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Elections GOP Road to 2016 Primary Thread

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Makani said:
Yep, it all seems kind of futile to me until they are all on a stage together. When you're speaking to donors or hitting media softballs you can say whatever your position is. Once they are all up there going back and forth, that's when the storms will start brewing. I don't think Walker was made for a debate stage, I think Rand will do well off the cuff and Jeb will put out some good soundbytes for moderates. All to be seen though, Kasich joining the party would be fun, I would love to see everyone ripping on Christie for a good 10 minutes.
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I agree Walker isn't going to shine in debates. He is very reserved and has had to work hard just to be good with his speeches. I think Rubio gets flack for his SOTU response but everything I've seen him in recently, especially the Koch event with Cruz/Rand, he did very well.

2012 was very boring because it was completely one dimensional. As much as I tried to view separate factions with the field, it really did just become Moderate v. Evangelical/Tea Party/Conservative with Romney always maintaining dominance as the others surged and fizzled. The debates all became putting Romney and the current flavor of the month candidate beside one another and have them argue while the other candidates would make overly ideological promises of abolishing the IRS, Obamacare, Welfare, etc. The 1 in 10 tax cuts for spending said it all.

This year, Santurom/Huckabee (who should be able to cancel each other out) and Cruz/Carson (same occurs here) are the only distractions I see occurring in the debates.
 
Huckabee slams 'globalists,' free trade agreements
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Expressing deep skepticism of proposed free trade agreements, Mike Huckabee warned in Iowa Saturday that the United States is becoming like communist China.
The former Arkansas governor recalled a trip he took to China last year during his appearance at an agricultural summit that drew a number of potential Republican 2016 candidates to the state fairgrounds.
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“In China, I felt like they were becoming more like America used to be,” he told a crowd of some 900 activists. “But, sadly, America is becoming more like they used to be. Our government is becoming more oppressive; theirs is beginning to ease up.
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Kentucky GOP approves Presidential caucus

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Executive session over. Former RNC chair Mike Duncan makes a motion to approve a caucus
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Caucus approved unanimously by voice vote. Meeting and discussion beforehand took about two hours
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Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY)

Good news! I just left the State Executive Committee meeting in Bowling Green KY, where they unanimously passed a resolution to move forward with the process of developing a caucus to select our Republican presidential nominee in 2016. This would allow Senator Paul to compete for the presidential nomination without giving up the Senate seat. I ‪#‎standwithrand‬
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lol you guys are taking this way to seriously. Espically seeing how we are getting a bush that we've never heard of shuved down our throats an a psycho ass bitch who should have executed for her crimes against the country.
 
Yeah free trade def makes u a commie
 
GhostZ06 said:
lol you guys are taking this way to seriously. Espically seeing how we are getting a bush that we've never heard of shuved down our throats an a psycho ass bitch who should have executed for her crimes against the country.
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Not if I can help it. The media is certainly pushing that narrative though.
 
So Far, Chris Christie's Presidential Bid Has Been One to Forget
Can you feel the momentum? Neither can Chris Christie.

Little more than a month has passed since the New Jersey governor started a political action committee to help him raise money for a prospective presidential campaign, and in that time Christie has not exactly set the political world on fire. As he embarks this week on what the Weekly Standard has dubbed the "Chris Christie comeback tour," beginning with his 130th town hall meeting since being elected governor, Christie is in dire need of some good news.
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The Case for Kasich
Ohio Gov. John Kasich has a message for the haters who have spent the past year or so sniping that he is insufficiently conservative: Bring it. "It's really odd," Kasich tells me in early February, when I spend a few days trailing him around the state. "I was talking to Michael Novak today, who's a brilliant writer, philosopher. I don't know if you know who he is. He's a Catholic theologian. He has received a Templeton Prize. Lady Thatcher flew to London to see him get this award." (Kasich is not the most linear conversationalist.) "And I was saying how amusing it is to me that the conservative movement—a big chunk of which is faith-based—seems to have never read Matthew 25."
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Back to the Future: Voters Crave 'Change' for 2016, Poll Finds
Here we go again.

Fifty-nine percent of registered voters say they want a candidate who will bring greater changes to current policy than one who does not, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. That number is even higher than the 55 percent of voters who said they craved change in the 2008 contest between Barack Obama and John McCain.

With change once again asserting itself as a key factor in the upcoming election, two candidates
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GearSolidMetal said:
I'm eagerly awaiting Urkle's opinion of who our next President should be.

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I can't make up my mind until then.

I hear he wants whoever would take responsibility, when something royally gets fucked up, a President that would ask 'Did I do that?'
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Exactly. We need more accountability in Washington

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