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Gyges posted:I don't think Cromwell was that big an rear end. Cromwell was indeed a big enough of an rear end to ban Christmas.
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Joementum posted:Ted Cruz has raised $4,000,000 in the last eight days. If a candidate raises money but drops out later in the race, where does that remaining money go?
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:If a candidate raises money but drops out later in the race, where does that remaining money go? They can hold onto it indefinitely (Evan Bayh still has a ~$10m campaign fund), donate it to a non-profit (Tom Harkin spent his to create the Tom Harkin Institute), hire a bunch of their friends and family and use it to pay them salaries (Jim Webb did this), or give it to the RNC/DNC as a contribution. In Cruz's case it will almost certainly get rolled into a Ted Cruz 2018 Senate campaign fund.
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Joementum posted:They can hold onto it indefinitely (Evan Bayh still has a ~$10m campaign fund), donate it to a non-profit (Tom Harkin spent his to create the Tom Harkin Institute), hire a bunch of their friends and family and use it to pay them salaries (Jim Webb did this), or give it to the RNC/DNC as a contribution.
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Joementum posted:They can hold onto it indefinitely (Evan Bayh still has a ~$10m campaign fund), donate it to a non-profit (Tom Harkin spent his to create the Tom Harkin Institute), hire a bunch of their friends and family and use it to pay them salaries (Jim Webb did this), or give it to the RNC/DNC as a contribution. New non profit idea: National Assoc. for the Advancement of Ted Cruz CEO and some employee: Ted Cruz
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Josh Lyman posted:What's to stop you from hiring your mom for $10 million then her buying you a yacht? AFAIK, nothing. The FEC rules limit the amount of donations, not disbursements, though you do need to itemize and report all campaign fund expenditures, which is how we found out about Jim Webb hiring his family with his leftover Senate campaign cash and Ron Paul's affinity for McDonalds, Subway, and The Dollar Tree. It should be noted that the latter is a tree made of filthy fiat money which will be totally worthless due to the impending hyperinflation triggered by the Bilderbergers at the Federal Reserve.
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I need to write a book and run for President, what a great scam.
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Sir Tonk posted:I need to write a book and run for President, what a great scam. Almost all campaigns end up in debt. They are incredibly costly to run. Cruz's probably will as well, but of all the candidates he's the best positioned to use that cash sparingly. He's going to get a ton of earned media because he's a giant rear end in a top hat and the news will cover whatever he says, wherever he says it as long as he keeps being a giant rear end in a top hat, which doesn't seem like it will be a problem for him.
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Apr 2, 2015 02:53
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Sir Tonk posted:I need to write a book and run for President, what a great scam. You too could be living it up shopping at Dollar Tree.  This could be you!  This could be your recently condemned campaign office!
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Hahaha was that a Paul office or is it a pic from stockman's combination campaign HQ/storage locker?
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There's a pretty good article on salon that dissects the medias obsession with the mythical Elizabeth Warren campaign http://www.salon.com/2015/04/01/americas_elizabeth_warren_denial_why_everyone_still_pretends_shes_running_for_president/ Like many goons, I'd love to see her primary just to hear the debates, but maybe it's time to take her off the polls.
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Full Battle Rattle posted:maybe it's time to take her off the polls. I'll #slatepitch this: keep Warren in the polls! Polls of the Democratic primary have been incredibly clear: Hillary Clinton is going to be the nominee. However, there is a minority of the party that would prefer a leftist challenge to Hillary. Keeping Warren in the polls provides an effective measure of the size and influence of that minority. Currently, it appears to be somewhere between 10-15% of Democratic primary voters.
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Josh Lyman posted:What's to stop you from hiring your mom for $10 million then her buying you a yacht? All aboard Freedom Cruz
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Hahaha was that a Paul office or is it a pic from stockman's combination campaign HQ/storage locker? That's Stockman's campaign HQ.
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That is by far the most flattering picture of Stockman's campaign HQ, it looked like a hoarder's meth lab.
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Joementum posted:AFAIK, nothing. The FEC rules limit the amount of donations, not disbursements, though you do need to itemize and report all campaign fund expenditures, which is how we found out about Jim Webb hiring his family with his leftover Senate campaign cash and Ron Paul's affinity for McDonalds, Subway, and The Dollar Tree. It should be noted that the latter is a tree made of filthy fiat money which will be totally worthless due to the impending hyperinflation triggered by the Bilderbergers at the Federal Reserve. Doesn't the FEC have the requirement that you can't hire family members for above-average wage with campaign funds?
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SedanChair posted:All aboard Freedom Cruz http://www.conservativecruises.com/   So, who wants to be stuck on a boat with Michele Bachmann or Bill Kristol? Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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^^god that sounds like such a funtastic way to spend spring breakRaskolnikov38 posted:Cromwell was indeed a big enough of an rear end to ban Christmas. And Bill O'Reilly fancies himself a veteran of The War on Christmas. Wonder if he's aware of this. Thanks for sharing, while I knew Cromwell was an evil fella, I still learned some interesting stuff today between this and that Dan Burton rear end in a top hat. edit:  at Jim Geraghty
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Sir Tonk posted:http://www.conservativecruises.com/ all I can think of is The Ship mod for Half Life
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Sir Tonk posted:http://www.conservativecruises.com/ I love how Buckley started the whole cruise thing and then became a pariah at his own cruises because he kept talking about how stupidly Bush was running the wars.
