Starting to like this guy...

[jyro]

betraeus, not a chance.
Petraeus recently cited former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “extraordinarily resolute, determined and controlled” handling of the incident as a reason she would “make a tremendous president.”

Petraeus was director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time of the attacks, which killed four Americans, including two who worked for the CIA and the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. -

[turboford]

Jindals been laying low here in Louisiana. He hasn't ruffled anyones feathers in a year or so.

[Lone Sailor]

So the answer is yes/no?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/aug/20/ted-cruz-born-canada-eligible-run-president/

Maybe?

If Obama can be President then anyone that can provide a U.S. birth certificate, original or otherwise altered, can be President.

Cruz's mother was/is a U.S. citizen(born in Delaware), so there should be no question of his natural born citizenship(home of record was Houston at the time of his birth if I remember correctly). His family was temporarily in Canada due to their business, and they didn't become Canadian citizens while they were there.

[Gtracer]

Jindals been laying low here in Louisiana. He hasn't ruffled anyones feathers in a year or so.

Look at the voter base

[jw33]

Cruz should stay in the senate in my opinion. He is way too polarizing to have a decent shot at winning a presidetial election. Rand may be best hope for winning against Hillary, but he will probably get run out of town by the republican party if he chooses to run in 2016. The party will not support him finacially and they will use his fathers history to sabatoge his attempt.

[Trip McNeely]

I agree. I think we need a strong Senate and a strong House. With 2/3, we could get a lot done and prevent a lot from happening. It's just we need to get the old timer fuckwads out on their ass, and every liberal Demoncat with them.

[KBScobravert]

I would love to see a Cruz/Paul or Ryan in any combination on the ticket. Americans need to take America back. Too much of what most of us know, remember and love(d) about our country has been given away to the "hope and change(s)" of the "well, we thought it was a good idea" mother fuckers.

[Gasser64]

Good ideas but i dont think anything will ever change without abolishing all the bribery that goes on

Campaign contributions

[Lajntx]

Paul is obviously running for POTUS, Cruz needs to stay where he is. If he can get the backing of some more popular governors he can win the GOP nod.

Rand Paul wants/needs/must have an office that allows him to express his libertarian opinions on national tv. His BIGGEST problem is Kentucky does not allow a politician to run for 2 offices at the same time ( He`s up for re-election in `16 ). Unless he feels 100% sure he will win as President... Then he will simply run for re-election to his Senate seat. Unlike Sara Palin, being out of office & limited to Fox News as a private citizen isnt enough for him .

Cruz on the otherhand, does not have that problem - Nor would he care about his reputation if he loses badly to Hillary as the preliminary polls indicate.

My money is Cruz will run and win the nomination in `16, and Paul will remain in the Senate.

[Lajntx]

I agree. I think we need a strong Senate and a strong House. With 2/3, we could get a lot done and prevent a lot from happening. It's just we need to get the old timer fuckwads out on their ass, and every liberal Demoncat with them.

And you might also win the lottery if you play and get all the numbers right.

So how do you really feel living in PA where the GOP claims to have the will of the people, but most of the voters live in places that disagree with that?

[Trip McNeely]

And you might also win the lottery if you play and get all the numbers right.

So how do you really feel living in PA where the GOP claims to have the will of the people, but most of the voters live in places that disagree with that?

Sorry, I don't play the lottery like your liberal food stamp dependent people do. Go campaign for them. Your knowledge of any political subject is hilarious to say the least. Go crawl in that hole again just like every time someone on here owns your ass. Run along.

[big_tiger]

I would love to see a Cruz/Paul or Ryan in any combination on the ticket. Americans need to take America back. Too much of what most of us know, remember and love(d) about our country has been given away to the "hope and change(s)" of the "well, we thought it was a good idea" mother fuckers.

Im out on Paul Ryan; ever since he went on Hannity voting (folding) for a budget and telling Hannity that they got Reid to promise a vote on 0bamacare again.

[jw33]

And it begins...

http://time.com/43216/rand-paul-2016-rjc-sheldon-adelson/

GOP Hawks Worry Rand Paul Has Too Much Ron
Zeke J Miller / Las Vegas @ZekeJMiller March 31, 2014
Mark Peterson—Redux
Republican donors wary of his more noninterventionist foreign policy views are promising a countercampaign to keep the Kentucky Senator and Tea Party star from securing the nomination if he rises too high for their tastes

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is hard at work laying the groundwork for an almost certain presidential campaign in 2016, but as he broadens his support among libertarian and younger voters, there’s a budding countercampaign to take him down if he becomes a threat to actually win the nomination.

