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REPUBLICAN LEADERS ...RNC AND FOX NEWS ARE PLANNING A BROKERED OR CONTESTED CONVENTION ELECTION 2016NEWS AND UPDATES...etc etc
The RNC is preparing a brokered convention...to not allow Marco Rubio to win...They will bring in an establishment candidate to give it to that candidate...What can be done about that..We know it will be Jeb or Rubio..They can do this because of the ways that they have structured the riles...this is incredible.. the pick at a brokered convention never wins..they said FDR was the last to ever win a brokered convention.What they are really doing is saying they had rather elect Hillary than have Trump win............I AM TOO DISGUSTED FOR WORDS
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Cleveland Cliffhanger? Prospects of a Deadlocked GOP Convention
The big winner in Iowa’s Republican caucuses on Monday night might not have been Ted Cruz. It may have been a nominating process that fails to yield a clear winner. A clear winner being a candidate who goes to Cleveland this summer with the presidential nomination in hand.
At the end of Monday night, which count really mattered? Delegates acquired. As of this writing, Cruz has bagged eight delegates, Trump and Rubio, seven each, with four other delegates going to also-rans.
Raw vote totals are what most folk tend to watch and weigh. But in 2016, it pays to more closely follow the candidates’ delegate totals. Thanks to the Republican National Committee (RNC), caucuses and primaries held prior to mid-March mandate proportional distribution of delegates based on candidates’ vote totals in given contests. Most early caucuses and primaries impose threshold minimums to win delegates (say, Alabama, with a 20% threshold).
Prior to Mid-March, 25 States, along with DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico, will hold proportional contests. That accounts for 1,022 bound delegates (“bound” being delegates committed to a candidate for the first vote). 45% of the bound delegates will be picked proportionally or in “hybrid” formats, which include triggering provisions for larger delegate yields for candidates who meet higher vote percentage thresholds. There are WTA (winner-take-all) thresholds, but those will be quite difficult to achieve.
Starting with Super Tuesday, March 15, most of the remaining states have opted to hold winner-take-all contests, though a handful will continue to make proportional distributions. From mid-March forward, 1,238 bound delegates will be chosen (Colorado’s delegates declare at convention).
The number of delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination is 1,237. There are a number of unbound (3 per state) and unpledged delegates. The unpledged delegates are mostly establishment picks who would factor in at a deadlocked convention.
Short of a breakout by one the major contenders (Trump, Cruz, and Rubio), it’s not hard to imagine a scenario where the proportional phase of the nominating process yields tightly packed delegate counts among the three. Complicating matters is if new life is breathed into the Carson, Kasich, or Christe campaigns (as improbable as that appears).
But, say you, won’t the nomination fight be resolved with Super Tuesday and the subsequent contests?
That could happen, but consider this prospect. Cruz, Rubio, and Trump take roughly a third each of the delegates in the proportional phase. For illustration, say, 340 delegates per man. That means in the winner-take-all phase, one of the principals would need to capture 897 of the available 1,238 bound delegates to win. That’s about 73% of the total or three out of every four delegates. Possible, but how likely? This assumes, too, that the principals are competitive with one another, affording each the chance to pick off states.
Cruz, Trump, and Rubio have the resources to stay the course. Trump is self-funding. Cruz’s fundraising operation is already solid and benefits all the more from his Iowa win. Rubio’s stronger than anticipated finish in Iowa boosts his fundraising. And as Rubio consolidates establishment voters -- as he began doing in Iowa -- and lesser establishment candidates drop out, expect a significant upswing in his campaign’s financial fortunes.
Writes Michael Snyder at “Before It’s News”:
[I]f no candidate is able to secure enough delegates, that means that we would end up with a “brokered convention”. The mechanics of a brokered convention can get quite complicated, but on a practical level what that would essentially mean is that the party establishment would get to hand select the nominee. And in case you are wondering, that would not be Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
Snyder’s assessment is flawed in a couple of respects (though not his conclusion about the candidates).
“Deadlocked” versus a “brokered” convention, the more accurate designation is “deadlocked.” A brokered convention suggests that party bosses call the shots nearly exclusively. The party boss era in American politics is long past.
