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RLC Endorses Rand Paul for President (Republican Liberty Caucus)
Post Date: 2016-01-12 11:54:13 by Hondo68
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) is proud to announce the endorsement of Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) for the Republican presidential nomination. In a crowded field of candidates, most of whom show little genuine commitment to individual liberty, cutting spending or reducing the size of government, Senator Paul stands out as a consistent champion of the values of the Republican Liberty Caucus: limited government, free enterprise and personal liberty.An RLC presidential endorsement requires a candidate to secure a two-thirds vote of the RLC state charters. Only a few presidential candidates have earned this honor in the 25 year history of the organization. While Rand ...
Matalin: When Hillary Loses Iowa and NH, Biden or Warren Will Jump In
Post Date: 2016-01-11 21:46:09 by Tooconservative
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Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Republican political consultant Mary Matalin said Hillary Clinton’s support comes from the support for her husband, former President Bill Clinton. Thus if she loses the first primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, Matalin predicted it was very likely someone like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) or Vice President Joe Biden will jump in the race. Matalin said, “Losing Iowa and New Hampshire is going to be the pivotal moment to see the prowess of her campaign and the depth of her support among Democratic regulars.” She continued, “She doesn’t have a depth of following. Her following is derivative of her ...
Hillary e-mail exchange debated kick-starting Palestinian protests to pressure Israel
Post Date: 2016-01-11 17:39:40 by Tooconservative
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Remember former ambassador Thomas Pickering? The State Department chose Pickering to review the events surrounding the sacking of our consulate in Benghazi as chair of the so-called Accountability Review Board. Its report amounted to a whitewash for Hillary Clinton, blaming lower-level career officials for failures in security, only later to be debunked by whistleblower testimony. Pickering makes a surprising and disturbing reappearance in Hillary’s secret e-mail system in a fine catch by the Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo, in which he encourages Hillary to foment protests by Palestinians as a way to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu to move off the “status quo.” Pickering wanted a ...
NYT: Mike Bloomberg commissioned a poll to see how he’d do as an independent against Trump and Hillary
Post Date: 2016-01-11 17:00:25 by Tooconservative
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In case you missed it over the weekend. In an election where the two major parties seem ready to belch up Hillary and Trump as their nominees, it’s only fitting that the third-party challenger be deeply unlikable too. Why should conservatives choose among the lesser of two evils when they could choose among three? Election 2016: The Democrat, the Democrat lite, or the Democrat lite-est? Maybe Bernie Sanders will decide to go fourth-party and give America a real choice. “The Republican Party has never done anything for the working man like me, even though we’ve voted Republican for years,” said Leo Martin, a 62-year-old machinist from Newport, N.H., who attended Mr. ...
Louis Farrakhan Agrees With Trump Plan, "wise" (Nation Of Islam endorsement)
Post Date: 2016-01-11 14:48:28 by Hondo68
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Nation of Islam leader says Republican frontrunner's proposal is "wise" Donald Trump’s controversial proposal to limit Muslims entering the United States has attracted support from an unlikely ally – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.The Republican frontrunner’s plan, which called for a temporary halt on Muslim immigration until refugees could be properly vetted, led to over half a million UK citizens signing a petition to ban Trump from entering the country.However, in an exclusive interview with Alex Jones, Farrakhan said that Trump was “wise” to call for such measures. googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-14031972690 ...
Hillary: By ordering “identifying headings” removed, I meant “don’t transmit classified info,” or something
Post Date: 2016-01-11 09:02:57 by Tooconservative
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“Aren’t you ordering [Jake Sullivan] to violate the laws on handling classified material there?” John Dickerson confronted the Friday e-mail release from Hillary Clinton’s secret e-mail server head-on in an interview with the former Secretary of State yesterday on Face the Nation. Hillary responded by attempting to spin, leaving Dickerson unconvinced at best. “As the State Department said just this week,” Hillary replied, “that didn’t happen.” Actually, what the State Department said was that they had no records to show what happened, but … forget it, she’s rolling. Dickerson presses onward: CBS NEWS’ JOHN DICKERSON: ...
