Month: March 2016

Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin that “Something like 54 jets” arrived at the World conference hosted by AIE (American Enterprise Institute). GOP elites, donors and Tech company CEOs were on those private jets. Their Mission? Stop Donald Trump from becoming the nominee.

From The Huffington Post:

Billionaires, tech CEOs and top members of the Republican establishment flew to a private island resort off the coast of Georgia this weekend for the American Enterprise Institute’s annual World Forum, according to sources familiar with the secretive gathering.

The main topic at the closed-to-the-press confab? How to stop Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Larry Page, Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker, and Tesla Motors and SpaceX honcho Elon Musk all attended. So did Senate Majority LeaderSen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), political guru Karl Rove, House SpeakerRep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), GOP Sens.Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO)Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), who recently made news by saying he “cannot support Donald Trump.”

According to FAA records, the private jets landed at two small airports in St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia. The number of planes doubled that of last weekend’s traffic, Grim added.

It’s clear the GOPe will stop at nothing to defeat Trump so let’s see what they have concocted at this meeting of out of touch elites. I mean, it’s not like every other attempt by the GOPe has not only been ineffective but backfired on them “bigly”.

 

Hello everybody and welcome to my GOP Primary Super Tuesday Round 2 live blog. We have a jam-packed night ahead of us. Major Republican turnout in all four states.With the first polls coming as I type this, let me shut up and let’s get to it!

Sidenote: I will not be covering the Democrat race because as well all know, It’s fixed beyond belief.

 

***Update 5pm PST***

Early results are in in a few states like in Michigan where Donald Trump and John Kasich are in a dead heat only separated by .3% 35.6 to 35.3% respectively. Cruz (18.8%) and Rubio (7.8%) are trailing by a big margin as of now. Recent polls show John Kasich has been gaining on Trump in recent days.

***UPDATE 5:30pm PST***

Fox New projects Donald Trump wins MS Primary. Ted Cruz is projected to come in 2nd and a meaningless battle for 3rd is underway between Kasich and Rubio. Donald Trump is starting to pul away in Michigan.

***UPDATE 6pm PST***

Fox News project Donald Trump wins Michigan Primary. In a battle for second, Kasich is leading Cruz 26.3% to 22.2%. Ted Cruz seems to be outperforming and if he beats out Kasich for 2nd, that might spell trouble for him in his key home state of Ohio.

Awaiting Donald Trump victory speech from Jupiter Florida…

He really knows how to throw a victory party!!!!

H/T @KatyTurNBC

 

***UPDATE 6:15pm PST***

Trump take the stage in FL for his Michigan and MS primary victories.

***UPDATE 9pm PST***

Fox News projects Ted Cruz winning Idaho Primary . Donald Trump in a solid 2nd with 27.8%.

Cruz is hanging on over Kasich in Michigan 24.8% to 24.3%.

***UPDATE 11pm PST***

Early results in the Hawaii Caucus have Donald Trump up 46.6% over Ted Cruz at 28.2%. Only 27% of precincts reporting so still too early to call.

***UPDATE 11:30 PST***

CNN Projects Donald Trump winning The Hawaii Republican Caucus.

GOP Super Tuesday Part 2 Scoreboard:

Donald Trump:3

Ted Cruz: 1

Rubio: 0

Kasich: 0

 

Thank you to all who stop by and kept up to date throughout the night. I plan on having my post Super Tuesday wrap-up out tomorrow so stay tuned!

Keep it RIGHT, America!!!

Let me start this post off by saying I realize I’m starting my CPAC recap at day 2 mainly because i wanted to primarily cover the presidential candidates as it would have been a wall of text. It would have been  really hard to cover and analyze every single speech and then I would have had to pick and choose who to cover, not to mention all the other goings on in the political world like Romney’s stunt he pulled yesterday and the debate

That being said, what a day to begin recapping! Dana Loesch did a fantastic job opening this morning. I loved the 80/20 analogy she made. She’s right, a person you 80% agree with politically is not 20% your enemy. What the left does not understand is, the Republican party is very diverse. You have believers, non believers, libertarians and hardline conservatives. We are not each others enemy, we are an enemy of the the left and everything the stand for. This is not a time to for purism, this is a time to destroy Hillary Clinton and send her to the big house where she belongs! Well said Dana and on a side note, that red and black dress was on point.

