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Rogers: The fade of the liberal left
The Iowa State Daily ^ | February 9, 2015 | Clay Rogers

Posted on 02/09/2015 12:03:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They pulled a 1/2 term, absentee Senator out of nowhere, and he’s a two-termer as President. The Democrats are not going away.


21 posted on 02/09/2015 6:24:06 AM PST by cdcdawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m not sure that Hillary! is the inevitable Dim candidate and I’m not sure she’ll even run - she was going to announce in the Spring, and I’ve read recently read that she won’t announce until July (something like time is on her side). While she has and will receive a boatload of money if she runs, I’ve read that Jim Webb is interested. While I would never vote for him, IMHO he might be a more formidable candidate than Hillary.


22 posted on 02/09/2015 6:37:51 AM PST by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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Though the leftist-induced "culture war" ended many years ago, the cunning, ruthless culture warriors survive---still living on the hefty income they managed to skim off for themselves from their endless govt spending. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 acceptance speech will almost certainly be the last gurgling bubbles of the sinking leftist ship.

(The 10th anniversary of what?). (Yawn) My, how time flies. Politico got suckered into sponsoring a cocktail party at the 10th anniversary event marking the (gag) "Clinton Presidential Center."

Opportunistic Billy-boy hoped "stupid Americans" would ignore the details when he pontificated to an appreciative audience during the cocktail hour hosted by POLITICO: "We had 100 times as many people move from poverty into the middle class. This shows the importance of policy."

Pumping 2016 Hillary, he added: "We can do this again.”

OOPS---Billy Boy plumb "forgot" infamous MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber crunched those numbers for the ever-ambitious Clintons....basing the numbers on the Clintons' knee-bending abortion worship. Read on.

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World Net Daily reported November 14, 2014
BY Jerome R. Corsi / FR Posted by Cincinatus' Wife

NEW YORK – Obamacare architect, Jonathan Gruber, (exposed for his frank admissions that passing Obama's signature legislation required lying to "stupid" Americans)......published a paper during the Clinton administration observing that legalizing abortion saved the government $14B in assistance to economically disadvantaged mothers, including African Americans.....and lowered crime.

MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber argued in his Clinton paper that without the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, “marginal children” would have been born to many poor mothers. Gruber said statistics show these aborted children would have been 70 percent more likely to live in a single-parent family, 40 percent more likely to live in poverty, 50 percent more likely to receive welfare and 35 percent more likely to die as an infant.

Economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner in their bestselling 2005 book, “Freakonomics,” relied on MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber’s work to argue that legalizing abortion was responsible for an approximately 50 percent reduction of crime in major urban centers in the early 1990s. more at wnd.com ==

23 posted on 02/09/2015 7:17:32 AM PST by Liz
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To: All
Though the leftist-induced "culture war" ended many years ago, the cunning, ruthless culture warriors survive---still living on the hefty income they managed to skim off for themselves from their endless govt spending. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 acceptance speech will almost certainly be the last gurgling bubbles of the sinking leftist ship.

30-second quiz.

q. Who is 2016 candidate Hillary beholden to?

a. QATAR DONOR TO CLINTON FOUNDATION/LIBRARY: The tax-exempt, nonprofit Clinton foundation lists Brunei along with Kuwait, Oman and Qatar as donors that gave the Clintons between $1 million and $5 million (to date).

The Clinton foundation itself confirmed the donations: "The Clinton Foundation's impact would not be possible without the generous support of our donors," the foundation's website reads. "Their contributions have made a difference in the lives of tens of millions across the world." Read more at foxnews.com ...

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30-second quiz.

q. Who is 2016 candidate Hillary beholden to?

a. w/ a straight face, Hillary recently told Greta the Gitmo Five are NOT a problem to the US. Hillary completely forgot to mention the buddy-buddy Qatar/Clinton connection.

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30-second quiz.

q. Who is 2016 candidate Hillary beholden to?

a. Clinton donor----Qatar----also facilitates donations to further the beheadings and immolations conducted by ISIS.

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30-second quiz.

q. Who is 2016 candidate Hillary beholden to?

a. Sharia-loving Emir of Qatar accepted the Gitmo Five terrorists relocated in the Bergdahl swap---living happily ever after in the lap of luxury.

24 posted on 02/09/2015 7:19:48 AM PST by Liz
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To: All

Though the leftist-induced “culture war” ended many years ago, the cunning, ruthless culture warriors survive-—still living on the hefty income they managed to skim off for themselves from their endless govt spending. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 acceptance speech will almost certainly be the last gurgling bubbles of the sinking leftist ship.

