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Time for Jeb to go? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-10-29 13:01:11 by Tooconservative
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Earlier today, I asked, “What’s the raison d’être for Jeb! 2016 now?” Last night I put it more bluntly on Twitter: Prediction: Jeb's out before the next debate. — Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) October 29, 2015 Chuck Todd told Today’s panel this morning that the Team Bush contingent had the air of “a wake” after the debate: [T]he most significant story from last night is that Jeb Bush’s campaign now finds itself on life support, especially after Bush swung and missed when trying to hit Rubio over his Senate voting record. As one Republican operative told NBC’s Peter Alexander, Bush had to demonstrate to his supporters and donors ...
House votes in John Boehner again under his alisas Paul Ryan!
Post Date: 2015-10-29 12:24:01 by Justified
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Outgoing Speaker John Boehner bade farewell to his colleagues Thursday as the House commenced the political pageantry of electing Paul Ryan to replace him, with Republicans hoping the young but seasoned lawmaker can mend the splintered party's self-inflicted wounds and craft a conservative message to woo voters in next year's elections. "I leave with no regrets, no burdens," said Boehner, R-Ohio, who was hounded into retirement by hard-line conservatives who are mostly rallying behind Ryan, at least for now. "If anything, I leave the way I started, just a regular guy, humbled by the chance to do a big job." His 10-minute valedictory was ...
The Myth of Reagan the Conservative
Post Date: 2015-10-29 08:15:48 by Deckard
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On October 21, Bill Bennett and Sean Hannity had a somewhat feisty exchange during a segment on the latter’s television show. Bennett made two remarks that are worth focusing upon. First, when asked whether he is “ok” with a Trump candidacy, Bennett replied that he’s “not OK at all” with it. Given “the totality of his acts and his record and the things he has stood for,” Bennett said, it’s clear that Trump’s “not very principled in terms of his convictions [.]” Trump has “a record” that’s “longer than your arm” of being “wrong on all of these things [.]” Trump, that is, is not a real ...
We Have Our Final Six [GOP primary candidates]
Post Date: 2015-10-29 07:37:13 by Tooconservative
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Tonight’s debate showed that the GOP field is smaller than it looks. Technically, there are still fourteen people running, but the winnowing is far along. We probably have a final six and possibly a final four.The three winners of the night were pretty obvious: Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump.Rubio ended Jeb Bush’s campaign with the kind of body shot that buckles your knees. That’s on Bush, who never should have come after Rubio in that spot for a host of strategic and tactical reasons. But what should scare Hillary Clinton is how effortless Rubio is even with throwaway lines, like “I’m against anything that’s bad for my mother.” Most people have ...
DR. BEN CARSON TEAMS UP WITH AL SHARPTON
Post Date: 2015-10-27 12:18:15 by Stoner
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"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim." - Gustave Le Bon "Sharpton and I Have the Same Goal," Says Ben Carson, "Just Different Ideas on How to Get There." [Link] Ben Carson's April, 2015, article in National Review stated, Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the National Action Network’s (NAN) 17th annual national convention in New York City. NAN is one of the leading civil-rights organizations in the ...
The Nuclear Option: GOP Leaders Won’t Pledge Loyalty to Donald Trump
Post Date: 2015-10-27 08:24:35 by cranky
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Just last month, Republican Party officials scurried into Trump Tower to extract a loyalty pledge from a certain unpredictable billionaire real estate mogul turned presidential candidate. Who knew that it should have been Donald Trump extracting just such a loyalty pledge from Republican bigs? In a stunning admission of just how wildly out of touch they are from actual, breathing human voters, GOP establishment insiders say that if Mr. Trump continues his unfettered march to the Republican nomination they will go to war to take him out. Asked by the Washington Examiner’s Byron York to describe how they would greet a Trump candidacy, one “leading conservative” said: ...
