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  • The Four Faces of the Republican Party

    03/10/2014 12:20:45 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 30 replies
    The National Interest ^ | February 25, 2014 | Henry Olsen
    THE COMMON wisdom holds that the GOP 2016 presidential race will boil down to a joust between the “establishment” and the “insurgents.” The former will allegedly be more moderate and the latter more conservative. Since most polls for two decades have shown that around two-thirds to 70 percent of self-described Republicans call themselves conservative, this elite narrative will focus on just how much the establishment candidate will need to be pulled to the right in order to fend off his insurgent challenger. And since the Tea Party has clearly become a vocal and powerful insurgent element in the GOP, the...
  • The GOP doesn't just have a woman problem, it doesn't understand women

    03/09/2014 7:44:28 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 76 replies
    The Guardian ^ | March 9, 2014 | Ana Marie Cox
    Carly Fiorina, former California GOP senate challenger to Barbara Boxer, emerged at the Conservative Political Action Conference here as the speaker most willing to engage the Republicans' persistent problems with appealing to women. Well, after she spent the first half of her speech denying climate change. Priorities! Fiorina didn't offer a solution, but she did offer some great slogans: "I am a proud pro-life woman. ... I believe science is proving us right everyday!" (Hey, don't knock junk science until you've tried it, right?) She also echoed a feminist line when she said, "All issues are women's issues." I like...
  • Another RNC Ad Campaign Proposal:Democrats,The Party Of,"I Don't Know".

    03/09/2014 4:09:56 PM PDT · by Cruz_West_Paul2016 · 4 replies
    So Republicans are "The Party Of No"?,well at least Republicans and Conservatives answer questions regardless of whom ever asks them,especially on live TV.But over the last five years,it seems that whenever a liberal/democrat is asked even basic questions regarding any scandal or screw-up,all we get is,"I don't know",and/or "this all started under the Bush Administration.There is more than enough footage of any Liberal&Democrat leader acting "Stupidly"when questioned over any international or national dilemma.And to think that Hillary didn't recall anything during the Clinton Years! and she wants to be President?
  • Comical Thread:If You Were Darrell Issa,What Questions Would You Asked Of Lois Lerner?

    03/08/2014 7:14:12 PM PST · by Cruz_West_Paul2016 · 49 replies
    Put yourself in Darrell's shoes.It's been three questions so far and Lois is still giving you the "Sargaent Schultz Response".By this time you have lost your patience and decide to mess with her.What Darrell should of done was ask her "Miss Lerner,Are You A Conservative Who Despises Liberals,or a "Liberal Who Despises Conservatives"?.Darrell had the opportunity to make her look like a fool if he had just asked a few simple questions just to see if she answered them.Can you imagine if he had asked:,Miss Lerner,are you a Male,Female,or "Gender Neutral"?, Now that would of made for an interesting response...
  • Sarah Palin On a 2016 Run: "I'll Never Say Never"

    03/08/2014 2:33:12 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 98 replies
    RealClearPolitics ^ | March 8, 2014
    GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: Do you have a favorite candidate for 2016? SARAH PALIN: No, not yet. VAN SUSTEREN: Nothing? Who is sort of your -- who is at the top of your list? Are you considering running? PALIN: Who is at the top of my list. VAN SUSTEREN: Let me back up to my other question. PALIN: No, question at a time. I appreciate those who have fought for America, like Ted Cruz, like Rand Paul. You know though, it doesn't have to be someone who has a title today, someone in office today. In fact, some would say we...
  • CPAC 2014: maybe the Republicans aren't so insane after all

    03/07/2014 2:33:01 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 11 replies
    The Guardian ^ | March 7, 2014 | Ana Marie Cox
    From the corners of the conservative movement to the main stage, signs of hope. Or at least that the GOP is grasping at reality again. The Conservative Political Action Conference has gotten more conservative. It hasn’t moved to the right, exactly – there’s not a lot of room remaining on the visible spectrum – but it’s definitely gotten more sedate. A little more self-contained, a lot more self-conscious, and maybe even a bit serious. Don’t get me wrong: CPAC is still very much a circus. You can’t book sideshow acts like Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter and then...
  • Speech on the North Atlantic Treaty-Robert Taft, 1949