Though unpledged delegates -- who are likely establishment recruits -- will play a critical role at a deadlocked convention, it’s important to remember that bound delegates are only committed to their candidates on the first ballot.
Thereafter, they’re unbound. Candidates’ and, perhaps, dark horses’ (yes, a draft is possible) primary focus for vote gathering will be among all those plentiful unbound state delegates. If the convention deadlocks, it’s going to be the Wild West, with plenty of wheeling and dealing, barroom brawls, shoot-outs, shenanigans, and backroom deals. But all that will occur across delegations and not just among the establishment few.
Snyder’s guess that the nominee won’t be named “Cruz” or “Trump” should a deadlock occur is reasonable. Deadlocked conventions -- if past brokered conventions are any guide -- tend to nominee candidates who at least appear more centrist or moderate. At a deadlocked 2016 Cleveland affair, the buzz word may be “electable.” Right now, Marco Rubio seems to fit the bill. As Snyder pointed out in his article, that’s not an endorsement; it’s merely an observation.
If the Republican field narrows to two principal candidates, then the chances for a deadlocked convention melt away. But if, as anticipated, Cruz, Trump, and Rubio (and possibly one or two others) remain in the race, then a deadlocked convention moves from “maybe” to “probable” with each passing primary, caucus, and state convention. The Republican presidential nominee who emerges will have done so after the fight of his political life – and ours.
The big winner in Iowa’s Republican caucuses on Monday night might not have been Ted Cruz. It may have been a nominating process that fails to yield a clear winner. A clear winner being a candidate who goes to Cleveland this summer with the presidential nomination in hand.
At the end of Monday night, which count really mattered? Delegates acquired. As of this writing, Cruz has bagged eight delegates, Trump and Rubio, seven each, with four other delegates going to also-rans.
Raw vote totals are what most folk tend to watch and weigh. But in 2016, it pays to more closely follow the candidates’ delegate totals. Thanks to the Republican National Committee (RNC), caucuses and primaries held prior to mid-March mandate proportional distribution of delegates based on candidates’ vote totals in given contests. Most early caucuses and primaries impose threshold minimums to win delegates (say, Alabama, with a 20% threshold).
Prior to Mid-March, 25 States, along with DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico, will hold proportional contests. That accounts for 1,022 bound delegates (“bound” being delegates committed to a candidate for the first vote). 45% of the bound delegates will be picked proportionally or in “hybrid” formats, which include triggering provisions for larger delegate yields for candidates who meet higher vote percentage thresholds. There are WTA (winner-take-all) thresholds, but those will be quite difficult to achieve.
Starting with Super Tuesday, March 15, most of the remaining states have opted to hold winner-take-all contests, though a handful will continue to make proportional distributions. From mid-March forward, 1,238 bound delegates will be chosen (Colorado’s delegates declare at convention).
The number of delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination is 1,237. There are a number of unbound (3 per state) and unpledged delegates. The unpledged delegates are mostly establishment picks who would factor in at a deadlocked convention.
Short of a breakout by one the major contenders (Trump, Cruz, and Rubio), it’s not hard to imagine a scenario where the proportional phase of the nominating process yields tightly packed delegate counts among the three. Complicating matters is if new life is breathed into the Carson, Kasich, or Christe campaigns (as improbable as that appears).
But, say you, won’t the nomination fight be resolved with Super Tuesday and the subsequent contests?
That could happen, but consider this prospect. Cruz, Rubio, and Trump take roughly a third each of the delegates in the proportional phase. For illustration, say, 340 delegates per man. That means in the winner-take-all phase, one of the principals would need to capture 897 of the available 1,238 bound delegates to win. That’s about 73% of the total or three out of every four delegates. Possible, but how likely? This assumes, too, that the principals are competitive with one another, affording each the chance to pick off states.
