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LIVE SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY THREAD 2/20/16
2/20/16 | tatown

Posted on 02/20/2016 7:37:44 AM PST by tatown

Game time.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: bush; carson; cruz; elections; kasich; primary; rubio; sc2016; scgopprimary; southcarolina; trump
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To: TomGuy
The OLD Dems (Screech and Freebie) are campaigning as if they have not been in power the last 7 years.

"Screech & Freebie" sounds like a Saturday Morning Kid's Cartoon show.

941 posted on 02/20/2016 3:46:17 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: GilGil
You got it. He sure looks like a gay cabana boy!

The DC Towel Boy

Starring...

942 posted on 02/20/2016 3:47:04 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: All

Here we go...11 minutes till the results pour in.


943 posted on 02/20/2016 3:47:31 PM PST by RoosterRedux (When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. - Mark Twain)
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To: txhurl

If you are referring to Ted Cruz, they yes, my hope has never wavered. Sorry it is hard for me to keep with who in FR is for who. lol


944 posted on 02/20/2016 3:48:11 PM PST by annieokie
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To: bushwon

I would say Trump’s foreign policy decisions are somewhere between “I can’t decide if I want to shop in Paris today and dine in Rome or shop in Rome and dine in Paris........they are both TREmendous places”.


945 posted on 02/20/2016 3:48:16 PM PST by Toespi
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To: bigbob

She and Wanda played together


946 posted on 02/20/2016 3:48:20 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: grey_whiskers

hearing exits of Trump 30, Cruz 25, Rubes 24


947 posted on 02/20/2016 3:48:25 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: VanDeKoik

Bret Baier’s panel and especially Stephen Hayes are piimping that according to exit polls SC is going to be like Iowa. Unreal!


948 posted on 02/20/2016 3:48:49 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: mak5

uh huh. riiiiiiiiight


949 posted on 02/20/2016 3:48:54 PM PST by jimbo807
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To: tumblindice

ROTFLOL!

That there is funny.


950 posted on 02/20/2016 3:48:55 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue Ht the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: mak5

People hold up Ronald Reagan as the ultimate conservative.
There is no such thing. Everyone makes compromises.

Ronald Reagan’s liberal actions:

In 1950 Reagan helped raise money
for democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas
against Richard Nixon for California senator.

In 1966, Reagan put together a campaign group
to run for California governor. They were
Phil Battaglia, Casper Weinberger and Jack Warner.
They were all from the liberal Rockefeller wing of
the Republican party, not the conservative Goldwater wing.

Reagan Gets Bill Easing Abortion In California - Jun 14, 1967

June 14, 1967 The California Assembly passed and sent to Governor Reagan a bill easing the state’s abortion law, unchanged in 95 years.
Reagan said the bill was “by no means perfect” and would have to be watched closely to prevent California from becoming an abortion haven. But he said he would sign it despite his doubts about some possible “loopholes.”
“I am fully sympathetic with attempts to liberalize the outdated abortion law now on the law books of California,” the freshman governor said....
The bill...would permit abortions before the 20th week of pregnancy if:

-The prospective mother’s physical or mental health is in danger.

-The pregnancy resulted from incest or forcible rape, or statutory rape in the case of a girl 14 years old or younger.

The old law permits abortions only if the life of the prospective mother is endangered.

Reagan Gets Bill Easing Abortion In California - The Norwalk Hour - Jun 14, 1967
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yAlJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dAUNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5620%2C3433380

1970 Governor Reagan, who once said “taxes should hurt”,
disclosed he paid no state income taxes in 1970 on his
$44,000 governor’s salary and personal assets of around $1-million.
The average worker made around $5,000 per year back then.

1970 as governor, Reagan appointed Donald Wright as the
Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Wright’s
court later found the death penalty unconstitutional in California.

1972 Reagan supported the re-election of President Richard Nixon instead of giving support to conservative Republican candidate John Ashbrook, who ran an effort to dump Nixon.

As California Governor, Reagan used his own office funds to keep the Office of Economic Opportunity alive in the state and he tried to make California the first state to create its own consumer affairs dept.

1976 in his presidential run against Gerald Ford, Reagan chose the most liberal Republican Senator in the senate, Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate. In 1980, he chose another liberal running mate
George HW Bush.

1985 Reagan, as president, spent $5-billion to bail out the Continental Bank of Illinois. He also added
$9-billion to the International Monetary Fund so Mexico, Brazil and Argentina could pay the interest on
their big debts to the American banks. At the same time, he would not bail out American farmers.

Reagan’s 4th year budget was $141-billion more than Carter’s 4th year budget. Reagan’s total deficits for 4 years was 4-times the total of Carter’ 4-year total deficits.

Reagan increased the national debt in 4-years as much as all the presidents from Hoover to Carter did.

Reagan Supported the Brady Gun Bill in a speech at George Washington University in 1991.

In 1992 Reagan supported NAFTA (North American Free Trade Act) As a candidate in 1979 Reagan first talked about a North American accord. In 1992 Reagan made a plea in a Wall Street Journal editorial to, “tear down that trade wall”.


