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Marco Rubio Outlines a Liam Neeson Foreign Policy in South Carolina

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio summed up his hawkish foreign policy in a speech at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday with a reference to the 2008 thriller Taken.

“On our strategy on global jihadists and terrorists, I refer them to the movie Taken. Have you seen the movie Taken? Liam Neeson. He had a line, and this is what our strategy should be: 'We will look for you, we will find you, and we will kill you,'”  the Florida senator said to thunderous applause in Greenville, S.C.

The line—referring to Neeson's character, a CIA operative threatening a human trafficker who had kidnapped his daughter—earned the top-tier candidate thunderous applause.

The rest of Rubio's rhetoric on foreign policy was familiar, as he spoke about the need to “prevent Vladimir Putin from re-drawing the lines of Europe”; work with allies to “confront Iran's ambitions to dominate the region”; stand firmly with Israel, “the only pro-American, free-enterprise democracy in the Middle East,” and work “not just to contain radical jihadists, but to defeat them.”

More...http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-09/marco-rubio-outlines-a-liam-neeson-foreign-policy-in-south-carolina

This is exactly the type of hoorah that these miltary hawks like to hear and SC has lots of them. As you can tell, this guy has many plans for the rest of the world and is foaming at the mouth to be commander of this large offensive force aka the US military. Better get all your friends and family on the Rand bandwagon.

Billionaire Lifts Marco Rubio, Politically and Personally

MIAMI — One day in the State Capitol in Tallahassee, Marco Rubio, the young speaker of the House, strayed from the legislative proceedings to single out a lanky, silver-haired man seated in the balcony: a billionaire auto dealer named Norman Braman.

This man, Mr. Rubio said in effusive remarks in 2008, was no ordinary billionaire, hoarding his cash or using it to pursue selfish passions.

“He’s used it,” Mr. Rubio said, “to enrich the lives of so many people whose names you will never know.” As it turned out, one of the people enriched was Mr. Rubio himself.

As Mr. Rubio has ascended in the ranks of Republican politics, Mr. Braman has emerged as a remarkable and unique patron. He has bankrolled Mr. Rubio’s campaigns. He has financed Mr. Rubio’s legislative agenda. And, at the same time, he has subsidized Mr. Rubio’s personal finances, as the rising politician and his wife grappled with heavy debt and big swings in their income.

More...http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/us/billionaire-lifts-marco-rubio-politically-and-personally.html?_r=0

Marco Rubio Campaigns on His Immigrant Story, Cautiously

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As Mr. Rubio has introduced himself to curious, and overwhelmingly Caucasian, Republican audiences from Iowa to New Hampshire, he has vaulted to the front ranks of the early pack of likely presidential candidates, partly because of his natural political talent. But it may owe just as much to the combination of his personal story and the balm it offers to a party that has been repeatedly scalded by accusations of prejudice.

He says he is highlighting his background only to share his own twist on the American dream — not out of any desire to make history on behalf of Hispanics. But Mr. Rubio and those around him are also acutely aware of the sometimes raw tensions in his party, between those unsettled by an increasingly diverse society and those who say Republicans must embrace the multihued America of 2015.

To the party operatives and donors who have placed long bets on him, and to the rank-and-file primary voters he has impressed, Mr. Rubio’s candidacy seems to affirm the idea that in a free market, anyone can rise without the benefit of connections or wealth. That he did so as the child of Latin American parents who fled an autocratic government and toiled in the humblest of jobs — maid and bartender — has sent some Republicans swooning.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/us/politics/marco-rubio-campaigns-on-his-immigrant-story-cautiously.html

Santorum to make campaign announcement May 27 in Pittsburgh

Santorum attended school in Pittsburgh and spent several years there as a lawyer before being elected to Congress.

Santorum set up a testing-the-waters campaign account earlier this month to help finance his trips to the early-voting states, where he’s been meeting with local activists and party leaders to gauge support ahead of what appears to be another run at the Republican presidential nomination.

Last week, Santorum attended three events in South Carolina, and he held three events in Iowa the week prior. He’ll head back to Iowa on May 16 for one of the state party’s biggest fundraisers, the Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines.

