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Sen. Rand Paul wins Mackinac GOP straw poll

 

Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press Lansing Bureau8:30 a.m. EDT September 20, 2015

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul won the straw poll on Mackinac Island for the second time in two years.

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MACKINAC ISLAND — For the second time in two years, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has won the presidential straw poll at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, according to results released late Saturday.

But California businesswoman Carly Fiorina, buoyed from the momentum of what was seen as a strong debate performance Wednesday, finished second.

Paul received 22% support in the poll of more than 2,200 conference attendees, according to the poll conducted by the Lansing political newsletter MIRS and The Detroit News.

Paul, the only presidential candidate to attend the conference both this year and when it was last held in 2013, also won the 2013 straw poll.

With 785 ballots counted, Paul was first with 22% and Fiorina was second with 15%.

Ohio Gov John Kasich was third with 14% and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz finished fourth with 13%, according to the released results.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush had 9.7%; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio had 8.4%, New York businessman Donald Trump had 6.8%; neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson had 5.5% and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker had 2.6%.

Other candidates receiving votes had less than 1%.

Paul, Fiorina, Kasich, Cruz and Bush were the five candidates who spoke at the conference, which ends Sunday.

John Yob, a Grand Rapids consultant who serves as Paul’s national political director, said the Mackinac straw poll has historically been a strong indicator of which candidate wins Michigan.

Though officials with other campaigns complained the Paul campaign made a concerted effort to bring people to the island to resister for the conference so they could vote in the straw poll, Yob said other campaigns spent considerable amounts trying to improve their own performances in the poll.

“That’s what organizational contests are all about,” and “Rand Paul is going to over-perform in organizational contests around the country.”

TRUMP: THE PROBLEM IS NOT GUNS, IT IS MENTAL ILLNESS

“I’m a very strong 2nd Amendment person”

by KURT NIMMO | INFOWARS.COM | AUGUST 27, 2015

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During an interview with CNN on Thursday, presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said the issue in the wake of the shooting in Virginia is not guns, but mental illness.

“This isn’t a gun problem, this is a mental problem,” Trump said. “It’s not a question of the laws, it’s really the people.”

“In the old days they had mental institutions for people like this because he was really, definitely borderline and definitely would have been and should have been institutionalized,” Trump told CNN. “At some point somebody should have seen that, I mean the people close to him should have seen it.”

Pressed by CNN’s Chris Cuomo on the gun issue, Trump said he supports the Constitution. “I’m a very strong 2nd Amendment person,” he said.

New Offensive Against Second Amendment

The father of the slain reporter told Fox News the government has to do something about guns and mental illness.

“I’m not going to let this issue drop,” Andy Parkertold Megyn Kelly of Fox News. “We’ve got to do something about crazy people getting guns.”

Democrats seized the tragedy to push a renewed effort to restrict the Second Amendment.

Within hours of the fatal shooting, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for anti-gun legislation.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe also called for restricting access to firearms. “There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn’t have guns,” McAuliffe said during an interview. “There is too much gun violence in America,” he said, and called for additional background check legislation.

Josh Earnest, Obama’s press secretary, reiterated the administration’s support for new laws.

“While there is no piece of legislation that will end all violence in this country, there are some commonsense things that only Congress can do that we know would have a tangible impact in reducing gun violence in this country,” he said.

Few Republicans countered Democrat calls for further crippling the Second Amendment.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, however, addressed the growing chorus of Democrats who are once again pushing anti-gun legislation.

“They never stop. That’s one of the things that’s so frustrating to people is that they don’t stop and it’s always about the gun. It’s never about the person that is pulling the trigger of that gun,” Blackburn said during an interview.

“They don’t want it to be about the person that grabs the knife and does the stabbing. They don’t want it to ever be seen in that way,” she said.

“It’s always got to be about the gun and the fact that there was just a person that got hold of the gun. This fits into their agenda to get rid of our Second Amendment rights.”

Blackburn echoed Trump in her insistence the issue is about mental illness, not the Second Amendment.

“The thing is, its mental illness. It is political correctness that so many times causes or allows people to say ‘Well, it wasn’t the person’s fault, it was the gun’s fault.’ What we need to do is realize that that is not the reason,” Blackburn said.

Rand Paul: Trump Is A “Fake Conservative”

“He’s been for all these liberal policies”; “We don’t need another president who thinks he is king”
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
August 10, 2015

Presidential candidate Rand Paul carried on his offensive against Donald Trump this past weekend, labeling him a “fake conservative” and warning that supporting Trump will equate to handing Hillary Clinton the Presidency.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Paul stated “I came out of the Tea Party movement. Part of the Tea Party movement is we were upset with fake conservatives and Republicans who weren’t conservative, Republicans for Obamacare and Republicans for the bank bailouts.”

“That’s Donald Trump.” Paul added.

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“He’s been for all of these liberal policies and now because he can stand up and say vulgar things and he’s as truth teller.” The Senator urged.

“The truth is what is he for? I have no idea what his real philosophy is other than that he is for promoting himself.” he added.

