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Ron Paul Delegates Walk Off Republican Convention Floor
Post Date: 2012-08-30 11:53:33 by Brian S
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Dozens of delegates for White House also-ran Ron Paul walked out of the Republican National convention for a second straight day, angered by rule changes they say squelch grass roots political rights. It was a rowdy end to Texas congressman Paul’s presidential bid, which fell short against rival Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who accepts the party’s nomination on Thursday. Paul was not given a speaking slot at the convention in Tampa, Florida, but organizers aired a video tribute to the longtime lawmaker, and his son, Senator Rand Paul, did get to address the delegates Wednesday, praising the American system which led an immigrant’s son like Ron Paul to run ...
Freedomworks' Matt Kibbe: "I Think The Establishment's Freaking Out"
Post Date: 2012-08-29 19:42:59 by Brian S
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On Tuesday, during the normally boring rules-and-roll-call portion of the festivities, the Republican National Convention erupted in some contentious and confusing disputes between the GOP establishment and delegates associated with both Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and the Tea Party. Today I asked Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of the Tea Party-assisting political group FreedomWorks, to explain what it all meant. "I think the Republican establishment is struggling with how to manage this very decentralized world we live in, and you saw signs of their acknowledgement on the stage like last night," Kibbe said. "It wasn't remotely about Mitt Romney, it was about giving various ...
5 Questions For: Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson On Being Screwed Over By The GOP
Post Date: 2012-08-29 16:07:20 by Brian S
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Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson (R-NM) threw his hat in the Republican ring during the primary season — but, unlike candidates like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MO), former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and never-elected businessman Herman Cain, he got no support from his party, was excluded from the debates and found himself in the position of either quietly withdrawing or giving his own party’s eventual candidate a run for his money. He chose the latter, and is now the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee. He talked to Raw Story about the primary, debate and presidential ballot process and how it’s totally stacked against third party candidates. Stay tuned for more ...
Ron Paul Movement Not Ready To Pass Torch To Rand Paul
Post Date: 2012-08-29 14:39:32 by Brian S
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TAMPA, Fla.—Rand Paul risks alienating his father’s base as he tries to expand his own. The Kentucky senator, who speaks at the Republican convention Wednesday night, has a younger face and a softer edge, but his name does not guarantee the loyalty of Ron Paul’s most passionate supporters. With buzz around a potential run for president in 2016, Ron Paul’s son plans to make the case to delegates that it is better for the movement to work with the GOP establishment rather than from the rebellious fringe. But convincing a libertarian movement that puts a premium on purity to play in the big tent of a major party is a big ask. (PHOTOS: Ron Paul rallies in Tampa) Among some ...
‘We Built This’ RNC Speaker Complains About Lack Of Government Contracts
Post Date: 2012-08-29 13:29:45 by Brian S
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A speaker at 2012 Republican National Convention (RNC) castigated the Obama administration on Tuesday for not giving his business enough government contracts for it to grow, seemingly contradicting the Republican Party’s message that conservatives built their wealth without help from anyone else. While that message, built off a misquote of one of the president’s speeches, was already hampered by the RNC being held in a structure built with government funds, the RNC’s selection of small business owner Phil Archuletta made their duplicity even more apparent. “When President Obama came on board and pushed the stimulus, I believed my business was going to explode with ...
Ann Romney: "You can trust Mitt" (until the next flip flop)
Post Date: 2012-08-28 23:29:03 by Hondo68
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and wife Ann wave to the crowd at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, on August 28, 2012 during the Republican National Convention. (Credit: STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages) (CBS News) TAMPA, Fla. - In a much-anticipated speech to the Republican convention, Ann Romney set out to show voters a more personal side of her husband, Mitt Romney, but at the top of her remarks, she deviated from her script to reference Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in Louisiana tonight. We "hope and pray that all remain safe and no life is lost and no property is lost," she said. The goal of Ann Romney's speech was to help soften the image ...
