The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Hilly Will Glide Above It All
Peggy Noonan
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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CHRISTIE’S MONEY MAN LOWERS EXPECTATIONS AHEAD OF LAUNCH
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will formally announce his presidential bid in the gymnasium of his former high school. But before Christie could launch his long-shot run, his primary benefactor further dampened expectations. Ken Langone, founder of Home Depot, has long been seen as Christie’s financial ace in the hole, will not keep Christie afloat the way other billionaires did for 2012 long-shots like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
In an interview with National Journal, Langone made it clear: “‘Whoo-oo-oa, whoooa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,’ Langone interrupted, when asked if he would make such a donation from his own bank account. ‘Would I write a check for $10 million? No, no I wouldn't. But I do something better than that,’ Langone said. ‘I go out and get a lot people to write checks, and get them to get people to write checks, and hopefully result in a helluva lot more than $10 million.’ In the wide-ranging discussion, Langone spoke about the primary calendar (‘the hell with Iowa’), the key to a Christie comeback (‘a strong showing in New Hampshire’), and his assessment of the 2016 field (‘George Pataki, give me a break’).”
Christie’s numbers are almost Trumpian: high name identification, but strong disapproval. No candidate aside from Donald Trump faces more strenuous opposition from the party. In a Fox News poll earlier this month, 37 percent of Republicans said they would “never” back Christie. In the poll out last week, Christie carded just 2 percent support.
One can attribute Christie’s woes to the scandals that have wreathed his second term and the struggles of his home state. And that is certainly a factor for big-dollar donors and New York-area establishmentarians who have watched Christie’s rise and fall in the local press. But to explain how Christie collapsed with rank-and-file Republicans from a high in 2011 to today’s low, look to his odd convention speech, October 2102 embrace of President nObama (to say nothing of Jerry Jones) and subsequent demands for federal spending.
But Christie’s biggest problem is one of comparative value. He was a unicorn when he opted against a 2012 run: a blue-state, blue-collar Republican governor who talked tough and took on entrenched interests. But now, he is one of many. Part of the reason why having a Wall Street benefactor is so important for Christie is that he will have to outlast those with some or all of his best attributes but without his liabilities: Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and John Kasich to name a few. -Fox News
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will formally announce his presidential bid in the gymnasium of his former high school. But before Christie could launch his long-shot run, his primary benefactor further dampened expectations. Ken Langone, founder of Home Depot, has long been seen as Christie’s financial ace in the hole, will not keep Christie afloat the way other billionaires did for 2012 long-shots like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
In an interview with National Journal, Langone made it clear: “‘Whoo-oo-oa, whoooa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,’ Langone interrupted, when asked if he would make such a donation from his own bank account. ‘Would I write a check for $10 million? No, no I wouldn't. But I do something better than that,’ Langone said. ‘I go out and get a lot people to write checks, and get them to get people to write checks, and hopefully result in a helluva lot more than $10 million.’ In the wide-ranging discussion, Langone spoke about the primary calendar (‘the hell with Iowa’), the key to a Christie comeback (‘a strong showing in New Hampshire’), and his assessment of the 2016 field (‘George Pataki, give me a break’).”
Christie’s numbers are almost Trumpian: high name identification, but strong disapproval. No candidate aside from Donald Trump faces more strenuous opposition from the party. In a Fox News poll earlier this month, 37 percent of Republicans said they would “never” back Christie. In the poll out last week, Christie carded just 2 percent support.
One can attribute Christie’s woes to the scandals that have wreathed his second term and the struggles of his home state. And that is certainly a factor for big-dollar donors and New York-area establishmentarians who have watched Christie’s rise and fall in the local press. But to explain how Christie collapsed with rank-and-file Republicans from a high in 2011 to today’s low, look to his odd convention speech, October 2102 embrace of President nObama (to say nothing of Jerry Jones) and subsequent demands for federal spending.