Paul also commented on Trump’s penchant for making lewd comments and misogynist remarks, in the name of battling ‘political correctness’.

“I don’t think we should reward vulgarity and I don’t think vulgarity equates to insight. Because you can shout and call people names and call someone ‘stupid; or call someone ‘fat’ is that really what we’re going to make the decision on for who’s going to be our nominee?” Paul asked.

Paul was continuing his analysis of Trump from Thursday’s debate, in which. during the less than 5 minutes he was afforded, the Senator lashed out at Trump after he refused to rule out a third party run, even if it aided a Democratic victory, and gave a dubious answer regarding his previous support for a single-payer health-care system.

“News flash, the Republican Party’s been fighting against a single-payer system for a decade.” Paul told Trump, adding “So I think you’re on the wrong side of this if you’re still arguing for a single-payer system,”

Trump responded by poking fun at the fact that Paul has a hearing impairment, stating “I don’t think you heard me. You’re having a hard time tonight.”

Paul also published a commentary piece over the weekend, declaring “I honestly have no idea what Mr. Trump’s real philosophy is. He was liberal before he was conservative, and has openly professed for decades that his views are those of a Democrat.”

Paul added that America does not need “a bully” or “another president who thinks he is king,”

In a separate appearance posted to his social media pages, Paul described Trump as a “chameleon” who “was pro-choice before he was pro-life,” “liberal before he was conservative,” and “a Democrat before he was a Republican.”

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“We want somebody who’s not bound by political correctness,” said Paul. “But we also want them to make sense, don’t we?”

Further describing Trump as a “consummate insider,” Paul declared “Ross Perot gave us Bill Clinton and Donald Trump will give us Hillary.”

Discover why Donald Trump is a ringer to sink the chances of Republican candidates who actually have a chance of defeating Hillary:

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Steve Watson is a London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

Here Are the 10 Republican Presidential Candidates Who Will Compete in the First GOP Debate

 

On Thursday night, Fox News will host the first GOP primary debate, featuring 10 of the 17 candidates running for the Republican party’s presidential nomination. The remaining candidates will compete in a second-tier debate at 5 p.m.

Fox News announced earlier this summer that the 10 candidates allowed into the main event would be the top 10 as judged by an average most recent high-quality national polls, meaning that Internet-based polls and state-based surveys won’t count. What this has meant is that up until today, it’s not been entirely clear which candidates would make the cut for the 9 p.m. face off.

But now the final set of polls are in, and Fox has made the names and placement on the stage official.

Here’s the full list:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Jeb Bush
  3. Scott Walker
  4. Mike Huckabee
  5. Ben Carson
  6. Ted Cruz
  7. Marco Rubio
  8. Rand Paul
  9. Chris Christie
  10. John Kasich

The candidates will be arranged on stage according to their rank in the polls, with Trump, Bush, Walker, and Huckabee at the center. Here’s more or less how it will look: 

(Graphic via Comfortably Smug’s Twitter feed/Fox News.)

This list is about what’s been expected for the last week or so, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich the only candidate who was really in any doubt (and for the last few days, Kasich’s place has been pretty secure).

Kasich, who has a bit of momentum, edged out Texas Gov. Rick Perry for the final slot, which is a bit of a disappointment since Perry, who stumbled memorably in one 2012 debate, has been running a genuinely interesting campaign, delivering worthwhile speeches on financial reform and race and economic opportunity. He’s also been the most aggressive anti-Trump voice in the Republican field, even challenging the billionaire mogul to a, um, pull-up contest. Which, sure, might not make America great again, but would at least do wonders for my Thursday night viewing. 

Sadly, we won’t get to see Trump and Perry face off this Thursday—although there are still plenty more debates to come between now and March 2016—so we’ll just have to content ourselves with seeing how everyone else reacts to Trump’s presence. 

Here Are the 10 Republican Presidential Candidates Who Will Compete in the First GOP Debate
Peter Suderman
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:30:00 GMT

OBAMA HONORS ISLAM BEFORE DEAD MARINES KILLED BY ISLAMIC TERRORIST; AMERICANS FURIOUS

White House sent out ‘happy Ramadan’ statement before commenting on Chattanooga attack

Obama Honors Islam Before Dead Marines Killed by Islamic Terrorist; Americans Furious

by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | JULY 17, 2015


President Obama issued a statement yesterday urging Americans to respect the religion of Islam before he even commented on a terror attack by an Islamic extremist in Chattanooga which killed four Marines, prompting widespread anger.

The White House tweeted out a statement wishing Muslims “Eid Mubarak!” as Ramadan came to a close, adding that, “the holiday is a reminder to every American of the importance of respecting those of all faiths and beliefs.”

“From my family to yours, Eid Mubarak!” —@POTUS to Muslims celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr: http://go.wh.gov/M6gdrS 

The statement was tweeted hours after the Chattanooga shooting and after it had been established that the culprit was 24-year-old Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a Kuwaiti Muslim whose blog revealed that Islam played a central role in his ideology.

It was only after Obama had lectured Americans about respecting Islam that he paid tribute to the four dead Marines killed by an Islamic terrorist.

Reaction to the timing was brutal.

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