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Santorum is currently buried in the polls in 11th place nationally and taking only 2 percent support, according to the RealClearPolitics average. He’s only doing a little bit better in Iowa, pulling 2.7 percent support, according to RCP.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/241288-santorum-to-make-2016-announcement-may-27

Carly Fiorina Is Not the Anti-Hillary

As an advocate of a stateless society, I don’t want anyone to be president. Nevertheless, someone will be chosen to live in the White House next year. Will it be a woman?

Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina hope so. But these two women are essentially indistinguishable from each other and from their male rivals. Style must not overshadow substance. Really, what’s the point?

Clinton is a well-known champion of the all-state. To her the U.S. government is the source of order both domestic and foreign. Her fondness for social engineering is indisputable. Domestically, she likes corporatism, which comes down to bureaucrats and big business—with input from big official labor unions—running "the economy." [That’s in quotation marks because an economy is just people: we’re the economy the ruling elite wants to regulate.] Little is to be left to the spontaneous process that arises from peaceful social cooperation and mutual aid in the marketplace and the wider society. In foreign affairs, Clinton has a preference for military intervention. She certainly demonstrated this as secretary of state under Barack Obama. She is an enthusiast for the conceit known as "American exceptionalism."
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How about Fiorina? If you’re looking for the anti-Hillary, you'll have to look elsewhere.

Fiorina will play up the fact that she comes out of the world of (big) business. She ran Hewlett-Packard (unsuccessfully by many accounts) and held executive positions in other large companies. This may thrill fans of "private enterprise," but beware. Corporate America is no place to find advocates of freed markets, as opposed to capitalism or corporatism. When have you heard the CEO of a major company call for laissez faire—that is, the radical separation of the people and state?
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Fiorina sees a world full of enemies—Russia and Iran head the list—and shows no understanding that the U.S. government has gratuitously created enemies for the American people. [She’s been on the CIA External Advisory Board.] At this late date she still does not know—or more likely, mind—that free markets don’t coexist with an interventionist foreign policy, and she thinks the world is in turmoil because the U.S. government is not interventionist enough under Obama: "American leadership matters in the world. American strength matters in the world."
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http://reason.com/archives/2015/05/07/fiorina-is-not-the-anti-hillary

Jeb Bush leads GOP pack in New Hampshire

Jeb Bush leads the pack among Republican presidential hopefuls in New Hampshire, according to the latest WMUR Granite State Poll.

The former Florida governor nabbed 15 percent among likely Republican primary voters, with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio close behind with 12 percent. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker follows with 11 percent, and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul attracted 10 percent. Others in the mix include Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (6 percent); Donald Trump (5 percent); and Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and Rick Perry (4 percent each).

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has pinned his presidential hopes on New Hampshire, picked up just 3 percent.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/poll-jeb-bush-gop-new-hampshire-117726.html#ixzz3ZTL9UYJD

Mike (Sc)H(m)uckabee calls on senators in 2016 race to resign their current seats

Newly-minted presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Wednesday doubled down on his call for presidential candidates who currently hold public office to resign their positions, suggesting they're wasting taxpayer dollars.

“I think people have to choose. I just believe it’s a matter of integrity to say, ‘I don’t want this job that I just got elected to. I think I want a different job.’ Ok, then resign the job you have and go out there and seek the one you want,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Wednesday on Good Morning America. “t's not that I’m going after anybody. I'm speaking the obvious. If a person has a job that the taxpayers are paying for, shouldn't that person do that job?”

Although Huckabee didn’t name any names, there are currently three 2016 GOP candidates who hold elected positions – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Other potential candidates currently in office include Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, though they have yet to formally declare their candidacies.

The former Arkansas governor also forcefully made that point during his presidential announcement speech Tuesday.

Of course, as several observers immediately noted, Huckabee himself launched a U.S. Senate bid while he was still serving as lieutenant governor of Arkansas. (He suspended that campaign when then-Gov. Jim Guy Tucker resigned in 1996, elevating him to the governor's mansion.)

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/06/mike-huckabee-calls-on-senators-in-2016-race-to-resign-their-current-seats/

This guy was a big spending former preacher governor of a Bible belt state, same place where the Clintons came from.