But Christie’s biggest problem is one of comparative value. He was a unicorn when he opted against a 2012 run: a blue-state, blue-collar Republican governor who talked tough and took on entrenched interests. But now, he is one of many. Part of the reason why having a Wall Street benefactor is so important for Christie is that he will have to outlast those with some or all of his best attributes but without his liabilities: Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and John Kasich to name a few. -Fox News
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Today is the last day of the second quarter, the key fundraising period for presidential campaigns. Those who are happy about what they and their super PACs have done (at least compared to expectations) are more likely to be leaking estimates. Those who have come up short are likely to wait for the official release next month. The pressure is greatest for Jeb Bush, who needs to show that he isn’t just the biggest fish in the pond, but a whale that dwarfs any establishment contenders. USA Today has the yardstick out. -Fox News
Today is the last day of the second quarter, the key fundraising period for presidential campaigns. Those who are happy about what they and their super PACs have done (at least compared to expectations) are more likely to be leaking estimates. Those who have come up short are likely to wait for the official release next month. The pressure is greatest for Jeb Bush, who needs to show that he isn’t just the biggest fish in the pond, but a whale that dwarfs any establishment contenders. USA Today has the yardstick out. -Fox News
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WaPo discovers that law firms pay successful politicians more Reporters continue to trawl through Marco Rubio’s finances, with the WaPo today looking at how Rubio’s financial fortunes improved dramatically upon his ascension to the speakership of Florida’s House of Representatives. As he became speaker, Rubio’s income more than doubled to nearly $350,000 after he went to work for one of the state’s top lobbying and law firms. This is pretty tame stuff in politics, though. Hilly Clinton, for example, may have been a great lawyer but her being married to Arkansas’ attorney general and then governor probably didn’t hurt her chances at one of the state’s top firms. And it surely wasn’t business acumen that helped the Clintons go from an income of less than $150,000 in 1989 to $25 million in the 16 months prior to her April financial disclosure. And as WaPo reported Monday, when Jeb Bush was Rubio’s age, he was not above trading on his father’s influence to enhance his own income. The paper notes how common the practice is of preferential treatment for politicians, but still… -Fox News
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Walker union battle heats up as budget negotiations continue
Daily Caller:“As the budget plan is written at the moment, it doesn’t even remove tenure like some unions are claiming. As the committee spokesman detailed, the proposal only transfers authority on tenure to the Board of Regents which is already in charge overseeing community colleges in the state. The board could cut tenure, keep it the same or change it in other ways…Though unions are blaming Walker, the proposed budget was approved by members of the committee and was not proposed by the governor.” -Fox News
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Our big fat Greek problem
(Desmond Lachman) ~ It is all too easy for us in the United States to dismiss the Greek economic crisis as something happening to a very small country on a distant shore that is of no great concern to us... However, to do so would be a big mistake, since an intensification in the Greek crisis could send ripples across the global financial system that could materially affect our economy. Of equal concern, it could allow the Russians to gain a firm foothold in the Balkans that would be to our geopolitical disadvantage. The basic reason that Greece now demands our attention is that the country is well on its way to exiting the euro. Negotiations with its International Monetary Fund and European Union creditors on a financial support program have broken down irreparably, while the European Central Bank is refusing to provide Greek banks with additional financial support. This has forced Greece to declare a bank holiday for a whole week and it will soon force the country to default on its IMF and European Central Bank loans.
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Turkey's Wrong Bet on Syria
(Burak Bekdil) ~ It was supposed to be simple: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's days in power were numbered; the Nusayri(Alawite) man would be toppled by Syria's Sunni majority in a popular revolt... The Sunni majority would set up in Damascus a Muslim Brotherhood type of regime that would be subservient to Ankara, and Turkey's southern border with Syria would be now be a borderless Sunni "Schengen" zone; cross border trade would flourish with the free movement of labor and capital. Peace would prevail along the 900-km border, and Turkish and Syrian Sunni supremacists would advance their agenda in the not-always-so-Sunni lands of the Middle East. Today, instead of the free movement of labor and capital, there is, around the border area, the free movement of bombs and bullets. Turkey's miscalculated foreign policy on Syria has led to the creation of a neighboring Peshawar (Afghanistan) across its border. Turkey's Islamist rulers were unhappy with Assad as their neighbor. Their efforts to unseat Assad have dramatically resulted in creating even less pleasant neighbors: an unknown number of jihadist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Kurdish militants fighting to create an autonomous enclave. http://www.meforum.org/5355/turkey-syria-gambit
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(worldtruth.tv/) ~ An American geologist has discovered high levels of the explosive helium-3 leaking from the Southern California’s earthquake fault zone which appeared deeper and more significant than previously thought , a new study shows... UC Santa Barbara geologist Jim Boles has found that high levels of helium-3 (3He) have been leaking across a 30-mile stretch of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in the Los Angeles Basin. He presented his findings in the a new study recently published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-Cubed), a journal of the American Geophysical Union and the Geochemical Society. “We show that the Newport-Inglewood fault is not only deep-seated but also directly or indirectly connected with the mantle,” Boles said as cited by the university press release. He added that the findings indicate that the fault is a “lot more important than previously thought.”
