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Searching for Intelligent Life in the Republican Party
The Huffington Post's Politics The Blog ^ | June 11, 2015 | Bob Burnett

Posted on 06/11/2015 12:50:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

As a Berkeley liberal, I'm convinced that whomever the Democrats nominate as their 2016 presidential candidate will soundly defeat the GOP nominee. Nonetheless, I'd like to see a sensible Republican candidate, one that agrees with me (and most voters) on the important national issues. Unfortunately, we've yet to see signs of intelligence in this set of GOP candidates.

The most recent Huffington Post summary of Republican Candidate Polls shows a tightly bunched group. The top ten are Florida Senator Marco Rubio (13.2 percent), Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (12.7 percent), former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (10.9 percent), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (9.1 percent), Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (9 percent), former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (8.6 percent), Texas Senator Ted Cruz (7.9 percent), New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (4.6 percent), former Texas Governor Rick Perry (2.5 percent), and Ohio Governor John Kasich (2.1 percent).

These GOP candidates seem content to pander to their base, tell them how much they hate President Obama and how badly they want to re-invade Iraq. However, it's informative to examine their positions on issues that most informed Americans care about -- that, is voters other than Republicans.

Under the Obama Administration stock values have more than doubled, corporate profits have tripled, and 12.6 million private sector jobs have been added....

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: bush; polls; rubio; scottwalker
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What a laffer.
1 posted on 06/11/2015 12:50:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Corporate profits are up under Obama? I thought that corporations were EEEVVILLL!


2 posted on 06/11/2015 12:53:11 PM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Pull the string! Pull the string! A story must be told.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Typical leftist article wherein mere assertion is a fact.


3 posted on 06/11/2015 12:54:08 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

To all Liberal DemoRATS - GO F yourself


4 posted on 06/11/2015 12:54:40 PM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

As a “Berkeley liberal”..... who gives a rats ass what you think.


5 posted on 06/11/2015 12:55:31 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Puffington... puffs more than Obamas wanger..

Their statistics are an Obamanation..


6 posted on 06/11/2015 12:56:36 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why would you want a Republican who agreed with you to run? That would take away votes from your Democrat candidate. You should want us to run a REAL CONSERVATIVE against your Democrat candidate, so that your candidate can receive all the liberal votes, and our candidate can receive all the rest of the votes, and then we’ll see if America has any future as America.


7 posted on 06/11/2015 12:57:00 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nonetheless, I'd like to see a sensible Republican candidate, one that agrees with me...


8 posted on 06/11/2015 12:57:11 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: davidb56

Berkeley liberals feel that they are so superior to the rest of us, that he had to identify himself as such. So that we can revere his great wisdom and insights and all that.


9 posted on 06/11/2015 12:57:42 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Duuuhhhh, dis Bob Burnett is real, real smart. I never thunk about wut he sez before. Now I see da light and will votes for Hillary.


10 posted on 06/11/2015 12:57:58 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I were a father, I think I’d rather have my young son or daughter tell me and their mother at the meal table what they read in Hustler or Playboy than what ever garbage they’d read at the PuffHo’s site.


11 posted on 06/11/2015 12:58:23 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You could search forever for such in democrats and never find that. They have the stupid disease and there is no cure.


12 posted on 06/11/2015 12:59:21 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, there isn’t any intelligent life in the GOP, OR the DNC. Screw ‘em all. Long live Conservatism.


13 posted on 06/11/2015 12:59:27 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At least the Republicans have a diverse field. The Democrats are typical tyrants offering no choice to their slaves.


14 posted on 06/11/2015 12:59:48 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yea, let’s let the liberals decide who the next Republican candidate should be. /sarc


15 posted on 06/11/2015 12:59:53 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d Like to see signs of intelligent life at the, “Huffington Post”, Politics Blog...


16 posted on 06/11/2015 1:00:03 PM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Lol @ PuffHo. Good stuff! +1


17 posted on 06/11/2015 1:00:03 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All that I can say to the writer is that the Obama bumper sticker on your car bumper might just as well say that ‘I am stupid!”


18 posted on 06/11/2015 1:03:40 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Berkeley liberal” ... isn’t that being redundant?


19 posted on 06/11/2015 1:04:29 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because: (Jim) Beam me up Scotty...


20 posted on 06/11/2015 1:04:33 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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