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Posted on 04/18/2014 9:52:49 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Rand Paul will do his best to charm a group Mitt Romney’s top donors next week at an event facilitated by Romney finance director Spencer Zwick.
The Friday luncheon will take place in Boston at the offices of Zwick’s private-equity firm, Solamere Capital, according to a source familiar with the event. Romney’s eldest son Tagg is also a managing partner at the firm, and Romney is the executive chairman.
The event is yet another signal that Paul is preparing a for a serious presidential bid in 2016. Two years before the GOP primary, Paul is attempting to branch out beyond his libertarian-leaning base, and the ability to tap some of the establishment donors who helped Romney raise over $1 billion in 2012 will be critical to that effort.
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It stems from the embarrassment they feel concerning conservatives' social / cultural / religious positions. They can't accept the opprobrium that the Judges of Sodom within the media will heap upon them if they dare not conform to the values of the debauched majority.
His Liberaltarianism compels him to run from or capitulate to the enemies of his Conservativism.
Today's message coming from the Right should be THE FREE MARKET ECONOMY. As in the 2012 campaign, the Left and the MSM will gladly help the Right focus and bicker about peripheral issues as long as the Right stays away from the IMMENSE government issue.
So maybe our political redemption may come from another direction - the limited Article V agenda of the Convention of States proposed by the Citizens for Self-Governance.
I think that Rand is willing to sell out to advance his career.
Just stop. Now you are defending garbage crawling to Team Romney for backing. Like Romney’s ‘principles’ won’t come with the cash as a condition.
Are you conservative or not? It looks like you want another statist POS. Prove me wrong.
Good grief...what’s wrong with him going after donors? What’s his campaign supposed to run on....spitballs?
Depends what the donors want from the candidate doesn’t it?
Also, A candidate does not need a fraction of the cash now spent on a campaign. The internet exists. If they would follow Palin’s lead and USE the damn thing like daily appearances on a Youtube channel addressing issues of the moment starting ...NOW... word would get around shortly.
Bypass the MSM and win. For Hundreds of millions less. Reagan went straight to the people with truth.
He did not need the strings that came with all these modern donors.
Are you insane. Sheldon Adelson is a fanatical supporter of amnesty and open borders and has been quite clear that America is not the country that he loves most.
He is the furthest thing from an American patriot.
I agree with you about their hesitancy to side with the ranchers in Nevada, but that will change over the coming weeks. To Paul’s credit, he has spoken out....he mentioned both SWAT tactics and the constitutional error of the Fed owning all those state lands, so I’m not sure what the beef with him on that is. My beef is about his seeming willingness to go along with some road to amnesty, and his unwillingness to recognize the value of overseas pre-staging of troops in a very dangerous age.
Cruz is uncharacteristically silent, but he has spoken against the SWAT Tactics. Palin has also spoken against both SWAT and Federal land possessions. Sessions isn’t very public ever, and I don’t think he’s running, so I’m not surprised to hear nothing from him.
Most are afraid of the media’s constant trumpeting of federal court orders against Bundy. (Hannity isn’t to his credit).
It’s simple. All they have to say is: “I disagree with those rulings.” They already say they disagree with Roe v Wade, and with other court rulings. Just say the same here, if that’s what they think.
The truth is that Bundy has an “adverse utilization” (not adverse possession) claim against the Feds, real water rights claims, and the Feds have long since used up the time in which they should have indicated a disposition of those lands after Nevada statehood 150- years ago.
Jim Robinson endorsed Newt Gingrich. Sheldon Adelson supported Newt Gingrich. Both Mr. Robinson and Congressman Gingrich are red-blooded, true-blue American Patriots. Mr. Adelson was on the same team.
I’m sure Jim Robinson, Newt Gingrich and Sheldon Adelson all brush their teeth too, what’s your point?
Adelson is an enemy of America who is hellbent on amnesty and opening borders.
#49 is a well reasoned response. I hope you are right and I am not. If our best people are silent on this they missread the issue. The other possibility is they want the rebellion crushed so they can use that power. Or they could simply be afraid to act.
He's making me nervous, too. I'll still vote for him. But Cruz is my #1 choice right now.
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"Known terrorist states"? "Clear threat to our freedom and national security"?
There's enough room for disagreement when it comes to expressions like that to drive a truck through.
Rand Paul will have a lot of problems if he runs, but I could see somebody questioning whether the Bush Doctrine really was correctly applied by the Bush Administration.
I suspect they'd also eventually need to present a unified alternate legal theory.
As to 'adverse utilization' and disposition of lands, the Bundy court has already said Nevada state open range law doesn't apply to the BLM land because of the Supremacy Clause. I assume it would do the same regarding 'adverse utilization,' and would continue to adhere to Gardner regarding disposition issues.
Going against the BLM/federal courts here is like playing Calvinball, and the BLM/federal courts are Clavin.
Taking money from the Romney men, and therefore being in thrall to Romney and his adherents & their agenda is a peripheral issue? You might want to sell that fish somewhere else.
I think a lot of people here don’t realize how much experience Ted Cruz already has, almost amazing for a man of only 43:
Cruz is a member of the Republican Party. He served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to May 2008, after being appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.[2] Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, and as Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. Cruz was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation, from 2004 to 2009.
Then there’s this:
Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[30] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.[16] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[25] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[23]
Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[2][31] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[32] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[32] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[33][34] Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[33]
Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,” draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”[29][35]
After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor.[2][36] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[31] Referring to Cruz’s time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”[17][37][38][39][40][41] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[42]
Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.[42][43]
Clerkships
Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995[12][42] and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996.[2] Cruz was the first Hispanic to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.[44]
Private practice
After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, which is now known as Cooper & Kirk, LLC, from 1997 to 1998.[45]
In 1998, Cruz served as private counsel for Congressman John Boehner during Boehner’s lawsuit against Congressman Jim McDermott for releasing a tape recording of a Boehner telephone conversation.[46]
Bush Administration
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.[45]
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devise strategy, and draft pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, the specific case being Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two successful decisions for the Bush team.[42][47]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz
Well you just keep catering to that fantasy and you’ll get another Mitt Romney to vote for.
While you weren’t looking, most of the young voters abandoned the television and don’t read newspapers. they get most of their info online/Youtube. That’s just a fact supported by the actual demo surveys.
Every time Palin posts, the MSM jump all over it. Don’t sit there and tell me that the net, used by someone with the ability to exploit it can’t make the MSM dance a jig in Times Square, naked as the ball drops. Because they can, have and will continue to.
You do NOT need to spend a billion dollars on advertizing via the msm when the freaking audience is not watching TV news/most shows or reading news papers. You go to where the people are. Hello?!?!?
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