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Palestinians: More Missed Opportunities
(Bassam Tawil) ~ We Palestinians continue to miss one opportunity after the other. Now, we are about to miss yet another opportunity for peace... The geographic and political reality of the Middle East does not smile on the Palestinians. The countries that, until the Arab Spring, exerted the most pressure on Israel to negotiate with us have become weak. Some of them are disintegrating and others, in this world of strange bedfellows, consider the Israelis partners in the struggle against their common enemy, Iran. Our Arab brothers now consider us a nuisance, marginal to their struggle to survive in the face of the threats from the Ayatollahs' increasing nuclear power in Iran and radical Islamists such as ISIS.
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Blame Supremes for 'clash' with 1st Amendment
(Bob Unruh) ~ Think the courts were busy with same-sex “marriage” cases before? Wait until you see what happens as a result of the Supreme Court’s opinion that “invented” same-sex “marriage” for the United States... That’s the opinion of several outspoken leaders who have fought, or watched, battles on the issue, from a sitting judge to a key attorney in the battle, and even a sitting state attorney general whose opinion conflicts directly with the “five lawyers” in Washington who ruled recently. Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Ken Connelly, who has been involved in the issue extensively, told WND on Wednesday that the old characterization of conflicting rights is essentially right.
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HILLY'S SECRET WAR
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) ~ In the course of my work at Fox News, I am often asked by colleagues to review and explain documents and statutes. Recently, in conjunction with my colleagues Catherine Herridge, our chief intelligence correspondent, and Pamela Browne, our senior executive producer... I read the transcripts of an interview Browne did with a man named Marc Turi, and Herridge asked me to review emails to and from State Department and congressional officials during the years when Hilly Clinton was the secretary of state. What I saw has persuaded me beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty that Clinton provided material assistance to terrorists and lied to Congress in a venue where the law required her to be truthful. Here is the back story.
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Congress Demands nObama Step Back From Iran Nuclear Deal
(Ari Yashar) ~ Leading members of Congress are pressing US President Barack nObama to abandon his attempts to force through a nuclear deal with Iran, after the deadline for talks was extended on Tuesday to July 7 in a last gasp week-long reprieve... In response to the desperate efforts to reach a deal despite the obvious differences in position that continue to prevent an agreement from being reached, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY) blasted the nObama administration in an op-ed for Politico. "President nObama and Secretary of State Kerry should use the opportunity to pause negotiations, take a step back and re-examine the point of the talks in the first place," said McCon-nell. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197604#.VZUuVBtViko
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Why is nObama Blocking Weapons to Kurds Fighting ISIS?