At the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) meeting in Las Vegas this weekend, Paul was nowhere to be found, but his presence was felt in the form of a straw man — and frequent worry. Speaker after speaker, from former Florida governor Jeb Bush to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, laid into Paul’s more isolationist views on foreign policy. They never mentioned the lawmaker by name, but the message came across loud and clear.

The conference brings together some of the biggest names — and wallets — in Republican politics, most notably billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. At a private dinner for VIP donors in an Adelson-owned aircraft hangar holding one of his pair of Boeing 747s, Bush was asked about the growing isolationist wing of the Republican Party and replied there was no such thing — effectively casting Paul out of the fold, according to attendees.

John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., bemoaned “a rising tide of neoisolationism within the Republican Party,” and blasted those, like Paul, who oppose throwing the book at admitted NSA leaker Edward Snowden, as “unfit to serve.”

“America must be engaged in the world, and we should help the people who share our values,” Ohio Governor John Kasich told guests at a Saturday lunch.

To the pro-Israel crowd, Paul is viewed by many as different from his father, former Representative Ron Paul, whose positions had kept him from getting an invite to the conservative confab in prior years. Nevertheless concerns remain about the younger Paul, who was invited this year but did not attend.

“His edges aren’t as sharp as his father’s,” says Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary. “But there’s still a naiveté that’s going to be a problem. He represents a departure from something a lot of Republicans are used to.”

Rand Paul has told top GOP donors that he is “evolving” on foreign policy, particularly when it comes to his positions on Israel, according to several people who have had conversations with him. In recent months he has toned down his opposition to foreign aid — a red flag for most at the RJC — replacing it with a call to end foreign aid to countries that are unfriendly to the U.S. He has also increased his outreach to prominent pro-Israel and neoconservative thinkers and donors to show he is interested in having a dialogue. The U.S. gives more than $3 billion in foreign aid to Israel every year, almost entirely in the form of grants for Israel’s military and defense services.

Matt Brooks, executive director of the RJC, says the group is trying to “help move him along” on his transformation.

“I think, unlike his father, he is genuinely interested in reaching out to the Jewish community,” Brooks says.

But several donors who have had private conversations with Paul about his foreign policy said those talks have not assuaged their concerns. And unlike his father, whose intensely supportive base was fairly contained, they worry that Paul’s smoother approach could make him a contender. “Can he win Iowa, yes. Can he win New Hampshire, yes. Can he win the nomination, maybe — and that’s scary,” says one former Mitt Romney bundler at the conference who did not want to be named.

On the margins of the conference, where attendees heard from four potential 2016 candidates who advocated for a strong American foreign policy and support for Israel, five donors huddled with a reporter pledged to reach into their deep pockets to ensure Paul doesn’t win the GOP nomination.

“The best thing that could happen is Ted Cruz and Rand Paul run and steal each other’s support,” says one of the donors, “but if not, we’ll be ready to take Paul down.”

Several prominent GOP donors at the conference suggested that Adelson, who spent more than $100 million backing Newt Gingrich and Romney in 2012, is likely to spend vast sums against Paul if he appears to be well positioned in the Republican primaries. Adelson’s spending is largely motivated by his strong concern for Israel, and Paul’s positions may well put a target on his back.

“Paul hasn’t — and probably will never — win the trust of the pro-Israel community,” says Noah Pollak, executive director of the conservative Emergency Committee for Israel, which ran ads against the elder Paul. “But his foreign policy problems run far deeper. His mustering of fake outrage over issues like Tomahawk-missile cuts and the persecution of Middle East Christians are a shiny-object strategy intended to contradict the correct impression that, at his core, he is more or less an isolationist."

[cyclonescott]

It will be interesting to watch the so called conservatives and strict constitutionalist on the board when the GOP establishment and media do to Rand what they did to Ron in the primaries. We are going to have Jeb Bush and Chris Christy pushed down our throats under the premise that they are the only ones who can beat Hillary.

[aggie97]

It will be interesting to watch the so called conservatives and strict constitutionalist on the board when the GOP establishment and media do to Rand what they did to Ron in the primaries. We are going to have Jeb Bush and Chris Christy pushed down our throats under the premise that they are the only ones who can beat Hillary.

Yep. Might as well put Hillary in the seat now. GOP is going the way of the dinosaur....because they are dinosaurs.

If they would just embrace the Libertarian views, they would grab 1/3 of the democratic vote and win in a landslide. That's a guess based on no real facts, but I can be hopeful right?!