After Dana set the stage so beautifully for a great day at CPAC, somebody somewhere got Mark Levin out from deep in his underground bunker and what a speech he gave as only Mark Levin knows how. He made a phenomenal case for conservatism and spoke about everybody’s favorite conservative icon, Ronald Reagan. The only problem I had with what Dana Loesch said was that we basically compare other candidates to Reagan and look to him as the gold standard of conservatism. But that’s just what Reagan was, the gold standard. Reaganism is what keeps conservatives in check. Just as Reagan spoke about America being a shining city on a hill, that is what Reagan was to conservatism and even after all these years after him, he still remains the shining light for conservatives.

Out of all the candidates former and current, I thought Ted Cruz gave a great speech. He was fired up and definitely took advantage of Donald Trump cancelling his speech tomorrow. I absolutely loved Ben Carson’s speech. The dignity and humility of that man is unmatched. He got a standing ovation when he announced he was suspending his campaign and that just goes to show you how much respect people have for him and how much people value his input. He said in his speech that he will now focus his energy into motivating evangelicals to get out and vote as that was a sizable chunk of the base that Romney failed to motivate. Something tells me he will be insurmountably more competent than Romney ever wishes he could be. I commend him for running a hard fought, ethical campaign and he brought, and continues to brig a lot to the table.

Now for the 800 lbs elephant in the room. Yes, you guess it, Mr. Donald Trump. I was very upset to learn that he had cancelled his speech at CPAC as I would have loved to hear what he had to say at a conference conservatives hold to such high regards. Now he says that the reason was he was campaigning. I don’t buy it. He knew full well he would be campaigning and he was aware of the schedule when he booked the speech. I think it was because a large majority  of the crowd was very hostile towards him. He received a lot of boo’s when his name was mentioned and I think he realized that especially when he was live on Hannity last night and a lot of the crowed boo’d him.

One of the criticisms of Trump is that he isn’t thick skinned and I think that was proven correct by his cancellation. His poll numbers might be really high but he still has to face the fact that his unfavorable rating is alarmingly high. The highest of any presidential candidate in US history in fact. He absolutely has to get those numbers to drop considerably if he wants to get the nomination and skipping the largest conservative conference of the year isn’t how to go about that. I gave up saying something he does or says is going to hurt him because I’m always proven wrong but the only thing that has hurt him, albeit slightly, was him skipping the Iowa debate before the caucus. Voters felt dissed and taken for granted as they have felt politicians have done for way too long so I don’t think standing up the base at CPAC was the brightest idea but what do I know? I guess we’ll see in the primaries and caucuses tomorrow.

Overall one of the best days at CPAC that i have seen. There won’t be too much to cover tomorrow since Trump dropped out but I’m still looking forward to the few speeches left and really hope to check CPAC off my bucket list one day and actually be there in person with some of you crazy hardcore conservatives.

Keep It RIGHT. America!

Wow what a night! The only thing missing was yo’ momma jokes and automatic gunfire! One thing I’m really tired of is “hey you, attack this guy!” “You said my name so I get to attack you!” Rinse and repeat. I learned absolutely nothing new tonight except Trump has small hands but a large penis, nobody wants to see any of the candidates do downward dog on stage and a businessman with hundreds of properties and business ventures is sued by people.

As for substance, I thought that although Trump took a few to the chin, he showed a lot of restraint given the barrage of incoming fire he received however I think he could have done without saying “little Marco” but that his thing and he’s the one that just keeps rising in the polls so what do I know? For example, Rubio hit him on flip flopping on issues and he said something to the effect that if you’re wrong on something and realize it, you don’t just stay the course which is true. That would be and idiot and Trump might be a lot of things, stupid isn’t one of them. He also brought up that he has brought a whole bunch of new voters to the republican party, something that the other candidates can’t really say at least to the degree Trump has so that’s a very big plus.

