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When Will GOP Stop Letting Liberals Pick Our Nominee?

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Ask yourself this question: imagine what we’d know about our candidates if conservatives moderated these debates and focused on policy and the future of the Republican Party?

At present, the polling numbers of each candidate are distorted based on how much time they are given to speak, how often they are allowed to cut in (notice Carly Fiorina always has more time), how many attack questions they are able to turn into jujitsu broadsides on the moderators, and how they answer the tailor-made personal attacks questions about their opponents. All the while, we know very little about where the candidates stand on the most critical issues and the important philosophical debates that are taking place within the party today.

Perhaps the most substantive, respectful, and informative part of last night’s debate was when Christie and Huckabee disagreed over austerity vs. populism on Social Security and Cruz interjected by noting how the conservative approach is to marry the two by allowing younger workers to invest in private accounts while keeping the promises to older voters. But that represented just three minutes of the debate. Aside from a few isolated moments, especially when Rick Santelli brought some sanity to the debate and engaged in a serious discussion with Cruz about the Federal Reserve, this debate was a complete freak show.

The consensus from the talking heads is that Rubio did really well, but unlike Cruz, his “doing well” hinged on his defense against the personal attacks from the moderators. That is great, but is that how we are going to pick our candidate? Does that make a conservative? To be fair to Rubio, he didn’t have much of an opportunity to address the questions about policy and the divide within the party. And therein lies the problem.

Take a look at this list of questions I prepared several months ago and check off how many of them were addressed. As a result of this faux debate, we have no sense as to what the candidates will do about the massive social transformation, the disenfranchising of the people, the Islamic refugee issue, the war on religious liberty, judicial reform, their views on how our system of governance is broken and how to restore it to the original constitutional mandate. No fundamentals whatsoever. Even the few serious policy questions were the typical insipid issues designed to launch the candidates into their boilerplate stump speeches. In many ways, these primary debates are worse than the questions asked during the general election debates, which we automatically expect to be moderated by the liberal media.

What we are seeing on display in Washington is a Republican Party that no longer exists, yet we are no closer to understanding how these candidates would deal with any of the issues that have destroyed the party – other than Ted Cruz who is currently fighting these battles. There might be other candidates who have plans to address the broken party establishment, but that will never be properly vetted until we have a debate by conservatives, for conservatives.

If the candidates were smart, they’d form a non-aggression pact and all agree to a demand that the next debate be controlled by a panel of conservatives. And no, Fox News doesn’t cut it. Or at least, if we are going to have liberals moderate the debate can we tap Nancy Pelosi and make this entertaining? (For more from the author of “When Will GOP Stop Letting Liberals Pick Our Nominee?” please click HERE)

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GOP RIP: The Formerly Pro-Life Party

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Last October, Reince Priebus gave a speech with a conspicuous omission. Just 33 days before the midterm elections, the Republican National Committee Chairman headed to George Washington University to give a speech on the issues that bring Republicans together. Priebus ticked off a lengthy list of policy proposals that all the party’s candidates could highlight, noting that they could work for anyone, “whether you’re running for governor in New England or Congress in the South or statehouse in the West.”

The speech was highly detailed. The chairman praised specific pieces of legislation and touted the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and the passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment as issues that could unite GOP politicians. On these points and many others, Priebus was clear as glass. But on one enormous issue, the chairman was oddly opaque.

“As Republicans we’re pro-family; and we’re also pro-life,” he said, according to the transcript of his prepared remarks. “So when a woman faces an unplanned pregnancy, society should offer our support and compassion. She should know that adoption is possible. Our laws should be improved to make adoption an easier path for families who want to open their homes to children.”

And that was it. The GOP is pro-life, the chairman said, so the GOP supports making adoption easier. Priebus didn’t add anything beyond that. He couldn’t have, given the reference to the party’s New England gubernatorial candidates, almost all of whom are pro-choice. As the last 24 hours have shown, anti-abortion votes are a dicey prospect for some Hill Republicans. And the Keystone Pipeline just might have broader support among Washington Republicans than the pro-life movement. (Read more about the formerly pro-life party HERE)

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WATCH: Couric Interviews New Face of GOP – Youngest Lawmaker

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Yahoo News

Yahoo News

Thanks to a bloodbath in the midterm elections, Republicans now control both the House and Senate, and they are setting their sights on the White House for 2016. They are undoubtedly energized by young and diverse representatives such as Mia Love, the first African American Republican woman in the House, and Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman to be elected to Congress.

In West Virginia, Saira Blair won a seat in House of Delegates, becoming the nation’s youngest elected state legislator.

Blair and her father, state Sen. Craig Blair, sat down with Yahoo Global News anchor Katie Couric to discuss her inspiration to run, her historic win, and hope for her generation in the political process. “My generation is going to have $17 trillion of debt on our hands. And we deserve at least one vote in the House of Delegates. Because we shouldn’t have to wait until we’re 30, 40, 50 or 60 to understand the importance of conservative principles,” Blair said.