(Ari Soffer) ~ Arab and European states have been unable to provide Kurdish fighters with badly-needed weapons to fight ISIS - because the US is blocking the weapons transfers... According to the UK's Daily Telegraph, the nObama administration's hesitation and lack of clear strategy means that US commanders, who are directing the anti-ISIS coalition efforts, are not authorizing moves to directly arm Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria. This, despite the fact that the Kurds have proven by far the most effective force in fighting ISIS, having taken and held territory from the jihadists in northern Iraq and Syria, despite being outgunned. Citing "high level officials" from the Gulf Arab states involved in the fight against ISIS, the paper claimed some are becoming so frustrated with Washington's lack of leadership in the campaign that they are preparing to "go it alone" and directly arm the Kurds in spite of US opposition. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197613#.VZUwKhtVi
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nObama Bashed For Sweeping Iranian Violations Under The Rug
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ With great fanfare on Tuesday, the State Department reported that Iran has complied with a key condition of the interim agreement; significantly reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium... It was an accurate statement as long as one ignores Iran’s violations. And now a leading non-proliferation think tank is bashing the Administration for trying to sweep the violations under the rug. Iran is obligated by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) to do two things by the end of every 6 months: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/07/obama-administration-gets-bashed-for.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8e9f207ca3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-8e9f207ca3-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-8e9f207ca3-291705165
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Celebrate the 4th: Impeach Kagan and Ginsburg
(Cliff Kincaid) ~ Justice Antonin Scalia said in his dissent in the same-sex marriage case that the ruling was a threat to our democratic form of government and constitutes a “judicial Putsch,” or secret power grab... He didn’t just say the majority was wrong or misguided; he essentially said they had conspired to overthrow our form of government. His position on the Court may have made it impossible to supply specifics. But one possible explanation of what he meant is that he saw a conflict-of-interest on the part of members of the majority, which required their recusal from the case. Rather than investigate what Scalia is hinting at, our media have opened fire on Scalia for blowing the whistle on judicial corruption.
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Hilly Will Glide Above It All
Peggy Noonan
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Mrs. Clinton’s announcement, last Saturday on Roosevelt Island, was first of all a concession that her April announcement, in a pretty, content-free video, didn’t quite do the job. As a speech it was largely anodyne, did the candidate no harm and probably a little good. The crowd of some 5,000 was small for a June morning in deep-blue New York. The speech quickly took on a State of the Union laundry-list quality, as if her campaign calculated the recitation of policy proposals would yield an impression of substantive depth.
Mrs. Clinton’s announcement, last Saturday on Roosevelt Island, was first of all a concession that her April announcement, in a pretty, content-free video, didn’t quite do the job. As a speech it was largely anodyne, did the candidate no harm and probably a little good. The crowd of some 5,000 was small for a June morning in deep-blue New York. The speech quickly took on a State of the Union laundry-list quality, as if her campaign calculated the recitation of policy proposals would yield an impression of substantive depth.
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Her awkwardness—the sense of always being one beat off in her words and gestures; her habit, when she comes out to applause, of bowing forward and applauding back—seems to me a kind of public shyness and is almost endearing. Mrs. Clinton doesn’t seem to enjoy crowds, which is odd since she’s in the crowds business. She is not an extrovert in the same way as her husband, and there was a moment after the speech, when the family gathered on the stage, when Bill started to bring up his arm in a dynamic pointing movement and then suddenly let it flop back down, as if he remembered he wasn’t supposed to dominate the shot.
Her awkwardness—the sense of always being one beat off in her words and gestures; her habit, when she comes out to applause, of bowing forward and applauding back—seems to me a kind of public shyness and is almost endearing. Mrs. Clinton doesn’t seem to enjoy crowds, which is odd since she’s in the crowds business. She is not an extrovert in the same way as her husband, and there was a moment after the speech, when the family gathered on the stage, when Bill started to bring up his arm in a dynamic pointing movement and then suddenly let it flop back down, as if he remembered he wasn’t supposed to dominate the shot.
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When it was over I thought how odd it is, when the nation has never been so preoccupied with politics, that Mrs. Clinton, the president she seeks to replace, and one of her main Republican opponents show so little joy in the fleshy part of politics—the politicking, the sheer personal interplay. Mr. nObama is good on the stump, and Mrs. Clinton and Jeb Bush are not especially. But all operate at a certain remove.
When it was over I thought how odd it is, when the nation has never been so preoccupied with politics, that Mrs. Clinton, the president she seeks to replace, and one of her main Republican opponents show so little joy in the fleshy part of politics—the politicking, the sheer personal interplay. Mr. nObama is good on the stump, and Mrs. Clinton and Jeb Bush are not especially. But all operate at a certain remove.
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Mr. Bush in his announcement had to make it new so that people would give him a second look. After the generally poor impression of the past few months, expectations were low. He exceeded them. He wished the production to have a Latin/New America flair that showed the vibrancy of America’s big ethnic and racial mix. It did. Those donors who were getting anxious about their investment probably came away calmed.
