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Title: Republican Party of Texas Chairman Munisteri leaving post to join Rand Paul's political team (throws Cruz & Perry under the bus)
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The Dallas Morning News
URL Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/loca ... rand-paul-s-political-team.ece
Published: Jan 30, 2015
Author: The Associated Press
Post Date: 2015-01-30 11:05:30 by Hondo68
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Views: 1000
Comments: 11
WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday picked up the backing of the Republican Party of Texas’ chairman, who is stepping down from his role to take a position as a national senior adviser to the Kentucky Republican’s presidential campaign-in-waiting In doing so, Steve Munisteri bypassed two Texans who are also likely to seek the Republican nomination: Sen. Ted Cruz and former Gov. Rick Perry. Munisteri has known Paul for 34 years, dating back to when Paul’s father represented Texas in Congress, and counts Paul as a friend. “I couldn’t say no to him,” said Munisteri, who will formally leave his post next month and will split his time between Texas and Washington. Munisteri will be tasked with helping Paul fine-tune his communications strategy, as well as help guide Paul’s ongoing effort to appeal to minority and youngers voters, who typically vote for Democrats. “He’s the only conservative candidate that I see who is reaching out to minority voters and young voters,” the 57-year-old Munisteri said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I don’t think we can win a national election unless we do a better job of getting new people into the party.” Munisteri, who was elected to a third term last year, helped the Texas GOP raise $22 million. He joked that his nickname during his tenure as chairman was “beggar in chief.” Munisteri said his roster of contacts will be available to help connect Paul with the deep-pocked donors who define Texas and Republican politics, but he did not plan to have fundraising as his main task. Instead, he planned to help Paul plan a broader strategy. “I have some definite ideas how to lay out a presidential campaign,” he said. Munisteri has worked on White House campaigns in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida — all states considered crucial to winning the nomination. And the Texas GOP is among the best in the nation at recruiting minority voters — a goal Paul has made for his expected campaign. “I am very pleased Steve will be joining our team,” said Doug Stafford, Paul’s top aide. “As a party chair in Texas, he raised the bar for grassroots engagement and performance. His experience in multiple national campaigns will be invaluable to Sen. Paul.” Paul planned to visit Texas this weekend to headline party fundraisers in Dallas and Fort Worth, the latest example of the groundwork he is laying for what is an increasingly likely presidential campaign. Paul has been lining up senior advisers in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. He courted the billionaire Koch brothers last weekend in California while reaching out to party activists who volunteer and power campaigns.
Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri, seen at the party's Fort Worth convention in June, will handle communications on U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's politicial team.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Whatever else you may say of Rand Paul, he is the only GOP pol bringing new people to the GOP. The problem is that a small locus of big players in the GOP don't want those new voters. They think they don't need to change at all, vast military spending and unlimited wars around the world are just what the public craves. It's daft but some elements of the GOP actually believe the public just can't wait to get into more wars. The utter failure of the latest wars and the Arab Spring nonsense and the destruction of Libya and much of Syria has done nothing to restrain this constant lust for war by sick GOP pols like the Stain and Lady Lindsey. It's like they just never learn.
Now shift your perspective and look at the GOP all the way back to Ulysses S. Grant's Administration as - at heart - the party of crony capitalist stockjobbing. Who benefits from endless wars of empire? Not the Treasury. Not the people at large. Not even the party's political fortunes, at the margins (but note: they never go to zero, and as long as they have the Courts or the Filibuster - as long as they have one of the four branches of government that can block anything, they can afford to lose ground from time to time, just as long as the citadel of government contract stockjobbing is never breached.) So, who benefits from endless war? Cui bono? Look at the defense contractors and armaments makers and their subsidiaries throughout this long glorious period of profits. We spent as much in Vietnam as we did on the Great Society, but who actually got PAID that money? How did we SPEND it? Not on troop salaries, that's for sure. We spent it on equipment and service contracts. The peacetime defense budged is a quarter-ish of the budget. But in war time, when you put in operational expenses and off-budget items, emergency draws and the like, there are hundreds of billions more funneling into a very few marked profit centers. And THAT is why the Republican Party always have a taste for war: war is INCREDIBLY PROFITABLE for the contractors - the big businesses with monopoly power. They're incredibly well connected, and always have been, and they make a fortune. Does it matter to them, all the bodies and broken limbs, or the damage to the budget and the future? Of course it doesn't! THEY ARE MAKING A LOT OF MONEY. Somebody has to pay, and it ain't them. It's the classic tragedy of the commons: the costs of war are externalized upon the war, but the profits of war are MASSIVE - all that money spent on it gets SPENT and given TO people who provide the armaments and services, and the contractors are a well-connected, protected clan. That's why the Republicans are fond of war: it's the biggest form of corporate welfare for cronies in the budget.
