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Paulers for Pat Anderson
First, I’ll start by saying I don’t consider Pat Anderson the enemy. There’s just an issue where the two of us disagree philosophically. In fact, this post is mostly about philosophical differences. In fact, that’s all this is. At a State Convention gathering, more than a few people were talking about “the Stebbins email.” One of the people talking about it forwarded it to me. Here’s the text of the email: From: Marianne Stebbins To: Marianne Stebbins Sent: Wed, May 16, 2012 8:52 pm Subject: Don’t forget that State Central immediately follows the convention on Saturday Up for election are the National Committeeman and National Committeewoman positions. The primary contest there is for Committeewoman, where both Pat Anderson, current Committeewoman is being challenged by Janet Beihoffer. I take care to not twist arms, but would like … Read entire article »
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RP announces he won’t contest Romney nomination
This afternoon, Ron Paul announced that he won’t contest the remaining GOP primaries: Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said Monday he will not compete in primaries in any of the states that have not yet voted, essentially confirming Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination. Mr. Paul said he will continue to work to win delegates in states that have already voted and where the process of delegate-selection is playing out. He said that’s a way to make his voice heard at the Republican nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. “Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” Mr. Paul said. “Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not … Read entire article »
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Did Ron Paul Just Drop Out?!
Wow, what a misleading headline from CNN. Ron Paul did not drop out of the race or “suspend his active campaign.” He is very much still in the race despite the lack of coverage from mainstream media. He has only suspended campaigning in PRIMARY states that have not yet voted. The media unfortunately doesn’t understand the difference between primaries and caucuses. They desperately need a civics lesson. Ron Paul has announced his campaign strategy to acquire delegates. That is all. He is now solely focused on CAUCUSES. It’s a smart move. He’s going to continue to do what he has been doing which has been working. Tampa could get rowdy as there is still a possibility that Mitt Romney may not have all 1,144 delegates necessary to secure the nomination. Ron Paul has recently won … Read entire article »
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Women of the Ron Paul Revolution
Got profiled in the Business Insider. They chose a goofy picture of me http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-women-of-the-ron-paul-revolution-2012-5#julie-borowski-4 Authored By julieborowski julieborowski.wordpress.com … Read entire article »
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Minnesota, the Paul factor & the coming counterrevolution
Ed’s post about the Ron Paul factor highlights Paul’s delegate bonanza in Minnesota and the disarray in the MnGOP. The Paul campaign wants to believe that they can replicate this outcome in other caucus states, and it’s certainly possible. But in Minnesota, they had an opening left by a party in serious disarray. The state GOP has had to focus on rebuilding its fiscal position more than the internal and external politics of the 2012 cycle. Without that kind of focus, the party didn’t have the resources to deal with the Paul organization, and the delegate wins are one consequence. That’s actually a minor consequence compared to what will happen if the state GOP doesn’t recover in time to organize for its effort in November to hold their legislative advantages, to say … Read entire article »
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Legalize Competing Currencies!
Originally posted at FreedomWorks.org. The value of the U.S. dollar is rapidly declining. The dollar is worth roughly half of as much as it was in the mid-1980s. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, the dollar has lost a whopping 97 percent of its purchasing power. The Federal Reserve excessively printing money has devalued our currency which means the dollar can’t buy as much as it used to. Many people assume that the increase in prices over time is just a natural occurrence. But that’s not true. The Federal Reserve’s manipulation of the money supply is primarily responsible for the rising prices of goods and services. The more dollars in circulation, the less the money is worth. It now takes more dollars to buy the same amount of goods … Read entire article »
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Obama’s Doomsday Voter Suppression Weapon
The teat fit is never a pretty thing, but we rarely consider it life threatening. It can be. Let me tell you a true tale from the Sepoy Mutiny in India, when the country was ruled by the East India Company (that’s right, capitalists). I only want to make a single, simple point here, but first need to set it up. In 1857 this country of 500 million was managed by an army of clerks and businessmen who lived in white-only enclaves and palatial mansions much like Tara in Gone With the Wind. The Angrezi (English) memsahibs dressed like the female royalty of the Old South, in crinolated dresses, gliding up and down spiral staircases, and tittering over the finest Darjeeling tea and biscuits, while the men lounged at the club, and ran … Read entire article »
Ron Paul Should NOT Run Third Party
New video! Authored By julieborowski julieborowski.wordpress.com … Read entire article »
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If We Can’t End the Fed, Can We at Least Subject It to Competition?
