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As The GOP Primary Race Goes Into Production, Here Are The Facts
With two days left until the GOP primary circus is fully underway, here, courtesy of Reuters, are the key facts to keep in mind as all that endless talk finally shifts to action. From Reuters: "Voters kick off the 2012 nominating process to pick the Republican Party's challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama with the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday, followed by primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina on Jan. 10 and Jan. 21. The three contests are some of the most watched events in the election process. Here are a few facts about them."
IOWA
- Iowa has been first in the nominating process since 1972 when Iowa Democrats changed the date to meet new rules intended to encourage participation. Jimmy Carter first drew attention to the caucuses in 1976 when he performed unexpectedly well and went on to take the White House.
- The saying there are only "three tickets out of Iowa" comes from the fact that since 1972 almost no candidate has won their party nomination without coming in third place or better in Iowa. In 2008, Republican nominee John McCain took 4th.
- On average only about 6 percent of eligible voters participate in the Iowa caucuses, which bring them together for hours to cast ballots after a surrogate or volunteer from each campaign is given a chance to try to sway their vote. In 2008, that jumped to 16.1 percent but was still much lower than the 53.6 percent who voted in the New Hampshire primaries of direct balloting, according to George Mason University's United States Elections Project.
- The Hawkeye State has chosen Democratic candidates for the White House in five of the last six presidential elections, but political observers say independents could swing the vote. Registered Democrats number about 645,500 to 613,500 Republicans, and almost 718,000 voters were not with a party, according to December data from the Iowa secretary of state.
- In an election focused on the economy, Iowa's 6 percent unemployment rate in October, compared to the national rate of 8.6 percent, is among the lowest in the country.
- The state's Hispanic population almost doubled in the past decade to make up about 5 percent of Iowans. About 91 percent of the population was white in 2010, the last U.S. Census shows.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- Before the Iowa caucuses grabbed national attention in the 1970s, the New Hampshire primary was the first test for presidential hopefuls. It is known for political upsets starting with Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 win over long-time Republican Senator Robert Taft before winning the presidency.
- New Hampshire primary winners have had mixed success when it comes to getting their party's nomination. John McCain won the Republican primary in 2000 but eventually lost the bid to George W. Bush. In 2008 Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary but the party nod went to Obama.
- Performances in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primaries have not been consistent. Since 1984, only two candidates have won both.
- The "Live Free or Die" state is not as liberal as some of its New England neighbors. A study released in December by Third Way, a Washington think tank that promotes centrist policies, found the number of registered Democratic voters had fallen 14.6 percent while that of Republicans had declined 13.5 percent.
- Richard Nixon, the Republican president from 1969 to 1973, holds the record for winning the most New Hampshire primaries: three.
SOUTH CAROLINA
- The South Carolina Republican primary was set early in the primary calendar in 1980 by Ronald Reagan's campaign coordinator Lee Atwater to give Reagan a boost and southern conservatives more weight in the nominating process.
- The race has since become known as a firewall for establishment frontrunners against insurgent candidates who perform surprisingly well in the earlier contests.
- Since 1980, every winner of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary has gone on to win the party nomination.
- The Palmetto State has gone for Republican candidates in 9 out of the last ten presidential elections.
- Religion resonates with South Carolina voters. A little over 60 percent of South Carolina residents were identified as evangelical or mainline Protestant Christian, the Pew Forum's U.S. Religious Landscape Survey in 2008 found.
- With 10.5 percent of its population unemployed, South Carolina has one of the nation's worst unemployment rates.
- South Carolina is among the country's fastest growing states, fueled in part by a burgeoning Hispanic population. In 2010, 5.1 percent of state residents were Hispanic, up from 2.4 percent in 2000, according to the last U.S. Census. African-Americans made up about 28 percent of residents and whites, 66 percent.
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RON PAUL
The question remains, what exactly are political experts expert in? Secondly, what does any of it matter?
I am faced with a choice between the Democratic and Republican parties. What Kind of choice is that, you might ask? I'll tell you. I'm sitting in a restaurant and the waitress says to me: "Excuse me, miss; would you like a nice cool glass of donkey piss to wash down that juicy plate of elephant shit you've ordered?" It's that kind of choice. Happy new year, folks.
LONG / Douches!
Santorum says he would bomb Iran if they refused nuclear inspections. And without a Declaration of War.
Now that is fucking crazy. Just bomb people when they won't do what America wants. Idiot.
IAEA inspectors are on the ground in Iran and have been for years. Santorum wants Americans to fight and die for an obvious lie.
Make Congress Vote on War on Iranby Patrick J. Buchanan
"The secretary was clear that we have no indication that the Iranians have made a decision to develop a nuclear weapon," said Pentagon press secretary George Little. "He (Panetta) didn't say that Iran would, in fact, have a nuclear weapon in 2012."
