Lucille
12-08-2014, 04:28 PM
http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/08/tamir-rices-mother-speaks-out-rand-paul
The Washington Post named (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whos-most-likely-to-end-up-as-republicans-nominee-in-2016-presidential-race/2014/12/07/b37cafca-7e3c-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html) Sen. Rand Paul the GOP frontrunner for 2016.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party establishment (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/us/politics/gop-donors-seek-to-narrow-field-of-presidential-candidates-to-one.html) is in search of a candidate it likes.
1. Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.). People used to roll their eyes when we said Paul had a real chance to be the Republican nominee in 2016. Not anymore. Paul has a unique activist and fundraising base, thanks to his father’s two runs for president, and has shown considerable savvy in his outreach to the establishment end of the party over the past few years. Paul still says odd things — his blaming of high cigarette taxes for Eric Garner’s chokehold death at the hands of New York City police being the latest — that would get him in trouble in the heat of a presidential race. But he is the candidate furthest along in the planning process for president and the one with the most strength in early states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Why? It's the truth. Oh wait...BECAUSE it's the truth.
Dozens of the Republican Party’s leading presidential donors and fund-raisers have begun privately discussing how to clear the field for a single establishment candidate to carry the party’s banner in 2016, fearing that a prolonged primary would bolster Hillary Rodham Clinton, the likely Democratic candidate.
The conversations, described in interviews with a variety of the Republican Party’s most sought-after donors, are centered on the three potential candidates who have the largest existing base of major contributors and overlapping ties to the top tier of those who are uncommitted: Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Mitt Romney.
Looks like, once again, the neo-Trot establishment is not interested in winning the WH.
The Washington Post named (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whos-most-likely-to-end-up-as-republicans-nominee-in-2016-presidential-race/2014/12/07/b37cafca-7e3c-11e4-81fd-8c4814dfa9d7_story.html) Sen. Rand Paul the GOP frontrunner for 2016.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party establishment (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/us/politics/gop-donors-seek-to-narrow-field-of-presidential-candidates-to-one.html) is in search of a candidate it likes.
1. Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.). People used to roll their eyes when we said Paul had a real chance to be the Republican nominee in 2016. Not anymore. Paul has a unique activist and fundraising base, thanks to his father’s two runs for president, and has shown considerable savvy in his outreach to the establishment end of the party over the past few years. Paul still says odd things — his blaming of high cigarette taxes for Eric Garner’s chokehold death at the hands of New York City police being the latest — that would get him in trouble in the heat of a presidential race. But he is the candidate furthest along in the planning process for president and the one with the most strength in early states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Why? It's the truth. Oh wait...BECAUSE it's the truth.
Dozens of the Republican Party’s leading presidential donors and fund-raisers have begun privately discussing how to clear the field for a single establishment candidate to carry the party’s banner in 2016, fearing that a prolonged primary would bolster Hillary Rodham Clinton, the likely Democratic candidate.
The conversations, described in interviews with a variety of the Republican Party’s most sought-after donors, are centered on the three potential candidates who have the largest existing base of major contributors and overlapping ties to the top tier of those who are uncommitted: Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Mitt Romney.
Looks like, once again, the neo-Trot establishment is not interested in winning the WH.