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This was a rather amusing mano-y-mano smack talk: Ryan Williams vs Corey Lewandowski.  The former, a Sununu/Romney/NH GOPer staffer / spokesperson and current Jeb! spox, the latter a former Senator Bob Smith staff member and successful AFP Exec director and current national Campaign Manager for Trump.  Establishment vs Insurgent.  Who do you think got the upper hand (hint: results matter)?  Condensed from Politico:

Williams: “He does not have a strong organization in New Hampshire. It’s kind of a ragtag bunch of staffers that didn’t catch on with any of the mainstream campaigns.”

Get that: mainstream.  Typical effete elitism

Lewandowski: “Ryan Williams is a

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And she was our Secretary of State?  Mon Dieu!

Clinton: ‘I Have a Hard Time Imagining the Kind of National Emergency’ That Would Trigger Draft

“I have a hard time imagining the kind of national emergency that would require the use of the Selective Service System,” Hillary Clinton told a Democrat town hall hosted by CNN Wednesday night.  She was asked for her thoughts on requiring women to sign up with Selective Service at age 18, just as all American men must do.

Leaders may want to hope for the best but have to prepare for the worst in fulfilling the oath to defend us from all enemies, domestic and foreign.  So that does include preparing for war.  For Hillary Clinton to just throw our history under the bus (e.g., Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War II) in which the entire nation was put onto a war footing, I am just astonished.  Are we to expect that her time in office (God forbid that it would happen) is yet another Hillary entitlement of Bill “War on Women” Clinton’s time of peace?

Now 

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That would be Jim Gilmore – military vet and former Governor of Virginia. Another nice guy to boot but he just hasn’t caught on.  But in fact, if he was a writer, he’d be in the vanity (re: self-publishing) business for all of the excitement he’s generated.  Yes, he’s quite intelligent and his ideas and stances are pretty much fine – but yet another one of the “older time” pols trying a reboot and not taking the hint.

And it shows. I just looked at his tweet (via The Blaze) and my head swiveled off angle like my dogs do when really confused:

Started out as 1 of 17 GOP Candidates, now with Rand Paul & Rick Santorum out, 1 or 9. #StillStanding

— Jim Gilmore (@gov_gilmore) February 3, 2016

Now, combine that with this…

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“Rep. LaChance’s bill is the train that’s going to leave the station,” Bradley said.

But you were the Conductor of this bait and switch.  So pious in the beginning and now the self-appointed Republican Savior for the Democrat Agenda.  I rue the day I helped you run against “Bathroom Bud” in that special election; you lied to me in presenting yourself as someone you aren’t.  So, how is it that you are different from the Democrats?  Oh, it’s just a little smaller and you can run it a bit better? Or the REAL reason:

Many on both sides of the aisle know continuing Medicaid expansion is critical to not only the fight to stem the tide of rampant opioid addiction washing over New Hampshire but also to political control of the Legislature.

Throwing 45,000 working poor off medical insurance has a high political price and the Republican legislative leadership knows that.

Right.  Adopt the Democrat argument that you first had to do this because the Dems’ version would have been much worse, and now use the Dems’ argument of “OH! HOW could we take away this [free] thing from so many people” with the sub-audible reason never stated:

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Remember while reading the below that two of the three top finishers are TEA Party associated (emphasis mine):

And the night’s biggest loser wasn’t Donald Trump (though he indeed lost big), but the GOP establishment, what William F. Buckley once referred to in the initial mission statement of National Review as the “Well-fed right whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity.” They suffered a loss so ignominious and dramatic that one needs to step back a bit to reflect on its comprehensiveness. The campaign began with seventeen GOP candidates, of whom eleven had longtime pre-Tea Party era experience in elected office, including several senators and the former Governors of Texas, New York, and Florida. Between pre-caucus drop-outs and election night performances, those eleven candidates took just nine percent of the vote combined. Nine percent. The other ninety-one percent of the vote went to candidates who had neither not held office before 2010 or whom had never held office at all.