Little added that U.N. inspectors remain in Iran and have access to its uranium stockpile, and should Iran attempt a "breakout" by diverting low-enriched uranium to a hidden facility to convert it to weapons grade, U.N. inspectors would instantly detect the diversion.
"We would retain sufficient time under any such scenario to take appropriate action," said Little.
In short, the Pentagon does not believe Iran has made a decision to build atomic weapons, and the department is confident that, should it do so, the United States would have ample warning.
Little's definitive statement, "We have no indication that the Iranians have made a decision to develop a nuclear weapon," coincides with the consensus of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, in December 2007.
In that report, the entire U.S. intelligence community stated unanimously, with "high confidence," that Iran had given up its drive for an atom bomb back in 2003.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan202.html
Same thing thing Bush & Cheney did with Iraq...same tired playbook...same tired result...morons.
Questran1913 is correct. I have said the same thing for years now. I am old enough to remember when after their term was up, Presidents went away into relative reclusion. Nixon was the first President to not do that, and no former President after him has since either. Look at Slick Willie, the SOB is EVERYWHERE. Does anyone really believe Hitlery Clinton was Obama's choice as his Secretary of State? They despise each other in private. These policies and appointments come straight from the CFR, Trilateral Commission, Bilderburgs and other various UN architects. They continually recycle the same old faces over and over, regardless of the political party in so-called power at the time. The only differances between the parties today are superfical, matters that are'nt really of any consequence, usually social policy like gay marriage, abortion, drugs, etc. These are left intact to fool the masses into thinking there is a real differance. There really isn't. Look at Mitt Romney in comparison to Obama. They even share the same social policy! The only differance between them is skin color and religious preference. Other than that, they are identical.
"The South Carolina Republican primary was set early in the primary calendar in 1980 by Ronald Reagan's campaign coordinator Lee Atwater to give Reagan a boost and southern conservatives more weight in the nominating process."
This is completely fabricated bullshit. Lee Atwater never worked in Reagan's 1980 campaign. He was the campaign manager for Bush 41 in 1988 but was never in Reagan's 1980 campaign. Ed Rollins ran Reagan's 1984 campaign.
As for Atwater setting the SC primary early in the calendar, that is laughable. The primary calendars are set by the respective national Parties, the RNC and the DNC. Whoever wrote this nonsense doesn't know shit about the political process.
I wonder how many other "facts" in this piece are bullshit?
All you need to know about Rick "The NeoCon Christian" Santorum is this: I heard Rick (and dear cute little Michelle Bachman) say he prefers "coercive interogation" (AKA felonious torture) of terror suspects.
Rick, as a quasi-borderline "Christian", what about these Bible quotes? "Forgive your enemies...love your enemies...feed your enemies...take no oaths...cloth your enemies...Prince of 'Peace'...if someone forces you to walk a mile, go with him another mile...pray in your closet...David could not see the Temple built because he shed innocent blood...Solomon means "Peace"...blessed are the peace makers...if someone steals your tunic, give him your cloak...etc, etc, etc...My Kingdom is not of this earth..." and on and on and on...in every imaginable way, by any possible metric, the political office of President contradicts everything Jesus Christ taught and stood for...Christ forbids all his followers from enforcing any law by force...Peter cut off the Roman guard's ear, Christ rebuked Peter, and healed the guard's ear.
Believers who use force mimic only the Pharisees who hung Christ on the tree, then blamed Rome for what they did...the Pharisees to whom it is said: "circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing...your father is the devil...say not you have Abraham as your father...God is able to raise up children of Abraham from these stones..."
Every promise God made to the Hebrews (the word Jew did not exist until 1775, check the Oxford Dictionary for proof), including the promise for the land, came with a quid-pro-quo requirement to obey God. Instead of obeying God, they hung Him on the tree.
Santorum follows not Christ, but follows rather the Pharisees who murdered Christ.
If you are a police officer and/or especially if you are in the military, you need to get the hell out now. Meanwhile, if you're in the military, until you get out, you need to immediately claim Conscientous Objector status.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword"
"Those who hate me (God) L-O-V-E D-E-A-T-H"
Christ forbids all his followers from enforcing any law by force...
I'm not sure that the sword used to cut the servants ear off would have been there at that occasion except at Jesus' request. I believe God's flaming sword preventing access to the tree of life is the first account of the legitimacy of force in controling behavior / human conduct.
From a theological perspective, the salvation proffered by the Christ is salvation from the wrath of God, the consequence of personal evil conduct every human being is guilty of performing. Much to the dismay of currrent religious thought, the bible does not teach an inate goodness of man but quite the opposite. Man is inherently evil.
Though initially created in the image of God, our own wickedness has excluded our right to enjoy the benefits of doing right. These benefits we crave, i.e. power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and blessing are only rightfully the creators and our futlile attempts at grasping at them result in the fodder of much discussion here at ZH.
