Longtime Jeb Bush Adviser Ends Up Next to Rand Paul on a Plane—and Live Tweets the Whole Thing

 A Friday morning flight from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles got a bit awkward when Republican campaign veteran and Jeb Bush adviser Mike Murphy found himself seated next to presidential candidate Rand Paul. Murphy tweeted the details from his account, @murphymike.

Read Murphy's tweets below: 

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/longtime-jeb-bush-adviser-ends-up-next-to-rand-paul-on-a-plane-and-live-tweets-the-whole-thing-20150612

Glad you're a denizen of RPF and have seen how far Kelley has come. She has really embraced the campaign trail at this point despite her earlier trepidations which is great for all of us since we need her husband to fight for liberty. I'm so glad that Ron paved the way and Rand took the support and the initiative to gain his Senate seat to do what he's doing now. Some don't believe in divine intervention but along the way, I think something similar has happened here.

[Video] Kelley Paul on Fox Business w/ Kennedy talking about Rand running for Prez and all the related items.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CezMtkg0Bac

Totally, it's easy to to brush off these local tv news broadcasts as they aren't national but when you really think about the whole of LA's news viewing audience seeing such a decent representation of Rand, it really helps out w/ that local perspective of him that people yearning to hear what's going on in LA are seeing of him. That is powerful.

Politico: Rand Paul doesn’t run with the herd
At GOP cattle calls and candidate forums, Paul is often notably absent.

It’s practically a campaign-trail cliché: An Iowa interest group or deep-pocketed donor demands an audience of presidential contenders, and the candidates dutifully answer the call, flocking to assorted pig roasts or single-issue summits to test their messages and shake hands with potential supporters.

But not Rand Paul.

The Kentucky Republican was noticeably absent from last week’s so-called Roast and Ride, a rollicking get-together hosted by Paul’s colleague, Sen. Joni Ernst, in Iowa. He turned down an invitation to former Gov. Mitt Romney’s gathering of presidential candidates in Utah this weekend in favor of a swing through Southern California. He skipped last month’s Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City (and his PATRIOT Act filibuster kept several other senators from attending as well). Earlier this year, he also took a pass on a prominent Iowa agriculture summit and a gathering of White House wannabes hosted by Iowa Rep. Steve King.

While Paul’s rivals for the Republican nomination have ricocheted from one high-profile Iowa gathering to the next, Paul’s been mounting a quieter series of solo events, skipping the impersonal cattle calls to burnish his image as a man untethered from conventional campaigning.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/rand-paul-doesnt-run-with-the-herd-118951.html

[Video] KCAL9 Los Angeles reports on Rand Paul's visit to California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iTYU7NDwUE
Pretty good reporting on Rand and they talk about his stances on being the only one to oppose the Patriot Act as well as his unique stances on drug policy and civil rights.

Except that most of the socalled noobs are just you know who making sock accounts because the nurses at the mental facility haven't said it's bath time yet for the week.

Nice little rally in litecoin in the last hour or so after a 10k buy. Up to .00808 and still hovering over .008 despite 9k+ selloff.

Rand Paul Opposing ObamaTrade - A Great Article To Send To Your GOP Friends!

Many Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio supporters have been left stunned by the two Republican’s support of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), also called Obamatrade, and its massive expansion of Obama’s executive authority and the authority of foreign bodies over the data of U.S. citizens. Rubio even channeled Nancy Pelosi’s comments on Obamacare with himself saying that the Obamatrade bill had to first be passed in order for us to know what is in it. Rand Paul was quick to respond by saying, “We should read legislation before we vote on it.”

lhttp://libertarianboard.com/2015/06/rand-paul-only-candidate-against-obamatrade/

Hillary Clinton's 'talking points' for 'friends and allies' just leaked

Clinton's campaign strategy involves answering one key question

There's something hilarious about Hillary Clinton's new office

Email dump reveals how Team Clinton deals with 'pain in the a--' reporters
Hillary Clinton's campaign spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod sent out a memo containing "talking points" for "friends and allies" on Friday afternoon.

Business Insider obtained a copy of the memo, which includes a preview of Clinton's speech Saturday and details of the campaign's early efforts in primary states.

There has been much speculation about the role Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, will play in his wife's campaign. The memo notes Clinton is "expected" to attend the speech, but will not be speaking.

"President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are expected to attend, but the speaking program will feature Hillary Clinton exclusively," the memo said.