Trump: ‘No Feeling Sorry for Hillary’ — ‘She’s Not a Victim, She Was an Enabler’
Post Date: 2016-01-10 14:07:51 by cranky
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On “Fox News Sunday,” Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump explained all of the things that were fair game if Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton made charges of sexism, most of which were about how Clinton handled her husband Bill Clinton’s indiscretions while she was first lady. Trump said, “You’re talking about many. I mean, if you read the book, the book has other ones that were really horrible. You have one being — accusing him of rape, and other things. Hey, look, he was impeached. He lost his law license, couldn’t practice law. He had to pay a massive fine or a massive amount of money to — whether it’s Paula ...
Marist Poll: Ted Cruz, Donald Trump In Iowa Dead Heat; Bernie Sanders Leads Hillary Clinton In New Hampshire
Post Date: 2016-01-10 13:43:04 by Hondo68
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., leads Hillary Clinton by 4 percentage points in New Hampshire in the latest Marist Poll on the Democratic presidential nomination. Above, Sanders speaks at a campaign rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 9, 2016. Photo: Brian C. Frank/Reuters Republicans Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are in a dead heat for the Republican nomination in Iowa, but the real estate mogul has a commanding lead over his rivals in New Hampshire, a Marist Poll released Sunday indicated. Cruz and Trump were separated by just 4 percentage points in Iowa ahead of the Feb. 1 caucuses, with the margin of error at 1.8 percentage points. On the ...
Trump Could Win It All
Post Date: 2016-01-09 16:59:34 by cranky
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A new survey shows a sizable number of Democrats ready to defect from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump. Trump's the one?So if Donald Trump proved the political universe wrong and won the Republican presidential nomination, he would be creamed by Hillary Clinton, correct?A new survey of likely voters might at least raise momentary dyspepsia for Democrats since it suggests why it wouldn't be a cakewalk.The survey by Washington-based Mercury Analytics is a combination online questionnaire and "dial-test" of Trump's first big campaign ad among 916 self-proclaimed "likely voters" (this video shows the ad and the dial test results). It took place primarily ...
Smoking Gun: Email Suggests Hillary Broke Law
Post Date: 2016-01-08 23:12:22 by Tooconservative
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Smoking Gun: Email Suggests Hillary Broke Law Clinton instructed an aide to remove the classification marking from information, a federal offense The latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department early Friday contain what may be the smoking gun that forces the Justice Department to charge the former secretary of state with a crime, according to former federal prosecutor Joseph diGenova. “This is gigantic,” said diGenova. “She caused to be removed a classified marking and then had it transmitted in an unencrypted manner. That is a felony. The removal of the classified marking is a federal crime. It is the same thing to order someone to do it as if ...
LP Presidential Candidate Steve Kerbel Makes his Case for Liberty
Post Date: 2016-01-08 13:21:10 by Hondo68
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It’s been my great pleasure to have the opportunity to sit down with Austin Petersen and Steve Kerbel, both of whom are currently running for president of the United States under the Libertarian flag. I don’t want to give too much of my opinion away as it relates to Steve, but I can say that if you’ve never heard him speak, or worse yet don’t know who he is, this is an interview you don’t want to miss. Over the course of about 45 minutes, we discussed everything from the Oregon standoff to what’s holding the Libertarian Party back from achieving greater notoriety as a politically viable alternative to the status quo. I found Steve to have an excellent command ...
Scarborough: Bill Clinton’s Association with Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein ‘Big Problem’ for Hillary — Donald Trump Will Use
Post Date: 2016-01-08 10:46:03 by cranky
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Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough warned that the association between former President Bill Clinton and convicted sex offender billionaire Jeffrey Epstein will be something the media will be forced to focus on if Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump chooses to discuss it. And that could be a “big problem” for his wife Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, Scarborough said. According to Scarborough, previous allegations of Bill Clinton’s indiscretions, particularly in the 2008 presidential cycle when Hillary Clinton ran against Barack Obama, were not discussed in public forums. However, this time will be ...
