Women's issues? If we use the methodology used by the Census Bureau, the same methodology Hillary uses when she claims women are not paid equal wages, she paid the women on her senate staff 77 cents on the dollar compared to the men. Those issues? Before you try to claim this is not true, the key is the methodology used by the Census Bureau, you could use a different methodology to prove she paid equal wages but then it would collapse her unequal wages argument when applied to the rest of the women in the work force.
This stat is so manipulated, it's not even funny. Like is she even in control of federal wages?
This stat is so manipulated, it's not even funny. Like is she even in control of federal wages?
She is in fact in control of what her staff is paid.
Yes the stats can be twisted all sorts of ways but when you twist them you have to also apply the same method to everyone. So what I was pointing out is the fact that she was using a stat to make a case that women are underpaid and if you apply the same method to her staff the women were underpaid as well.
It's not a matter of whether it is true or not true. If that makes any sense to you.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Ben Carson won the straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference Saturday, demonstrating his popularity among conservative activists at one of the party’s traditional presidential cattle call events.
Carson, a former surgeon who formally launched his underdog campaign this month with an appeal to the GOP’s tea party wing, finished first with 25 percent. He was followed by Scott Walker, who received 20 percent, and Ted Cruz at 16 percent. Chris Christie and Rick Perry tied at 5 percent, with Jeb Bush narrowly behind. Marco Rubio tied with Bobby Jindal and Rand Paul at 4 percent.
Scott Walker’s crash course in foreign policy is paying off
The straw poll era is coming to a close
At a time when the Iowa Straw Poll finds itself on life support, the conference provided yet more evidence that the non-binding, easily gamed contests are losing their luster.
Aside from surgeon Ben Carson and Cruz, who finished first and third, respectively in the SRLC straw poll, not a single candidate waged a serious effort to win. The three front-runners for the Republican nomination — Bush, Walker, and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio — barely had any presence in the halls of the Cox Convention Center. For each, the straw poll seemed to present more risk than reward, so they chose to ignore the poll.
The only candidates who see value in straw polls are insurgent candidates like Carson and Cruz. For both, the SRLC event presented the opportunity to claim momentum in a field of better-known and better-funded rivals. That’s why Carson supporters patrolled the halls, seeking out potential supporters and inviting them to take pictures with a life-size cardboard cut-out of the candidate. Cruz aides, meanwhile, mapped out a detailed plan to contact prospective attendees ahead of the event in hopes of boosting their tally.
Jeb Bush is directly confronting his weaknesses
Chris Christie impressed
The South is up for grabs
The South, for all its influence in Republican Party politics, doesn’t have a favorite son or daughter in the 2016 sweepstakes.
In the straw poll, and in the hall, attendees seemed divided about whom to support. Carson has some traction at the grassroots, but many activists and party leaders were inclined to support Walker or Cruz. There was little to suggest that the two authentically Southern candidates who proudly describe themselves as such — former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham — were winning broad support.
The South has taken aggressive steps to increase its influence in the nominating process, with a group of states — including Texas, Alabama, and Virginia — moving their primary to March 1. But even as the South aims for greater clout in deciding the nominee, there’s little evidence to suggest any one candidate has a significant edge.
Scott Walker has been gaining traction lately. He's doing very well in the polls.
I like Scott he is a fighter and you can tell he cares regardless if you agree with his ideas he isn't just running for any office to sit in a chair. He however does not have a good history with working with democrats. Maybe that's not his fault seeing how they left the state and hid from him but regardless I don't get the feeling he is going to work well with Congress either.
If you care about the future of this country you would look at the person qualified and willing to work with Congress to get stuff moving again. I even have my theories on how it might even be Hillary to do this. She hates Obama and I could see her dismantling everything he has done and serving it up to the Republicans in exchange for passing her agenda. Hillary is also a hawk, she always votes for war so I don't think she will be a punk like Obama when it comes to ISIS. Plus if she is the first women POTUS she has to smash some heads to prove she isn't to be messed with.
If I am thinking this about Hillary I am sure a lot of Liberals are also. Be careful what you wish for because she will still have to deal with a Republican Congress. There will be no progressive wet dreams coming true under her.
Just came across an article Elle did on Hillary a little while ago, compiling some of best quotes.
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"I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple."
"It is violation of human rights when people are beaten or killed because of their sexual orientation, or because they do not conform to cultural norms about how men and women should look or behave. It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay, or allow those who harm gay people to go unpunished. It is a violation of human rights when lesbian or transgendered women are subjected to so-called corrective rape, or forcibly subjected to hormone treatments, or when people are murdered after public calls for violence toward gays, or when they are forced to flee their nations and seek asylum in other lands to save their lives. And it is a violation of human rights when life-saving care is withheld from people because they are gay, or equal access to justice is denied to people because they are gay, or public spaces are out of bounds to people because they are gay."