Ron Paul has made “End the Fed” a popular slogan, but some people worry that this is a radical untested idea. In part, this is because it is human nature to fear the unknown. But there are plenty of examples of policy reforms that used to be considered radical but are now commonplace. Statists used to argue that the flat tax was unworkable, but there are now about 30 nations with a version of this simple and fair tax system. Leftists used to argue that personal retirement accounts were impractical, but dozens of nations now have this common-sense reform, ranging for Australia to Sweden. Self-styled progressives used to say that air traffic control system needs to be a government monopoly, but our Canadian neighbors privatized their system and now have more safety and efficiency. Defenders … Read entire article »
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Reactions to MD, WI and DC Primaries
Tuesday Mittens became a little more inevitable. I hate to say it, because I’ve been quite the optimist on this, but when he soundly wins two of the three contests, it’s hard to say otherwise. Winning DC was a layup for Mittens, who took 70% of the vote. Which says an awful lot, because all of the three dozen Republicans there (that are residents and not members of Congress) are about as conservative as Republicans in Massachusetts. Maryland has a lot of DC residents, pundits, etc, so again, makes sense for Mittens to win there. Despite it’s position at the immediate south of the Mason-Dixon line, Maryland hasn’t been a Southern State for a while. It’s kind of like Florida in that regard. I expected Mitt to win, and he … Read entire article »
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The PC Strategy…in Action
It’s hard to go anywhere in the conservative blogosphere without reading something from some guy named “ColdWarrior” prattling on and on about how, if conservatives don’t get involved in the political process at the grassroots level, we will never be able to take the Republican Party back from the “Establishment” hacks that are currently using it. The office that CW has called the most important office in politics is the “Precinct Committeeman.” If you’ve somehow missed his spiel, I’ll let him bring you up to speed since he’s much more polished at it than I. The purpose of this piece is to let you know that no matter what the powers-might-be might say, it works. First, I’m a product of this strategy. After a lifetime of writing letters, donating to campaigns, writing … Read entire article »
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On the Road to Tampa. Que Sera, Sera
(Thanks to Erick Brockway) Mitt Romney has a problem. You see, he is the putative nominee of the Republican Party, but by a math known to insiders having little to do with popular voter will. Even some notable conservatives, recently Sen Marco Rubio and Rep Paul Ryan, have announced that prolonging the inevitable will do the party great harm come November, indirectly inviting Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to step aside. I’m still not sure. But the elephant in the room, literally, is the conservative base, who still isn’t buying any of this. Rick and Newt can’t tell them what to do any more than Rubio and Ryan can. This post-Obama conservative movement is not even Ronald Reagan’s Oldsmobile. I find it interesting that no one seems to want to know what makes this bunch tick, … Read entire article »
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Are Ron Paul delegates committed to the GOP? Or just Ron Paul?