Trump Time - America schlonged again
Post Date: 2016-01-07 15:29:35 by Hondo68
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How a focus group rated ads from 5 Republican presidential candidates
Post Date: 2016-01-07 13:42:09 by Hondo68
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Fox News/screenshotA focus group reacts to Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) campaign ad. On Thursday, a pollster went on Fox News to discuss her focus-group results evaluating some of the latest campaign ads being run by Republican presidential campaigns. Lee Carter, of the firm Maslansky + Partners, showed how Republicans, independents, and Democrats reacted to a single ad supporting five of the major GOP contenders for the White House. Carter said "the most surprising" of the focus-group reactions was in response to a new Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spot, in which the hard-line conservative took a much more soft-spoken tone than he is known for. "Barack Obama sticks by his ...
McCain the hypocritical worm unsure whether Cruz is eligible for presidency
Post Date: 2016-01-07 12:21:13 by tomder55
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The hypocrite McCain refused to entertain any critique of the emperor ,or his possible eligibility issues during the 2008 campaign . But he hates members of his own party much more than Democrats . Back then he got ugly with radio host Bill Cunningham for using the emperor's middle name in his comments at a McCain rally . “That’s different from being born on foreign soil, so I think there is a question," McCain said. "I am not a constitutional scholar on that, but I think it’s worth looking into. I don’t think it’s illegitimate to look into it.” No you are not a constitutional scholar. But Ted Cruz ,who has argued cases in SCOTUS is a ...
Donald Trump: Samuel L. Jackson Cheats at Golf
Post Date: 2016-01-07 10:31:50 by cranky
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Following a Twitter-thrashing at the hands of Donald Trump on Tuesday, actor Samuel L. Jackson visited Late Night with Seth Meyers Tuesday night and insisted that the Republican presidential frontrunner does indeed know him. Earlier in the day, Trump ripped the Hateful Eight star as “boring” and said he was “not a fan,” after Jackson claimed in a recent interview to have golfed with the billionaire businessman. Trump added that to the best of his knowledge, he had never played golf with the actor. I don’t know @SamuelLJackson, to best of my knowledge haven't played golf w/him & think he does too many TV commercials—boring. Not a fan. — Donald J. ...
Donald Trump: Ted Cruz's citizenship could 'be a big problem' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-01-05 20:32:38 by Hondo68
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Donald Trump and Ted Cruz during a recent debate in Las Vegas. (Photo: AP) Birther-ism, Part II?Donald Trump, who famously questioned whether President Obama was really born in Hawaii, is now raising questions about the Canadian birth of Republican presidential campaign rival Ted Cruz.“Republicans are going to have to ask themselves the question: ‘Do we want a candidate who could be tied up in court for two years?’" Trump told The Washington Post in reference to the Texas senator. "That’d be a big problem ... It’d be a very precarious one for Republicans because he’d be running and the courts may take a long time to make a decision. You ...
Horrifying new Ted Cruz ad: What if the border were being overrun by … journalists?
Post Date: 2016-01-05 15:26:09 by Tooconservative
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Two words, my friends: Electric fence. This is clever spot, especially as a contrast to Trump’s first ad. The hardest problem in political advertising right now, with TV in Iowa and New Hampshire saturated, is to get your clip to stand out. Trump’s solution to that was to stress how far he’s willing to go to stop threatening immigrants from coming in. Cruz’s solution is humor aimed at the political class for not taking Americans’ anxiety about immigration seriously. Same policy problem in both cases, very different tones. That’s because Cruz, for all of his rhetoric about winning the general election by mobilizing the right, intends to make a play for some ...
John Kasich Said He Was Unaware Of Militia Takeover In Oregon
Post Date: 2016-01-05 10:23:05 by Willie Green
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich said on Monday that he was unaware of a militia taking over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon over the weekend, the Des Moines Register reported. The militia, led in part by two of Cliven Bundy's sons, has earned national headlines since it took over the refuge on Saturday, and numerous presidential candidates weighed in on the standoff on Monday. But in a conversation with a Des Moines Register reporter after a campaign event in Iowa, Kasich repeatedly indicated that he knew nothing about the situation. When first asked, Kasich told the Des Moines Register, "What? I haven’t heard about it." The reporter asked again about the individuals who took ...