Neocon Bill Kristol Says Ben Carson is 'Next Best' For President Since Dick Cheney Won't Run
Post Date: 2015-10-26 14:21:08 by Deckard
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William Kristol, co-founder of the notorious 'Project for the New American Century' (link is external) and signatory of the 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' document which called for a 'New Pearl Harbor' (link is external) nine months before 9/11/01, has a dream ticket for the 2016 presidential race. Kristol registered the domain name CheneyCotton2016.com (link is external) on 9/8/15, coincidentally only three days before the fourteenth anniversary 9/11. But his next top choice is neocon candidate Dr. Ben Carson, a black Republican reminiscent of Alan Keyes. Keyes was Kristol's colege roommate who ran for president in 1996 and 2000. Just two hours ago, ...
AP-GfK Poll: Republicans view Donald Trump as most electable
Post Date: 2015-10-25 21:03:57 by Hondo68
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican voters view Donald Trump as their strongest general election candidate, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that highlights the sharp contrast between the party’s voters and its top professionals regarding the billionaire businessman’s ultimate political strength. Seven in 10 Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters say Trump could win in November 2016 if he is nominated, and that’s the most who say so of any candidate. By comparison, 6 in 10 say the same for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who, like Trump, has tapped into the powerful wave of antiestablishment anger defining the early phases of the 2016 contest. ...
Gowdy: Clinton's answers not accurate
Post Date: 2015-10-25 15:47:42 by Justified
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House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) says former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not “cooperative” during last Thursday’s 11-hour interview before the panel. Gowdy said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Clinton answered all of the questions without complaint, but added that she did not give complete or entirely truthful answers. “She answered the questions, and I would note I don’t think I ever cut her off. She was given ample opportunity, so she answered the questions, yeah, if that’s your definition of cooperative,” Gowdy said. “I’ve always also injected an element of wholeness and ...
Donald Trump Goes on Attack After Iowa Poll Shows Decline
Post Date: 2015-10-24 13:28:52 by Hondo68
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Miami, Fla. — Donald Trump came out swinging Friday after two Iowa polls found his numbers slipping behind Ben Carson, and he attacked the neurosurgeon over his use of super PAC money Trump told a few thousand attendees at his Doral resort that he's not going anywhere — and that he isn't so sure about the veracity of those poll numbers. "I love Iowa," Trump said. "I honestly think those polls are wrong." Trump then said that the two polling groups responsible for the numbers, Quinnipiac and Bloomberg, "do not like me." Trump has, however, previously touted these same polling institutions this election cycle, frequently citing them in ...
Is Bill a serial sex attacker? Is she a husband-beating lesbian? Is Chelsea really Bill's daughter? And does a billionaire paedophile have a secret hold over Bill? The toxic questions dogging Hillary Clinton
Post Date: 2015-10-24 06:57:35 by cranky
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Sensational claims made about Clintons in The Clintons’ War On WomenRepublican adviser Roger Stone and historian Robert Morrow wrote bookAuthors say allegations, some of which are not new, brushed under carpetPolitical allies now beginning to question Hillary’s presidential suitability For all the advice she had received about not looking too imperious and arrogant, at times Hillary Clinton could barely hide her disgust at having to defend her record as U.S. Secretary of State from such a miserable bunch of accusers.On Thursday, in the most hotly anticipated Washington showdown for years, she was grilled for 11 hours by a Republican-dominated congressional committee investigating ...
Vox thinks it’s time for Democrats to admit that they have a serious problem at the state level
Post Date: 2015-10-24 05:54:04 by Tooconservative
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Even a broken clock is right twice a day. The left leaning Vox news outlet already has stated that mass shootings represent a small proportion of all gun violence. Now, they’re touching upon the Democratic Party’s woes at the state-level. Matthew Yglesias wrote what Republicans have known for a while–that Democrats are in “deep trouble” at the state and local level. They’re in “denial,” and it’s time to recognize they have a problem: …[E]ven the House infighting reflects, in some ways, the health of the GOP coalition. Republicans are confident they won’t lose power in the House and are hungry for a vigorous argument about how best ...