So who is 2016 candidate Hillary beholden to? Who is lying in wait for her presidential pen to unleash zillions of tax dollars in interest?

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors

The Clinton Foundation Contributors (partial list of donors):

Donations greater than $25,000,000.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation *

Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada) *

Fred Eychaner *

Frank Giustra, The Radcliffe Foundation

The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation

UNITAID

* Indicates a contribution was made by this donor in 2013.

Donations of $10,000,001 to $25,000,000

Donor name

AUSAID

Stephen L. Bing

COPRESIDA

Tom Golisano *

Government of Norway

The Hunter Foundation *

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Nationale Postcode Loterij *

Cheryl and Haim Saban & The Saban Family Foundation

The ELMA Foundation

Theodore W. Waitt

* Indicates a contribution was made by this donor in 2013.

Donations of $5,000,001 to $10,000,000

S. Daniel Abraham

Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Inc. *

Commonwealth of Australia, DIICC *

Elton John AIDS Foundation

Government of the Netherlands *

Irish Aid

John D. Mackay *

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation *

Michael Schumacher

State of Kuwait

The Coca-Cola Company

The Wasserman Foundation *

* Indicates a contribution was made by this donor in 2013.

Donations of $1,000,001. to $5,000,000

100 Women in Hedgefunds

Absolute Return for Kids (ARK)

Jay Alix

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa *

Alltel Corporation

Nasser Al-Rashid

Anheuser-Busch Foundation

Smith and Elizabeth Bagley *

Mary Bing and Doug Ellis

Richard Blum and Blum Family Foundation *

The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation

Susie Tompkins Buell Fund of the Marin Community Foundation *

The Sherwood Foundation *

Richard and Jackie Caring *

Gilbert R. Chagoury

Cisco *

Citi Foundation

Clinton Family Foundation and William J. Clinton *

Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund *

Victor P. Dahdaleh & The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Charitable Foundation

Robert Disbrow

Dubai Foundation

Duke Energy Corporation *

Entergy *

Issam M. Fares & The Wedge Foundation

Wallace W. Fowler

Friends of Saudi Arabia

Fundacion Telmex *

Mala Gaonkar Haarman

The James R. Greenbaum, Jr. Family Foundation

ICAP Services North America *

J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation *

Sanela D. Jenkins

Robert L. Johnson *

Walid Juffali

Dave Katragadda

Kessler Family Foundation

Michael and Jena King *

Lukas Lundin

MAC AIDS Fund

Lakshmi N. Mittal

James R. Murdoch

Norad (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) *

OAS S.A. *

Denis J. O’Brien *

OCP Corporation *

Open Society Institute

PGA Tour, Inc. *

Presidential Inaugural Committee

Princess Diana Memorial Fund

Procter & Gamble *

Stewart Rahr

Paul D. Reynolds

Robertson Foundation

Salida Capital Foundation

Joachim Schoss

Bernard L. Schwartz *

Arnold H. Simon

Bren Simon *

Amar Singh

Carlos Slim Helú & Fundación Carlos Slim *

Michael Smurfit

Steven Spielberg *

State of Qatar

Sterling Stamos Capital Management, LP

The Streisand Foundation *

Suzlon Energy Ltd.

Swedish Postcode Foundation *

Swiss Reinsurance Company *

Nima Taghavi *

The Annenberg Foundation

The Boeing Company *

The ELMA Philanthropies Services (U.S.) Inc.

The Government of Brunei Darussalam

The Howard Gilman Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation *

The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust

The Sidney E. Frank Foundation

The Sultanate of Oman

The Swedish Postcode Lottery

The Walmart Foundation

The Zayed Family

Torres-Picón Foundation *

T.G. Holdings

U.S. Green Building Council *

UK Department for International Development (DFID)

Verein Aids Life

The Walton Family Foundation

Gerardo Werthein

Seven more category of donors [drop down lists for each donor group] at Clinton Foundation link.


25 posted on 02/09/2015 7:25:28 AM PST by Liz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What will happen when the Bruce Braleys of this world inherit the party?

The likes of Cory Booker will step in. Nature abhors a vacuum.

26 posted on 02/09/2015 7:31:06 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Those who profess noblesse oblige regress to droit du seigneur.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
What, exactly, has Hillary ever accomplished?

What did Obama accomplish, before winning the White House twice?