Mr. Bush in his announcement had to make it new so that people would give him a second look. After the generally poor impression of the past few months, expectations were low. He exceeded them. He wished the production to have a Latin/New America flair that showed the vibrancy of America’s big ethnic and racial mix. It did. Those donors who were getting anxious about their investment probably came away calmed.
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The Bushes associate the showbiz of politics with shallowness and insincerity. Jeb should get over this. It’s part of the fun of politics, as Chris Christie and Ted Cruz know. Sometimes when Mr. Bush delivers a good line he looks around at the end as if he’s thinking, “I hope you don’t mind, I had to do a good line.” That’s a kind of public shyness and awkwardness, too.
The Bushes associate the showbiz of politics with shallowness and insincerity. Jeb should get over this. It’s part of the fun of politics, as Chris Christie and Ted Cruz know. Sometimes when Mr. Bush delivers a good line he looks around at the end as if he’s thinking, “I hope you don’t mind, I had to do a good line.” That’s a kind of public shyness and awkwardness, too.
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Mr. Bush always seems embarrassed at his ambition, embarrassed you’d think he wants power. This is an odd quality in one who wants power.
Mr. Bush always seems embarrassed at his ambition, embarrassed you’d think he wants power. This is an odd quality in one who wants power.
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He often says voters want to see what’s in his heart. I’m not sure that’s true; it strikes me as old playbook. Republican voters have gotten cooler over the years; they want to know what’s in your head. I could imagine a skeptical but open-minded Democrat, however, coming away impressed.
He often says voters want to see what’s in his heart. I’m not sure that’s true; it strikes me as old playbook. Republican voters have gotten cooler over the years; they want to know what’s in your head. I could imagine a skeptical but open-minded Democrat, however, coming away impressed.
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Meanwhile the Republican establishment, such as it is, should be thinking hard on this:
Meanwhile the Republican establishment, such as it is, should be thinking hard on this:
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Mrs. Clinton is almost certainly about to glide to her party’s nomination. There will be a few bumps. She will occasionally be pressed and challenged on various questions. There will be back and forth. But her Democratic opponents will not attack her character, her history, her financial decisions, her scandals. They will not go at her personally. She will emerge dinged but not damaged. No one will ravage the queen.
Mrs. Clinton is almost certainly about to glide to her party’s nomination. There will be a few bumps. She will occasionally be pressed and challenged on various questions. There will be back and forth. But her Democratic opponents will not attack her character, her history, her financial decisions, her scandals. They will not go at her personally. She will emerge dinged but not damaged. No one will ravage the queen.
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The Republican primary, on the other hand, will be all hell bursting loose. The candidates will spend the next year tearing each other apart on everything and anything. Super PACs are furiously raising money, some of which will be used to take down and slam GOP opponents in negative ads and videos.
The Republican primary, on the other hand, will be all hell bursting loose. The candidates will spend the next year tearing each other apart on everything and anything. Super PACs are furiously raising money, some of which will be used to take down and slam GOP opponents in negative ads and videos.
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At least a few of them will do what Newt Gingrich so effectively did to Mitt Romney in South Carolina in 2012. Mr. Gingrich hit hard on Mr. Romney’s investment firm, Bain Capital, and his tax returns. He painted Mr. Romney as a cold, rapacious capitalist who’ll close your factory and take your jobs. Mr. Gingrich described Mr. Romney’s line of work as “rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company.” Mr. Romney’s South Carolina numbers began to sink in the last days of the campaign. Mr. Gingrich enjoyed a surprise win.
At least a few of them will do what Newt Gingrich so effectively did to Mitt Romney in South Carolina in 2012. Mr. Gingrich hit hard on Mr. Romney’s investment firm, Bain Capital, and his tax returns. He painted Mr. Romney as a cold, rapacious capitalist who’ll close your factory and take your jobs. Mr. Gingrich described Mr. Romney’s line of work as “rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company.” Mr. Romney’s South Carolina numbers began to sink in the last days of the campaign. Mr. Gingrich enjoyed a surprise win.
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The nObama re-election campaign was of course watching the fun, and went on to kill Mr. Romney with Mr. Gingrich’s themes. They’d likely have done it anyway but the attacks were given added legitimacy by GOP provenance.
