground to cover:

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: “America’s Comeback”
You really give too much credit to propaganda. It's meant to sway you but is absolutely juvenile in it's execution. Tell me, what thinking is being done with a video that is engineered to forge connections in your brain like: "Obama" and "Democrats" equals scary, negative events, and "Republican Governers" equals our country's greatest triumphs like the moon landing, Civil Rights or victory in WW2?
It's a damned scripted response, and I beam with pride at the end for the same reason I cried when Old Yeller died. I was being manipulated and taken for a ride.

The fate of our country is at stake. No one can afford to be taken for a ride now. Slick production values do not equal a good plan.
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