I believe Rand to be cut from the same cloth as his dad and it's evidenced by his votes and leadership on certain topics: more restrained foreign policy where war has to be voted on by Congress, criminal justice issues, audit the fed, pro-civil liberties/anti-NSA measures just to name a few. Rand has more going for him than his dad and not just his way of framing issues in ways that the media can't demagogue him to hell over. They will ignore him up to a certain point but he's got decent relationships w/ certain tv and radio hosts to be able to put him in front of certain audiences that make up the GOP base where he can say his piece. I like supporting people that are up to doing good things in the face of troublemakers and miscreant thieves. That's why I have my Rand thread to promote him to the Bitcoin community and have been doing so for well over a year. And for those around the world that can't donate to help him, I provide a one stop shop for interested parties to find all relevant, daily news and info on Rand w/o having to search for it. It's on the house.

True that I believe (ever more strongly as time goes by...)

Our best hope, which is a long-shot, would be candidate who betrays 'his people' in something like the way FDR did.  My current (and meaningless) thoughts on this historic event is that it was the more or less the right thing at the right time back in the day because the so-called robber baron classes had made life for most fairly unpleasant and run economic and monetary things into the ground besides.  FDR may or may not have helped on the economic front a huge amount, and he set us on a course which in some ways guided us to some of the most unhappy aspects of our current political existence, but I'm not sure that any other action(s) would have ended up much better in period(s) between then and now.

I've sort of come to the conclusion that 'the right leadership at the right time' is more than anything just a roll of the dice.  Deng Xiaoping in China was another of these and something the Chinese really needed after a string of bad luck.  Here again, some of the maladies that China suffers today can be traced directly to him I am sure, but there is no such thing as 'perfect.'  The best results would be to apply appropriate corrections to a major shift provoked by the likes of FDR or Deng Xiaoping but unfortunately humans in general don't work that way in addition to the thorny issue that 'appropriate' means different things to different people.

After Obama I am pretty convinced that what a candidate says about anything has zero value in assessing their future actions.  I was jaded and cynical about politicians before Obama, but now it's even more of a simply stated realism to me that their policy statements have zero value.  Beyond that I am extra cautious about those on the political left (where I formerly sat) such that I would actually take someone like Hillary's statements about her plans to be the opposite of what she is likely to do.  Bush was just a flat out fucking liar when he said he was going to focus on domestic issues an not foreign ones.  The Left wing consider themselves more intellectually elite and take more pride in their prowess at deceptive marketing so they simply need to be analyzed with one more degree of freedom but it's not all that much more difficult to do.

If Paul wins (unlikely) AND actually spends any time as prez (even more unlikely), and if he effects anything remotely resembling the policies that the Libertarians hope for it will be pure shit-house luck more than a validation of the expectations of those who appreciate his supposed policy prescriptions (most of which I happen to favor at this point in the life of our nation and in my own personal political evolution.)

Chef, all of candidates of the two major parties will work for more centralization and more state. Idealism is misplaced here, every president these days is under immense pressure by both lobbyists paying his campaign and ever increasing administrative apparatus. One person wont stop it, if (s)he really tried.

Why must we choose our leaders from among the dumbest Americans? Seriously, none of these candidates should be allowed to run for assistant dog catcher.

Sanders, majority of Dems favor socialism

With more than 50 percent of Democrats viewing socialism favorably, 2016 Independent presidential candidate Sen. Bernie might be taking away some of rival Hillary Clinton’s steam from her progressive voter base. Even though socialists have historically done abysmally at America’s national elections, the Reason-Rupe poll revealed several months ago that America’s political climate is changing, as socialism continues to be presented in the schools and media in a favorable light.

However, Sanders’ own party is not as inclined to jump on the socialist bandwagon, as only 33 percent of Independents have a favorable opinion of socialism, with just 26 percent of Tea Partiers giving it a thumbs-up. Surprising to many, only 55 percent of Americans view capitalism favorably, compared to a slightly lower 53 percent of Democrats.

With more Americans embracing the failed political and economic system of socialism, Sanders’ platform is anticipated to gain a higher resonance with voters, come 2016.

Wearing socialism on his sleeve

http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2015/05/03/2016-candidate-sanders-majority-of-dems-favor-socialism

Mike Huckabee becomes 8th candidate in presidential race and appeals to southern Christians – but not Web surfers – as his campaign site goes dark and flickers throughout announcement

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee launched a second bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday eight years after winning eight states in the 2008 primaries on a platform of embracing evangelical Christians.

His tech team, however, had a bad morning.

