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Jiggyfly

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Rubio is also the former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. If being a former governor qualifies you for the presidency, being speaker of a state house should be a bullet point on a resume to add to being a Senator. Sure as hell beats "community organizer".
Obama was a State Senator as well.:shrug
 

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Rubio is also the former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. If being a former governor qualifies you for the presidency, being speaker of a state house should be a bullet point on a resume to add to being a Senator. Sure as hell beats "community organizer".
Um, Obama was in a state senate as well.
 

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Looking forward to Rubio or Cruz or Trump winning the nomination and watch all the people who bashed Obama for no experience be OK with it. Because (R).
 

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Looking forward to Rubio or Cruz or Trump winning the nomination and watch all the people who bashed Obama for no experience be OK with it. Because (R).
Having a (D) next to the name makes everything OK for you.
 

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:lol Of course. Rubio is perfectly fine as a first term Senator with little experience. Guess it is the (R).
BTH (better than Hillary)
 

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Hillary has experience, but she drags a trail of scandal and outright dishonesty behind her a mile long. Dodging responsibility for Benghazi instead of admitting any mistakes, mishandling and disseminating classified data, running a Bribery Foundation on top of adding another zero to her husband's appearance fees as soon as she became SOS, these are the tip of the iceberg we know about with her. She's pure poison, like Dick Cheney only not willing to be the power behind the throne any longer.
 

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Still shows a bit more when you can rise to being the head of a legislative body rather than just being in one. The speaker of the house in most states is second in power to the governor.
Or it shows he was just well connected and had the right people behind him.

And his Rabi was Jeb Bush, take that for what its worth.
 

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Hillary has experience, but she drags a trail of scandal and outright dishonesty behind her a mile long. Dodging responsibility for Benghazi instead of admitting any mistakes, mishandling and disseminating classified data, running a Bribery Foundation on top of adding another zero to her husband's appearance fees as soon as she became SOS, these are the tip of the iceberg we know about with her. She's pure poison, like Dick Cheney only not willing to be the power behind the throne any longer.
Unlike Cheney none of the money she has made has come from sending troops into battle to die for some mythical reasons.
 

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Ben Carson joins Donald Trump in threatening to leave GOP




By Tal Kopan, CNN


Updated 12:00 PM ET, Fri December 11, 2015 |


Washington (CNN)—Ben Carson on Friday took a page from Donald Trump's playbook by threatening to depart the Republican Party.

Ahead of Tuesday's GOP presidential debate, the retired neurosurgeon slammed the party after reports emerged that Republican insiders were discussing the possibility of deal-making to decide the eventual nominee at the Republican National Convention.

"If the leaders of the Republican Party want to destroy the party, they should continue to hold meetings like the one described in the Washington Post this morning," Carson said in a statement. "If this was the beginning of a plan to subvert the will of the voters and replace it with the will of the political elite, I assure you Donald Trump will not be the only one leaving the party."


It's the first time Carson has suggested the possibility of bucking the GOP -- though he has previously stood with Trump in pressuring the party to meet demands, including on debate structure.

Carson was responding to accounts that surfaced Thursday, first reported by The Washington Post, that Republican Party officials at a monthly dinner meeting this week discussed plans for a brokered convention, which would be triggered if no candidate secures enough delegates to win the nomination outright. Then delegates could be given up to support a consensus nominee.

According to sources at the dinner, a brokered convention was not the primary focus, but it was a topic of conversation. It appears to be the first active planning by the party for the possibility.

Carson was deploying a tactic that Trump has repeatedly used on the trail. The mogul has left the door open to an independent bid since the beginning of his campaign, and recently warned the GOP that if it doesn't treat him "fairly," he would consider it.

Sean Spicer, RNC chief strategist and communications director, sought to reassure Carson on Friday.

"I say to Dr. Carson, 'Don't worry, your prayers have been answered,'" Spicer told CNN's Kate Bolduan. "it was a dinner where the subject was how the delegate selection process works. ... At the end of that dinner, there were a lot of questions asked."

He called the hubbub "quite silly."

The RNC made all candidates sign a pledge early on that they would support whoever the eventual Republican nominee turns out to be, but Trump has continued his independent run talk by putting the burden on the GOP to uphold its end of the deal.

Other candidates have been asked about their loyalty to the pledge in recent days as they repudiate Trump's proposal to ban entry to the U.S. to all foreign Muslims. But most have maintained they will support the eventual nominee. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, has been the only one to openly say he would never support Trump for president.
 

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Unlike Cheney none of the money she has made has come from sending troops into battle to die for some mythical reasons.
She's been a massive Hawk for her entire political career. Make no mistake, when she becomes president we WILL go to war.
 

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Hillary has experience, but she drags a trail of scandal and outright dishonesty behind her a mile long. Dodging responsibility for Benghazi instead of admitting any mistakes, mishandling and disseminating classified data, running a Bribery Foundation on top of adding another zero to her husband's appearance fees as soon as she became SOS, these are the tip of the iceberg we know about with her. She's pure poison, like Dick Cheney only not willing to be the power behind the throne any longer.
She reminds me a lot of the guy from House of Cards. Basically do anything to get to the top but has no care or desire to actually help the country or people. Just basically in it for the money and fame.
 

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She reminds me a lot of the guy from House of Cards. Basically do anything to get to the top but has no care or desire to actually help the country or people. Just basically in it for the money and fame.
Frank Underwood doesn't give a shit about money. He's all about pure power.
 
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