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If the rhetoric isn't just bluster I'm pretty sure an effective GOP congress with a willing GOP president might just be able to run me out of the country now that I have a viable option. poo poo is scary.
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sullat posted:President Garfield would like to have a word with you. Well, if he weren't dead. Oh, hey, no, if we're including the time period when conventions actually meant anything, sure, but then we also get to talk about how many people gave so little poo poo about who was Vice President that drafting was not just common, but in 1844 they were so disinterested sone guy from Pennsylvania stood up and literally - not emphasis literally but actually literally - said, "Hey, about my brother?" and that's how George Dallas became veep and got a city in Texas named after him
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Is...is that meant to be anything other than ominous and borderline-apocalyptic? I mean really, did whomever made it think it depicted Rand as something other than basically The Beast? The video on Facebook is even better.
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Apr 3, 2015 02:24
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Joementum posted:The video on Facebook is even better. And I heard a voice like thunder, one of the four living creatures saying, "end the Fed."
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Is...is that meant to be anything other than ominous and borderline-apocalyptic? I mean really, did whomever made it think it depicted Rand as something other than basically The Beast? What?! Rand is surrounded in hyper RED. He's the conservative for you! Ignore the next 18 months of pseudo-populist pap that means nothing, while his voting record says something else. Sorta like his useless father except Rand is starting his lifetime of Presidential runs much earlier.
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Apr 3, 2015 05:40
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If I had Photoshop installed on this computer, I'd replace his head with a Fisher-Price toy telephone. But somewhat subtly.
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April 7th is Coming It's Happening
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joeburz posted:April 7th is Coming Rand Paul 2016: Directed by M. Night Shyamalan The twist is that Rand Paul was just Ron Paul with a merkin on his head the whole time!
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Foo posted:A question for the knowledgeable folks in here: Why is Jeb currently topping the polls if he's the Mitt Romney of the primaries? I thought he was this milquetoast Republican that true believers are hesitant to vote for. Last time everyone had a turn on top. The idiot circus that is the Republican voting base seem to have memories of gold fish and only vote best on what rip roaring soundbite they last heard from the candidate.
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Apr 3, 2015 12:19
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Imagine the fights going on in the homes of Liberty U grads across the nation. Mom and Dad wanna vote for that stuffy Cruz, but the kids are hip to it. They're gonna vote for Rand and Freedom, because while they too want to ban all abortion and allow for the torture of gays, they don't want to, like, COERCE people to do it, man. What would libertarians due without the word "coerce" anyway?
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De Nomolos posted:Imagine the fights going on in the homes of Liberty U grads across the nation. Mom and Dad wanna vote for that stuffy Cruz, but the kids are hip to it. They're gonna vote for Rand and Freedom, because while they too want to ban all abortion and allow for the torture of gays, they don't want to, like, COERCE people to do it, man. Have no way to describe Ayn Rand's views on sex?
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DACK FAYDEN posted:If I had Photoshop installed on this computer, I'd replace his head with a Fisher-Price toy telephone. But somewhat subtly. Subtlety schmubtlety 
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Joementum posted:Ted Cruz has spent $33,000 to have his ads played over Easter weekend, specifically once during A.D.: The Bible Continues on NBC, three times during Killing Jesus on NatGeo, and four times on Weird, I always thought he was more of the Tea Party camp than evangelical, does he score a lot of points in that crowd?
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Full Battle Rattle posted:Weird, I always thought he was more of the Tea Party camp than evangelical, does he score a lot of points in that crowd? He's trying to. That's his campaign strategy. He thinks he has the Tea Party vote sewn up, so he's attempting to expand his coalition early and steal the evangelicals from Santorum / Huckabee / Jindal / Perry / Carson.
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Full Battle Rattle posted:Weird, I always thought he was more of the Tea Party camp than evangelical, does he score a lot of points in that crowd? I thought that someone did the research and found that the most likely background for someone to become a Tea Party supporter was being an Evangelical Christian.
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Full Battle Rattle posted:Weird, I always thought he was more of the Tea Party camp than evangelical, does he score a lot of points in that crowd? Why do you think those are two different camps?
