Friday, February 19, 2016
The division in the Tea Party between religious conservatives and libertarians is starkly evident in South Carolina
Data from the SC House GOP poll of 3,500 likely voters shown tonight at Real Clear Politics indicates the Tea Party in South Carolina is evenly divided between religious supporters of Ted Cruz and nationalist supporters of Donald Trump (establishment candidates Bush and Kasich hardly register):
In South Carolina Trump is capturing the libertarians and independents Rand Paul once hoped to bring together
Data from the latest SC House GOP poll of 3,500 likely voters shown at Real Clear Politics:
Rush Limbaugh tries to undermine Trump emphasizing today that Trump backtracked on the-Bush-lied charge
But examine the transcript at length from last night's townhall when Trump addressed the Iraq war and you'll see Trump is sticking to his guns:
QUESTION: So - so do you think - do you think the president of the United States, George W. Bush, lied to the American people?
TRUMP: Well, look, I'm not going to get your vote, but that's OK. Let me just (inaudible). QUESTION: I'm just giving you another shot at it.
TRUMP: Let me - let me tell you something. I'll tell you it very simply. It may have been the worst decision - going into Iraq may have been the worst decision anybody has made, any president has made in the history of this country. That's how bad it is, OK?
Limbaugh's been under a lot of pressure from callers this week accusing him of stilted coverage which has showcased Trump at the expense of Cruz and the others. The last couple of days have suddenly featured more self-conscious attempts to show Rush's independence by including less than flattering coverage of Trump. It's not very convincing.
Limbaugh knows Ted's a losing proposition, but isn't all-in for the popular and undoctrinaire conservative Trump, whom Limbaugh customarily calls a non ideological candidate. The absence of that is what is holding Limbaugh back.
Rush Limbaugh doesn't get it that Trump turned the idea of a healthcare mandate on its head in last night's townhall remarks
When Trump said last night (transcript here) "Well I like the mandate" he didn't mean the individual mandate in Obamacare. Trump may not even have been aware that that's what Anderson Cooper was talking about.
Instead, Trump has his own idea in his head which means that there ought to be a mandate which applies to the government, not to the individual, which states that it is government's responsibility to provide healthcare to people who can't afford it and would die without it:
"I don't want people dying on the streets and I say this all the time."
"The Republican people, they're wonderful people. They don't want people dying on the streets."
"[T]here's going to a group of people at the bottom - people that haven't done well. People that don't have any money that won't be able to be care of [sic]. We're going to take care of them through maybe concepts of Medicare."
"You cannot let people die on the street, OK?"
"That's called heart. We gotta take care of people that can't take care of themselves."
That's all that's going on there, folks, despite what Ted Cruz partisan Rush Limbaugh is telling you in the show opener today. The mandate's in the "we're going to" and the "cannot" and the "gotta" in those statements.
Capisce?
Ralph Peters (ahem) rips Tim Cook a new one (ahem) for being such a queen (double ahem)
There's gotta be at least four in-you-endos in there.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
Here:
"Tim Cook is acting like Hillary Clinton - above the law, better than the rest of us."
Patrick J. Buchanan: Trump is rising because he's repudiating the Bush clan's anti-conservative policies
Patrick J. Buchanan, here:
“In the GOP nomination race, the chickens of a quarter century of Bush Republicanism have come home to roost,” Buchanan told Breitbart. “Trump’s triumphs to date are due to his recognition of, and identification with, the Middle American revolt against Bush family ideology and policy, and what it has produced.” ... “After the judges and tax cuts, what is there about Bush that is conservative? His foreign policy is Wilsonian. His trade policy is pure FDR. His spending is LBJ all the way. His amnesty for illegals is Teddy Kennedy’s policy… In smearing as nativists, protectionists and isolationists those who wish to stop the invasion, halt the export of factories and jobs to Asia, and stop the unnecessary wars, Bush is attacking the last true conservatives in his party.”
The True Born Sons of Liberty called on Republicans to repudiate the Bushes in July 2011 here:
A Credible Republican Candidate For President in 2012 . . . will be first and foremost the one who forthrightly repudiates the legacy of George W. Bush.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Governor Nikki Haley, not a natural born citizen who took down the Confederate flag, endorses not a natural born citizen Marco Rubio for president
Or: anchor baby endorses anchor baby, which won't fly.
