And even if Chris Gabrieli were to have said it before Deval, I assure readers he wasn't the person to coin the phrase. However, if people want to think it's a Chris Gabrieli phrase - all the better. After all, Deval Patrick is going to be counting on Gabrieli and Reilly supporters for victory in November: we want to send clear messages to them that they should support Deval, especially since he will borrow Chris Gabrieli and Tom Reilly's best ideas.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Yo, Globe: He's Been Saying that All Along
David Dahl, the Globe's political editor, posted a blog today suggesting Deval is using one of Chris Gabrieli's campaign lines, "I'm not running as a label. I'm interested in good ideas, whether they are Democratic ideas or Republican ideas or independent ideas.'' While there's some real, not-so-subtle differences between that line and Gabrieli's line ('it doesn't matter if it's a Republican idea or a Democratic idea, so long as it's a good idea'), I would like to point out to David that I heard Deval stump on how labels don't define him a long time ago. Specifically, he talked about how he didn't care if something were right and left; he was more interested in if it were right or wrong. He even went on to discuss how Mitt Romney has had some good ideas, Mitt just failed to implement them. As a refresher, that was in April, which is like 15 dog years ages ago in an election season.
And even if Chris Gabrieli were to have said it before Deval, I assure readers he wasn't the person to coin the phrase. However, if people want to think it's a Chris Gabrieli phrase - all the better. After all, Deval Patrick is going to be counting on Gabrieli and Reilly supporters for victory in November: we want to send clear messages to them that they should support Deval, especially since he will borrow Chris Gabrieli and Tom Reilly's best ideas.
And even if Chris Gabrieli were to have said it before Deval, I assure readers he wasn't the person to coin the phrase. However, if people want to think it's a Chris Gabrieli phrase - all the better. After all, Deval Patrick is going to be counting on Gabrieli and Reilly supporters for victory in November: we want to send clear messages to them that they should support Deval, especially since he will borrow Chris Gabrieli and Tom Reilly's best ideas.
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Joe, you're supposed to preface your remarks by saying you were thisclose to voting for Deval until he started rippping off Gabrieli's ideas/Republican ideas/whatever ideas, and before you found out his supporters were so mean. Do the normal talking points take a detour on the way to in-state fax machines?
Personally, I think it's a fantastic idea to deny licences to undocumented workers. If I'm involved in an accident with an undocumented worker, above all I want to make absolutely sure that there's no way he has insurance. As a tax paying citizen, I like to emphasize that insurance is some kind of socalist plot to deny individual responsibility and I should have to pay to fix my own car even if I wasn't at fault.
I don't think the insurance argument is moot. Undocumented immigrants are going to drive - regardless of whether or not they get licenses. We could be pragmatic about it and allow them licenses, so they'd a) get insurance, b) get more training (taking the drivers test, etc.) and c) be put on the road to working towards citizenship.
All around, it's smart policy. It may not feel good, but we can't base policy on how something "feels." Truthiness isn't truth.
I believe at Fanueil Hall, long before Chris Gabrieli got into the race, Deval Patrick emphasized worrying less about whether an idea was "left or right" and more about "right or wrong."
And as for joe's first two "fabulous ideas," we already are on a path to lowering the rate to 5.0%. And refusing illegal aliens' licenses is an AWESOME way to maintain a permanent underclass in this country who live in the shadows, afraid to cooperate with police or public health workers.
I wonder if Joe, as tax-paying citizen, read about these Republican pigs slopping at the trough? An extra $5 million dollars went out the window there.
Write away, Joe. My comments are a free-speech zone.
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