Cruz, Trump, and Rubio have the resources to stay the course. Trump is self-funding. Cruz’s fundraising operation is already solid and benefits all the more from his Iowa win. Rubio’s stronger than anticipated finish in Iowa boosts his fundraising. And as Rubio consolidates establishment voters -- as he began doing in Iowa -- and lesser establishment candidates drop out, expect a significant upswing in his campaign’s financial fortunes.
Writes Michael Snyder at “Before It’s News”:
[I]f no candidate is able to secure enough delegates, that means that we would end up with a “brokered convention”. The mechanics of a brokered convention can get quite complicated, but on a practical level what that would essentially mean is that the party establishment would get to hand select the nominee. And in case you are wondering, that would not be Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.
Snyder’s assessment is flawed in a couple of respects (though not his conclusion about the candidates).
“Deadlocked” versus a “brokered” convention, the more accurate designation is “deadlocked.” A brokered convention suggests that party bosses call the shots nearly exclusively. The party boss era in American politics is long past.
Though unpledged delegates -- who are likely establishment recruits -- will play a critical role at a deadlocked convention, it’s important to remember that bound delegates are only committed to their candidates on the first ballot.
Thereafter, they’re unbound. Candidates’ and, perhaps, dark horses’ (yes, a draft is possible) primary focus for vote gathering will be among all those plentiful unbound state delegates. If the convention deadlocks, it’s going to be the Wild West, with plenty of wheeling and dealing, barroom brawls, shoot-outs, shenanigans, and backroom deals. But all that will occur across delegations and not just among the establishment few.
Snyder’s guess that the nominee won’t be named “Cruz” or “Trump” should a deadlock occur is reasonable. Deadlocked conventions -- if past brokered conventions are any guide -- tend to nominee candidates who at least appear more centrist or moderate. At a deadlocked 2016 Cleveland affair, the buzz word may be “electable.” Right now, Marco Rubio seems to fit the bill. As Snyder pointed out in his article, that’s not an endorsement; it’s merely an observation.
If the Republican field narrows to two principal candidates, then the chances for a deadlocked convention melt away. But if, as anticipated, Cruz, Trump, and Rubio (and possibly one or two others) remain in the race, then a deadlocked convention moves from “maybe” to “probable” with each passing primary, caucus, and state convention. The Republican presidential nominee who emerges will have done so after the fight of his political life – and ours.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/cleveland_cliffhang...
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Thanks Jack...the way you phrased it could have been taken 2 ways..I did want clarification and that was the kindest way to get it...We are stil friends tho... friends must agree to disagree at times...
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I personally think Rush is wrong about the effect of this...I am surprised that he spoke of it as taking up for Trump.....The other candidates in all other POTUS DEBATES know that it is cowardly not to show up ...He is allowing all the candidates to get more face time to get their points across ..and is giving Cruz the chance of a lifetime....People with any common sense at all and not in the bag for Trump...see this for what it is...It is what it is and we shall all see soon...............Most of life is about showing up...It is called stepping up to the plate......It is about having the backbone to do so......
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DEBATE SCHEDULE CORRECTIONS.............
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Fox News Republican Debate
9pm ET (8pm CT, 6pm PT)
Aired On: Fox News Channel
Location: Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa
Sponsors: Fox News
Moderators: Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace
Candidates: To be determined=======================================================================
Saturday, February 6, 2016
ABC News/IJReview Republican Debate
Aired On: ABC
Location: Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire
Sponsors: ABC News, IJReview.com, WMUR
Moderators: David Muir and Martha Raddatz
Candidates: To be determined=======================================================
Saturday, February 13, 2016
CBS News Republican Debate
Aired On: CBS
Location: The Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina
Sponsors: CBS News
Moderator: John Dickerson======================================
Candidates: TBDThursday, February 25, 2016
CNN Republican Debate
Aired On: CNN
Location: University of Houston in Houston, Texas
Sponsors: CNN and Telemundo
Candidates: To be determined
Notes: Was originally scheduled for February 26. NBC was replaced by CNN as the sponsor, date moved to February 25.Thursday, March 10, 2016
CNN Republican Debate
Aired On: CNN
Location: University of Miami in Miami, Florida
Sponsors: CNN, The Washington Times, Salem Media Group
Candidates: To be determined================================================March, 2016*
Fox News Republican Debate
Aired On: Fox News Channel
Location: TBD
Sponsors: Fox News
Candidates: To be determined
*Debate sponsor has not yet
Read more at http://www.uspresidentialelectionnews.com/2016-debate-schedule/2016...================================================================================IOWA CAUCUS .........MONDAY FEB 1st
NEW HAMPSHIRE,,,,,,TUESDAY FEB 9th
SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY.........FEB 20th
NEVADA CAUCUSES ............TUESDAY FEB 23rd
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DE Rush is correct in a way. Trump has planned this exit from the debate for a while. He is a man who constantly looks at rating numbers, the higher the numbers the higher your value. That is his whole game. Trump would skip this debate even if Megan wasn't one of the moderators. There is greater value in stirring up this controversy then there is winning the Iowa caucus though this action still hasn't proven he will lose the caucus. Trump is interested in building his market value as high as he can get it during this nomination process, he could care less about being the President, in fact, I am fairly confident he will do whatever it takes to make sure of that.
