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TheJIM!gram© is a publication of Jim Jatras, the only announced prospect for the 2016 GOP Vice Presidential nod, addressing the daunting challenges facing our great country. Reposting and redistribution with attribution is permitted and encouraged. October 12, 2015 No. 1 In this inaugural issue of TheJIM!gram© I suggest: “IT’S THE CLOTURE, STUPID! BRING BACK THE FILIBUSTER TO RESTORE ‘POWER OF THE PURSE’” The chaos surrounding selection of a replacement for House Speaker John Boehner is a symptom of the ongoing civil war tearing the GOP apart. On the one side, we have Tea Partiers and other conservatives who want Republicans...

A leading GOP fundraiser and donor, who has used his money to urge GOP politicians and lawmakers to support LGBT-inclusive laws in the past, is ignoring Marco Rubio's HRC rating of 22 and is officially backing the Florida senator's bid for president.CNN reports. Paul Singer, who has a gay son, according to LGBTQ Nation, lauded Rubio and said he is "one of the best communicators the modern Republican Party has seen," in a letter sent out Friday to his donor network, as reported by the New York Times. "Marco Rubio can appeal to both the head and the heart. He...

Donald Trump Interview 1988 Republican convention.

You can't put lipstick on a pig but you sure can clean it up.

TheJIM!gram© is a publication of Jim Jatras, the only announced prospect for the 2016 GOP Vice Presidential nod, addressing the daunting challenges facing our great country. Reposting and redistribution with attribution is permitted and encouraged. October 29, 2015 No. 4 In this issue of TheJIM!gram© I propose: "Let Them Be Red While We Take Back Reagan’s Blue" There has been understandable chortling among Republicans that at the Democrats’ first debate they finally came clean on the “s-word.” Long considered almost taboo in American politics, the term socialism can now be considered mainstream in the party of (for now, anyway) Jefferson,...

BOULDER, Colo. -- Ted Cruz, who entered the Republican nomination contest needing every card to come up aces for him, hasn't been getting anywhere near the attention of the front-running outsiders or new establishment favorite Marco Rubio. But things are looking pretty good for the Texas tea partier, even after Rubio's standout performance in Wednesday night's debate. Cruz built a strategy months if not years ago, and it's working about as well as it possibly could. The short version: If he's the second choice for enough voters, he'll have the broadest base of support left when the dust clears. He...

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BOULDER, Colo.– Lindsey Graham 45% may register as little more than a blip in the presidential polls, but he doesn’t sound like a man — or candidate — dejected. On Tuesday night before the third Republican presidential debate, the South Carolina senator participated in an interview with Dana Bash as part of CNN’s “Politics on Tap” series, where he elicited a bundle of laughs from an audience of college Republicans and journalists at a local bar. As he left the event, he spoke with The Daily Caller about the state of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, the Middle East and...

On Saturday, Jeb Bush complained that he had “a lot of really cool things” to do other than run for president. He didn’t want to “sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them.” Gone, it seems, was the “joy in my heart” he had planned to campaign on. The next day, he traveled to Texas to assure donors that he was doing just fine. CNN reports that the previous day’s crowd had been raucous and receptive, but these old family donors have good reason to be worried. Despite their amassing the largest...

And by “other candidates,” I think we know which particular candidate they have in mind.Here’s the key bit from yesterday’s presser in Boulder, held just a mile away from tonight’s debate. Step one: Pronounce Trump persona non grata among Hispanic Republicans. That may or may not actually be true among rank-and-file voters, but the threat here doesn’t bite without that assumption, does it? “We want candidates to know: We’re monitoring your language. We are monitoring what you propose. And we’re going to hold you accountable,” said Alfonso Aguilar, head of the American Principles Project’s Latino Partnership…Although she did not...

Word is that Ford Motor, because of my constant badgering at packed events, is going to cancel their deal to go to Mexico and stay in U.S.

Conservative Hispanics have had it with Republican candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Subsequently, some of the top Hispanic organizations in the country are planning an "unprecedented meeting" to decide what role they will play in keeping these candidates out of the Oval Office...

Yesterday morning in our article “Establishment Republicans Walking Away From Full Obamacare Repeal” we told you about the Capitol Hill Republican leadership’s plan to maintain key parts of Obamacare while it indulges in another show vote to claim it has repealed the hated health care takeover. Ted CruzYesterday afternoon principled limited government constitutional conservative Senator Ted Cruz joined us in demanding that Republican congressional leaders keep their promise to repeal Obamacare “root and branch” by passing a simple one sentence repeal through a process known as reconciliation. Senator Cruz tweeted, “It's not complicated: We promised the voters full repeal of...

In every poll I see, Ted Cruz is a distant 4th, sometimes 5th. The guy has a very well organized ground game. He's knowledgable. He acts presidential. So why isn't he doing better in the polls? I'm interested in opinions.

@realDonaldTrump wins again: ppl inside @CNBC say he network will cave to his debate demands because ads sold based on Trumped-up audience

There is no doubt that conservative presidential candidate Donald Trump always says what he believes. He is a strong defender of American values and embodies the principles of Ronald Reagan. Now, we’re all seeing this recently unearthed 2011 interview Trump did with David Brody of the Christian Broadcast Network (CBN). He was asked to go into detail about his response to a question Bill O’Reilly on Fox News asked him about the Islam and Muslim problem in America. See full story on Video Resurfaces: Donald Trump's Views on the "Muslim Problem" - WHOA! - The Political Insider Trump has...

<p>KALONA, Iowa – Not impressed. That was Sen. Ted Cruz’s review of the Democratic debate.</p> <p>“It was more socialism, more pacifism, more weakness & less Constitution,” he told about 100 people crammed into a motel lobby in Kalona, a small town in southeastern Iowa. “It was a recipe to destroy a country.”</p>

The nation may have been focused on the Democratic Debate Tuesday evening, but Keokuk residents talked one on one with Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz at Beef, Bread and Brew. Cruz was welcomed by approximately 85 people, not including nearly 10 media outlets. “We’re here today because America is in crisis,” Cruz said. Cruz’s father fled Cuba in 1957 after being tortured by the Cuban government. Cruz is optimistic that future generations will have better lives due to people like his father. He said every person has someone in their family with a similar story reflecting the American dream. Cruz...

Last night’s Democratic debate was bad. I mean really really bad.You know you are lost as a party when “Are you a capitalist?” is considered a “gotcha” question. The Democrats spent the whole night attacking Republicans for being mean, pandering to illegal immigrants, downplaying the FBI investigation that is currently focused on Hillary, and pretending that Obama’s foreign policy has been working. It was an embarrassing display and while all the GOP candidates weighed in, it should come as no surprise that Ted Cruz’s reaction was the most powerful. From The Hill: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Wednesday that...

OSKALOOSA, Iowa – Sen. Ted Cruz asserted Wednesday that Hillary Clinton would certainly face criminal charges unless the White House interferes. And he went further, saying the former secretary of state’s fate hinges on whether she or the vice president emerges as the administration favorite to succeed Barack Obama. “It is almost accepted wisdom in Washington that Hillary’s indictment will just depend on some political hack in the bowels of the White House deciding Hillary up or Hillary down. That’s not how criminal justice is meant to operate,” Cruz said at a coffee shop in Oskaloosa, an hour southeast of...