Posted on 02/06/2016 2:14:58 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
The Iowa Republican winner appeals by trumpeting the gold standard, privacy rights and limits on eminent domain
Eric Eastman, a pony-tailed actor from Nashua, N.H., became a coveted commodity here last week.
In the hours after Sen. Rand Paul dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday, the libertarian state representative and passionate Paul supporter says he fielded a personal phone call from Jeb Bush and an offer from Donald Trump's campaign promising VIP treatment. Even an aide to Chris Christie reached out. But as he processed his grief over Paul's exit, Eastman already had a new candidate in mind.
On the night of Paul's exit, Eastman went to see Ted Cruz in Nashua, N.H. When Eastman asked for a one-on-one meeting with the Texas senator, the campaign invited him onto the senator's campaign bus, where Eastman chatted with Cruz about Medicaid expansion during an hour-long drive to Portsmouth. By Friday night, Eastman was onstage at a jam-packed Cruz town hall at an elementary school in Salem, N.H., offering his endorsement and telling the crowd that the Tea Party Texan and the Kentucky libertarian were "close cousins" philosophically...
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Me too....
"Republicans didn't have anything going for them with respect to Latinos and with respect to Asians," the billionaire developer says.
"The Democrats didn't have a policy for dealing with illegal immigrants, but what they did have going for them is they weren't mean-spirited about it," Trump says. "They didn't know what the policy was, but what they were is they were kind."
Romney's solution of "self deportation" for illegal aliens made no sense and suggested that Republicans do not care about Hispanics in general, Trump says.
"He had a crazy policy of self deportation which was maniacal," Trump says. "It sounded as bad as it was, and he lost all of the Latino vote," Trump notes. "He lost the Asian vote. He lost everybody who is inspired to come into this country."
The GOP has to develop a comprehensive policy "to take care of this incredible problem that we have with respect to immigration, with respect to people wanting to be wonderful productive citizens of this country," Trump says..... Source
None of the other candidates is even close. I hope Cruz continues on this path and can carry it off.
No, Cruz is solid on immigration and border security.
You know, Kasich does look like someone who would appeal to a part of the Red Hampshire electorate. About the worst of the field
OK, I guess he'll have to settle for liberatrians, conservatives & Reagan Democrats...
I suspect once the Rubio surge is over, then Kasich will be the next one to surge.
Trump guy I know say lots of Paul people switching to Trump
because they know the establishment is against Trump just like they hate Libertarians, who are always anti establishment.
Cruz lies on Amnesty. And he wanted 500 percent more H1B visas issued.
View this Bret Bair interview with Ted Millhouse Cruz
http://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/category/video/P6
Bret catches Cruz lying and Ted just stutters. Bret just looks on smiling.
Thank you for the reminder, dear Gator. You’re quite right. I checked back and I did kind of look like *lobbylu there for a minute, with the caps and the exclamation marks. LOL!! %:D
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