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Interesting take away Jack...you may be right..At this stage it is hard to put anything past this totally self centered man.........
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As most people are obsessed with money, it is not strange how Trump is acting. Some have the skills to earn large sums of money but very few have the talent to market themselves into wealth. It is really not about himself, he just uses oneself to get the goal he seeks, money. All have the same objective, they just have different means to get there. Cruz is no different, he is using his skills to get the same results, money. That is what politicians do. Obama didn't run for president because he wanted to make the world decisions. It is all done for money. That is why it is so clear Trump does want this job, he want the money it will gain him just running for office. Just ask Palin how lucrative this business is.
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Disgusting! FOX News-Google Invited
Muslim Activist, Sanders Supporter
and Illegal Alien to Ambush Trump
at DebateGateway Pundit, by Jim Hoft Original Article Posted By: SoCalGal- 1/28/2016 8:27:39 AM Post Reply The Trump Campaign announced Tuesday Donald Trump will skip the FOX News GOP debate—.(Snip)It was a smart decision. Look at what Donald Trump is going to miss– FOX News and Google invited a radical Muslim activist, a Bernie Sanders supporter, a Black Lives Matter supporter and a Mexican illegal immigrant to the debate to confront Donald Trump. It’s crazy, isn’t it, that Democrat operatives and activists were, in essence, invited to protest Trump mid-debate.FOX News invited Dulce Candy to the debate. Dulce is an open borders activist who entered the US illegally when she was a child.No doubt, Dulce was invited to blast Sweden may reject thousands
of asylum applicationsCNN, by Radina Gigova and Joshua Berlinger Original Article Posted By: Drive- 1/28/2016 8:19:59 AM Post Reply Sweden´s interior minister said that his country is preparing to expel 80,000 asylum seekers over the course of the next year, according to media reports. However, his press secretary, Victor Harju, told CNN not to put too much stock in those figures. He called them vague, hypothetical estimates based on last year´s numbers. The Swedish government received about 163,000 applications from asylum seekers this year. On average, about 45% get rejected, Harju said, which adds up to about the 80,000 figure cited by the interior minister. That´s a bit higher than the European Union´s acceptance rate, in which 45% of those applying for B-G1-LC Trump, Sanders and
Our Rorschach ElectionsAspen Times, by Melanie Sturm Original Article Posted By: AVFD15- 1/28/2016 8:19:38 AM Post Reply “All the great inspiring leaders and organizations … think, act and communicate the exact same way … opposite to everyone else,” Simon Sinek revealed in his famous TED talk. They “start with why they do what they do.” Consider how these transformational whys moved masses to Think Again: “All men are created equal,” declared America’s founders; “I have a dream” — not a five-point plan — proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr.; “Think different” urged Apple and “Just do it” encouraged Nike en route to brand domination. In 2008, Barack Obama’s “Hope and Change” mantra quenched a thirst to challenge the How Bernie Sanders Undercuts
Hillary Clinton’s CharacterWall Street Journal, by Peter Nicholas Original Article Posted By: Drive- 1/28/2016 8:18:13 AM Post Reply DES MOINES, Iowa–With a flash of impatience, Bernie Sanders batted aside questions on Tuesday about Hillary Clinton‘s email controversy and her honesty. “I don’t want to get into these personal characterizations of Secretary Clinton,” the Vermont senator told reporters after visiting a steelworkers union hall. “I have known Secretary Clinton for 25 years. This is a distinguished woman. I like Secretary Clinton.” It’s a point of pride for the Vermont senator that he keeps a tight focus on issues. He wants to run a high-minded campaign. But with the Iowa caucuses just days away, Mr. Sanders has been edging closer to what Donald Trump’s Angry,