"Women and men who understand that gender equality is not just morally right, but is the smart thing to do, are growing in number. We may be approaching, in some areas, critical mass, but we have to keep making the same case over and over again. What we are doing here today is smart for companies and smart for countries."
"I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple."
One would expect she acted in good faith and made the best decision possible.
It's not just the information she had it's the information everyone in Congress had and the President had. It's easy to look back now and see the mistakes.
Yes Hillary we know you were not alone, the whole world knows it. You still voted for it. To give her a pass is to give everyone a pass that voted for it. I personally don't care that she voted for it but I draw the line if she starts using Iraq and ISIS as a reason to bash Republicans.
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Originally posted by Giselle
"It is violation of human rights when people are beaten or killed because of their sexual orientation, or because they do not conform to cultural norms about how men and women should look or behave. It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay, or allow those who harm gay people to go unpunished. It is a violation of human rights when lesbian or transgendered women are subjected to so-called corrective rape, or forcibly subjected to hormone treatments, or when people are murdered after public calls for violence toward gays, or when they are forced to flee their nations and seek asylum in other lands to save their lives. And it is a violation of human rights when life-saving care is withheld from people because they are gay, or equal access to justice is denied to people because they are gay, or public spaces are out of bounds to people because they are gay."
"Women and men who understand that gender equality is not just morally right, but is the smart thing to do, are growing in number. We may be approaching, in some areas, critical mass, but we have to keep making the same case over and over again. What we are doing here today is smart for companies and smart for countries."
Except her foundation takes 10's millions of dollars from these very same human rights violators.
What do y'all think of Bobby Jindal as a running mate to a more moderate Republican candidate? He wouldn't make president but as running mate he could help get some of the conservative Christian voters while also appealing to various minority groups.
What do y'all think of Bobby Jindal as a running mate to a more moderate Republican candidate? He wouldn't make president but as running mate he could help get some of the conservative Christian voters while also appealing to various minority groups.
Conservative Christian voters should not be an issue, if they are not energized to come out and vote this election after the past 8 years nothing will get them out. So I think you are looking at it the wrong way, the VP should be someone who is from a swing state that they are fairly certain they will carry like Ohio. So a Bush/Kasich or Rubio/Kasich would be a lock on Florida and Ohio taking two of the biggest swing states off the table. That's just the theory it's not likely they would get beat in their home states.
What do y'all think of Bobby Jindal as a running mate to a more moderate Republican candidate? He wouldn't make president but as running mate he could help get some of the conservative Christian voters while also appealing to various minority groups.
Explain because that makes no sense. There was no Cheney/Palin part 1. Cheney didn't fail and how is Jindal anything like Palin? I just don't think he is the best to help the ticket, I don't think he is a moron.
Explain because that makes no sense. There was no Cheney/Palin part 1. Cheney didn't fail and how is Jindal anything like Palin? I just don't think he is the best to help the ticket, I don't think he is a moron.
Jindal won't look airheaded like Palin, but his mouth might turn some people away.
Jindal won't look airheaded like Palin, but his mouth might turn some people away.
He is very conservative but well spoken. I don't think he is seasoned enough for the task. He is a very smart guy though but so is Ted Cruz. It's not enough to be smart.
He is very conservative but well spoken. I don't think he is seasoned enough for the task. He is a very smart guy though but so is Ted Cruz. It's not enough to be smart.
Now I see what you meant by explain part 1. I thought I wrote McCain/Palin - oops
Well both can sure get a room worked up that's for sure.
Smart, well-spoken, moderate - both the GOP presidential and vicepresidential candidates will have to be that for their best chances in 2016.
Announced
(Completed on Thursday, March 28th, 2015)
George Pataki (R)
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The Republican has barely registered in national polls of presidential contenders, and faces long odds to be part of the first debate on Aug. 6 in Cleveland. Fox News has said that it will only invite the top 10 candidates based on a national polling average (though it will allow for more candidates in the event of ties). The former three-term governor is putting a lot of importance on doing well in New Hampshire, the first primary state of the election cycle. “I’m a Republican following in the tradition of Teddy Roosevelt who understands that conservatism isn’t just economic policy and but it’s also preserving and enhancing the outdoors,” Pataki said, adding that marriage, gun rights and education should be left up to individual states to decide.
Campaign Launch
(Completed on Tuesday, March 26th, 2015)
Bernie Sanders (I) [Caucusing as a Democrat]
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pulled out all the stops Tuesday at his presidential campaign launch in Burlington, as he outlined his role in "a political revolution to transform the country — economically, politically, economically and environmentally." "Brothers and sisters, now is not the time for thinking small," he told a large crowd at Waterfront Park. "Now is not the time for the same old same old. Now is the time for millions of working families to revitalize American democracy." With the backdrop of Lake Champlain and its procession of boats large and small, Sanders vowed to steer the the country away from an economy defined increasingly by income inequality. Not only is the model "profoundly wrong," he said, "it is immoral, bad economics and unsustainable." To the nation's billionaires, Sanders added, "You can't have it all."