Posted on 04/10/2015 11:14:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
>>Why is any Republican talking to The Guardian? The most anti-American newspaper in the English-speaking world?<<
Senator Paul is trying to reach beyond the GOP base in several ways. One of those ways is to make presentations in arenas the GOP tends to either avoid or ignore. We’ll see how it works out, but I give him credit for trying.
Romans 1:..
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Proverbs 6:16-19
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
Oh, please. Are you working for him? Read the comments in any article/opinion piece in The Guardian regarding American politics. The Americans there DESPISE Republicans. They also despise America. They don’t give a damn if he’s a libertarian. He needs to smarten up.
The Guardian also reserves considerable venom for the British Conservative party.
The Guardian seems to hate everyone! What a gloomy rag it is. I read it for the recipes.
Paul is a lunatic but, the reporter is limey dick and can’t count.
Paul said he time for one more question and after this self serving blowhard pressed his luck, Paul walked off, as he had an appointment with Dana Bash.
No one has the right to take advantage of you or waste your time and being late is a four letter word.
Keep your schedule and your appointments on time to be efficient.
RitaOK, on the face of it I don’t have a problem with the ‘full field’ as you suggest. I do want to address a dynamic that causes me to feel just the opposite though. I think it is an important one.
We generally start out with about five to seven people. One of them is invariably a GOPe and RNC beauty queen since birth. That’s where the problem arises.
The more Conservative folks are popular. They each develop a following. Pretty soon each can expect about 10% of the delegates in the early going. At the same time the beauty queen since birth gets the Leftist Republican vote and in many of the early primaries and caucuses, they get the Democrat vote too.
The five who lean conservative pull in about 10 delegates each, and the GOPe and RNC beauty queen pulls in 25.
By the time you’ve got five of these under your belt, the Conservative guys have about 50 delegates and the beauty queen since birth has 250.
If we are serious about nominating the best Conservative, then we better get our act together right now. If we go the big field route, Jeb Bush will get the nomination without breaking a sweat. The Democrat cross over vote will ensure that.
Others may disagree with me, but that’s how I see it.
No problem. Thank you for the ping.
I appreciate what you are saying about delegates and I know it’s true that this is a delegate election if there ever was one, since the voters are so evenly divided.
I’m thinking even the delegates are going to have a tough time choosing among the Republican horses this time, with the strengths and appeal of almost all of them so obvious, in one way or another. And also, no one is very enthusiastic about the old guard of Hillary and Jeb for generating much interest and energy across a critically multicultural and generational population. Rubio, Bush and our guy, CRUZ, and even Governor Perry, can split the Mexican delegates, (illegal and legal), and Hillary had her own in-roads into the Hispanic vote.
I guess my point is that looking at our demographics, the media is going to have the most crushing influence on candidates and delegates, certainly early on, and they have to be hoping for a Bush nomination. Against Bush, those who bother to vote will likely pick the icky woman! The rest of our top field has potential to beat her. Our younger guys represent a new direction, are more interesting and vital, and a threat, when juxtaposed against sagging, unenergetic Hillary.
That is why I am so reluctant to tear up our field, until closer to state convention time.
Some on FR are already using the Left’s talk down points against Rand Paul, for example, who seems to me to be rather in a field of his own, but attracting Hillary voters, posing no threat to the style and substance of CRUZ’s conservative agenda. Yet.
As for Walker, and as a governor, he has been in a position of power and already inflicted so much damage to socialism in Wisconsin, that the Left has to be dreading his traction, so lately they have taken him off the radar screen, entirely. He is now boning up on the border issue, getting an earful from the border states. If he gets a clue on that, conservatives will hope he would fix that threat, as fast as he fixed the dang unions.
Mostly, I wanted to lay a baseline for defending others of our field, for the time being, without being eaten alive for “betraying” Cruz. You know how things will get around here, and TOO soon. I get what you are saying though, and I will think about the delegate clock and calendar. Thanks, so much, Rita
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