Perfectly Timed Debate ExitNew Yorker, by Amy Davidson Original Article Posted By: jackson- 1/28/2016 8:16:14 AM Post Reply Donald Trump’s campaign said that Fox News’s C.E.O., Roger Ailes, can’t “toy” with him, and so he’s not going to the network’s debate in Des Moines on Thursday night. The Republican debates had already become strange playthings, with giant planes on the stage, and grown men having tantrums about how much attention they were getting. They argued about how they would scare people in other countries and beat them up, and the less popular candidates attacked one another and hoped that no one would notice that they weren’t going after the bully. There was a debate in which they were Trump Campaign Manager Reveals
Fox News Debate Chief Has
Daughter Working for RubioBreitbart Big Government, by Matthew Boyle Original Article Posted By: SoCalGal- 1/28/2016 8:14:13 AM Post Reply DES MOINES, Iowa — Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, exposed a blatant conflict of interest on Wednesday that the Fox News Channel has been hiding for months. Lewandowski showed how Fox News has been hiding the fact that Fox News Channel Vice President Bill Sammon has a daughter working for the campaign of the Washington establishment-backed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% .Sammon’s daughter, Brooke Sammon, is Rubio’s national press secretary, and obviously both have a vested interest in the success of the Rubio campaign and the demise of the other campaigns. (Snip)Lewandowski revealed two things for the Clinton: ‘Anybody Who Knows
Me Knows You Can’t Buy Me’Washington Free Beacon, by Aaron Kliegman Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/28/2016 6:31:44 AM Post Reply Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said in an interview aired Wednesday night that special interest groups cannot buy her to gain access and influence as she continues to face scrutiny for taking large sums of money in speaking fees from the financial industry in recent years. Speaking over the phone with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Clinton was asked how she will respond to impending attack ads from her main primary challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I, Vt.), who is expected to target her ties to Wall Street. “As anybody who knows me knows, you can’t buy me,” Clinton said in response, defending her commitment Time for a Trump-Cruz Unity Ticket? American Thinker, by James Lewis Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/28/2016 6:23:49 AM Post Reply In parliamentary systems, when a nation like Britain was faced with a deadly threat, competing parties tended to form unity governments – because "the prospect of hanging in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully." In deadly crises, American politics also swings toward unity. In the face of the Hitler/Tojo war, Republicans reluctantly joined FDR and Truman in a united front. Republicans and Democrats also cooperated, at least in public, in the face of the Soviet threat. But with the Vietnam War, our political center broke apart, when the left drove repeated wedges into the American consensus, setting blacks against whites, women Hillary Decides What’s
Top Secret, What’s NotAmerican Thinker, by Jonathan F. Keiler Original Article Posted By: Desert Fox- 1/28/2016 6:17:48 AM Post Reply Hillary Clinton and her campaign minions are trying mightily to dismiss the conclusions of the intelligence community inspector general that highly classified Special Access Protocol (SAP) documents were transferred to Clinton’s unsecured private server. The first line of Clinton’s defense is (as usual) that the allegations are 1) nothing new and 2) politically motivated. But beyond this usual rote Clintonian response is the additional claim that the documents were also 1) not so classified when Clinton received them and 2) even if they were classified documents the information they contained was public knowledge anyway, so no harm, no foul. As to Look who’s cheering
the jailing of journalistsNew York Post, by Seth Lipsky Original Article Posted By: Honeybadger- 1/28/2016 6:03:31 AM Post Reply You know the line about how a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich? Well, feature the hoagie that’s been handed up in Houston, where a runaway grand jury has just indicted two anti-abortion activists for going undercover against Planned Parenthood. Supposedly the prosecutor was going to be investigating Planned Parenthood, but the grand jury ended up indicting the investigators. Now two young idealists could land in the big house for 20 years. This for the felony of “tampering with governmental records,” as the New York Times put it, “probably connected to their alleged use of fake driver’s licenses to get L.A.’s Mass Transit Fiasco Shows