27 posted on 02/09/2015 10:44:32 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Well...he did defeat the invincible Hillary in the 2008 primary. That counts fer sumptin, don’t it?


28 posted on 02/09/2015 10:47:44 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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“What, exactly, has Hillary every accomplished?”

She is the most brilliant, most accomplished, smartest, most mentally agile, caring, loving, in-tune-with-everything woman who has ever been a co-president, Secrecatry of State, all-around superior intellectual who has ever walked the face of the earth.

/Sarcasm/

IMHO


29 posted on 02/09/2015 11:33:55 AM PST by ripley
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To: Cowboy Bob

I don’t know if that should count...but when I read the line “Democrat warrior queen”...I threw up in my mouth a little...


30 posted on 02/09/2015 1:45:19 PM PST by Crapgame (What should be taught in our schools? American Exceptionalism, not cultural Marxism...)
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To: Lake Living

You had no replies to your post. Why is that possible? People deeply afraid of being monitored by the halfies, incoherent elitism or just plain stupidity? There may be other genetic options. Good post, Lake Living.


31 posted on 02/10/2015 1:52:56 AM PST by RedHeeler
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Re: “What makes you say that Ted Cruz cannot win nationally?”

In Texas, in 2012, Mitt Romney got 100,000 more votes than Cruz.

Romney also beat Cruz by percentage:

Romney: 57.1%
Cruz: 56.4%


32 posted on 02/10/2015 3:25:30 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
Was Cruz running for President?


There is an entirely different dynamic when voting in a national or single State/district election (Not to mention name recognition, shift in campaign strategy/tactics etc...). In the recent past, Democrat Senators/Governors in the South have traditionally won races in States where Republican national candidates would crush their Democrat opponent.

Then you have voters who only vote for Presidential Candidates and leave the rest of the ballot blank.
33 posted on 02/10/2015 3:44:17 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: rollo tomasi; 2ndDivisionVet

Re: “Then you have voters who only vote for Presidential Candidates and leave the rest of the ballot blank.”

That’s why I provided the percentage numbers.

Romney got a higher percentage of Texas presidential voters than Cruz’s percentage of Texas senate voters.

That is meaningful, because there are Democrats, too, who vote just for president and leave the rest of the ballot blank.

By the way, the only Texas exit poll I can find on Cruz’s senate race shows Cruz got just 35% of the Latino vote.

Here’s the link:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/11/13/1178721/poll-latino-republican-sen-elect-ted-cruz-received-no-boost-from-latinos/

Finally, why don’t give me a list of the states that Cruz will win, but Romney lost.

In other words, please show me how Cruz gets to 270 electoral votes.


34 posted on 02/10/2015 4:16:46 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
Has there been a Presidential debate yet? Heck, has there been a campaign launched yet? Also your analysis did not address the different dynamics between State/district and Federal at all.

Also, what were Obama's Presidential poll numbers in January 2007?

You should be glad though, the GOP are winning the war for open Primaries so that limited government candidates will be undermined.
35 posted on 02/10/2015 5:12:30 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: zeestephen

BTW, what were Reagan’s poll numbers in January 1979 as well? Carter was polling 54% in ‘79. Gee, how did Reagan manage to get the 270 in ‘80, LOL? You are a defeatists of the lowest order who would of justified sucking the Crown in 1774. “We can’t win General Washington, the numbers say so...”


36 posted on 02/10/2015 5:17:37 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: rollo tomasi
Re: “what were Reagan’s [presidential] poll numbers in January 1979?”

I have a better question.

Could Reagan win California if he ran for president in 2016?

The answer is no.

In the 1980 presidential election, Reagan got just 52.7% of the vote in California.

In 1980, about 20% of California voters were non-white.

In 1980, almost 70% of non-whites voted against Reagan.

In 2016, almost 50% of California voters are non-white.

In 2016, if Reagan won the same racial percentage he won in 1980, he would lose California by at least 5 points.

37 posted on 02/11/2015 1:49:28 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: rollo tomasi

Re: “You should be glad though, the GOP are winning the war for open Primaries so that limited government candidates will be undermined.”

I have no idea what you are talking about.

I have always supported closed primaries.

The GOP can have closed primaries any time it wants them.

All we need to do is pay for our own primary elections.

Then we can write our own election rules.

Instead, a majority of Republicans, like you, demand that taxpayers pay for our primary elections.

Then you complain because the GOP has to obey state and federal election laws.


38 posted on 02/11/2015 2:02:21 AM PST by zeestephen
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