Dems make just as much blood money off the war industries as Republicans do. With war being currently unpopular, what we are seeing now is massive deficit spending by the feds for "unneeded" MRAPs and other military vehicles that they sell for a pittance to local PDs. The taxpayer foots the bill, the manufacturer and its stockholders continue to make money producing these units with the .gov taking a huge loss on every one of them. So the sheriff of Futtbuck, Arkansas gets a shiny new 30-ton armored vehicle for a few thousand and the feds eat the other $350,000 as an "unintended loss". I see Dems like Pelosi and Feinstein as representing just as many war profiteers as the other warmonger scumbags in the GOP like Stain and Lady Lindsey. You always like these warmongers and profiteers well enough as long as they aren't Republicans. And the Dems are genocidal infant killers as well. You don't fool me.
The answer is pretty dang obvious? Don't vote for either wing of the bloodthirsty and corrupt D&R party! Arguing about which ax murderer is the worst seems pointless. Say NO to both.
For sure? "The biggest mistake that libertarians make is the way they view government and private sectors. Government is the root of all evil, and the private sector is the source of all good. Libertarians have never figured out that people are the same whether in the government or in the private sector." --Paul Craig Roberts
You don't fool me. You fool yourself, then. I hate Democrats because they are babykillers. That's where my analysis of them ends. I don't have to go on and worry about other things, because the Democrats are despicable ab initio. Some Republicans at least TALK the pro-life game, so they get into court. Then I look at what the Republicans actually DO, over time, and I reject them too. If you're reading love for Democrats in what I write, you're imagining it. Democrats are babykillers - nothing more to say. Perhaps it would crystallize it were I simply to say "Democrats are Nazis". Nazis killed millions of innocents. So do Democrats. I don't spend time trying to find problems with Nazi positions, or Democrat, because they're mass murderers of innocents, so I don't even bother to give them any time of day. They are by definition monsters. They don't get the special filleting that Republicans do, because I just pour mental Raid on Democrats and see them as vermin - because they're babykillers. They don't get past the wye- gate. Support abortion, and you're a Nazi, and entitled to precisely the same consideration of your positions as a Nazi or a Klansman gets: which is zero - you deserve the fate of the innocents you kill. Republicans get past the post. Then they fail because they don't live up to their principles, at all. In fact, the coalition is dominated by people who are despicable in their own right. Still, with Republicans we're talking about men, not vermin.
Only when challenged on it do you ever say anything bad about Dims. You reserve all your venom for the GOP and them only. You protest a bit too much.
You reserve all your venom for the GOP and them only. You protest a bit too much. I am writing on a website where there are lots of conservatives and few (or no) Democrats. Nobody is standing up for the Democrats. If anybody did, you would see me rounding on them like the USS New Jersey, big guns pounding away. And if they dared to shoot back, I'd nuke them. Democrats - ALL Democrats - support the murder of innocent babies. 2 million per year. Oh sure, some weak minded simpletons with no moral courage say they're pro-life Democrats, but the official position of the Democrat Party is pro-abortion. Being a pro-life Democrat is like being a Christian who denies the divinity of Christ: it's not possible. Somebody can call himself a Democrat all he likes, and by doing so, he has signed up for the Democrat Party, and that Party's OFFICIAL stance is baby murderer. Being a "pro-life Democrat" is like being a "good Nazi" or a "good Klansman". There is no such thing. Nazis deserved to die in gas chambers - all of them. Klansmen deserved to be burnt at the stake, all of them. That some of them "didn't agree" with the methods is just a weak-livered lie. If they didn't agree, then LEAVE. Stay in the party, if the party is monstrous, you've signed on the line and bought it. Democrats are babykillers. Every one of them. Some Democrat who says she's not but won't leave is a spineless coward, a "good Nazi" - and that doesn't exist. She's a babykiller too, because she endorses and votes for them. All Democrats are evil. And if they think they're pro-life but Democrat, THOSE people are stupid, deluded fools, duped rubes. Duped rubes who enable baby murder. Fuck them all. I despise Democrats because they're all babykillers - ever last one of them. They are Nazis. They are Klansmen. So, why am I always fighting with Republicans? Because I don't talk to Democrats. Democrats DISGUST me, so I avoid them. I don't enter into intellectual discussions with them, because I'd just as soon strangle them for being babykillers. They have chosen to affiliate with the Nazi Party, and therefore I hate them utterly. I don't go on Democrat sites, because I don't want to try to persuade Nazis of anything. I want to gas them. I talk to Republicans and Libertarians, people who are not Democrats. On Liberty Post, and here, that is who everybody is. There aren't any Democrats here that I'm aware of, so there is nobody for me to boil in oil. What I DO encounter is weak, vacillating Republicans and conservatives - people who are ACTING LIKE DEMOCRATS, in that they maintain loyalty to the Republican Party even though the Republican Party is disloyal to its stated principles, and operates like a bunch of lying, conniving sneaks. I look down on Republicans for their weakness and their hypocrisy; I want to gas Democrats. THEREFORE I don't talk to Democrats. I don't seek them out. When I find them, I avoid politics - what is there to say? I DO talk to Republicans, to try to give you people some spine to overthrow your leaders, strip them of their power and money, and then harness up that power to use it to actually do the right things that your platforms usually preach. You don't do it, because there are plenty who DO worship money and power, and who really are all about that. And then there are the duped rubes. I want the duped rubes to stop being duped (they'll always be rubes), and to leave the party, because I don't think they can take over the party. I want a new party to stand up that will do the right thing. Republicans are despicable, BECAUSE the wealthy who control the party use it to scrape the plate of the country into their own gullets, and the REST of the Republicans make bad economic and moral arguments to try to justify that sort of crap when really they should overthrow the leadership and take over. They don't, and their weakness costs all of us. So I am very harsh and critical of Republicans' cowardice, hypocrisy and willing to follow evil leaders. But Democrats? They're ALL baby murderers. Put them in a burlap bag and drown them in the pond.
