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Who be Tennessee's pick for the GOP presidential nomination?
The Johnson City Press ^ | June 15, 2015 | Robert Houk, opinion page editor

Posted on 06/15/2015 1:37:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

There’s going to be an important race for the White House next year, but then again, every election for the leader of the United States and the rest of the free world is important.

It must be so, because a presidential election is the only time many Americans will step into a voting booth.

The 2016 campaign is well underway, with Hillary Clinton already taking shots from would-be Republican nominees.

As of this writing, there are 20 declared GOPers and at least five other credible Republicans still mulling bids.

Of course, Hillary is also under fire from a self-professed socialist, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Sanders is actually an independent who caucuses with Democrats, but is presently getting his kicks and giggles by exposing Mrs. Clinton as the Wall Street insider and big business-loving moderate she is.

It’s been interesting to see how Hillary has handled the role of early frontrunner. She has been somewhat reserved in the past month. That will soon change.

The real fun, however, is watching the Republicans scramble to make the grade. Who will emerge as the GOP frontrunner? Who will Tennessee Republicans back?

Two of the declared candidates in the GOP field have made their marks before in Tennessee. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the state’s primary over U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona in 2008 and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania topped former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in this state’s 2012 primary contest....

(Excerpt) Read more at johnsoncitypress.com ...


TOPICS: Tennessee; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; bush; gop; hillary; huckabee; santorum; tedcruz; tennessee
Yes, that's the actual headline.
1 posted on 06/15/2015 1:37:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>> Yes, that’s the actual headline.

It be a valid question to axe.


2 posted on 06/15/2015 1:39:09 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Nervous Tick

The author is whiter than milk.


3 posted on 06/15/2015 1:40:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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Yeah, I saw his picture... but in transracial America, who can be sure?


4 posted on 06/15/2015 1:42:00 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Davy Crockett?


5 posted on 06/15/2015 1:43:54 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Yes, that's the actual headline.

What be wrong with it?

6 posted on 06/15/2015 1:45:12 PM PDT by tnlibertarian
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Last week, Cruz named Kevin Kookogey, a former chairman of the Williamson County Republican Party and a crusader against Shariah Law, as his campaign’s chairman in Tennessee.

Works for me. One of our RNC committeemen from Michigan has a long history of fighting against Sharia law in Michigan, the Other is Mitt Romney's niece.
7 posted on 06/15/2015 1:50:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (You vote for your TPP supporter and I'll vote for mine.)
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To: Resolute Conservative
Davy Crockett?

When Tennessee failed to re-elect him to congress, he told his constituents "You can all go to hell. As for me, I'm going to Texas."

And so he did, off to the Alamo and immortality.

You've got to admire what he told his constituents almost as much as what he did at the Alamo.

8 posted on 06/15/2015 2:05:47 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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"You can all go to hell. As for me, I'm going to Texas."

I always thought that was way cool.

9 posted on 06/15/2015 2:26:08 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be" said the Cat,"or you wouldn't have come here.")
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To: Nervous Tick

“It be a valid question to axe.”

LOL!


10 posted on 06/15/2015 2:44:49 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: Nervous Tick

Actually it’s not. He is a stupid East TN writer. He knows by the time our primary comes around the nominee is usually picked already.


11 posted on 06/15/2015 2:58:18 PM PDT by Fledermaus (NO RINO 2016 or I stay home. Shove it FR RINO lovers.)
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To: Nervous Tick

It show is!


12 posted on 06/15/2015 3:11:59 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They never got over Howard Baker’s 1980 campaign.


13 posted on 06/15/2015 4:10:14 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But is he writing the head line or was his article pasted off to someone else?
My guess is he didn’t write the headline.


14 posted on 06/15/2015 4:14:20 PM PDT by deport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author is not only whiter than milk, he’s a hard core Dim in an overwhelmingly Republican area. He constantly shills for Dims and trashes Republicans (particularly conservatives; establishment types, not so much).


15 posted on 06/15/2015 5:39:58 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Um, Cruz is who be the pick.

And, Cruz is also getting donations from this TNMOUTH too :-)


16 posted on 06/15/2015 6:53:40 PM PDT by TNMOUTH
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