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Predictable CNN: Tea Party Could Destroy GOP

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Screen Shot 2014-12-09 at 11.39.33 PMOn Sunday, CNN’s Inside Politics spent several minutes hyping the supposed headache Tea Partiers could give GOP leadership despite the Republican Party winning their 54th Senate seat following Saturday’s runoff in Louisiana.

During the discussion, Robert Costa of The Washington Post insisted that Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is trying “to govern responsibly and he wants to set the party up for major gains in ’16. And that started in 2014 by pushing back the Tea Party and it starts now by making sure that all the passions and eagerness in the House don’t overtake the party.”

The segment began with host John King arguing that despite the GOP controlling both houses of Congress “gas prices are down. Friday’s job numbers were robust. The president’s executive actions on immigration are stoking the Republican civil war and has promised now to take steps to narrow the trust deficit between law enforcement and African Americans offers a chance to be, well, presidential.”

For the next several minutes, the panel discussed possible legislative deals that Congress and President Obama could make in 2015 before they turned to how the Tea Party will factor into any future negotiations.

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Keep Moving in the Red Direction

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Photo Credit: Arthur ChapmanWhile Alaska has had brief spurts of liberty and conservatism over the years, it has steadily moved forward to being a red state. This year we’re threatened with a leap backwards to the democrat’s dream of the dark ages of government control.

In the past, Alaska has had great moments that highlighted the desire for liberty. The libertarians who got rid of the income tax, conservative independent Wally Hickel winning the governorship and even the campaign and victory of Sarah Palin, who ran on a conservative populist platform even though she didn’t carry that through once elected.

In 2008, the conservative Ron Paul supporters had a large presence at the Republican State convention, but were unable to form the two-thirds majority needed to oust the corrupt chair of the party. In 2010, Joe Miller won the primary with his conservative liberty-minded principles, and narrowly lost the general election against the liberal write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski, but garnering 90,000 votes in the process.

In the spring of 2012, the conservatives were able to win all the offices in the Republican state party before the liberals illegally kicked them out. That fall, the conservative voters came together and ousted the democrat-led spending coalition that had tripled the state budget. Finally achieving a conservative majority in both houses, and having conservative Sean Parnell as governor, we were able to get oil tax reform, a history-making LNG project and they cut the budget by billions.

Alaska is finally coming out of decades of liberal dominance, but a new threat has arisen. The democrats realizing that they are on the losing end of history have made a last minute Hail Mary attempt to thwart the conservative steamroller. They have allied with moderate Bill Walker to combine the democrat and liberal independent votes to try and retake the governor’s office. This will put an immediate halt to development around the state and further their dreams of making Alaska into one big park. Currently, the tickets are polling so close they’re within the margin of error. This election will ultimately rest on who gets out and votes. The liberals have three propositions that they want to pass that will get them to the polls. I would just like to encourage conservatives to not ignore the election Tuesday; the fate and direction of Alaska and your future hangs in the balance. Please don’t let the liberal machine win be default. Vote Tuesday.

Lance Roberts is an engineer, born and raised in Fairbanks. He is a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. The views expressed here are his own and do not represent the assembly or borough administration.

GOP: Happy Birthday Obama, Now Here's a Copy of Constitution to Read

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Here’s the latest indication of how tough the political climate has become for President Obama: Even the Republican Party is raising money off his birthday today.

While Democrats for weeks have been using his 53rd to raise funds via email birthday cards, the Republican National Committee on Monday got into the action offering its donors to send the president a copy of the U.S. Constitution, a not so subtle reminder that the GOP believe the president is not enforcing key laws.

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What Eric Cantor’s Primary Loss REALLY Means To The Republican Party…

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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor faced a tenacious – and ultimately victorious – foe in Virginia’s Republican primary election Tuesday. Economics professor and Tea Party favorite David Brat mounted a grassroots campaign that helped draw 37 percent more voters to the polls this week than during the same race two years ago.

Even with that voter increase, Cantor received nearly 10,000 fewer voters than he did during his previous re-election bid. In the end, the establishment Republican’s conservative challenger scored a big win that many Tea Party supporters hope will set the tone for upcoming elections.

“This is a miracle from God that just happened,” Brat said of his victory…

Another self-described grassroots Tea Party candidate, Alaska’s Joe Miller, weighed in on the significance of Brat’s win.

He echoed the Madison Project statement, noting that some within the GOP “have done all they can this election cycle to announce the demise” of Tea Party and unabashedly conservative candidates.

“Well,” he continued, “maybe they should have checked with the grassroots before making such proclamations.”

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Fox News Poll: Republicans Have Edge in 2014 Midterm

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Photo Credit: Fox NewsThe latest Fox News poll finds that if the 2014 midterm elections were held today, 43 percent of voters would back the Republican candidate in their House district, while 39 percent would vote for the Democrat.

Of course the election isn’t today. It’s five months away. And for the fifth straight time this year, the results on this congressional generic ballot question have reversed in our Fox News poll.

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Last month, the Democratic candidate had the edge by three percentage points. In April, the Republican was up by three. In March, it was Democrats +2 and before that it was GOP +2.

Democratic pollster Chris Anderson says this indicates an unsettled environment among voters.