Who’S On The Inside Track For A Romney Cabinet
Post Date: 2012-08-28 19:23:41 by Brian S
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Dan Senor and Mike Leavitt are both frequently mentioned prospects. | AP Photo Mitt Romney said his Cabinet and White House staff will be stacked with men and women from the business world, but his top advisers sketched out for POLITICO a team composed of many familiar faces in Washington. Already on the inside track: several veterans of George W. Bush’s administration and a number of women — but not necessarily a single Democrat. The choices are still months off — and behind in the polls, Romney is hardly preoccupied with his transition just yet — but it is possible to chart a more detailed early look at a potential Romney Cabinet than was possible for Bush or Barack ...
How 'Tricky Mitt' Romney Is Aping Richard Nixon
Post Date: 2012-08-28 12:59:15 by Brian S
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Apparently, there will be no sweeping effort undertaken to humanize Mitt Romney at this week’s convention. He told USA Today that during the daytime sessions, there will be “a series of vignettes, so people who attend the convention will get to know me a little better,” but during primetime, when millions are watching, “we won’t be talking about my life.” It’s the right decision in the sense that there’s almost nothing about his life that’s the least bit emotionally compelling. But it’s also a telling one, because it means the campaign is basically going to be: Vote for me, I’m white, and I’m not a socialist. AP Photo; Getty ...
Buchanan: Last hurrah of Nixon’s ‘New Majority’?
Post Date: 2012-08-28 12:23:16 by Brian S
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Looking back all the way to America’s Civil War, there have been three dominant presidential coalitions. The first was Abraham Lincoln’s. With his war to restore the Union and his martyrdom, Lincoln inaugurated an era of Republican dominance that lasted more than seven decades and saw only two Democratic presidents: Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. The second coalition was FDR’s, where he and his vice president Harry Truman won five consecutive presidential elections. Only Gen. Eisenhower could break that streak. The third was Richard Nixon’s New Majority, cobbled together after his narrow 1968 victory, where he annexed the Northern Catholic ethnics and Southern ...
Mitt Romney Campaign: We Will Not 'Be Dictated By Fact-Checkers'
Post Date: 2012-08-28 11:41:44 by Brian S
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TAMPA -- Mitt Romney's campaign said on Tuesday that its ads attacking President Obama's waiver policy on welfare have been its most effective to date. And while the spots have been roundly criticized as lacking any factual basis, the campaign said it didn't really care. "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers," Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said at a panel organized by ABC News. This is a different standard than the one Romney himself has held up for the election-season ad wars. Reacting to attacks by a pro-Obama super PAC, Romney recently told a radio station that "in the past, when people pointed out that something was ...
Chris Matthews Destroys RNC Chairman On Live TV For Playing Race Card (According to some liberal loon)
Post Date: 2012-08-27 20:41:00 by Brian S
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus may have canceled the first day of the party’s convention due to weather, but he couldn’t evacuate in time to escape the wrath of Hurricane Chris.
The party chairman found himself on Monday weathering a blistering rant from MSNBC host Chris Matthews about how Republicans were playing the “race card” with birther jokes and falsehoods about ending work requirements for welfare.
“That cheap shot about ‘I don’t have a problem with my birth certificate’ was awful,” Matthews said of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s Friday embrace of the birther notion that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. “It is an embarrassment to your party to ...
Ron Paul Delegates Mounting RNC Floor Fight Over New Rules
Post Date: 2012-08-27 16:56:57 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Ron Paul’s delegates are trying to mount a floor fight over new GOP rules designed to limit the ability of insurgent presidential candidates to amass delegates to future Republican conventions. They are getting help from other delegates, though it is unclear whether they can rally enough support to challenge the rules on the floor of the convention Tuesday. Mitt Romney, the party’s presumptive nominee, has plenty of delegates to win any floor fight. But the dispute could provide an unwanted distraction for party leaders who would rather focus on promoting Romney and defeating President Barack Obama. “It’s so heavily scripted. This is not ...
Republicans Braced For More Disruption As Isaac Heads For New Orleans
Post Date: 2012-08-27 15:27:29 by Brian S
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Republicans are working on emergency plans to salvage their convention as tropical storm Isaac hurtles towards New Orleans, with party officials acknowledging that their carefully-choreographed event could face further disruption. The Republicans, still haunted by the fatal delays of President Bush in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina exactly seven years ago, would find it difficult to push ahead with their convention in Tampa in the event of serious flooding. Organisers said for the first time that the remaining days – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday – may also be disrupted by Isaac hitting the Gulf coast. They expressed hope that the convention, with a reshaped schedule, ...
