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A super-early look at the 2016 N.H. GOP presidential primary
The Concord Monitor ^ | February 26, 2014

Posted on 02/27/2014 3:12:30 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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So Marco Rubio is an Hispanic, but Ted Cruz isn't? Even this early they're playing word games, aimed at shaping perceptions. Each name can be clicked on to read more.
1 posted on 02/27/2014 3:12:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Commentary by Peter Burling? You can’t get anymore far left than Peter. He is an accomplished liar and not afraid to double down on his lies.


2 posted on 02/27/2014 3:23:13 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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This liberal cesspool of marxists should be the LAST primary in the nation...period. Red Hampshire has been setting the table for America’s downfall for years, and its ‘first in the nation’ status should come to an end. An evil state that embraces abortion and the sodomite agenda.


3 posted on 02/27/2014 3:27:13 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The GOP, party of RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE and gay marriage
and lying about it, will be shaped by Romney and Rove
as in everyone of the last three elections.

Why? For their partners, Soros and Obama.

GOP = GIVE OBAMA POWER


4 posted on 02/27/2014 3:30:15 AM PST by Diogenesis
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not afraid to double down on his lies

Works for liberals; conservatives are too divided and afraid of their own shadows to make any impact at all.

5 posted on 02/27/2014 3:30:53 AM PST by Theodore R. (Alas: TX Republicans to endorse Cornball and George P! Stay tuned March 4)
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To: who knows what evil?
it sets; the table for (only) RINOs..
RWR, had "beat-them-to-the-punch" in '75,
by that time..much like Cruz is doing now.
by keeping a consistent mindset/platform.

6 posted on 02/27/2014 3:39:50 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: Diogenesis

Okay, so what are we going to do about that?


7 posted on 02/27/2014 3:44:07 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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Name recognition.
That’s all it is—in ‘14, anyway.


8 posted on 02/27/2014 3:59:05 AM PST by Flintlock ( islam is a LIE, mohammed was a CRIMINAL, shira is POISON.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did Scott Walker make this list?


9 posted on 02/27/2014 4:35:17 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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chance of getting the nomination:

Kelly Ayotte 0

Scott Brown 0

Jeb Bush 50/50 (establishment/media favorite, could win in a crowded field where real republicans or conservatives split the votes)

Chris Christie 50/50 (establishment/media favorite, could win in a crowded field where real republicans or conservatives split the votes)

Ted Cruz 75%

Bobby Jindal 25%

Rand Paul 75%

Marco Rubio 50/50 or less (he would have been a slam-dunk before siding with Schumer)

Paul Ryan a bit more than zero.

chance of winning the general election:

Kelly Ayotte 0

Scott Brown 0

Jeb Bush 0

Chris Christie 0

Ted Cruz 0

Bobby Jindal 0

Rand Paul 0

Marco Rubio 0

Paul Ryan 0

combine the moron vote, vote fraud and the mediawhores assassinating any R candidate, the demhole wins.

10 posted on 02/27/2014 4:44:23 AM PST by wny
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George W. Bush got 29% of the vote in the 2000 NH primary (and lost). I wrote a vanity in July 1999 about his appearance in my small town, which I wish was still available via the archives.

The essence of it was that he arrived at our town docks in a convoy of antique wooden speedboats, after spending the night on an island in Lake Winnipesaukee with some rich friends. He was escorted by an honor guard of country clubbers and real estate brokers wearing straw boaters and blue blazers. He gave a poor speech at the bandstand which, after a perfunctory nod to servicemen (and, of course, women) at the “tip of the spear” devolved into a laundry list of who would receive what benefits from his election, starting with “single moms”, who he described as “true heroes”. He promised that his government would track down all the bad men who had abandoned them, and would make them pay. He then went on to describe an outline of what became No Child Left Behind. I got to shake his hand, and to tell him that women initiate 70-80% of divorces, He had dead eyes.

He left his fake cowboy hat at home, I guess. Bushismo was never popular here, and I doubt that Bush III will do any better.


11 posted on 02/27/2014 4:58:30 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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I should add that the country club/real estate broker faction of the NH Republican party has pretty much killed it off as a viable political force.

NH is a very funny state, politically. Many, many “leave me alone” voters. Lots of tarpaper shacks with satellite dishes and Gadsden flags in the hills. The Marxists win often because the GOPe is so loathsome.

As long as W’s wooden speedboat crowd is the face of the party, things won’t improve.


12 posted on 02/27/2014 5:03:26 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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-— He was escorted by an honor guard of country clubbers and real estate brokers wearing straw boaters and blue blazers -—

Isn’t that special. Yeesh.


13 posted on 02/27/2014 5:04:40 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: wny

Then why are you even here? If we’re doomed to fail from now on, wouldn’t gardening, RC aircraft or perhaps bowling be a better use of your time?


14 posted on 02/27/2014 5:04:54 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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Yeah, that's my experience with his father when I worked on a competing campaign in Iowa back in 1987-88. All the wealthy, well-placed, country-clubbers, Ivy Leagues, lawyers, corporate types and old money were present-and-accounted for. They import a boatload of little Thurston Howell III types from back East and treat the locals like Slav peasants or worse.
15 posted on 02/27/2014 5:08:51 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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treat the locals like Slav peasants or worse

Great description.

Of course, here the GOPe are locals, too (when they're not at one of their other homes), but they regard roof shovelers, plow guys, painters, deer cutters, plumbers, electricians, small engine repairmen, etc, etc as beneath their notice and they could care less than zero about those guys fundamentally yeoman interests.

Trying to drag a Republican candidate in NH across the finish line with those guys in charge is like trying to water ski with a boat anchor around your right ankle.

16 posted on 02/27/2014 5:16:25 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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Before that campaign I was a volunteer for the county GOP for 3-5 hours a day, 5 days a week for about 2 years. Once they gave me the pin that a high-level donor would get, for my thousands of hours of service (including millions in fundraising), but cautioned me not to wear it “around real donors” who’d given money. That was my last day volunteering.


17 posted on 02/27/2014 5:28:49 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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We're not doomed to fail. I'd rather have 15 each Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul & Marco Rubio in the Senate, along with 220 real republicans/conservatives in the house than have Cristie or Jeb as president.

I just don't foresee another R president again. A country stupid enought to re-elect Obama will elect any lib-hole that comes along. As I said, the moron vote (Obama give us a phone!), vote fraud (let's add the felon vote, the illegal alien vote and amnesty) and the MSMwhore ministry of propaganda will be enough to carry the day for the demholes. The same mediawhores that thought Romney's dog and a high school pranks were newsworthy ignored Bengazhi, fast & furous, the IRS.............(George Washington Bridge anyone?)

18 posted on 02/27/2014 6:25:14 AM PST by wny
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She has emerged as a powerful voice in the Senate and is often associated with other Senate leaders like John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
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Death knell for Ayotte!!!


19 posted on 02/27/2014 10:13:04 AM PST by Din Maker (If Ted Cruz gave Rand Paul one of his balls, they'd both have one.)
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Rand Paul has walked a very interesting divide someplace between his father’s populist approach and one of a more pragmatic candidate.
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Pragmatic defined: Kiss Mitch McConnell’s ass and endorse him instead of his Conservative opponent in the Primary, in hopes for political favors in the future.


20 posted on 02/27/2014 10:15:18 AM PST by Din Maker (If Ted Cruz gave Rand Paul one of his balls, they'd both have one.)
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