    03/07/2014 12:15:38 PM PST · by Colonel Kangaroo · 4 replies
    TeachingAmericanHistory.org ^ | July 26, 1949 | Senator Robert A. Taft
    …Why did I vote against the Atlantic Pact? I wanted to vote for it-at least I wanted to vote to let Russia know that if she attacked western Europe, the United States would be in the war. I believe that would be a deterrent to war… We issued just this warning in the Monroe Doctrine, and though we were a much less powerful nation, it prevented aggression against Central and South America. That was only a President’s message to Congress, and there were no treaty obligations, and no arms for other nations. But it was one of the most effective...
  • Cruz-Palin 2016: Seeking a Tea Party ticket (Article from 2013)

    03/07/2014 12:40:49 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 61 replies
    The Examiner ^ | October 16, 2013 | Dustin Koellhoffer
    There are so many good conservatives in and running for office that could take America back from liberal socialists and moderate spend thrifts that it’s hard to know them all without excessive effort. Sens. Mike Lee, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Reps. Paul Ryan, and candidate Elizabeth Cheney are all known names, but somebody has something bad to say about everybody. Romney was equally conservative but allowed his name to be smeared by moderates led by Boehner in Congress who cost him the election by attacking conservatives. Tea Party members need to stop being churlish when it comes to some of...
  • Ted Cruz’s partisanship will benefit GOP in 2014, 2016 elections

    03/06/2014 11:54:58 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 9 replies
    Inside Tucson Business ^ | March 6, 2014 | Mark B. Evans
    Few on the center-right grasp the politics of polarization. The idea is to always have someone more extreme than you making your position closer to the relative center and moving the ball further in your direction. The Democrats and the left have known this for years. Look at all the real crazies they have accumulated over time and molded into an almost groupthink legion. Then note that barely a word of chastisement comes from them when they say wild and crazy stuff or do wild and crazy things. Try the counterpart to the Tea Party - the Occupy Movement. Both...
  • Republicans Need a Champion in 2016 (Guess which two he suggests?)

    03/04/2014 7:40:03 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 43 replies
    Politico Magazine ^ | March 3, 2014 | Professor Larry J. Sabato
    e are already at the point in this prematurely unfolding 2016 presidential campaign when a glance down the list of prospective candidates can cause most observers to wince. As that seductive and sultry crooner Peggy Lee once sang, “Is that all there is?” At the U.Va. Crystal Ball, we currently have 11 Republicans and nine Democrats as probable or possible presidential contenders. The Democrats have fewer and more tentative contenders because of the paralyzing gravitational pull of “Planet Hillary,” as the New York Times Magazine described the Clinton operation. The former secretary of state is a kind of massive Jupiter...
  • Texans vote in primaries shaken by Tea Party influence

    03/04/2014 5:22:39 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 5 replies
    Yahoo! News / Reuters ^ | March 4, 2014 | Jon Herskovitz
    AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texans went to the polls on Tuesday in primary elections where the top candidates for governor were expected to post easy wins and favorites of the conservative Tea Party movement are trying to topple established Republicans in several races. U.S. Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, will win his race easily, opinion polls show. Attorney General Greg Abbott, the leading Republican candidate for governor, and state Senator Wendy Davis, the top Democratic Party candidate, were also expected to win by wide margins. Voting closes at 7 p.m. U.S. Central Time. Run-off elections will be held on May...
  • Not Just Hillary's Age A Setback,How Will She Handpick Her Rally Crowds?,Only The Uninformed?

    02/27/2014 6:23:05 PM PST · by Cruz_West_Paul2016 · 39 replies
    Hillary has to wonder how she can campaign before her massive crowds of 300 to 1000 and deal with dozens of people screaming back at her,"What Difference Does It Make" and, "You Let Them Die !!!".Is there a purple state out there where Hillary will allow anyone into her rallies?What will her staff do?Interview everyone before they enter the arena and make sure they don't have extra magic markers to alter or make new signs?
  • A super-early look at the 2016 N.H. GOP presidential primary

    02/27/2014 3:12:30 AM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 23 replies
    The Concord Monitor ^ | February 26, 2014
    Who’s likely to do well in New Hampshire’s 2016 first-in-the-nation presidential primary? It’s a preposterous question, here in 2014, but what the heck? We asked six experts to weigh in on some of the biggest political players. Our analysts are Wayne Lesperance, political science professor at New England College; Phil Boynton, president of the University of New Hampshire College Republicans; Peter Burling, Democratic national committeeman; Dante Scala, professor of political science at UNH; Jess Steever, vice president of the Plymouth State University Democrats; and Brandon Lemay, public relations officer for the PSU Democrats. Today, our panelists consider the Republicans. Tomorrow,...
  • Sarah Palin: Remove from Congress all Potted Plants…