But only when challenged on it do you ever say such things. Otherwise, it's only bashing of Republicans, the party who prevailed against Democrat slavers and who alone have given pro-lifers a political home.
Otherwise, it's only bashing of Republicans, the party who prevailed against Democrat slavers and who alone have given pro-lifers a political home. The Republicans: the party who prevailed against Democrat slavers... Sure, in 1865. There's been a lot of water under the bridge since then. The French Catholics saved Western Civilization at least twice, when they turned back Atilla the Hun, and when they defeated the Muslims and drove them out. Let us, then, make sure that whenever we are inclined to be critical of the French or the Catholics be sure to vocalize aloud that, after all, we're Christian and free because of Catholicism and because of France. And for good measure, let's always remember, if we are inclined to criticize French Catholics, that His Most Christian Majesty and his soldiers and fleets are the reason that Americans managed to eke out a victory against our former British masters. And also, we and the slaves should be quite thankful that the French Catholics, under their emperor, decided not to take up the side of the South in the Civil War, as the Confederacy was seeking the aid of both Britain and France, and while Britain had the more powerful navy, the French Army was an order of magnitude more powerful than the British, and the French Navy was plenty powerful enough to break the blockade on any major Confederate port and bring in the French Army - Europe's biggest and strongest - to come secure Southern independence. So, we should tip our hat to the French for their non-intervention when it counted. Presumably, then, in our conversations, when you're inclined to criticize the Catholic Church, or the French, you will always be careful to be sure to balance that criticism with the bigger picture, which is that the French Catholics saved Christendom and Western Civilization, and gave the Americans a nation. Then, whatever other criticism you might have of Catholicism or France must needs pale to insignificance, right? Or does that historical stuff rather lose its significance when compared to evils present? You mention that the Republicans "gave" pro-lifers "a home". The Republicans gave the country Roe v Wade and Casey! The pro-lifers accepted a kennel in the backyard of the GOP country club. They can do better.
Meh. The rivalries among the Euro monarchs and the universal antipathy for Englishmen and their empire guaranteed we would eventually succeed. The British empire was poorly run in many respects. And we were far, far away with a big continent to hide in. You just can't help yourself, can you?
“He’s the only conservative candidate that I see who is reaching out to minority voters and young voters,” the 57-year-old Munisteri said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I don’t think we can win a national election unless we do a better job of getting new people into the party.”
#2. To: TooConservative (#1)
(Edited)
It's daft but some elements of the GOP actually believe the public just can't wait to get into more wars. The utter failure of the latest wars and the Arab Spring nonsense and the destruction of Libya and much of Syria has done nothing to restrain this constant lust for war by sick GOP pols like the Stain and Lady Lindsey. It's like they just never learn.
#3. To: Vicomte13 (#2)
That's why the Republicans are fond of war: it's the biggest form of corporate welfare for cronies in the budget.
#4. To: TooConservative, Vicomte13, *Constitution Party* (#3)
I see Dems like Pelosi and Feinstein as representing just as many war profiteers as the other warmonger scumbags in the GOP like Stain and Lady Lindsey.
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#5. To: Vicomte13 (#2)
How did we SPEND it? Not on troop salaries, that's for sure.
#6. To: TooConservative (#3)
You always like these warmongers and profiteers well enough as long as they aren't Republicans. And the Dems are genocidal infant killers as well.
#7. To: Vicomte13 (#6)
They don't get the special filleting that Republicans do, because I just pour mental Raid on Democrats and see them as vermin - because they're babykillers.
#8. To: TooConservative (#7)
Only when challenged on it do you ever say anything bad about Dims.
#9. To: Vicomte13 (#8)
I look down on Republicans for their weakness and their hypocrisy; I want to gas Democrats.
#10. To: TooConservative (#9)
But only when challenged on it do you ever say such things.
#11. To: Vicomte13 (#10)
(Edited)
And for good measure, let's always remember, if we are inclined to criticize French Catholics, that His Most Christian Majesty and his soldiers and fleets are the reason that Americans managed to eke out a victory against our former British masters.
You mention that the Republicans "gave" pro-lifers "a home". The Republicans gave the country Roe v Wade and Casey!
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