“That said,” Anderson adds, “most other findings in the poll suggest an increasingly favorable environment for the Republicans heading toward the midterms.”

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Rise of the ‘Obama Republicans’

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Photo Credit: AP…By 1972, many conservative Democrats supported Nixon over George McGovern so at least in presidential campaigns, culturally conservative Democrats were already moving away from their historic home. Only the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976, a southern populist reformer–and Watergate–and Betty Ford’s liberalism–forestalled the inevitable.

The Gipper’s massive victory in 1980 was fueled by more that 30 percent of Democrats nationwide, who took a powder on Carter after he moved to the left. Reagan received the same amount in the 1984 election in part because he’d done nothing to disappoint them and the liberal establishment nominated Walter Mondale, a good man who was trapped in a New Deal past.

Reagan ran again as the anti-establishment candidate of the future and swamped the lifetime Democrat, ironically with the help of Democrats. Yet the Establishment Republicans simply could not abide by the realigning elections of 1980, 1984, and 1994.

By the final years of the last century, some inside the GOP wanted the Reagan Revolution to be over, thus the phrase “compassionate conservative.” George W. Bush ran and lost the popular vote in 2000 without once ever calling for a spending cut or the elimination of one single wasteful federal program. After that, the GOP would continue to embrace the persona of Reagan–they had little choice–but no longer would they embrace the American conservative philosophy of the Gipper.

Hence, the stirrings of the Obama Republicans.

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Alaska Freedom Fair and Convention

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Because of all the corruption going on in the Republican Party and other facets of government, that led to the establishment of an official charter of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) here in Alaska. The Alaska Republican Assembly was recognized as an official certified charter in record time.

As President Ronald Reagan said, “The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.” Our mission is to release that dream.

An elemental requirement for freedom and success in life is a job, and so the Alaska Republican Assembly supports the mandate in the Alaska State Constitution to develop and use our natural resources.

The American dream rests on the opportunity to work hard in a profession or job that inspires us and enables us to pursue prosperity and freedom for ourselves and our families without government intrusion and over-regulation. The wisdom of President Reagan speaks again when he said, “We are a nation of freedom, living under God, believing all citizens must have the opportunity to grow, create wealth, and build a better life for those who follow. If we live up to those moral values, we can keep the American dream alive for our children and our grandchildren, and America will remain mankind’s best hope.”

The Alaska Republican Assembly is working to bring committed conservative men and women to leadership in the Republican party, to take back the Senate and the Presidency and promote the return of fiscal sanity, rule of law, and common sense. We support candidates who reflect the spirit of America’s core values in their beliefs and actions, and who will serve in uncompromising accord with those values. We want to unite conservative Americans, increase grassroots involvement, revitalize our party, and turn it into an electoral powerhouse that Americans can embrace once again.

It is with great anticipation that on May 24, 2014, the Alaska Republican Assembly will host the Alaska Freedom Fair & Convention at the Menard Center in Wasilla. Pastor Rafael Cruz, father of US Senator Ted Cruz, will be our keynote speaker. NFRA President Sharon Angle, Pacific NW NFRA Vice President Willes Lee, and Sheriff Richard Mack, author and motivational speaker, will join Pastor Cruz in leading the Convention.

Sharron Angle served as a Nevada State Assemblywoman and garnered 45% of the vote as the Republican Nominee when she ran for U.S. Senate challenging Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2010. Willes Lee has been a prominent conservative as a Hawaiian Republican, HRP chairman, and state candidate. Sheriff Richard Mack is a former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, and a two-time candidate for United States Congress.

We are especially honored to have Pastor Rafael Cruz join us at our Alaska Freedom Fair & Convention. Rafael Cruz is a powerful example of the American Dream. Born in Cuba, Rafael lived and suffered under a cruel, oppressive dictator. He began fighting Batista’s regime as a teenager and was imprisoned and tortured. In 1957 Rafael was able to leave Cuba and arrived in Texas with nothing but the clothes on his back and one hundred dollars hidden on his person. He got a job as a dishwasher, worked his way through the University of Texas, while learning English and later built a small business.

Rafael Cruz became active in conservative politics as a grassroots activist during the 1980 Presidential Campaign of Ronald Reagan. He is an ordained minister, sharing the word of God in churches and pastors conferences throughout the United States. His son, Ted Cruz, is a U.S. Senator from Texas. When Ted was a child growing up in Houston, Rafael would tell him, “When we faced oppression in Cuba, I had a place to flee to. If we lose our freedom here, where do we go?” It was because of his father’s inspiration that Ted Cruz ran and has become a champion for freedom in the US Senate.

Every person who values a self-governing society must participate in governance, or a small minority of professional politicians will govern—and may do so without reflecting the core values of the people. We the people—we the individuals—must get involved at the grassroots level now to stop the unprecedented loss of freedom and political corruption America is enduring.

Please feel free to pass it on to any individual, organization or business who believes in the concept of freedom, free enterprise, and liberty in all facets of life. Tickets are available online or at the door. Also you can find out more about the AKRA by visiting our website at https://www.alaskara.com.

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