Rick Santorum mocks Ted Cruz for 'Green Eggs and Ham'
Post Date: 2016-01-05 09:59:43 by Willie Green
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It preceded a government shutdown.Another group, Iowa Progress Project, has spent $200,000 airing anti-Cruz ads. "Rick Santorum spent his time in the Senate a little differently". Ted Cruz and Rand Paul stand out as the "bad" candidates on the renewable fuels report card, while the rest of the candidates on both sides of the aisle are graded as "good".Like some other Republican hopefuls, Santorum is saying foreign-policy experience is vital if the next president is going to lead during a time of terrorism and turbulence in the Middle East.A former spokeswoman for ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has joined Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, giving the Texas ...
Hillary Clinton: Aliens May Have Visited Us Already; Vows to Get to the Bottom of UFOs
Post Date: 2016-01-04 21:03:54 by Tooconservative
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Jon Podhoretz said, correctly, that if any Republican candidate had said this, it would be screaming news all over every dial and website -- a perfect Otherizing story illustrating the strange, anti-scientific beliefs of Republicans. You remember how much play Ben Carson's speculations about pyramid granaries got. But Hillary Clinton says it, so it's just a story about a politician interested in citizen concerns.Hillary Clinton says that aliens may have already visited humanity. "I think we may have been [visited already]. We don't know for sure," the Democratic presidential front-runner told The Conway Daily Sun during a campaign stop in New Hampshire last week. Her ...
Reminder: Bill Clinton Believes in UFOs and the JFK Conspiracy, And Hillary Talks to Ghosts
Post Date: 2016-01-04 20:58:26 by Tooconservative
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But these weird New Age nonsense beliefs -- dopey pseudoreligions taking the place of actual religions -- will be ignored, while the media continues to jeer at people for reading the Bible. Senator Jack -- a coblogger here, though inactive -- reminded me that Webb Hubbell revealed in his book that Bill Clinton had an important mission for him when they came into power in 1992. Namely, getting to the bottom of the UFO and JFK conspiracies. From Deborah Orin, writing at the NY Post. (The original article isn't available. Here's a snippet from a UFO site.) BILL WANTED UFO PROBE: HUBBELL BOOK By DEBORAH ORIN President Clinton was intrigued by UFOs and wanted to know if they ...
Thought experiment: what if Trump carried New York?
Post Date: 2016-01-04 12:08:28 by Tooconservative
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Clearly taking some time off has left the imps in my lizard hind brain with far too much time on their hands, but an interesting question came to me this morning as I reviewed more of the news I missed during the week between Christmas and New Years. There were a fair amount of laughs being had when AP posted some demographic information last week which showed that some of Donald Trump’s supporters were actually registered as Democrats. Hilarious, right? Sure. But the data that study was drawn from came from this piece in the New York Times. Let’s take another look at that map that the Times generated which showed where Trump’s support is the strongest. Yes, The Donald has ...
What Went Wrong With Rand Paul?
Post Date: 2016-01-03 08:17:36 by Operation 40
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A year ago, Trump was a joke and Paul was rising. But now that their fortunes have flipped, is it fair to say libertarianism is finally dead? So this is the year that libertarianism, a political philosophy advocating minimal government across the board and thus annoying as hell to both conservatives and liberals, finally up and died. Not really, but that’s the new official story, at least as told by media types who have been prophesying the end of libertarianism for as long as they’ve been writing. There’s a superficial plausibility to the charge, especially among those who confuse partisan politics with the real America. Among high-profile Democrats and Republicans, the ...
Gov. blasts Stokes' call for violence against police
Post Date: 2016-01-03 07:51:11 by cranky
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Gov. Phil Bryant calls “reprehensible” Jackson Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes’ statements suggesting that rocks, bricks and bottles be thrown at police officers from other jurisdictions who chase misdemeanor suspects into Jackson. “Mr. Stokes’ remarks are reprehensible, particularly with the attacks we have seen against our men and women in law enforcement,” Bryant said in a statement late Friday. “I condemn any such remarks in the strongest possible manner. This is nothing short of an outright assault upon all who wear the badge. I will be asking Attorney General Jim Hood to investigate whether Mr. Stokes’ remarks represent criminal threats ...
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