The nObama re-election campaign was of course watching the fun, and went on to kill Mr. Romney with Mr. Gingrich’s themes. They’d likely have done it anyway but the attacks were given added legitimacy by GOP provenance.
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The Democrats have an enforcement mechanism to keep all their candidates in line. Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley know without being told that the party will kill them if they tear apart the assumed nominee. Their careers will be over if they go at her personally.
The Democrats have an enforcement mechanism to keep all their candidates in line. Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley know without being told that the party will kill them if they tear apart the assumed nominee. Their careers will be over if they go at her personally.
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A GOP opposition-research veteran said of the Democrats’ enforcement mechanism, “As an upstairs-downstairs party, the upstairs is a fairly concentrated place. The Democrats as the ‘in’ party—the party of Silicon Valley and academia—has interlocking pools of money, brains and talent.” When they turn on you, it is like facing “the Death Star.” And “on top of that, you have the Clintonian tropism toward score settling and vengeance. What you have in the end is discipline.”
A GOP opposition-research veteran said of the Democrats’ enforcement mechanism, “As an upstairs-downstairs party, the upstairs is a fairly concentrated place. The Democrats as the ‘in’ party—the party of Silicon Valley and academia—has interlocking pools of money, brains and talent.” When they turn on you, it is like facing “the Death Star.” And “on top of that, you have the Clintonian tropism toward score settling and vengeance. What you have in the end is discipline.”
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The Republicans? “They stand to beat the hell out of each other for months to come.” The GOP is not concentrated but spread out, geographically and culturally—“everything from establishment types to evangelicals to hedge-fund gods and farmers.” Candidates reflect diverse denominations: “It’s a party of dissenters” and operatives who have no motive to avoid hurting another group’s favorite.
The Republicans? “They stand to beat the hell out of each other for months to come.” The GOP is not concentrated but spread out, geographically and culturally—“everything from establishment types to evangelicals to hedge-fund gods and farmers.” Candidates reflect diverse denominations: “It’s a party of dissenters” and operatives who have no motive to avoid hurting another group’s favorite.
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Half a dozen candidates are clustered near the top, so the fight this year will be fierce. The Republicans have no old-style enforcers—no establishment figures everyone is afraid of crossing. Republicans are by nature entrepreneurs—they’ll do a lot not to lose market share.
Half a dozen candidates are clustered near the top, so the fight this year will be fierce. The Republicans have no old-style enforcers—no establishment figures everyone is afraid of crossing. Republicans are by nature entrepreneurs—they’ll do a lot not to lose market share.
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So Republicans this cycle will likely go after each other in a personal, rough way, bloody each other, and damage the eventual nominee, while Mrs. Clinton will glide along relatively untouched. Democrats will watch the fisticuffs, determine what line of attack worked best on the GOP nominee, and mine it deeper in the general election.
So Republicans this cycle will likely go after each other in a personal, rough way, bloody each other, and damage the eventual nominee, while Mrs. Clinton will glide along relatively untouched. Democrats will watch the fisticuffs, determine what line of attack worked best on the GOP nominee, and mine it deeper in the general election.
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Is the GOP thinking about setting 2016 ground rules? Is it thinking about penalties—publicly warning candidates that if they go at contenders on anything but the issues they’ll face the wrath of the party? Is there any way to put teeth in such a threat?
Is the GOP thinking about setting 2016 ground rules? Is it thinking about penalties—publicly warning candidates that if they go at contenders on anything but the issues they’ll face the wrath of the party? Is there any way to put teeth in such a threat?
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Here it should be noted that Republicans often speak of Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.” He didn’t mean don’t attack them. He himself tried to take out a sitting Republican president and went at Gerald Ford hammer and tongs—on the issues. It was never personal, and it had nothing to do with “oppo.” It was about great questions, not small people. That’s not only how to win, it’s how to win with meaning.
Here it should be noted that Republicans often speak of Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.” He didn’t mean don’t attack them. He himself tried to take out a sitting Republican president and went at Gerald Ford hammer and tongs—on the issues. It was never personal, and it had nothing to do with “oppo.” It was about great questions, not small people. That’s not only how to win, it’s how to win with meaning.
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