GOP Details Huge Medicare Change In Leaked Platform
Post Date: 2012-08-27 15:00:24 by Brian S
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In a leaked party platform circulating on the eve of their convention, Republicans reveal in candid detail how they intend to upend Medicare. The platform, snagged by Politico on Friday afternoon after the Republican National Committee accidentally posted it to its website before taking it down, is scheduled to be approved at the convention early this week. The text details the privatization policy that GOP lawmakers have supported for years, and that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are selling as necessary to “save” Medicare. But in an unusual twist, it addresses the specific aspect of the proposal that makes it a departure from what Americans know as “Medicare.” “The ...
Republican National Convention: VIPs Rescheduled, Big Questions Remain Due To Isaac
Post Date: 2012-08-26 19:33:44 by Brian S
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TAMPA -- Mitt Romney's campaign on Sunday laid out an updated three-day Republican National Convention schedule that incorporated a number of speakers whose Monday sessions had been cancelled due to Tropical Storm Isaac. Speaking on a conference call with reporters, Romney campaign strategist Russ Schriefer said the convention managed to fit all of Monday's "headliners" into the condensed schedule, including former Democrat-turned Republican Rep. Artur Davis (Ala.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Schriefer said Monday's theme, "We Can Do Better," intended to highlight the "failed leadership" of President Barack Obama, "can easily be put into our ...
The Reagan in Romney
Post Date: 2012-08-26 17:03:34 by jwpegler
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While some of my conservative colleagues are criticizing the Romney campaign for one thing or another, I want to make a distinct point that is largely being overlooked: Mitt Romney is the most fiscally conservative Republican standard-bearer since Ronald Reagan. Looking back through his speeches, interviews and programmatic proposals, I see an emphasis on economic freedom, free enterprise, low tax rates, deep federal spending cuts, free trade, and a free-market approach to tough social problems, such as health care, education and poverty. Meaning no disrespect to George W. Bush, John McCain, Robert Dole and George H. W. Bush, not one of these former Republican leaders was the consistent ...
Diehard Ron Paul Fans Accuse Republican Establishment Of Betrayal
Post Date: 2012-08-26 13:58:12 by Brian S
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TAMPA, Florida — Ron Paul supporters are pondering what next for the libertarian cause and complaining bitterly of betrayal by a party establishment about to crown Mitt Romney the Republican presidential nominee. Paul lit a fuse under the libertarian wing of the Republican Party during the primary season, amassing the third largest number of delegates as he united legions of young supporters behind his anti-tax, anti-war message. The surge in popularity for the movement has coincided with US weariness at expensive overseas wars and seething anger at the 2008 financial crisis that made fiscal discipline more appealing to voters. Paul, a 77-year-old Texas congressman, retires in ...
GOP Postpones Start of Republican National Convention Due to Hurricane Isaac Threat
Post Date: 2012-08-26 13:49:31 by Brian S
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TAMPA, Fla. — Republicans have cut short their national convention by one day due to the looming threat of a severe storm that is about to pound the state of Florida, party officials announced today. Less than 48 hours before the Republican National Convention was set to begin here, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said that the possibility of “severe transportation difficulties due to sustained wind and rain” brought by Tropical Storm Isaac, which meteorologists predict will become a hurricane by Monday, forced convention planners to scrap Monday’s scheduled activities. “Due to the severe weather reports for the Tampa Bay area, the Republican ...
The Republican National Convention: Where Social Darwinism Meets Theocracy
Post Date: 2012-08-26 13:47:58 by Brian S
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At the 1988 Republican National Convention, Vice President George H.W. Bush talked about a "kinder and gentler" America. Four years later Patrick Buchanan scared the hell out of the country by declaring a "culture war." In 2000 George W. Bush gave us "compassionate conservatism." The Bush stratagems were cunning responses to focus groups and public opinion polls that show beating up on the poor and the weakest among us can make people feel uncomfortable. In 2012 we can expect more culture war rhetoric, but it will be clouded by the soothing sounds of reasonableness and moderation. The trick thus far for the Romney-Ryan ticket has been to pretend to want to ...