On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
And while Nietzsche himself would include God as an "everyone", I found amusement in the reported subway scribbled graffitti shortly after Nietzshe's demise: "Nietzshe is dead.......God"
This comment thread is hilarious, people on one hand saying RPs newsletters weren't racist because they're factually accurate and other people saying RP didn't write them and isn't a racist at all. Ron Paul events must be awesome to attend - batshit racists meeting up with liberal apologists!
And the cherry on top is that Ron Paul is a "Liberatian" who believes in the "moral" authority of gov adding its morality should come from something called the "creator"? Lol, man what a shit show!
Ron Paul shitshow 2012, the entertainment must go on!
Liberally astolen from the APFN Yahoogroups:
Read this and check out the links please.
Forward from Rose King:
WARNING!!!!
REQUIRES REAL INTELLIGENCE AND REAL TIME TO READ THIS AND WATCH THE VIDEOS. DO NOT ATTEMPT IT IF YOU ARE UNDER TELEVISION MIND CONTROL OR ARE DRINKING FLUORIDE(POISONOUS ALUMINUM BYPRODUCT THAT DUMBS YOU DOWN AND MAKES YOU APATHETIC) IN YOUR WATER. YOU CAN NOT HANDLE THE TRUTH AND ARE TOTALLY CONTROLLED BY THE SATANIC/LUCIFERIC GOVT THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD CLOSE THIS EMAIL RIGHT NOW SO AS NOT TO INTERRUPT YOUR IMPERIAL CONDITIONING.
WARNING!!!!!!!!!
1-1-12
Hello folks,
Here is a rant that was written to a family member. It took off fast towards the usual Epistle. See if you can find something here that empowers you with the Light of truth:
In regards to your earlier question, do you think Ron Paul has a chance?
IF, notice the big IF we have an election without a socialist dictator declaring martial law, or another isrealli mosad sponsored false flag event like 9/11 was happening to blame Iran/Syria/Pakistan on for more unjustified war for profit ANY DAY NOW, or an economic crash as planned also resulting in martial law being declared, bank holidays, and ensuing fema camp red and blue list round ups, Ron Paul is the only and LAST CHANCE this country has of continuing on and surviving as america. If not, well, time will tell, but another ZIONIST/ROTHSCHILD/ROCKEFELLER/CFR/BILDERBURG/COUNCIL OF ROME globalist neocon RINO democrat-republican wall street bankster puppet stooge TIN HAT dictator will not do anything but continue the Project for a New American Century agenda and the steady march to world war for the psychopathic profiteers of the military industrial war complex and satanic/luciferic banksters. THERE IS A REAL CHANCE OF THIS HAPPENING EVEN BEFORE THE NORMAL ATTACK MOON-TIME IN MARCH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sg_NRC8ozk
http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/neo-conservatism/pnac.html
TOTAL WAR FOR PROFIT AND PLUNDER FOR THE FEW. Not for us, nor for you. We can protect ourselves in a place where we really do not have much to protect our selves from, YET! And we do not need the american corporation's US army guarding every other border in the world but our own to protect us from the enemies the cia created as the "patsy" HEGELIAN DIALECTIC history has shown. We personally know of NO ONE that needs that kind of protection. Support the troops? Yes! Bring them home to their families where they can spend their money in our own country, instead of at 200 military bases all over the world. Talk about an economic boost.
We are being set up to lose this next world war and the people are to dam stupid to see what is really happening because they are glued to the mainstream socialist propaganda machine TV and TOTALLY MIND CONTROLLED to be stupid sheep following every lie that is put out there. They call it Television PROGRAMING for a reason and refer to the american people as sheeple. Remember, we no longer call this MSM, it is now ONLY to be known as the socialist propaganda machine.
It is sickenly really messed up and well beyond insanity. Those who support the killing and murdering so a few can profit will pay in eternal damnation for their complicity in the cover up and lies they ALL support. Why this once was a great country that still has reasonable people like you still believes the lies and dis-information is ludicrous to try and comprehend. If the people of this nation do not WAKE UP FAST and stop the bankster plans NOW, they will deserve the slaughter that is coming from china, or russia. All just chess pieces on a board of war games for the globalist zionist pigs that do not care who's country or whose people lives or dies. They come in and buy it all up after the destruction to further the agenda of world domination and more profits. Pop Quiz: Any smart readers here remember what happens to people, countries, and civilizations that attempt world domination? What america is doing now to other countries and their people is absolutely against the Laws of God. No argument, no excuses for perpetuating the agendas of these war mongers and slime-bags of evil running the ship into the ground.