"Back to the Future" : Biff Tannen Is Literally Based on Donald Trump
Post Date: 2015-10-23 10:29:03 by Deckard
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We have now officially surpassed the future date foretold in the Back To The Future films, and with the series back in the news, many have noticed a striking similarity between the antagonist “Biff,” and recent presidential candidate Donald Trump. In Back To The Future Part II, Biff Tannen is seen as a casino tycoon who uses his riches to influence the Republican party. Biff’s casino was called the Pleasure Palace Hotel. Trump has numerous hotels and casinos. Biff was also known to have been married and remarried on many separate occasions, just like Trump. If photos of the two are placed side-by-side, they even look alike.(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({});In ...
Poll: Carson Beating Trump in Iowa [28%-20%]
Post Date: 2015-10-22 08:34:14 by Tooconservative
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A new poll finds that Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is beating Donald Trump in Iowa. The poll has been released by Quinnipiac University. "With a big boost from women, Dr. Ben Carson leads Donald Trump 28 - 20 percent among Iowa likely Republican Caucus participants, with 13 percent for Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and 10 percent for Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today," the Quinnipiac release reads. "This compares to the results of a September 11 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University showing Trump at 27 percent with Carson at 21 percent. "Today, Sen. Rand Paul is at 6 percent, with ...
Exclusive: Paul Ryan Sold House Freedom Caucus a Bill of Goods in Private Meeting on Capitol Hill
Post Date: 2015-10-22 08:19:02 by cranky
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In the private meeting inside the House Ways and Means Committee hearing room in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) promised the House Freedom Caucus the world to try to earn their official endorsement. He failed. Among the things that Ryan promised the members were a return to regular order, changes to the steering committee that decides committee assignments centralizing power in the Speaker’s office—Ryan even promised to give up the Speaker’s five votes on the committee—and an end to retaliation against Republican members who vote their conscience. He reiterated his promise made in the full GOP conference on Tuesday of no amnesty ...
Jim Webb Mulling Independent Run for the White House
Post Date: 2015-10-19 22:15:06 by Hondo68
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Justin Sullivan—Getty Images Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) speaks to fairgoers at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, on Aug. 13, 2015. Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb will announce Tuesday he is considering an independent bid for the White House, his campaign announced, as his long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination continues to flounder. Webb will hold a press conference at the National Press Club “to discuss his candidacy, the campaign and his views of` the political parties in the current election cycle,” the campaign said in a statement. His performance in last week’s Democratic debate was widely panned, with the ...
10 questions for Rand Paul
Post Date: 2015-10-19 16:19:19 by Hondo68
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Just like Jeb Bush, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is a legacy candidate for president. He has hoped to hold the libertarian political base of his father, former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, and expand its appeal within the Republican Party and with the broader electorate. In the wake of Mitt Romney's 2012 defeat, Paul initially garnered considerable attention in the Senate. In the name of privacy, he battled the Obama administration over national security surveillance practices. In the name of fairness, he reached out to African-Americans and criticized "big government" police practices in poor communities. Yet Paul has struggled for traction on the 2016 campaign trail. He has ...
10 questions for Donald Trump [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-10-19 16:19:14 by Hondo68
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Donald J. Trump. Long a flamboyant figure in American life — as a real-estate developer and reality show host — Trump, 69, entered the race in June in unorthodox fashion. At a moment when Republican leaders hoped to repair relations with Latino voters, he seized on the issue of illegal immigration, accused those crossing the border from Mexico of "bringing drugs ... bringing crime. They're rapists." That hot-button issue with conservative voters grew hotter within weeks when an illegal immigrant was charged with the killing of a young San Franciscan named Kate Steinle.Adam Jeffery | CNBC Donald Trump speaks with CNBC's John Harwood at the Trump Grill in New ...
Trump faces backlash for blaming ex-President George W. Bush for 9/11 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-10-18 04:28:44 by Deckard
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WASHINGTON — Prominent Republicans are condemning GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for suggesting that former President George W. Bush is partly to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks that happened during his administration.Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, called Trump's comments "a cheap shot.""I think Donald Trump is totally wrong there," King said Friday during an interview on Fox News Radio. "Anyone who has any real knowledge of that — you can get all the CIA people, all of the career people — no one saw the attack of 9/11 coming. And to blame George ...
Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’
Post Date: 2015-10-17 09:20:42 by Willie Green
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Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners. Fresh chatter among Washington insiders is not about whether the Republican Party will win in 2016 but whether it will survive. Donald Trump—the fear that he might actually become the GOP nominee—is the ultimate nightmare. Some gleeful Democrats are rooting (sotto voce) for the Donald, though many expect he will self-destruct. Nevertheless, Republicans face a larger problem. The GOP finds itself trapped in a marriage that has not only gone bad but is coming apart in full public view. After five decades of shrewd strategy, the Republican coalition Richard Nixon put ...
Investigation into Hillary's email server focuses on Espionage Act and could get her 10 years in jail as FBI agent says she could be prosecuted just for failing to tell Obama
Post Date: 2015-10-16 12:25:08 by Tooconservative
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Investigation into Hillary's email server focuses on Espionage Act and could get her 10 years in jail as FBI agent says she could be prosecuted just for failing to tell ObamaFederal law makes it a crime for security clearance holders to fail to tell superiors when 'gross negligence' causes a security breachFBI agent tells DailyMail.com about Hillary Clinton: 'The secretary's superior is the President of the United States''So unless he were aware of what she was doing when she was doing it, it seems there could be a legal problem [for her]'Obama was asked Sunday on '60 Minutes' if he knew at the time that Clinton was running a home-brew email ...
DILFy Martin O’Malley Makes Twitter Wet During First Democratic Debate
Post Date: 2015-10-14 16:34:34 by Tooconservative
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DILFy Martin O’Malley Makes Twitter Wet During First Democratic Debate He might be polling in the single digits, but if the Internet is any indication, the support for his body is unanimous. Whether you were feeling the Bern (Sanders that is), ’yaaas queen’-ing in allegiance with Hillary Clinton or among those hoping to learn more about the other presidential hopefuls, last night’s first Democratic debate, hosted by an on-point Anderson Cooper, did not disappoint. While many actually important policies were discussed including #BlackLivesMatter, college tuition and climate change, we couldn’t hope but notice Twitter popping off about another subject: Martin ...
Democrats Debate, but Donald Trump Has the Best Line of the Night
Post Date: 2015-10-14 08:25:37 by cranky
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While Tuesday night’s CNN political debate was intended as an opportunity for one of the Democrat Party presidential hopefuls to separate him or herself from the rest of the pack, the best line of the night came from a man who was not even in the room with the debaters nor in the same party. In effect, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump stole the show with a perfectly-timed tweet explaining that Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb, and Lincoln Chafee spent their night talking about the all the free stuff they were going to give away–including ObamaCare benefits and tuition breaks for illegal immigrants–without once mentioning ...
Jeb supporters will be dumbfounded he awarded Hillary with “Liberty Medal” in 2013
Post Date: 2015-10-13 15:32:56 by Deckard
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Washed up politicians shenanigans exposed–againBy Shepard Ambellas (INTELLIHUB) — Can you imagine–Hillary Clinton, you know–the one that used her private email server to conduct secure government business, was the recipient of the National Constitution Center’s (NCC) “Liberty Medal” in 2013. That’s right. Can you believe it? And to make matters worse it was handed to her by 2016 GOP Presidential Candidate Jeb Bush who serves on the NCC’s Board of Trustees. The award was presented to Clinton Sept. 10, 2013 on the eve of the first Benghazi Anniversary despite Clinton’s involvement and attempted cover-up of the Obama Admins failure which led to ...
EXCLUSIVE: Records show Ben Carson became Republican less than one year ago
Post Date: 2015-10-13 10:29:18 by Tooconservative
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Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump has received a lot of scrutiny for donating to Democratic politicians in the past. But Republican primary voters may be curious to know why one of his chief rivals, Dr. Ben Carson, officially joined the Republican Party less than one year ago. The American Mirror has obtained several public records that show Dr. Ben Carson, one of Trump’s chief rivals, did not affiliate with the Republican Party until he changed his voter registration on October 31, 2014. Carson filed this “record update/change” on that date to change his party affiliation to “Republican Party of Florida” — less than six months before declaring ...
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