951 posted on 02/20/2016 3:48:58 PM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

bookmark


952 posted on 02/20/2016 3:49:13 PM PST by Mercat
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To: mak5

You really think Carter would want a wall or better trade deals ?


953 posted on 02/20/2016 3:49:28 PM PST by Carry me back (.Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: tumblindice
The problem with "conservative", which is a perfectly good word, is the it has been hijacked by The Conservative Movement™, which is a trojan horse for America-destroying globalism and transnationalist structures.

America is a rebuke and a stumbling block to the European and post-colonial states, who derive their sovereignty by descent from kings, princes, and a native aristocracy. Even though their governments have the appearance of popular sovereignty, as a practical matter, once in power, their authority is absolute.

The government at Washington exists (on paper) at the sufferance of the sovereign, it is not itself sovereign. As a result, it's impossible for a New World Order to govern the fifty States through treaties and ministerial arrangements.

Until we uproot the hidden governing structure of infotainment, polls, consultants, and donors, and remove The Conservative Movement™ from authority over what we can say and what policies for our own benefit we may consider, the nation remains at risk.

954 posted on 02/20/2016 3:49:31 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown, are by desperate appliance relieved, or not at all)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

They’re saying Cruz?


955 posted on 02/20/2016 3:50:16 PM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: RoosterRedux

15 minutes until race is called for Trump.


956 posted on 02/20/2016 3:50:31 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittancez)
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To: LS

I would take a Trump close win. Attacked all week by talk radio, TV and the pope...


957 posted on 02/20/2016 3:51:06 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: LS
hearing exits of Trump 30, Cruz 25, Rubes 24

Not a fan of those numbers. RINO Rubio is too high.

958 posted on 02/20/2016 3:51:29 PM PST by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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To: Nita Nupress; annieokie; AndyJackson; CAluvdubya; DAVEY CROCKETT; FoxyLady2; Pravious
How I answered the survey follows

1st column: Survey question
2nd column: 1: Strongly Agree  3: Neutral  5: Strongly Disagree
3rd column: . -- =The issue is not important to me,  o= Neutral importance,  ++= Important issue for me
   
Social Security should be privatized.  2: (tend to agree) o (neutral) 2
o
Employers should be legally required to hire more minorities (affirmative action). 4: (Tend to disagree) -- (not very important to me) 4
--
The government should provide stronger financial support to unemployed workers.
5
o
Obamacare should be repealed.
1
++
Religious values and principles should be shown greater respect in politics.
1
++
Voter ID should be required for voting.
1
++
The legalization of same-sex marriages is a good thing.
5
++
Restrictions of personal privacy on the Internet should be accepted to help investigate terrorist threats.
5
o
The legalization of the personal use of marijuana is to be welcomed.
4
--
Access to abortion should become more restricted.
2
++
The government should prioritize the development of green energy.
5
o
The wealthy should be taxed more heavily.
4
o
Government stimulus is an effective method for economic recovery.
3
o
Investment and stock market gains should be taxed more heavily.
4
--
Criminals should be punished more severely.
3
--
Gun ownership should remain an absolute right. 1
1
++
Immigration into the United States should be made more restrictive.
1
++
The military should be expanded.
1
++
The United States should protect its sovereignty from the United Nations.
1
o
The United States should not send ground troops to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
5
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Ted Cruz     
92%
Jim Gilmore     
90%
Marco Rubio     
85%
Jeb Bush     
83%
Ben Carson     
82%
Donald Trump     
80%
John Kasich     
78%
Jim Webb     
52%
Hillary Clinton     
33%
Bernie Sanders     
22%



I kept track of my answers, and after seeing how many times in this thread people were saying they thought the survey gave random answers, I took it a second time, and got identical results.

It appears to me that the survey is very fair as far as positions of the candidates is concerned and according to my studies of their positions. I imagine if my opinion of the strong importance of tradition and religion in our political structure were weaker, that Trump would come in higher than 80% for me - I sure could not rate agreement with his immigration stance higher more strongly.

Another thing this poll does not measure is how I strongly de-rate "establishment politicians"... and that factor alone would bring Bush, Webb and Clinton down 10%, bring Rubio, Sanders and Kasich down 5% in my view, and bring Trump and Carson up 5%. That adjustment would place Trump and Carson above Rubio for my results.

Gilmore? who knows Gilmore? LOL

Finally, the poll DOES have references that justify the way they are rating the candidates, often based on the candidates own website, otherwise by referencing articles where the candidate states his view, so criticisms of the way they rate each question are not well based. You can look through each candidate and see what they said and why the survey rated as it did. (I also put in fake name, email, zip code, sex, etc.)
959 posted on 02/20/2016 3:51:31 PM PST by AFPhys ((Liberalism is what Smart looks like to Stupid people - Trademark - Mia of KC. Rush - 1:50-8/21/15))
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To: Kenny

Oh yeh Stephen Hayes who hates Trump’s guts is just smiling like a Cheshire cat and they are all nodding and speculating. Unreal.


960 posted on 02/20/2016 3:51:44 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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