This is totally possible, totally. We are talking about the Teaparty here…
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He’s running for president, so there is blatant pandering going on. If you can vote, Rand Paul is your friend. Paul is hoping that folks forget certain things about his true philosophy and past votes, but there are a few truths that just wont go away, no matter how much pandering he does.
Chris Matthews of MSNBC actually made some news Monday night. He did not beat up on the president. And that in itself is amazing providing that of lately, the Hardball host has been on a personal vendetta it seems, to help bolster the Republican’s talking points.
Oh, and Matthews made another set of news. In an interview with Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz and Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, Matthews asked Chaffetz his opinion on whether two-time loser Mitt Romney is running for president a third time. Chaffetz answered with no doubt in his mind that Mitt Romney is in deed, running!
Chaffetz even went as far as predicting that in 2016, the Flipper will be the next president of the United States.
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Republicans thought their constant criticism of Hillary Clinton about the whole Benghazi made up fiasco would persuade the former Secretary of State not to run for president in 2016. But according to a recent interview, Hillary Clinton says that Benghazi should be the reason she runs for president.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the criticism for her handling of the 2012 attack in Benghazi is “more of a reason” to run for the presidency in 2016 than not.
“Actually, it’s more of a reason to run, because I do not believe our great country should be playing minor league ball,” Clinton told ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, according to a transcript. “We ought to be in the majors.”
As if having another Bush running for president is not a bad enough idea, George Bush – the guy who wrecked the economy with two unpaid, off-the-budget wars, and who blew a budget surplus in the first couple of years of his presidency – is making himself available to help his brother Jeb run for president in 2016.
In an interview scheduled to air Thursday on CNN, George Bush tells Jake Tapper that he is more than willing and available to help his brother run in 2016.
“Hey Jeb,” Bush says, “if you need some advice, give me a call.”
Bush continued sharing information no one cares about saying, “I really have not talked to Jeb about the presidency. It’s hard for people to believe.”
He then adds, “I hope Jeb runs. I think he would be a great president. I have no clue what’s on his mind. And we’ll talk when he’s ready.”
How much torture are we supposed to take from this family? Haven’t we had enough? Are we supposed to succumb to the Bush every time another member of that family figures out another way to bankrupt the country?
These bushes are like poison ivy. They’re the itch that never goes away!
He knew what he was about to say made no sense, but the Newsmax conservative host Steve Malzberg went ahead and made his dumb statement anyway.
“Now pardon the skeptic in me,” Malzberg said. “Oh I can see Media Matters, I can see everybody going crazy on me now. Malzberg thinks this was a staged, planned pregnancy?”
“Well, now I’m not saying, when I say staged I have to believe she’s pregnant, if she says she’s pregnant. I don’t mean that they’re making up she’s pregnant. But what great timing! I mean purely accidental, purely an act of nature, purely just left up to God.”
“And God answered Hillary Clinton’s prayers and she’s going to have the prop of being a new grandma while she runs for president,” he added. “It just warms the heart, it brings a tear to my eye. It really does.”
To these Republican nut jobs, everything is political.
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James Carville has some words of wisdom, not necessarily for the Republicans or the Republican party, but for anyone with some sense who is willing to listen.
According to Carville who appeared on a Sunday roundtable on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Carville said if the Republicans lose the presidential election in 2016, they might as well pack it up and go home… forever!
“Trust me,” Carville said, “the party knows, and I use this word advisedly, that if it loses the 2016 presidential election, the Republican Party as we know it today will be extinct.”
“We heard that in 2008, too,” said Republican apologist Laura Ingraham, who was also on the panel with Carville.
“This will be the sixth out of seven elections in which they’ve lost the popular vote,” Carville replied. “The Republicans want to win this. That will be the biggest issue in January 2016: how can we beat Hillary Clinton?”
The end of the Republican party is enough reason to vote Democratic in 2016!
Over the weekend, she said that she would “make a decision soon.”
According to the Texas newspaper The Monitor, Clinton made the comments at a Texas fundraising event Sunday for the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation during a question and answer session with Doctors Hospital at Renaissance CEO Israel Rocha.
When Rocha asked the former first lady if she would run in 2016, Clinton said she “would make a decision soon,” Abby Reyna, an attendee at the event, told The Monitor.
Another attendee, Democratic state Rep. Bobby Guerra gave a different version of what he recalled Clinton as having said, according to The Monitor.
“She said she would make a decision at sometime in the future, at the appropriate time,” Guerra said.
Clinton made a speech at the event about the state of U.S. healthcare and also talked about some of the lessons she learned from other countries as secretary of state.
Sen. Rand Paul leads the GOP 2016 pack, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is more likely to be perceived as capable of handling crises than is President Barack Obama, according to new survey data released Sunday.