The memo, which was designed to help Clinton's supporters and campaign surrogates stay on message, also credits Clinton with taking "bold progressive stands on key issues" including "criminal justice reform," "immigration reform," and "voting rights," and "equal pay." The preview of Clinton's Saturday speech echoes what a Clinton campaign official told Business Insider about the remarks on Thursday.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clintons-talking-points-for-friends-and-allies-just-leaked-2015-6#ixzz3cuiFYWSt

Longtime Jeb Bush Adviser Ends Up Next to Rand Paul on a Plane

June 12, 2015 A Friday morning flight from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles got a bit awkward when Republican campaign veteran and Jeb Bush adviser Mike Murphy found himself seated next to presidential candidate Rand Paul. Murphy tweeted the details from his account, @murphymike.

Read Murphy's tweets below: 

More...http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/longtime-jeb-bush-adviser-ends-up-next-to-rand-paul-on-a-plane-and-live-tweets-the-whole-thing-20150612?ref=facebook.com&mrefid=walkingheader

Steve Lonegan to head up Cruz presidential campaign in New Jersey

Former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, a conservative activist who ran unsuccessfully for governor, House and Senate, will be New Jersey chairman of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign.

In a news release, Cruz called Lonegan “a tireless advocate for taxpayers” and said he knows New Jersey politics.
Lonegan, a former state director for Americans for Prosperity, said his duties include raising money and putting together a slate of delegates who would run in the 2016 primary pledged to Cruz. He praised Cruz’s unsuccessful effort to force a repeal of the health insurance law commonly called Obamacare through a partial shutdown of the federal government in October 2013, even though Lonegan believes the shutdown hurt Lonegan’s campaign against Democrat Cory Booker in a special election for U.S. Senate that month.

“I’m probably the biggest fatality of that shutdown,” Lonegan said. “I’m not going to say that if it was not for the shutdown, I would have beaten Booker, but at a minimum I would have done much better.”

Nevertheless, he said it was “imperative to have a president who fully understands the Constitution and will fight hard for it even when it may not be the most popular thing.”

http://www.northjersey.com/news/ex-bogota-mayor-steve-lonegan-to-head-up-cruz-presidential-campaign-in-n-j-1.1351729

The Pauls really helped this guy in his races so my guess is that this defection to Cruz is gonna seal his fate going forward. Cruz is the foil in the grassroots movement to stir people away from Rand and the true anti-establishment message.

Why Slavery Is Here to Stay

The next presidential farce (er, race) is already starting to heat up, and it promises to be great entertainment. I admit it, I absolutely love good theater. The presidential campaigns are reality TV at its best — a year-and-a-half of nonstop lies, gaffes, chest-pounding, and some of the best slapstick comedy America has to offer.

Granted, it also can become boring, because we’ve heard all the lines so many times before. For example, it’s 100 percent guaranteed that every troglodyte who seeks the dictator’s job will, with a straight face, promise to “stimulate the economy,” “create jobs,” “level the playing field,” and initiate both “immigration reform” and “tax reform.”

We also know that there will be nary a mention of shrimp on treadmills nor the all-important question of why lesbians tend to be obese. No sir, none of the new crop of power seekers will so much as hint at wasting your money.

Of course, neither will they be specific when they promise to cut rat-hole programs from the budget. As always, the entire eighteen-month production will be all about hyperbole and vagueness. Substance, as always, will be missing in action.

But the most certain thing of all is that not one of the candidates will pledge to end slavery, because an end to slavery, by definition, would mean an end to government, which in turn would mean an end to the criminal class’s power over others and its unfettered access to your money.

What makes slavery possible is legislation, which legalizes organized violence. It therefore follows that the conditions of people can improve only through the abolition of laws that promote organized violence.

Which reminds me of what Lyoff Tolstoy, the great Russian novelist, had to say about the abolition of government. Tolstoy put a lot of thought into how this most evil of all of mankind’s inventions could be eradicated from the face of the earth.

More...https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/robert-ringer/slavery/

Walker Comes Out in Favor of Obamatrade as well

Despite staying largely silent on the issue—he’s quietly supported it for weeks, but hasn’t said anything at all in quite a long time—Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker crossed most conservatives by coming out in support of Obamatrade on Thursday evening in an interview with Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin.

Walker, Bloomberg’s Halperin and John McCormick wrote, “expressed agreement with President Barack Obama on the pressing issue of fast-track trade legislation.”

“Walker said he supports giving Obama the authority to submit trade agreements to Congress for an expedited, up-or-down vote without amendments,” they wrote, before quoting Walker himself.