Mitt Romney nomination pushed up on concerns about storm, Ron Paul
Post Date: 2012-08-25 00:47:46 by Hondo68
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Photo credit: AFP/Getty Images | Mitt Romney speaks during campaign event at Watson Truck and Supply in Hobbs, New Mexico. (Aug. 23, 2012) WASHINGTON - Republican delegates will begin the roll call vote to officially nominate Mitt Romney for president on Monday at the national convention in Tampa, which could allow Romney to accept the GOP nomination earlier in the week than has occurred at previous conventions. The formal presidential nomination process will begin earlier than past years in part because of concerns about supporters of libertarian Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Republican officials said Thursday. Officials are also discussing the impact that Tropical Storm Isaac could have on the ...
Ryan On Abortion Exceptions: Rape Is Just Another ‘Method Of Conception’
Post Date: 2012-08-24 15:07:52 by Brian S
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Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says that he personally believes that rape is just another “method of conception” and not an excuse to allow abortions. During an interview with WJHL this week, Ryan was asked his view about Rep. Todd Akin, who recently asserted that women could not get pregnant from “legitimate rape.” “Specifically where you stand when it comes to rape, and when it comes to the issue of should it be legal for a woman to be able to get an abortion if she’s raped?” WJHL Josh Smith wondered. “I’m very proud of my pro-life record, and I’ve always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception ...
NH Sheriff Candidate Would Use Deadly Force To Stop Abortions
Post Date: 2012-08-24 08:43:50 by Murron
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NH Sheriff Candidate Would Use Deadly Force To Stop Abortions MANCHESTER, NH (CBS) – A man running for sheriff in New Hampshire says if he is elected, he will arrest anyone involved in an abortion in his county. UPDATE 8-23: Sheriff Candidate Apologizes Frank Szabo set off a firestorm with the comments. People on all sides of the political spectrum have condemned the statements, but Szabo stands by them. He says it’s the sheriff’s job to protect every citizen – even the unborn. Frank Szabo Szabo is running as a Republican for Hillsborough County Sheriff. But he injected a new issue in the debate when he sent out a press release saying he would arrest anyone ...
Maine’s Ron Paul delegates refuse compromise on national GOP convention
Post Date: 2012-08-22 23:28:15 by Hondo68
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PORTLAND, Maine — A national Republican committee has found that Maine’s GOP convention was not conducted legally and therefore 20 delegates pledged to support Ron Paul won’t be seated at the party’s national convention which begins next week, according to state party Chairman Charlie Webster. The Committee on Contests, which met Wednesday in Tampa, concluded that many rules were broken during the chaotic May convention in Augusta, Webster said. Two longtime Republicans challenged the results, arguing that lax credentialing and security at the state convention allowed unqualified participants to cast votes. The content committee called on Republican leaders and Paul ...
Minnesota Delegates Will Back Ron Paul at Republican National Convention
Post Date: 2012-08-22 23:24:38 by Hondo68
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Delegation chair Marianne Stebbins says state's delegates are "overwhelmingly Ron Paul supporters" and that she "doesn't think Mitt Romney is a strong candidate." Minnesota’s delegation to the Republican National Convention will not back Mitt Romney when the party gathers in Tampa next week. Instead, 32 of the state’s 40 nominating votes will be cast for Ron Paul during the roll call of states, according to Marianne Stebbins—chair of the delegation. Stebbins lives in Excelsior and was elected by Minnesota’s contingent of 77 total delegates, 37 of which are alternates, as chair earlier this year. While conceding Romney would capture the GOP ...
Liberal Mitt's Greatest Hits: What Romney Doesn't Want You to See
Post Date: 2012-08-22 21:24:06 by We The People
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Poster Comment:The PERFECT candidate for you (cough ... wink) 'conservatives' who are too chickenshit to stand on your convictions and vote for conservatives.
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