In the face of repudiation this total,

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I’ve been saying saying the same thing for years – and remember that it was the Frankfurt School and Gramsci that said for the Socialist / Communists to take over the ramparts of culture.  Now we are seeing that they were successful (emphasis mine):

ANALYSIS: TRUE. OU professor: Youths’ attraction to Sanders shows education failure. “It’s disheartening that an avowed socialist is a viable candidate for president of the United States. Socialism is a dead end. For hundreds of years, it has failed everywhere it’s been adopted. The enthusiasm of our youth for the candidacy of Bernie Sanders is a symptom of our failure to educate them, not only in history, government and economics, but also basic morality.”

And it has been by design.  If you don’t know your own history,

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This is really dismal – if you have to ASK for applause for yourself, what does that say both you and your campaign?

“My pledge to you, I will be a commander in chief that will have the back of the military,” Bush told the crowd. “I won’t trash talk, I won’t be a divider-in-chief or an agitator-in-chief. I won’t be out there blowharding, talking a big game without backing it up.”  “I think the next president needs to be a lot quieter but send a signal that we’re prepared to act in the national security interest of this country,” he added. “To get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world.”

After that line, Bush paused, seemingly waiting for the crowd to applaud and cheer him — but they didn’t.

“Please clap,” Bush had to tell the crowd, sounding defeated.

Oy vay!  That’s pitiful.  I know that politicians have to be able to take rejection almost as much as actors, used car salesman and telemarketers, but that is bad.  But to actually ask for applause to make you feel better about yourself?

UPDATE: video after the jump

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Back to 2010’s election cycle when the NH Senatorial race was running – the Big Dog from the $$ perspective was “hundreds millionaire” Mr. Binnie.  If I remember right, he spent the equivalent about $450/vote in the Primary – and didn’t even come close (Note to Bernie Sanders: pay attention that money sometimes doesn’t make a difference).  But man, Bill must be thanking himself for his own restraint.

Jeb!, not so much:

Jeb Bush spent about $25,000 for every vote he got in Iowa. He outspent everyone just to stay barely competitive. He came in sixth place, behind Rand Paul (who may or may not be wondering whether risking his own Senate seat is worth it at this point), which is a frankly embarrassing finish for someone who spent so much.

For a lousy 3% of the vote last night; a horrible return on investment on time, effort, and money.  My prediction, as his donor’s political crack money supply is drying up faster than California was before El Nino, NH may be his last stand.  If he’s not substantially above that, and not placing in the top 3, he’s toast.  While he could slink onward to South Carolina, I bet he’s got to be looking in that mirror and going “what the heck has happened”?  Will he continue to the bitter end (re: no money at all) or take the more honorable and more honest route and finally admit “This is not my time”.

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“Seven years ago, we made a huge mistake,” Christie said at Wellman’s Pub in West Des Moines. “We elected a first-term United States senator to the presidency of the United States. Somebody who had never managed anything more than a 30-person Senate staff, and who never had made a decision of consequence that they were going to be held accountable for where people’s lives were on the line.”

No, Obama’s problem wasn’t that he was a first term Senator cum President.  If you look at what he said he was going to, fundamentally transform the US, I would he has succeeded.  He has made Congress irrelevant, cowered the Republican, neutered the will of the We the People by ignoring election results, embraced and enriched (in terms of power and money) his friends and allied groups, and weaponized the Federal Government against those that oppose him (the EPA, the IRS, Labor Department, DOT), and unilaterally instituted every Lefty group’s idea of deindustrialization, regionalization, removing “offending” industries (e.g., coal) and hamstringing others (e.g., Frank-Dodd), reduced religious liberty (via Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate as well as pushing the LGBTQRSTUV agenda), and further taking over and nationalizing our education system. And insulted our former allies and made a mockery of the US in the sight of our enemies.  And I predict that his “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” will result in Iran getting AND USING the Bomb.

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