The ordained Baptist minister-turned-politician re-introduced himself in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas – the same small town where former President Bill Clinton was also born – along with a slogan of 'Hope to Higher Ground.'

His campaign website went offline just before Tuesday's launch event began, however, and only flickered to life a few times as his wife Janet introduced him.

Viewers could see a hint of an Eisenhower-era throwback slogan – 'I Like Mike' – then nothing.

Huckabee's campaign spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. A half-hour after he left the stage, the website was still functioning only intermittently.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3068354/In-Arkansas-Huckabee-poised-launch-2nd-White-House-bid.html

Fiorina: first call as President will be to Netanyahu

"She was very helpful to the NSA when she was head of Hewlitt," said Robert L. Deitz, a former NSA general counsel and former senior councillor to the director of the CIA. Deitz supports Fiorina's presidential bid.
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Carly Fiorina: Clinton can't play 'gender card' against female opponent
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Similar to many advisers in the Bush White House, Fiorina is a vocal proponent of a robust American presence around the globe, a hawkish worldview that lines up closely with Rubio, Graham and Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Like them, she has been blisteringly critical of President Barack Obama's handling of nuclear negotiations with Iran and of Russia's aggression toward Ukraine.

"We need to have the strongest military on the face of the planet and everyone needs to know it," (don't we already?) Fiorina told CNN. "America needs to face outward into the world, and I don't think it is helpful to our interests or to the stability of the world when people focus on turning inward."

Last week, Fiorina said that the second phone call she would make as president would be to the Supreme Leader of Iran -- after calling Netanyahu and before phoning Democratic leaders -- to inform him that "there's a new situation in town." Then she would impose "as punishing a set of financial sanctions as we are capable of imposing unilaterally."

When it comes to cybersecurity and information technology, the topics on which she advised the NSA, state and the CIA, Fiorina has little sympathy for fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden, who leaked classified NSA plans to the media in 2013.

"I think Edward Snowden has been terribly destructive," she told CNN...
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/04/politics/carly-fiorina-foreign-policy/index.html

Former HP CEO Fiorina enters 2016 race, takes shot at Clinton

(Reuters) - Former Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) Chief Executive Carly Fiorina on Monday announced she is running for president, and took a shot at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, who she said represents a political class that Americans are "disgusted" with.

Once one of the most powerful women in American business, Fiorina registers near the bottom of polls of the dozen or so Republican hopefuls and has never held public office.

She is positioning herself as an outsider with real-life experience earned through years in the corporate world.

Fiorina, 60, said the former first lady and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, belong to an out-of-touch political elite.

"She reminds people that there is a huge disconnect between that political class and the hopes and concerns of hard-working Americans everywhere," she told reporters on a conference call.

"I see that disconnect everywhere I go. I see people just disgusted, honestly, with the way the playing field is tilted against them, the disconnect between what they're thinking about and what they perceive people in Washington are thinking about," Fiorina said.

A breast cancer survivor who lost a stepdaughter to drug addiction, Fiorina is a multimillionaire who has known adversity.

She was forced to resign from HP in 2005 as the tech company struggled to digest a $19 billion merger with then-rival computer maker Compaq.
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Around the time of her ouster from HP she was derisively dubbed the “anti-Steve Jobs” by one respected tech news website, though the Compaq merger was eventually seen as a success.

Fiorina is at the bottom of a Reuters/Ipsos online poll of actual and possible Republican White House candidates, with less than 1 percent support.

She has gotten a warm reception at events in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire but she suffered an

embarrassment on the first day of her campaign when a critic took over a website with her name in it to highlight job losses at HP.

Visitors to the carlyfiorina.org site saw the message, "Carly Fiorina failed to register this domain. So I'm using it to tell you how many people she laid off at Hewlett-Packard."

The site showed "sad-face" emoticons to symbolize what it said were 30,000 job losses at the company. Fiorina's real campaign web site, www.carlyforpresident.com, featured a video from her about the presidential bid and other messages.

In 2010, Fiorina lost the election for a U.S. Senate seat in California to Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, failing to benefit from a wave of pro-Republican sentiment nationally.

More...http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/04/us-usa-election-fiorina-idUSKBN0NP0W420150504

Anyone notice how Bernie Sanders is being Marginalized like Rand and Ron Paul?

"I don't suppose many people think Bernie Sanders will be the next President...."