The title isn’t a trick question. It’s been a point of curiosity since the 2008 election cycle. In 2008, alot of Ron Paul supporters showed up at the precinct caucuses with the hope of becoming state convention delegates. To a small extent, they were successful. In 2010, many of Rep. Paul’s supporters disappeared into the woodwork. A tiny percentage of them worked hard at getting legislative candidates elected. This afternoon, I was told by a loyal reader of this blog that precincts that were dominated by Ron Paul supporters didn’t have good turnout for the HD-15B endorsing convention. One precinct that was allocated 11 delegates had 3 delegates show up. This precinct was filled with Paul supporters. Other precincts with high volumes of Ron Paul supporters had low turnout rates, too. The activists I’ve … Read entire article »
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New Op-ed
Check out my new op-ed in the Daily Caller: The Federal Reserve’s Public Relations Campaign is Doomed to Fail http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/30/the-federal-reserves-public-relations-campaign-is-doomed-to-fail/ Also, I created a page on Facebook: http://facebook.com/JulieBorowski Authored By julieborowski julieborowski.wordpress.com … Read entire article »
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Reactions to the Louisiana Primary
Saturday night, Rick Santorum handily won the Louisiana Primary. It was a nice win for the Senator. Further, it showed the weakness of Mitt Romney as a Republican nominee. Once again, Mittens has failed to win a Southern state. Finally, it showed that Newt is pretty much out of lives in this game. The only way Newt is the nominee from where I sit is if he somehow ends up as the choice of a brokered convention. (Which isn’t a likely scenario in my opinion.) It’s not surprising the South is consolidating behind the conservatives. So far, Speaker Gingrich has won Georgia and South Carolina. Senator Santorum has won Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, and now Louisiana. Mittens has only taken Florida, which, given that half of the state is New … Read entire article »
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Reactions to the Illinois Primary
Tuesday, the state of Illinois held their 2012 Republican primary. As expected, Mitt Romney was the big winner, taking 46% of the vote, with Rick Santorum coming in second with 35%, Ron Paul in third with 9% and Newt Gingrich in last with 8%. First off, I’d like to note that Mittens winning Illinois is not a surprise. It’s a deep blue state. It’s also the home of the city (Chicago) that the corrupt politics that the Democrat party is famous for going back to the Cermak-Daley political machine, rivaling only Tammany Hall in New York City (also Democrat). What does this win mean for the field? Well, Romney would like this to be a sign of his inevitability. It may well be. Right now it looks like Santorum needs to … Read entire article »
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Reactions to KS, HI, MS and AL Primaries
Over the last seven days we’ve seen four states contests occur. Three were won by Rick Santorum. Only deep blue Hawaii went to Mitt Romney. So let’s look at it state by state: Kansas (Caucuses) Senator Santorum won 51% of the vote. Mittens came in second 20% and Newt had only 14% (a very disappointing finish) and Ron Paul with 12%. Kansas was just the beginning of of some huge victories for Santorum. Important to note is that 65% of the vote in Kansas went to the conservative candidates. Hawaii (Caucus) Mittens won his only contest of the week with 45% of the vote. Senator Santorum won 25%, Ron Paul won 18% for a 3rd place finish, and Newt had an again disappointing 11%. Hawaii was a large margin for Mitt, but ultimately is … Read entire article »
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Where In The World Is Grover Cleveland?
