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It’s 1979 in America
The Notre Dame & St Mary's Observer ^ | March 20, 2015 | Nicole O'Toole

Posted on 03/20/2015 1:01:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 03/20/2015 1:01:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Outside of a single mention of Ted Cruz, this ‘conservative’ young woman never once mentioned anything about him afterwards.

There was, IMO, an inordinate amount of discussion about Rand Paul - too much in fact. Then some passing remarks on Palin, Carson, Christie and Fiorina, then onto the real pump up of the piece - Scott Walker.

I’m not going to trash him. Jeb Bush has that sole honor for me. I just find it disappointing that an after-action report piece contains so little objective reporting.


3 posted on 03/20/2015 1:11:05 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz all the way, ignore the tools


4 posted on 03/20/2015 1:14:12 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Utilizer

I’m guessing it stands for Saint Mary’s Conservatives or similar.


5 posted on 03/20/2015 1:14:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Similarly, I believe gay marriage is going to be legalized in all 50 states sooner or later. Heavily opposed politicians are wasting their time and energy trying to fight it.

Standing up for what is right and fighting against the growing perversion of our socity is never a waste of time


6 posted on 03/20/2015 1:18:09 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My top choices for a 2016 bid are Walker and Bush.

HUH? Two opposite ends of the spectrum?


7 posted on 03/20/2015 1:20:50 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“It is 1979 in America; Obama is looking like President Jimmy Carter with his ineffective management style and failures in the Middle East.”

IMHO, Obama is far, far worse than Carter. Carter was a poor President, but he did make a couple of good calls here and there. Obama has been a disaster of the first order, and he’s not done yet.

“Next year is our 1980.”

I hope so, I truly do. I think a 2016 Republican win will look more like 1968 than 1980, but I’ll take it.


8 posted on 03/20/2015 1:58:03 AM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, it could also stand for Santa Maria de Consuela, or Statically Machined Composites, to name but a couple.

What can I say? I’m a Techneer (Technician/Engineer, or a Technician who became an Engineer) and I work with SMCs quite a lot.

It would be quite helpful if people would explain their acronyms first when talking about any matter of importance since not everyone understands them from the same perspective.

After all, not everyone understands what BDS (or PDS) is, outside of FReepers, Conservatives, and the persons operating under that label 24/7.

How about Sierra Mercer’s Caverns, just to name one that a quick online search would reveal? :)


9 posted on 03/20/2015 1:58:50 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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To: zeestephen

*snort* Coming from a very poor background, I can assure you that very, very few bondsmen will trouble themselves to assist you for a mere 300 dollars worth of bail.

Get real, mate. That’s like asking a Real Estate bloke to handle a transaction that will net them about 2000 dollars worth of payment.

Not going to happen. As I can personally attest.


12 posted on 03/20/2015 2:16:00 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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The top five winners were Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Jeb Bush.

Paul spent last year lecturing the GOP on race after falling for the Ferguson fraud. Walker's hiring of an bitchy amnesty pimp as media guru (Liz Mair) and his flip-flops on immigration make his judgment suspect and his trustworthiness even more so. Ben Carson seems like he hasn't picked up a newspaper in the past 10 years. His interview with Hugh Hewitt yesterday shows incredible ignorance of foreign affairs and Islamic fundamentalism. And his disturbing past statements on guns and amnesty left me cold. Jeb Bush is an Arabist, Progressive stooge from a family which never should have had a place in American politics, but for Reagan's biggest error.

Ted Cruz is the only one I would support, although he is far from perfect. Is there ANYONE else? This field is so unimpressive. Reagan was a giant. This is the JV team.

13 posted on 03/20/2015 2:28:29 AM PDT by montag813 (Pray for Israel)
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To: GeronL

I shook Cruz’s hand last Saturday :)


14 posted on 03/20/2015 2:51:39 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Tom-Cotton-letter-op-ed-stop-Iran/2015/03/19/id/631321/

Tom Cotton comes to mind.


15 posted on 03/20/2015 3:14:25 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I do think that Christie has the pizzazz we need in 2016.

And it only gets sillier from there, folks....

16 posted on 03/20/2015 3:39:23 AM PDT by Kaled
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Utilizer

“SMC” stands for St Mary’s College, a very pricey, exclusive Liberal Arts College that is “across the street” from Notre Dame.

When I went to ND (the first time) it was the only source of female college students in the area. When I returned from military service and re-entered, ND had become co-ed (Ha-Rumph!)

Traditionally “SMiCk-Chicks” are rich, snooty and insufferably liberal.


17 posted on 03/20/2015 3:47:39 AM PDT by shibumi ("Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way")
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To: montag813
This field is so unimpressive. Reagan was a giant.

Looking back, Reagan was a giant. At the time, many dems were glad Reagan was the Republican nominee because they thought he would be easy to beat.

As for impressive, of the current field Walker has taken the best the left can dish out and won, and (if I'm correct) Perry is the only Conservative choice who is also a Vet.

18 posted on 03/20/2015 3:50:38 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Another take on 1979--from left field:

Dead or Alive--The Manhattan Transfer

19 posted on 03/20/2015 4:07:38 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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“It is 1979 in America; Obama is looking like President Jimmy Carter with his ineffective management style and failures in the Middle East”

His management style is fine for a dictator. Carter wouldn’t have dreamed of pulling the crap this joker is.


20 posted on 03/20/2015 4:35:10 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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