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GOP Has More Than a Hillary Problem; It's an America Problem
Townhall.com ^ | April 17, 2015 | Mark Davis

Posted on 04/17/2015 5:20:10 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/17/2015 5:20:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
quote “It was a leftist base exploded to successful levels by low-information voters who had no idea what he would do but thought it would be cool to have a non-white President born in the Sixties.”

Hitlery is neither young, cool, or fresh and everyone knows exactly what she will do.

She will be Bob Dole 2.0 and many on the left will just stay home, and blacks will not come out in the same numbers now that a bro isn't running.

2 posted on 04/17/2015 5:25:15 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: Kaslin
No unforced errors. No mangled messaging. No seething gaffes.

Is Davis that naive? These things will be reported, even if there are none.

Who wins in 2016 depends far more upon what the republican says than who Hillary is.

Her supporters will vote for her no matter how inept a candidate she is - its the detached middle that matters, and its clear they're ready for an unapologetic conservative who offers them control of their lives back.

3 posted on 04/17/2015 5:26:58 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Kaslin

What bothers me about the impressive field of conservative candidates is we also had an impressive field in the previous four primaries. We ended up with socialist-lite candidates that millions of conservatives would not leave home to vote for. That’s the problem, not that there are millions of low information voters, but that there are millions of conservatives and no conservative candidate.


4 posted on 04/17/2015 5:27:29 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Kaslin

The single most important thing this country needs to accomplish is securing the validity of the vote. Vote fraud is huge and the open borders make it an insurmountable problem come 2016.


5 posted on 04/17/2015 5:30:51 AM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Kaslin
It is probably working.

Yes, it is. Most Americans now want what the Dems are promoting: "freedom," as found in unrestrained sexual freedom and government-issued freebies. Nothing else matters to them. And they will vote for the Wicked Witch of the West if she promises to keep the party going.

6 posted on 04/17/2015 5:34:27 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: Kaslin

Davis will be carrying the torch for Jeb if he gets the nomination, as will the rest of the RINO lineup on KSKY. John David Wells is the only principled host they have, and he’s buried at 8 PM.


7 posted on 04/17/2015 5:34:47 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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THIS JUST IN---Hillary "said" she plans to raise more than a billion dollars to fund her campaign. as yet.

(Funny....Obama "said" the same thing back in 2012----said he was so popular that a billion dollars poured in to aid his reelection. Except that later on, the billion dollar Obama "said" he was forced to borrow money in order to continue his campaign.)

In Hillary's case, money keeps pouring into her $2.5 Billion Super-Pac (AKA the Clinton Foundation). As long as she's in the race, foundation donors are ponying up----lying in wait for Hillary to be coronated.

BTW, remember that Hillary was accumulating her $2.5 billion 2016 campaign war chest AT THE SAME TIME the viscous Clinton machine was rolling over anyone who dared to challenge her.

Americans should be asking---why does this political retread need a $2.5 billion war chest......when the job she's after is worth maybe $2 million w/ perks and free plane rides.

8 posted on 04/17/2015 5:45:23 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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HEY GUYS, YOU'LL BE PLEASED TO HEAR THIS---WHEW, WATTA RELIEF---The Clinton Foundation is operating under new rules (/SNIX): approved countries would be allowed to renew multiyear pledges, or make additional contributions to the Foundation's new programs. Such funding would support (1) economic development, (2) climate-focused work of the Clinton Climate Initiative, (3) the Clinton Development Initiative, which focuses on Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania, and, (4) the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership.............."

Here's a peek at how the "dead broke " Clintons got their hands on billions of dollars......b/c being president and Secretary of State has an astoundingly good monetary return....if you're greedy, a con artist and a hardened criminal

Hundreds of millions flow into the Clintons tax-exempt entities which the greedy Clintons calculatedly morphed into hundreds of separate fund-raising machines.

Earlier, a NYT's expose chronicled the shady financing of the tax-exempt money machine----The Clinton Global Initiative foundation.

CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE web site
you can peruse 276 web pages of obscure programs
all of them vehicles to raise money
all of them expecting payback w/ Hillary in the WH.

1271 Avenue of the Americas 42nd Floor
New York, NY 10020
212-348-8882

WEB SITE http://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative

=====================================================

The newly-minted "Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Family Foundation"
gives them even more fund-raising capabilities......w/ a friendly "family"
aura. The Clintons love to crow about their do-goodism and are more
than willing to make a buck on it.

"Smile everybody. Another $100 million came in today."

9 posted on 04/17/2015 5:47:23 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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To: Kaslin

Barring a complete overthrow of the constitution and government, in a little over 20 months Barack and Moochie Obama will be out of the White House.

But the ignoramuses, greedheads, moochers, communists, illegal aliens and other human debris who elected Barack twice will still be out there.

And they will take time out from mass breeding a new generation of idiots and moochers to vote for whoever is running for president on the democrat ticket.