Sidenote: was it just me or was Trump the only one or virtually the only one had fact checking graphics put up while he was being interrogated by the political assassins? Fox News, c’mon, your bias is showing, tuck it in!

Cruz probably came in second in my book. He was on point for the most part but he kind of flirts with the scripted line as well like Rubio does so he ought to be careful about that. He uses attack lines time and time again against Trump and they just don’t work so I don’t know why he keeps trying.

Rubio looked tired, frustrated and just worn out. He had that flexible line against rump when they referenced yoga but I’m not electing a comedian. Although he didn’t full robot, he did seem scripted and I just don,t think he does well off script and it has shown. I think his days are numbered. He has also cancelled his speech a CPAC which I have noticed a lot of young conservative support for him there so we’ll see if that has any impact on him. All in all, he really didn’t impress me but then again, he hasn’t impressed me in a very long time.

John Kasich. Bless his heart but sadly, the calm, reasonable approach just isn’t working this time around. He might have done better 4 years ago but he missed his chance. I also heard him interviewed by O’reilly and he said he absolutely won’t take a VP position if he does not win so I really don’t know what he’s still doing there. Lastly, is anybody else getting tired of story after story from him? I mean he’d be a really cool grandpa with all his stories and all but I’m going to need more from a president.

Even though Ben Carson wasn’t there and looks like he very well coud be dropping out any day now, I will say this, any presumptive Republican admin. would be completely foolish to not have him in his cabinet.

Good debate, everybody survived the gunfire and I can only expect Donald Trump’s numbers to go up especially given that circus of a speech given by Mitt Romney earlier today.

Earlier today former MA Governor and 2-time presidential failure, Mitt Romney spoke to a crowd in Utah making the undeniably solid case against Donald Trump. He so eloquently made his case by using pages straight out of Robot Rubio’s RINO playbook, using words like “Con Man” and “Fraud”. Well done, never been said before.

Since Mitt Romney got his ass handed to him by a president who had one of the most pathetic records in US presidential history, Romney has at least for the most part, laid low…until now. See, we were all fine not caring about Romney’s opinion for the last four years and I’m not exactly sure why he thinks we care now. Establishment arrogance? Stupidity? Being out of touch? All of the above? Let’s go with all of the above, shall we?

What Romney and every other member of the GOPe still fail to realize is that we no longer care what they think. Game over, we’re done. What they also fail to realize is every time they open their mouth about either Trump or Cruz, their numbers only go up.

My question if it is stupidity behind this is backed up by these actions. You mean to tell me that you have been competent enough to hold power for several decades while destroying the country from both sides of the aisle and somehow not be kicked out of office, but you can’t get a clue that we are all done with you? So I have reached the conclusion that it is arrogant stupidity. Something we are all tired of.

Back in 08′ the powers that be shoved McCain down our throats and made the electability argument and good faithful Republicans fell in line. Fast forward to 12′ when The GOPe  shoved yet another RINO down our throats. Once again, we fell in line. No here we are in 2016 and THE PEOPLE are now speaking for themselves and electing a candidate we want, not them. Unfortunately, The GOPe has clearly shown they don’t have the same respect for us when we say “get in line”.

Possibly the most disgusting thing Romney is doing is using the same tactics Harry Reid and other leftists did by basically saying “I have no facts or specifics to back this up but a little birdy in my ear said Romney hasn’t paid his taxes.” We stuck up for you Mitt and you repay us by using the same dirty tactics against Trump that  they tried to use against you?

That’s not where his hypocrisy ends however. You may or may not remember back when Romney was running in ’12, a certain someone endorsed him and gave to his campaign.

 

Here it is…ENJOY!

Mitt Romney, you sir are a hypocrite and a LOSER! GET. IN. Line!!!