A CNN/ORC International survey found Paul the slight favorite for his party’s nomination, with 16 percent of those polled on the question tapping the Kentucky Republican as their choice for the 2016 GOP nod. He was closely followed, within the margin of error, by 2012 vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who pulled in 15 percent; and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, with 11 percent.
Perry, whose unsuccessful 2012 bid was characterized by a series of high-profile missteps, made a big splash at the Conservative Political Action conference earlier this month. Like Paul, he has signaled he is weighing a 2016 presidential bid.
On the other side of the aisle, Clinton was the prohibitive Democratic favorite according to the survey, clocking in with 63 percent support for the 2016 presidential nod. She was followed by Vice President Joe Biden at 13 percent.
The March 7-9 survey of 801 adults across the country — including 367 Republicans and voters who lean Republican; and 372 Democrats and voters who lean Democratic — hase a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
Other data from CNN/ORC indicated that 64 percent of Americans surveyed perceived Clinton as “tough enough to handle a crisis” and the same percentage of people called her a “strong leader,” while only half called Obama a “strong leader” and 53 percent said he is “tough.” Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed considered her likable, the poll said. However, the survey also found that only 50 percent of those polled would be “proud” to have her as president.
What is Mitt Romney up to? The Washington Post is reporting that the former Republican presidential loser has scheduled a meeting with his former campaign aides. They’re calling the meeting a “ski trip.”
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee has invited his debate prep advisers and senior campaign aides to his mountaintop chalet in Park City, Utah, for a weekend of skiing later this month, according to two people close to Romney.
The reunion of Romney’s political brain trust comes amid a burst of positive buzz about the former Massachusetts governor — from favorable reviews of “MITT,” the Netflix documentary about his campaigns, to chatter among some powerful GOP donors about another Romney presidential campaign in 2016.
But Romney has been adamant in saying he will not run for president a third time. And his aides insisted this month’s reunion in Park City is not a 2016 strategy session.
“It’s really informal,” said a Romney aide, who requested anonymity to discuss the reunion. “The Romneys invited a few campaign friends out to Utah to ski for the weekend.”
Asked if there would be any political strategizing, the aide wrote in an e-mail, “Purely recreational. No ‘strategizing.'”
If your wife is planning a run for the presidency and the opposition has an in your face effort to suppress the vote, you would do whatever you can – legally of course – to make sure that she gets a fair shot at winning. And you wouldn’t wait until she announce her intention to run.
You’ll get on the ball as soon as possible, explaining to all that what the opposition is trying to do is wrong. You’ll go on the offense. You’ll fight!
Bill Clinton has began the fight. Realizing that his wife would need a supportive Congress, the former president has already been on the campaign trail, supporting other like minded Democratic candidates, and now this – an ad painting out how the opposition is trying to suppress the vote.
For all those wondering if Hillary was going to run for president, wonder no more.
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Ask Mitt Romney if he would run for president a third time, and he will deny it every which way.
“I’ve had my turn,” he told CNN.
“We’re so ready to watch the next person step up and take that nomination,” his wife told Fox News. “Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no,” Romney told The New York Times.
But in recent weeks, a strange thing has happened: Some supporters and donors, pollsters and pundits are starting to suggest — without irony — that the former Massachusetts governor run for president in 2016.
“Once a month, someone would e-mail or call and say he should run again,” said Ron Kaufman, a longtime Romney adviser. “Now I get it every day — from the grass roots, and from donors. I get it every day.”
Kaufman made clear that there was no behind-the-scenes maneuvering to persuade Romney to run again. A second Romney adviser said he was also approached frequently by former supporters and donors, asking him to persuade Romney to run again in 2016.
Those close to Romney say he is giving the talk little thought, and party operatives in key states and some of his former advisers say they cannot imagine a scenario in which he would run.
“He’s made it pretty clear he will strongly support whoever the 2016 nominee is,” Romney’s oldest son, Tagg, said in an e-mail to the Globe. “This isn’t something we are spending any time thinking about. Chatter is just chatter.”
And yet the former candidate who rarely gave interviews during the 2012 campaign and laid low for the year following his defeat is now suddenly everywhere.
There’s the new “MITT” documentary on Netflix, which was a well-received portrayal of the candidate and inner workings of his losing campaign.
He did a “slow jam” of the news with late-night comedian Jimmy Fallon, displaying a looseness and a wry humor he rarely let show in public. He showed up at the Super Bowl (“It’s great to . . . come in here and celebrate a great sport,” he said). He was recently on CNN discussing the Olympics, and on Fox News talking about health care.
And on Sunday he’ll be on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” his second appearance on the show in the past three months.
Romney’s public relations makeover and higher profile have come at a time when mainstream Republicans are searching for a strong party patriarch. Some party activists blanch at the prospect of a presidential field dominated by Tea Party movement favorites like Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky.