Daily Rant-Bringing SexyBack to the Center
Because right now all the sexy in politics is on the fringes – which sells papers and magazines and draws the viewers and listeners to the latest train wreck. AFP editor Chris Graham wants to bring SexyBack to the Center. And he wants to do it in a red sweater vest. Facebook Video. Length: 4:36.
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Chris, I agree with you that the fringes have taken over BOTH parties & are controlling the conversations. Why don’t you and the AFP hold a “town hall” style meeting for centrist sometime in the future? Or, even a round table meeting locally that could be web cast to internet users. I for one being an Agnostic Libertarian who finds himself voting for the GOP just because I have too would defiantly attend.
Good ideas, C.W. That would get the ball rolling. Thanks for the suggestions.
I think it would help locally, I live in Waynesboro same as you, I believe that the important issues locally and State wide need our attention. Let’s get some Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians; hell even some Greens and Constitutionalist. Have a civil and open talk… no name calling! Maybe a town hall or even a mixer… I’d even volunteer time to help you plan it…
We need to do this, agreed. I’d lean toward the mixer idea as a first event, to take the pressure off. Let’s get this moving.
When I saw the title, I thought you had seen my posts on the “Boob Czar” Saturday in Washington.
As you mentioned, people on both sides can and do agree that a lot of changes are needed in health care. As we all know; the Republicans favor the insurance companies, the Demos favor the trial lawyers (no tort reform); therefore, let Obama show some leadership, take the first step, and squeeze the trial lawyers and you’ll see people revisit their opinions on this issue, and things might begin to improve.
The point that seems to not be understood by many on the left is that we on the right aren’t blindly in love with the “greedy” insurance companies, but rather are horrified at the thought of our health system being run by the most incompetent organization on our planet, the US Federal Government. Pick your poison!
The debate has left single-payer vs. status quo, though. You wouldn’t know that by listening to GOP leaders, but what Obama talked up in his speech last week is two-thirds of the way toward what Republicans want – maintaining the private system with changes in the way they do business so that they can’t cherrypick customers and mandates that everybody has to get health insurance that will make insurance companies more money because more people will be in the system.
The only government-run aspect to the Obama plan is the creation of the health exchanges, and those are four years off into the future.
I agree on tort reform. Put that in there, and the Obama plan, and I’d say we have ourselves what we’re going to get best-case from reform this year and probably for the next 10 years.
Republicans need to step up to the plate now if they want to be a part of the solution.
Chris: I heartily support a roundtable of the “centrists” in the apparent myriad of political parties showing up in the anarchic American political scene. Perhaps we could define the characteristics of a LEADER! That would be a novelty!