From another story here:
Haley’s parents moved to South Carolina in 1969; she was born in January 1972. In those days, it took at least five years to be naturalized. So it’s evident Haley’s parents weren’t U.S. citizens at her birth. Thus she is ineligible to the offices of president and vice-president. For both, the Constitution says one must be a “natural born Citizen” of the United States, a deliberately higher standard than simple citizenship. ... Haley doesn’t make the cut. Neither do Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, and nor did—yes—Barack Obama. My question for the future: was Columba Bush a U.S. citizen when George P. was born?
Marco Rubio was frequently absent for high profile Florida 9/11 committee meetings just like he's absent in the US Senate
It's not a bug. It's a feature. Expect that also if elected president.
WaPo reports here:
Rubio did not give the job the attention that legislative leaders expected. He skipped nearly half of the meetings over the first five months of the panel’s existence, more than any of his colleagues, according to Florida legislature records. He missed hours of expert testimony and was absent for more than 20 votes — prompting the state House speaker who had given him the assignment to express concern, the committee’s chairman said.
Laugh of the Day: It used to be just a rhetorical question to ask "Is the pope catholic?"
Now it's a legitimate one.
Rush Limbaugh, just now.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
When Marco Rubio was city commissioner of West Miami in 1998 he voted for Honduran amnesty
Reported here:
While serving as a city commissioner in West Miami, Marco Rubio voted in favor of a city resolution urging the federal government to give Honduran illegal immigrants permanent resident status and free them from risk of deportation, according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller.
So that pushes back the timeline of his pro-amnesty sympathies to before 2006 when he was Speaker of the Florida House all the way to 1998.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Rush Limbaugh oversleeps and asks "Where's the conservatism?" when it's wherever Trump holds a rally
Here, today:
But there are a lot of people who have been donating to Republicans, and a lot of people who think they've been giving money to conservatives and conservative causes, and they've started asking themselves, what are they getting for it? Where is all this conservatism? People solicit money in Washington to keep conservatism alive, in Washington, in the Republican Party. "We're the guys that can do it. We have the contacts. We help 'em write policy. We help 'em understand policy." Great, great, that's fabulous, but where is it, a lot of people are asking.
Where is all the conservatism? Is it on Fox News? Is it National Review? Is it over at the American Spectator? Where is it? It isn't in the Republican Party. That is for darn sure, and so many people are livid about that. I'm talking about the party establishment. Yes, Ted Cruz. Look, what more do you want me to say? Ted Cruz is the closest living thing to Ronald Reagan we're ever gonna have in our lifetimes. I don't know what more I can say about Ted Cruz.
Trump's BASE is 40% of the country
After that he doesn't need very much more to win it.
From Mark Cunningham, here:
From the start, Trump targeted the (mostly) white working class, which happens to be 40 percent of the country. And he’s done it not just with issues, but with how he talks — the ball-busting, the “bragging,” the over-the-top promises.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Frank Luntz finally admits he worked for Marco Rubio in Florida: FOX would fire him if they had any integrity
Quoted here:
Pollster Frank Luntz acknowledges that he took money to help shape Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) political career, a fact that he did not disclose while praising Rubio on Fox News and on social media. ... Luntz admitted to Breitbart News that he once accepted payment to work for Rubio. “Yeah, nine years ago,” Luntz admitted. “Nine years ago.” Luntz defended the supposed impartiality of his post-debate focus groups.
Ten Senate Republicans got Loretta Lynch confirmed as Attorney General, maybe to SCOTUS too?
Without these ten Republican traitors, Loretta Lynch never would have been confirmed to the post of Attorney General (Roll Call Vote: 56-43 here, April 23, 2015):
Ayotte, New Hampshire !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cochran, Mississippi
Collins, Maine
Flake, Arizona
Graham, South Carolina
Hatch, Utah
Johnson, Wisconsin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kirk, Illinois !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McConnell, Kentucky
Portman, Ohio !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: vulnerable to defeat in election 2016)
Ted Cruz was too busy to vote, but Marco Rubio did.
From a story about Lynch here:
Lynch would be the first black woman ever nominated to the nation's highest court — and the GOP would have a political problem during an election year if the Republicans refused to even consider her nomination, Goldstein wrote.
"I think the administration would relish the prospect of Republicans either refusing to give Lynch a vote or seeming to treat her unfairly in the confirmation process," Goldstein wrote. "Either eventuality would motivate both black and women voters."
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