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10 posted on 04/17/2015 5:52:09 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: Kaslin
All in all, a pretty fun week for conservatives. Marco Rubio made a classy and inspiring entrance into a Republican field that is already impressive and energizing, and sure to become even more.

I stopped reading after that.

11 posted on 04/17/2015 5:58:18 AM PDT by erod (Chicago Conservative)
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To: Kaslin
While the Clinton campaign can chug along while missing on many cylinders and still win, the Republican nominee must be a well-oiled machine masterful at playing mistake-free ball.

I completely agree. While there exists a chance of defeating Hillary in 2016, the GOP nominee is going to have to be essentially perfect in message delivery/management, commit no substantial gaffes and have no skeleton-in-the-closet scandals.

The "media," firmly in her corner, will try their utmost to manufacture scandalous material they can't uncover, so the GOPer must play two steps ahead of the darkside's game by anticipating everything and assuming nothing. The "media" and voters are flush with warm generosity and forgiveness of any shortcoming by the dems, but will show no such goodwill to her GOP opponent.

12 posted on 04/17/2015 6:03:50 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Hillary is nothing more than a white, wrinkled form of Obama in pants.)
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But here’s my concern, and it should be yours: It is probably working.

This is why I don't hang out with Mark Davis anymore, who never misses an opportunity to demoralize conservatives, who seems to have been hired to be "that guy," the first one to point out the painfully obvious, who seems compelled to be the first one to say out loud what the rest of us are thinking. Captain Obvious.

I'm sorry Mark, but I can't think of a single authentic American conservative, no unashamed American nationalist, who doesn't "get it."

Just because we laugh at this rapacious monster doesn't mean we don't take her seriously. I think we're all on the same page. How about coming up with an original idea on how to counter this cultural swamp, or grab a mop?

13 posted on 04/17/2015 6:05:40 AM PDT by Prospero (omnis caro fenum)
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To: skeeter
Is Davis that naive?

If you listened to him subbing for Rush, I would be more inclined to take him as being less intelligent than he thinks he is, and utterly tone deaf for a supposed conservative.
14 posted on 04/17/2015 6:13:35 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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I think she’s using Nixon as a model.

He was not an inspiring speaker, had little in the way of real beliefs and values, really almost entirely negative, was not telegenic, not physically graceful, few friends, and paranoid, sometimes vindictive and secretive.

And yet he won.

Infrastructure, loyalty, having a good team and, as the article brilliantly points out being aware of one’s negatives and knowing exactly how to minimize them.


15 posted on 04/17/2015 6:14:21 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
This guy misses a huge point.

Barack Obama was nothing more than a jug-eared nitwit of an exchange student from Kenya. He was trotted out by the Democrat Party to derail Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2008. Why would anyone think they won't do the same in 2016? Hillary Clinton is eight years older, looks and acts like a worn-out old hag, and is no more trustworthy than she was before.

No, the biggest problem the Republicans face is that Hillary Clinton will attract a lot of support from the big-government globalists who pushed John McCain and Mitt Romney on the GOP in 2008 and 2012. I can just see the likes of William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer and John McCain fawning all over her because she promises to "get tough on Iran."

16 posted on 04/17/2015 6:15:48 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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Ronald McDonald would have won the 1968 election as a Republican candidate, with the Vietnam War such a disaster on the national stage.

In fact, the better parallel for the 1968 election would be the 2008 election. Ronald McDonald would have won that election, too -- if he ran as a Democrat.

17 posted on 04/17/2015 6:19:05 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: Iron Munro
To your whole post, I say:


18 posted on 04/17/2015 6:28:50 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Kaslin

By hook or by crook, the democrats already have 49.99% of the vote. The democrats have the stupidest constituents that will vote democrat “Vagina ‘16” just because. It’s going to be up to the republicans to aggressively stop vote fraud and the illegals from voting. I don’t see any issue or candidate being on the ballot for ‘16.

I am still expecting the sudden departure of Hillary and being replaced with Moochelle. Something in my gut tells me that’s what is brewing in the choom smoke filled dark rooms at the DNC.


19 posted on 04/17/2015 6:46:04 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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...keeping the party going is what cannot happen but probably will.

Yesterday I was thinking until it hits them personally nobody cares that ISIS is right over the Mexican border, nobody cares that BO issued a half a million new SS cards to illegals, nobody cares that he will probably give amnesty by fiat to over 5 million in the next 19 months. Nobody even cares that one of the candidates set up her own server and email system while working at top levels of the government, and deleted what she deemed appropriate. Nobody cares that the Benghazi review board published a report about what happened, without interviewing the main actor, the Sec of State nor looked at her emails. That people are even considering someone like her corrupt and sold out to the core to over see our America makes me sick.

I am thinking about voting for the dem to cause the collapse of America to come quicker to get on with what will happen next.

20 posted on 04/17/2015 6:47:01 AM PDT by thirst4truth
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