“If we don’t go down this path, we’re going to be at a competitive disadvantage, and so I think it just makes sense,” Walker said.

“At the same time, like many Republicans who support granting the trade authority recent past presidents have had, Walker said the deal would allow the Republican-controlled Congress to review Obama’s actions,” the Bloomberg reporters wrote.

More...http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/11/scott-walker-pushes-obamatrade-on-eve-of-vote/

Fox News Expands Debates with Forum for Second-Tier GOP Presidential Candidates

After the New Hampshire Union-Leader announced that it would host a debate for the Republican presidential candidates who would likely be left out of Fox News' GOP presidential debate on August 6, Fox News announced that it would host an additional junior varsity debate for second-tier candidates who fail to qualify for the network's prime time debate.

More...http://truthinmedia.com/fox-news-expands-debates-forum-second-tier-gop-presidential-candidates/

Sanders floats top tax rate of over 50 percent

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Democratic presidential candidate, says he would support raising the tax rate on the wealthiest Americans to over 50 percent.

"We're working right now on a comprehensive tax package, which I suspect will, for the top marginal rates, go over 50 percent," Sanders said on PBS's "Charlie Rose" program. The current top rate is 39.6 percent.

The self-described democratic socialist said he is running on a platform of "redistribution of wealth," citing "grotesque levels of wealth inequality in this country."
"It is time to redistribute money back to the working families of this country from the top one-tenth of 1 percent, and tax policy is one of the ways we do that," Sanders told Bloomberg's Al Hunt on the show.

Sanders also said he would raise the corporate tax rate, the highest in the developed world, even as the White House and many Republicans push to lower it. Sanders also said he wanted to close loopholes.

"If you look at the collective percentage of revenue coming in from corporations today, it is significantly lower than it was back in the 1950s," he said. "I think it's about 10 percent today."

The Vermont senator is one of three declared Democratic challengers to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has led by at least 40 percentage points in most recent polls for her party's presidential nomination.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/244811-sanders-floats-top-tax-rate-of-over-50-percent

This socialist running against Hillary in the democratic primary is looking to tap the wealthy at circa 50% but what the drones that support him don't get is that these wealthy types are business owners and can easily go elsewhere or retire atm thus jobs either won't be created or will be destroyed by this idiotic policy.

Ted Cruz poopstorm on Free Republic over the Trans Pacific Partnership aka Obamatrade (TPP)

From the comment section

Cruz just lost me!


2 posted on 6/11/2015, 9:26:36 PM by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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He is doing the RINO rounds.

I'm betting he won't go near Mark Levin right now.

Levin would give him Hell over giving more power to Obama.

7 posted on 6/11/2015, 9:31:05 PM by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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Cruz is busy going DC bush.... No other way to hope to win the nomination.


11 posted on 6/11/2015, 9:33:37 PM by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)

I’ve been a Cruz guy, have Cruz sticker on my car, on my shoppe window, on my wife’s car, and mention my enthusiasm for him on my FR profile page. But this is big and this is upsetting. Jeff Sessions is the worst public speaker in the Senate but he is sincere on this and Cruz appears too flippant. Cruz should look hard before he leaps again on this issue.

When Cruz votes for this abolish-the-borders bill, he loses me.


20 posted on 6/11/2015, 9:39:08 PM by Arthur McGowan
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3299431/posts?q=1&;page=1

For those that don't know, FR is Cruz country or those that fancy themselves as constitutional conservatives and are hoping to 'save' the country. These same people have Rand on their radar as a 2nd choice and as Cruz unveils himself as a fraud, my hope is that they'll gravitate towards us.

Ted Cruz Throws Himself a Pity Party

Running for President is, apparently, a miserable experience. And if Ted Cruz has to suffer, he thinks his supporters should, too.

In a strange fundraising solicitation sent out by email Wednesday night, the Republican senator from Texas enumerated all the terrible things that go along with seeking the highest office in the land, as part of a pitch to get “courageous conservatives” to “make tough sacrifices” – basically, sending him money.

“You see, running for President of the United States is a significant sacrifice,” Cruz writes. “Only through prayer and many late night discussions with my wife, family, and closest friends did I make THE decision.”

Then, he goes into specific details about just how difficult his life has become since he decided to declare his candidacy. It’s really worth quoting in full, but first: cue the violin, and pass the Kleenex.