Limits of Government ‘Investments’Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline Original Article Posted By: RockyTCB- 1/28/2016 6:00:29 AM Post Reply Los Angeles has spent $9 billion over the past three decades to build light rail and subway lines designed to entice people off of the car-choked highways and onto buses and trains. The system boasts six lines, 80 stations and more than 90 miles of track. So how is this investment paying off? There are fewer people using public transit than in the mid-1980s, when the only public transit option was the bus. That’s according to a terrific bit of reporting by the Los Angeles Times, which found that ridership is down 10% over the past decade and that the decline “appears to Microsoft co-founders $162m
yacht wrecks coral reefNew York Post, by Mara Siegler and Emily Smith Original Article Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 1/28/2016 6:00:20 AM Post Reply Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has spent millions on ocean conservation and backed programs to save endangered coral, but those reefs had better not get in the way of his 300-foot megayacht.Allen’s $162 million Tatoosh destroyed 13,800 square feet of coral reef in the Cayman Islands’ protected replenishment zone. Local officials said the massive anchor and chain wiped out most of the coral in the area on the western coast of Grand Cayman on Jan. 14."Initial figures place the damaged area at 1,200 square meters .?.?. with 80 percent of the coral within that area destroyed,” according to the Cayman Department Obama’s Legacy: Runaway
Deficits, Debt And Health CostsInvestor´s Business Daily, by Staff Original Article Posted By: RockyTCB- 1/28/2016 5:56:55 AM Post Reply The Budget: When President Obama released his first budget plan in 2009, he called it a “New Era of Responsibility.” What he produced was irresponsibility on a historic scale. “Government has failed to fully confront the deep, systemic problems that year after year have only become a larger and larger drag on our economy,” Obama said in his inaugural budget plan, promising to make “the tough choices necessary to … put our nation on sound fiscal footing.” Seven years later, a new Congressional Budget Office report reveals that Obama will bequeath chronic and rising deficits, rapidly expanding debt, and exploding
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on the rise, we can´t deny itArutz Sheva [Israel], by Ariel Ben Solomon Original Article Posted By: Attercliffe- 1/28/2016 9:33:04 AM Post Reply President Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first American president to speak at the embassy of a foreign country, when he visited the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., and spoke at the first ever ceremony in the United States posthumously honoring four Righteous Among The Nations. Coinciding with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the event honored two American and two Polish citizens. The designate Righteous Among The Nations is an official title awarded by Yad Vashem on behalf of the State of Israel and the Jewish people to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. In his Campaigning in style:
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through his warchestReuters, by Michelle Conlin and Grant Smith Original Article Posted By: jackson- 1/28/2016 9:20:05 AM Post Reply NEW YORK - There were stays at boutique hotels featuring rooftop pools, private soirees at members-only, jacket-and-tie clubs and fundraisers at the Four Seasons, the St. Regis and the Mandarin Oriental. In the world of Jeb Bush, the campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination has at times been a whirl of private planes and high-end affairs, according to the federal filings of Bush’s campaign and his Super PAC, Right to Rise, which can raise unlimited funds for Bush as long as it does not coordinate directly with him. It is not unusual for U.S. presidential candidates to fly We are witnessing the
end of the House of ClintonThe Hill, by John LeBoutillier Original Article Posted By: Drive- 1/28/2016 9:18:50 AM Post Reply It is the beginning of the end of the House of Clinton: 1. There is the stench of political death around Hillary, Bill, Chelsea and the entire House of Clinton. 2. You could feel it when Republican front-runner Donald Trump hit back — hard — over the "penchant for sexism" charge by basically calling Hillary Clinton an enabler in the former president´s sexual shenanigans. 3. When have we ever seen the Clintons back off? But they did. 4. Then came further reports about an expanded FBI probe of her handling of secure information; the nexus of State Department favors for donors R-G6-LC Trump´s reality TV trick