    02/21/2014 9:52:20 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 15 replies
    A Time For Choosing ^ | February 21, 2014 | Gary P. Jackson
    Governor Sarah Palin tweeted this today: Sarah Palin ✔ @SarahPalinUSA Remove from Congress all Potted Plants...... http://fb.me/6Jv64aAkT 10:32 AM - 21 Feb 2014 133 Retweets 101 favorites This serves as her comment to the linked article at Townhall from Judge Andrew Napolitano about President Obama’s unconstitutional power grab and the lack of Congress to even attempt to stop him: The political philosopher Edmund Burke once remarked that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good folks to do nothing. A glaring example of the impending triumph of a constitutional evil that could be stopped by folks...
  • Cruz Aims at His Own Side — Again: He may be doing more damage to the GOP than are the Democrats

    02/21/2014 1:15:05 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 71 replies
    The National Review ^ | February 21, 2014 | Mona Charen
    Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) may be the brightest light to adorn the Republican party in many years. He knows how to make the case for conservative ideas, pointing, for example, to the contrasting fates of Detroit and Houston to illustrate the superiority of conservative policies. So it’s particularly galling to see that rather than train his fire at Obama and the liberal machine that cocoons him, Cruz has become a one-man wrecking ball against Republicans. His most recent foray into sabotaging his colleagues concerned the debt-limit increase. Because Speaker Boehner sent over a “clean” debt-limit bill, Republican senators had...
  • Local County Republican Party Annual Fundraiser Problem

    02/18/2014 6:07:52 PM PST · by goodtomato · 34 replies
    2/18/14 | Good Tomato
    Every year my local County Republican Committee does a "Lincoln Day Dinner" as a fundraiser to replenish our coffers. Monies used to maintain our headquarters, (which is rent free)maintain a web site, phone, printed material, etc... The problem we are experiencing is with the "Republican" base anger. In our county, republicans hold every elected office except the Sheriff. Romney won our county. We are delivering the vote, but people are so angry at the national party and I am understanding with their dissatisfaction, which I agree with. I believe we need to grow our elected officials', take them for a...
  • Another Reason For GOP Landslide.The Uninformed Will Likely Forget To Vote In November.

    02/17/2014 5:13:10 PM PST · by Cruz_West_Paul2016 · 39 replies
    Ask any of the twenty to twenty-five per-cent of the uninformed, questions regarding the 2014 mid-terms,odds are they will be as naive as the people who have no idea who the Vice-President is.A huge chunk of those who voted for Obama will not be in any hurry to vote in the mid-terms being they will be too occupied with either their free phones,flat-screens,free gadgets,and wolfing down their free meals and getting fat!,This is the primary reason the Rats Are In Panic Mode!,Most of the base is either so dumb or just too lazy to vote!,Yet 70 or so Million Conservatives...
  • Jon Karl: Ted Cruz ‘so hated’ among GOP senators ‘he’s going to need a food taster’ [VIDEO]

    02/16/2014 10:17:46 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 49 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | February 16, 2014 | Jamie Weinstein, senior editor
    ABC chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl says many of Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s fellow Republican senators despise him — like, really, totally hate him. “The Republicans in the Senate had this all set. This was going to be able to pass with only Democratic votes. He stands up, says ‘I’m going to filibuster’, suddenly they need 60 votes,” Karl explained on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, speaking of last week’s vote to increase the debt ceiling. “I’ll tell you, Ted Cruz is so hated among his Republicans now — more so than even during the shutdown — that at...
  • Question;What Would Executive Branch Do If GOP Governors Rewrite Voting Laws "On Their Own"?

    02/16/2014 5:36:27 PM PST · by Cruz_West_Paul2016 · 15 replies
    Can you just imagine if for example,Rick Perry and every Governor in Purple Swing States decided to make a few changes in how every precinct is run?Lets say,from this point on "Only Republicans&Conservatives"will be counting ballots.Or maybe even,all registered Republicans and Conservatives do not need ID to vote,"But All Democrats"are required to present Proper ID.Can you just imagine what would happen in DC?,What? Governors are making up new laws without even taking a vote?, Hmm? now that would be interesting to see how it plays out!
  • GOP must target Rustbelt to win presidency: Column

    02/16/2014 12:05:30 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 18 replies
    USA Today | February 15, 2014 | Brett M. Decker
    Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/02/15/president-election-2016-hillary-clinton-column/5340999/