I just think it's an interesting observation that the media is also treating Sanders as just someone that will force Hillary to be more liberal. Similar to how Ron was a "good candidate but didn't have a shot" that was only in the race to expand libertarian ideas and whatnot. Kind of points to proof that those in charge of the Democrat and Republican parties might not be too different after all. Plus it's just interesting to see it on the other side.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4209035939001/sanders-white-house-bid-targets-immoral-economic-system/?playlist_id=928378949001#sp=show-clips

Santorum on Bruce Jenner: ‘If He Says He’s Woman, Then He’s a Woman’

Speaking to BuzzFeed’s Rosie Gray from the South Carolina Republican Party’s convention this weekend, Santorum had this to say about Jenner’s transition:

“If he says he’s a woman, then he’s a woman. My responsibility as a human being is to love and accept everybody. Not to criticize people for who they are. I can criticize, and I do, for what people do, for their behavior. But as far as for who they are, you have to respect everybody, and these are obviously complex issues for businesses, for society, and I think we have to look at it in a way that is compassionate and respectful of everybody.”

The potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate added that “these are tough issues” and, answering another question about what public restrooms Jenner should be able to use, said that he does not “think the federal government should get into the whole issue of bathrooms.”

Santorum has long been a prominent foe of the LGBT community, so it is more than a little surprising to hear him express so much unconditional support for Jenner. Is it Jenner’s embrace of the Republican Party that has Santorum feeling so friendly? Or could it be Jenner’s declaration that being transgender does not make him gay?

More...http://www.mediaite.com/online/santorum-on-bruce-jenner-if-he-says-hes-woman-then-hes-a-woman/

Hustler’s (Porn) Larry Flynt Endorses Hillary Clinton For President

In an interview with Bloomberg Politics, the renowned pornographer said he’ll throw his support behind the former secretary of state in the 2016 election.

“I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, but I don’t think she needs my endorsement,” Flynt told Bloomberg reporter John Heilemann.

Flynt said that with Clinton as president, the makeup of the Supreme Court could be shifted left for the first time in decades.

“We’ve had a right-leaning court for half a century,” Flynt said. “But if Hillary gets in, chances are she’s going to have an opportunity to appoint two, maybe three justices… and we could shift the balance there.”

Flynt has long been a supporter of Democratic political candidates, particularly former President Bill Clinton. During the height of Clinton’s impeachment hearings in the late 90s, Flynt’s Hustler magazine offered readers a $1 million reward for information about any sexual indiscretions of Republican members of Congress. The contest ensnared Republican Speaker-elect Bob Livingston, a vocal supporter of impeachment who was forced to resign his House seat. Clinton eventually beat his impeachment proceedings a short time later.

More...http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/05/01/hustlers-larry-flynt-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president/

Why Bernie Sanders is the Democratic Ron Paul — and why he isn’t

A former third-party candidate announced his long-shot presidential bid for a major party nomination and, despite trailing in the polls and not having the support of the party establishment, his supporters are hopeful that his candidacy will change the status quo.

That statement could be about Ron Paul 2008 and 2012 and/or Bernie Sanders 2016. And in many ways, Sanders is something of a Democratic version of Paul.

Here's what they have in common, and what they don't:

More...http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/01/why-bernie-sanders-is-the-democratic-ron-paul-and-why-he-isnt/

Bernie Sanders ("independent" US Senator from Vermont that's a self-avowed socialist) Makes More In 24 Hrs. Than Rand, Cruz, or Rubio, From Small Donations.

In the first 24 hours of his presidential campaign, Sen. Bernie Sanders has raised more money than Republican candidates Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz did during their first day in the race.

Sen. Sanders raised $1.5 million from a network of small donors during his first day as an official presidential candidate.

The Washington Post reported:

The donations came from a broad base of supporters — some 35,000 donors who gave an average of $43.54 a piece, according to the Sanders campaign. The campaign also said it signed up more than 100,000 supporters through its website, building what it calls a “mass movement.”
Clinton has not released any details about her fundraising totals, online or otherwise. But the Sanders haul outpaces the three major Republican candidates who already have announced. In the first 24 hours since launching their campaigns, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) raised $1.25 million and Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) raised about $1 million each, according to their campaigns.

More...http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/01/24-hours-bernie-sanders-raised-money-rand-paul-marco-rubio-ted-cruz.html