for the Iowa debateInvestor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article Posted By: SurferLad- 1/28/2016 9:18:22 AM Post Reply Here’s what will happen at tonight’s Trumpless Fox News Republican debate in Iowa: Several minutes into the debate in true reality-TV style, the New York billionaire will stride dramatically onstage as the center of all attention. The audience will gasp. Twitter will explode. A debate among seven serious Republican candidates will be hijacked by the real star of the show. [Snip] Everyone would then forget what is otherwise set to become possibly Trump’s worst mistake of his seven-month renegade campaign. Trump has had good moments in previous debates; laying that 9/11 line on a speechless Ted Cruz was one of Long Live the King PowerLine, by Steven Hayward Original Article Posted By: Hazymac- 1/28/2016 9:18:00 AM Post Reply I’ve been expecting the day would some when the identity politics Left would turn on Martin Luther King Jr, and that day has arrived. Students at the University of Oregon (and surely elsewhere) are demanding that one of King’s most famous phrases, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” be taken down from a wall display in the student center because it is “not inclusive enough.” Just wait until they read his “Letter Hillary´s email scandal now
potentially a matter of high treasonAmerican Thinker, by John Smith Original Article Posted By: magnante- 1/28/2016 9:12:14 AM Post Reply Memories of the Walker family spy ring and British double agent Kim Philby could be resurrected if a new angle of the FBI investigation works towards its logical conclusion. Catherine Herridge of Fox News reports that the FBI is going directly to the intelligence agencies that generated the assessments to determine the original classification level. (snip) the underlying reason to go to the sources of the assessments is to not only determine original classification, but to root out those who had access to those programs. This means Clinton-friendly members of the IC who were read on were not only "grossly Why I´m voting for Trump CNN, by MJ Lee* Original Article Posted By: Emerson- 1/28/2016 9:05:14 AM Post Reply They are showing up in droves to see Donald Trump: Men and women, overwhelmingly white, frustrated with the country´s first black president, fearful that they are being displaced by minorities and immigrants, and nostalgic for the way America used to be. And Trump is thriving, tapping into the fears and anxieties that have erupted into the open in an extraordinary presidential campaign. The voters pledging their allegiance to the Republican front-runner hail from all corners of the country. They work on farms, in nursing homes and run small businesses; they´ve voted for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and participated in the tea R-TA-Wide_2 How Donald Trump Beat Roger
Ailes at His Own GameBreitbart Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article Posted By: Emerson- 1/28/2016 8:58:24 AM Post Reply Did Fox News expect anything less from Donald Trump? After the network taunted the GOP frontrunner for two days leading up to Thursday’s Fox News GOP presidential debate, Trump finally decided to skip the debate on Tuesday evening, setting off another chaotic media firestorm that will make him the centerpiece of every story from here to the Iowa Caucuses on Monday. By pushing Trump over the edge in what the network may now clearly view as a miscalculation, Fox News may have inadvertently done Trump a favor while doing itself a huge disservice. When Trump and Fox News began sparring Chelsea Clinton Likes Jeb Bush
In The Republican PrimaryBreitbart Big Government, by Patrick Howley Original Article Posted By: SoCalGal- 1/28/2016 8:53:04 AM Post Reply Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea thinks that Jeb Bush is the best Republican candidate, confirming Americans’ worst fears about the friendly relationships between the political establishment on both sides of the partisan aisle. Chelsea Clinton spent Wednesday at a fundraiser at a New York city franchise of Soul Cycle, which is an indoor cycling exercise-gym chain frequented by upper-crust urbanites. (Snip) “The fundraiser was originally billed as a $2,700-a-head event, but with about 60 seats to fill, some attendees were able to snag tickets at the last minute for $50,” CNN reported.
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