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Sir Tonk posted:http://www.conservativecruises.com/ I am curious how paranoid they all are that anybody might be some kind of leftist plant, just waiting to catch them on tape baying for blood, or lead them on some SAE chants. Don't trust anybody under 70!
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I would really like for the Kristol Kruise to end up sharing a ship with the Kid Rock cruise.
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Matt Taibbi needs to go on that cruise (incognito probably) and write a long form article about his experience.
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OctoberBlues posted:Matt Taibbi needs to go on that cruise (incognito probably) and write a long form article about his experience. It's pretty funny.
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Slo-Tek posted:I am curious how paranoid they all are that anybody might be some kind of leftist plant, just waiting to catch them on tape baying for blood, or lead them on some SAE chants. Don't trust anybody under 70! Ah-hem. http://nymag.com/news/features/republican-caribbean-cruise-2012-12/ quote:Onstage were Reed, now in lime-green pants embroidered with pink swordfish and navy polo shirt with white piping on the collar; and Scott Rasmussen, the pollster who consistently overrated Romney’s chances of winning the election. Rasmussen blasted the assembled Republicans with one crushing statistic after another. The exit poll data, he said, “create a negative brand image of the Republican Party as a party that only cares about white people.” Six more pages of gold. I think there might have been a similar article back around the 2008 election.
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ErIog posted:This could be you! Hey look it's literally the kool aid they drank. Why is the bottom full of pictures of beards. Sharkie fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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Sharkie posted:Why is the bottom full of pictures of beards.  I don't think Hillary needs a progressive challenger, because it seems to be easier to win a general election coming from the left/right wing and moving center. The last 20 years of elections point to the trend - 1996 - Bob Dole ran to the center of Pat Buchanan and lost 2000 - Al Gore ran to the center of Bill Bradley and lost George W ran to the right of John McCain and won 2004 - John Kerry ran to the center of Howard Dean and a few others and lost 2008 - Barack Obama ran to the left of Hillary and won McCain ran to the center of Romney and Huckabee and lost 2012 - Mitt Romney ran to the center of the clown car extravaganza and lost. If Hillary has to face a challenger from the left, I think it'll make it hard to change gears and work to the center. Let her face Jim Webb and Brian Schweitzer and then win the general. Or this could be a crackpot theory based on correlation.
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So correct me if I'm wrong on my gut impression here, but the Democrats don't really have Barack Obama riding into the national consciousness on a magical unicorn this time so I have to assume everyone on the Democratic side has to know Hillary's getting the nomination. Like, I'm sure some of them will be poking around, keeping a campaign machine together on the down-low in case something unexpected happens, a few might be stubborn enough for a Quixotic run or try that "challenge from the left" thing, and of course Biden will be gnashing his teeth that he'd have a perfectly legitimate shot at the nomination if not for Hillary, but I can't imagine there's really any serious competition forming. If Biden decides spending a whole lot of money just to get humiliated one last time before retirement isn't for him then there'll probably hardly even be a Democratic primary. One crushing Iowa from Hillary to confirm that nobody's spoiling her last shot and she's not about to trip over her own two feet and that'll be it, all eyes on the Republican clown car. It's actually a pretty interesting contrast that the Democrats don't have the same field of weirdo grifters in their Presidential stable. I do have to wonder what Biden's thinking right now. If he doesn't run the Primary he can pretty much retire on a solid legacy, albeit with the "America's weird old uncle" overtones from the Vice Presidency. If he tries to mount a serious contest in the Primary though I could see Hillary doing a number on him, he's got more than a few weak spots and it'd be a rough way to go out.
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Sir Tonk posted:http://www.conservativecruises.com/ I'm wonder why doesn't Al Qaeda do suicide boat attacks any more?
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Fried Chicken posted:Oh, you aren't familiar with Dan Burton? Let me play the highlight reel for you How did this guy stay in office, when his own seem to consider him a nutcase? Do the GoP accept anyone as long as they vote as far to the right as possible? Rincewinds fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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Can we let Kristol steer the cruise ship? His sense of direction is flawless, after all.
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Trump surges in new Suffolk University NH primary poll. Bush: 19 Walker: 14 Paul: 7 Trump: 6 Cruz: 5 Christie: 5 Rubio: 3 Huckabee: 3 Carson: 3 Ten other candidates received less than 2 percent, and 24 percent were undecided.
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Rincewinds posted:How did this guy stay in office, when his own seem to consider him a nutcase? Do the GoP accept anyone as long as they vote as far to the right as possible? Very red district and no one wanted to challenge him in the primary. Running against an incumbent for House isn't very rewarding.
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You do you, Teddy.quote:"Religious liberty is not some fringe view," Cruz, currently the only declared candidate for president, said to about 300 people in Sioux City, the first stop on a two-day tour. "Sadly, a whole lot of Republicans are terrified of this issue."
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Joementum posted:Ted Cruz has raised $4,000,000 in the last eight days.
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ufarn posted:Was this because of IN/RFRA? It was mostly because he announced he was running for president I expect.
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ufarn posted:Was this because of IN/RFRA? It's because of an old saying, "A fool and his money are soon parted."
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