Time with my family “Spending almost every day on the campaign trail or fighting on the Senate floor means precious little time spent with my wife, Heidi, and my daughters -- the very family that gives me the motivation and drive to fight.”

Health and sleep: “My runoff campaign for the Senate in 2012 took a toll, but now I'm sacrificing even more sleep with long nights and constant travel. And the pizza diet is a staple on the campaign trail.”

Finances: “The cost of campaigning back and forth across the country for president is increasingly expensive, but Heidi and I are willing to invest our livelihoods into this sacrifice.

Personal time: “You think of this the least, but as a candidate, my days are no longer my own. Days start before dawn and many times don't end until early the next morning. There is almost no personal time when you run for president.”

“I've chosen to sacrifice part of mine and my families (sic) lives to run for President -- but I think you will agree with me that the sacrifice is well worth it.”

Cruz, currently scuffling along in the second tier of Republican candidates, added a note of urgency to the appeal, because candidates are reaching the end of the second quarter reporting period and want to show the best fundraising numbers they can to create a sense of momentum. “Time is critical,” he writes.

The message id signed “For liberty, Ted Cruz” but it doesn’t end there.

Apparently concerned that he hadn’t stressed just how much he is giving up to run for president, Cruz throws in a post-script: “I’ve chosen to make some steep, necessary sacrifices in our fight to restore America. Will you join me with your gift of $250 or $100? OR if $35 or $10 is a stretch gift for you, I will be grateful for every dollar you can sacrifice and will ensure it is faithfully used.”

Maybe on a new consultant to review email fundraising letters…

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/06/11/Ted-Cruz-Throws-Himself-Pity-Party

Iowa GOP officially cancels straw poll

The Iowa straw poll, a political jamboree that has been fixture in the Republican presidential nominating process for nearly four decades but has come under criticism in recent years, was officially cancelled Friday by state GOP leaders in a unanimous vote.

In a conference call Friday morning, members of the Iowa Republican Party's state central committee decided not to move forward with the event this summer, calling their decision an important step toward strengthening the Hawkeye State's first-in-the-nation standing in the nomination process.

“I've said since December that we would only hold a straw poll if the candidates wanted one, and this year that is just not the case," said Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann."...This step, while extremely distasteful for those of us who love the Straw Poll, is necessary to strengthen our First in the Nation status and ensure our future nominee has the best chance possible to take back the White House in 2016."

The straw poll is an Iowa political tradition that dates back to 1979 and serves two basic purposes: raising money for the Iowa GOP and showcasing the presidential candidates and their relative strengths months ahead of the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses.

But the summertime event has faced an existential crisis since the last time it was held, as Republican strategists and officials have questioned its utility in predicting how hopefuls will fare in Iowa and whether it's a worthwhile investment of candidate time and money. In 2011, then-congresswoman Michele Bachmann won the straw poll; she went on to finish last in the 2012 caucuses.

It had also become expensive to compete in the poll. Candidates have had to pay for plum spots at the event, which has been likened to a county fair or a carnival. Hopefuls had to shell out big bucks to transport supporters and pay for food.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) has been one the poll's most prominent critics, once saying the gathering had "outlived its usefulness." The emerging crop of White House hopefuls also showed little interest in the event.

While representatives for seven candidates and probable contenders dropped by a straw poll planning session last month, no one from the top-tier campaigns was there.

Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee -- who won the 2008 Iowa caucuses -- were opting out. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) had signaled that he would not participate. And Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, seen as an early front-runner in Iowa, had been non-committal.

Even as the effort to undermine the straw poll picked up steam, many Republicans rallied to try to save the event. In May, 156 state Republican activists took to the pages of the Des Moines Register with an op-ed urging candidates to participate.

And in January, the state GOP central committee voted 16 to 0 to begin planning a straw poll. This year's version had been slated to take place in Boone instead of Ames, where it has been held in past years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/12/iowa-gop-officially-cancels-straw-poll/

They don't want Rand's supporters showing up en masse and winning this thing in a landslide. Keeping Rand from gaining traction is goal number one for establishment party officials all over the country as well as the mainstream media.

The two root causes of this kind of inner city young person problems is the drug war that offers a quick buck w/ violent consequences for males to get themselves involved with and this results in long prison terms or high murder rates, thus these kids don't have responsible dads that will use discipline to help them grow up  into productive individuals. Lastly, welfare programs that subsidize having kids just breeds more of it among those that either aren't ready to have kids or are flat out incompetent humans that shouldn't be having them at all.