If we could go somewhere that americans are not hated for what we like the nazis doing isreals bidding and war making have done for the last ten years, we would get out of this country as fast as we could before what happened to nazi germany happens here in the usa. The problem is, this globalist UN bankster zionist beast that is destroying this country has already destroyed every other country in the world and this next world war will eliminate the last obstacle to world domination. The USA and no one here even cares or chooses to wake up and stop the madness. Bet ya ten cents many who read this will discount it.
Freedom is soon to become a thing of the past. We will not travel anymore for fear of the babalonian govt that just wants to capture you and incorporate you into their fascist admiralty law system for profit and plunder or worse, imprisonment. With military check points popping up all over the country, one never knows if they will make it back home or not anymore. See tourism in the USA end.
So much for God and america and the freedom all of our ancestors died for. A most disturbing fact is, this satan/lucifer patronage and SUPPORT THE TROOPS attitude has done well at dividing the families of america and this will be our downfall. God is ONLY in the family unit. If you do not have a family that is ALL on the same page of agreement and harmony, you do not have the REAL GOD of Love in your house. We know this because our God does not teach us to profit and plunder our neighbor. Our God does not teach us to Kill other people and conquer countries so a few can control the world. Our God is basically summed up in one word; Love. If it is not Love, what is it?
How many people have actually read the ten planks of the communist manifesto?
http://www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html
Oh, and also, how does it feel to know YOUR own govt has just declared war on you? Yeah, the same one that allows torture and the soldiers to now sodomize anything with, or without legs in the new "battlefield" called called america.
http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-salt-lake-city/obama-signs-ndaa-i...
(He basically says no american citizens will be arrested on his watch. Since when does this two-faced illegal alien usurper imposter tell the truth?)
"You can take that to the Bank"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlXfs1K04g
Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here's the text that says so:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034538_NDAA_American_citizens_indefinite_deta...
And how does it feel to know your own army is training as we speak to go to war against our own people? Listen to this army guy named Ivan that calls into the Alex Jones show and describes these drills live on radio last Friday and what he and others are doing and saying in the army.
http://podcast.gcnlive.com/podcast/alex/1230114.mp3
He calls in after a few minutes where they are finishing discussing the detention law that was passed to allow the military to have sex with animals. Sounds like BS you say?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011-12-08/us-defense-bill...
SUPPORT THE SODOMIZING TROOPS? ONLY IN HELL. DO THE HOMEWORK PEOPLE!!!!!
Now, this is taking away from peoples precious TV time, and it might be asking too much to take a few hours of your day to actually EDUCATE yourself, but if you can do it, the truth will set you free. Free from satans/lucifers lies and propaganda on your Television sets and in the lame stream dinosaur media. You all do know that the Greek definition of Devil means "the deceiver" right?
And PLEASE!!!! Listen now to the Veteran Joyce Riley speaking today on the radio about the depleted uranium poisoning the troops got in Iraq and are still suffering from as this guy named Ivan described about regarding his “Buddy” coming back from Fallujah above. The gulf war syndrome that the VA will not pay for the veterans coverage for is RADIATION POISONING! You will not see or hear this on the abc/cnn/fox/cbs/nbc socialist propaganda channels.
http://216.240.133.177/archives32/Winterrowd/2012/01/Winterrowd_1_010112...
http://216.240.133.177/archives32/Winterrowd/2012/01/Winterrowd_2_010112...
FREE MOVIE BEYOND TREASON:
(Expand the screen and sit back and watch this excellent documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZVOOmi9gDE
THIS IS ABOUT THE SSRI DRUGS THEY WANT EVERYONE ON AND GIVE TO THE SOLDIERS:
http://www.rense.com/general/pro.htm
All one can say is, please support the Ron Paul campaign because if you don't, you will see the end of america that you grew up in and went to war for to protect. Remember that oath thing to protect the country from enemies foreign and DOMESTIC?
If one knew all they know now simply because they do not drink the fluoride in the water or bath in it, and gets REAL information and news from the TRUTH networks and not the LYING zionist propaganda machine (7 people own all the worlds media), and one went to war like you did placing life on the line for the bankster profiteers and military industrialists that do not care if a person lives or dies, this heart would be so dam angry we would all be at the doorsteps of these ruthless psychopathic murders for profit. If everyone knew about all the corruptions and the ridiculously out of control tyranny that is TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL, they would be really active in the Truth-movement DOING all one could to stop it and not sitting at home watching the TV mind Kontrol. Now that the govt has declared war against the entire american population, maybe we ought to oblige them?
Not proud to be an american(Nazi) anymore,
ROSE KING
PS: "War is a racket"
General Smedley Butler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3_EXqJ8f-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEI8bnbw1o&feature=related
---HE is the sustainer of all worlds, whether they are seen or understood by man.
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My vote will not be for a republican it will be a vote against Obama. If a goat with 3 testicles ran against him..I'm voting for the goat.
allen west should be elected with donald trump.
http://covert.mypressonline.com