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mcmagic posted:Why do you think those are two different camps? But the original tea party recruiting effort swore it was about fiscal responsibility and nothing else at all! Unfortunately that fiscal responsibility meant they laid off the masons who were supposed to keep up the facade when the evangelism, social conservatism, racism, and conspiracy theorists started to show through.
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I had always thought it was more of a libertarian thing, yeah. Though, if you're a politically active christian I can definitely see the appeal.
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Joementum posted:The video on Facebook is even better. 
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Full Battle Rattle posted:I had always thought it was more of a libertarian thing, yeah. Though, if you're a politically active christian I can definitely see the appeal. Right now on the official tea party website, 3 of 5 headlines are about defending Christianity from democrats/gays. The other two are one about guns and another about the Iran nuke deal.
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Well color me corrected, then. I thought it was just people mad about taxes, though you can probably see why I had this misconception.
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A CHALLENGER APPROACHES! *cue Final Destination from Smash Bros*
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America runs on RAND OIL
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Typically I think the taxes are a red herring. Tea Party types seem to be most concerned with social issues and keeping white Christian males in power over all else. In regards to financial matters they release a lot of populist almost socialist rhetoric about how the rich control everything and keep the working man down, however the rich are a class made up of evil, elitist, college educated liberals that want to force their views on white America. Rich, elitist, college educated Republican types are ignored. The Tea Party will use complaints about taxes and the deficit to hamper Obama's agenda but the second a Republican gets into the Presidency they will be as silent in regards to out of control spending as they were under Bush II. As long as they are being catered to on their social issues they are largely placated. It's just a lot more image friendly to complain about taxes (going to lazy minorities and shiftless government employees) than to publicly say you want to reenact Jim Crow, set up a Christian version of medieval theocratic law, and start holy wars across the Middle East which is also a message the business Republicans like to hear since they are primarily concerned with money and sticking it to minorities second.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSav51fVlKU Rand probably shoulda used the correct music for that logo. Radish posted:Typically I think the taxes are a red herring. For a group that's super concerned about taxes, they never liked being reminded that taxes were at their lowest point in like seventy years. Of course it was all a facade for racism and being butt-hurt about losing the Presidency twice. Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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Sir Tonk posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSav51fVlKU If we're picking Vangelis tunes for Rand I'd have gone with this. Ron: You've done a man's job, sir. I guess you're through, huh? Rand: Finished. [Ron throws Rand his gun] Ron: It's too bad you won't win! But then again, who does?
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Sir Tonk posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSav51fVlKU Exactly. I'm supposed to believe that people whose main concern is fiscal responsibility in government didn't say a peep when we started two wars without addressing a way to pay for them but suddenly started their movement a month after Obama was elected and had yet to actually do anything?
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Rand is bringing back the half hour campaign ad with a purchase of a 30 minute slot in the Des Moines market for late April / early May.
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I think 18 months ago Paul would've been a very strong candidate but since IS cropped up and even more so now with this Iran deal, the GOP seems to have rememberd that it loved warmongering.
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I wish the old LF KILL YOUR PARENTS RON PAUL videos of him dubbed over with Titicut Follies still existed. Would love to Captain Midnight that broadcast with those (if we were in 1983 and digital wasn't a thing).
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All right, then. Two of 'em, both had my father in 'em. It's peculiar. I'm older now than he ever was by 20 years. So, in a sense, he's the younger man. Anyway, the first one I don't remember too well... ...but it was about meeting him in town... ...somewheres, and he give me some money. I think I lost it. Second one, it was like we was both back in older times. And I was a-horseback, going through the mountains of a night. Going through this pass in the mountains. It was cold, and there was snow on the ground. And he rode past me and kept on going... ...never said nothing going by, just rode on past. He had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down. When he rode past, I seen he was carrying fire in a horn... ...the way people used to do, and I... I could see the horn from the light inside of it... 'bout the color of the moon. And, in the dream, I knew that he was... ...going on ahead. He was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and cold. And I knew that whenever I got there, he'd be there. And then I woke up.
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Hillary's not-a-campaign has signed a lease for offices in Brooklyn. The only reason why anyone should care about this "news" is that it counts as campaign activity under the rules, which means they need to file with the FEC within the next 15 days. It would be amazing if she did a surprise announcement at the same time as Rand or Marco's scheduled events.
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Joementum posted:
That would be punching down.
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