Image via Wikipedia An entire generation of American voters came to their collective senses and did not elect a Democrat as President of the United States for 52 years, from 1860 to 1912, with the noteworthy exception of Grover Cleveland. There was very good reason for this public snubbing of Democrat candidates…Democrats were pro-slavery. They had instigated the secession of southern states that had brought about the Civil War. They were anti-business and in favor of legislating countless laws and regulations designed to ‘protect’ citizens from themselves. It’s really kind of strange. The Democrats of 1860 were in favor of states rights and a very limited role for the federal government, but once they lost the Civil War and were allowed back into the U.S. Congress, they almost immediately championed the … Read entire article »
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Why All Four GOP Candiates (and a Radish) Would Make a Better President than Obama
Over the seven days, we’ve analyzed how all four Republican candidates (and a radish) would make a better President than Barack Obama. Today, here’s a recap of why all five would be better than Obama: Why Ron Paul Would be Better than Obama: - Cut $1 Trillion from the budget in year one. - Eliminate five cabinet level Executive Branch departments. - Cut Federal Workforce by 10%. - Return Spending to 2006 Levels (putting the deficit at less than 10% of today’s deficit). - Lower corporate taxes. - Repeal the 16th Amendment (Which allows Federal income tax). - Return the bulk of governmental power to the States where it belongs. Why Rick Santorum Would Be Better Than Obama:- Repeal Obamacare. - Reform our immigration system to make it harder to enter illegally and easier to enter legally. - Stand up … Read entire article »
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Reactions to Super Tuesday
Tuesday, ten states held their Republican contests. The final scorecard was: Romney 7 states (198 Delegates) – Santorum 3 states (84 Delegates) – Gingrich 1 state (68 Delegates) – Paul 0 States (21 Delegates) That puts the delegate count at: Romney 404 – Santorum 161 - Gingrich 105 – Paul 61 So what does it all mean? Looking at things candidate by candidate: Mittens won Ohio, Virginia, Massachusetts, Idaho, Alaska and Vermont. Of those states, only the Ohio win counts as a big one. Neither Santorum nor Gingrich were on the Virginia ballot, he would’ve won (in this primary) Massachusetts and Vermont with his eyes closed, and Idaho isn’t going to be a swing state and neither will Alaska. Ohio was an absolute squeaker…Mittens won by less than 1% of the vote. Here’s where Mitt should be … Read entire article »
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Virginia’s Invisible Primary
Living just outside the capital of Virginia in the days leading up to Super Tuesday, one would have expected to be bombarded with ads from the free spending Romney campaign along with a valiant representation of the other candidates. One would also have expected to see highways lined with political signs and polls swarming with advocates of the various contenders. But… such was not the case. There was so little coverage by the media that almost had to be a bonafide political junky to even know voting was taking place. The only signs to be seen anywhere were in the yards of Ron Paul supporters, and they had been in place for weeks, or even months. After witnessing the gyrations of the Republican Party of Virginia in certifying only establishment favorite … Read entire article »
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Before (Actually During) Super Tuesday
Today is Super Tuesday. A lot is going to be decided. It seems that every major candidate (except for Ron Paul) is picked to win a couple of states. Romney is leading the most, but Santorum is nipping at his heels. Newt needs a splash. Ron Paul is, well, Ron Paul. Mittens really wants a few big victories. He wants to get his air of inveitability back. He wants to push his “accept me” routine so he can start focusing on Obama. It’s not going to happen after today’s results, but Mittens can surely try. What Mitt needs to do is court conservatives. He needs to stop running from his supposed conservatism. Embrace it. Stop believing the Drive-By Media…conservatism does not scare away Independents. Liberalism does, which is why Liberals have … Read entire article »
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The One Thing Ron Paul Has Always Been RIGHT About
Is the illegality of the the income tax along with the Federal Reserve. He rails against both, and both are illegal. They were never ratified by the States and they are NOT law. We Americans of course are the dupes, and we allow it to continue on. The Federal Government has absolutely no right to any part of your labor, and yet year in and year out more and more of your labor is stolen. They take it and they give it away to those who earn nothing. They have socialized America in front of our faces, suffice it to say Ron Paul is not the only one who has been telling this truth, he is just the one with the loudest pulpit. I can never agree with Ron Paul on … Read entire article »
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Reactions to the AZ and MI Primaries
Yesterday, Arizona and Michigan held their Republican Primaries. One was hotly contested, the other was not. Before we analyze the two states, lets note for the record that neither Newt Gingrich nor Ron Paul put any real effort into these two states. Both states were essentially contests between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum (although all four were on the ballot). So, given this lack of effort by Newt and Ron Paul, Let’s take them one at a time, shall we? Arizona Arizona was ultimately a layup for Mittens. Polls closed at 9 pm Eastern, the state was called at 9:01 pm. It’s a nice win for Mitt, since Arizona’s delegates are winner-take-all. So Mitt picked up 29 more delegates toward the nomination. Not a whole lot more to say. Mitt did nicely … Read entire article »
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